On November 16, Bandai Namco announced the next collab event inTales of the Rays- a crossover with legendary fantasy seriesSlayersfor its 30th anniversary. FourSlayerscharacters will become playable inTales of the Rays, Lina Inverse (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara), Gourry Gabriev (Yasunori Matsumoto), Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune (Masami Suzuki), and Zelgadiss Graywords (Hikaru Midorikawa).

All the seiyuu have recorded new lines for the occasion. A really cool trailer with some battle gameplay was published, and can be found below. Moreover, someTales ofcharacters will also be cosplayingSlayerscharacters, most notably those who share the same seiyuu.

Reid Hershel, protagonist ofTales of Eternia, becomes Xelloss fromSlayers, because they’re both voiced by Akira Ishida. Farah Oersted (voiced by Yuuko Minaguchi), also fromTales of Eternia, becomes Amelia. Guy fromTales of the Abyssbecomes Gourry because they’re both voiced by Yasunori Matsumoto. And Natalia (Michiko Neya), also fromAbyss, will become Naga the Serpent (Maria Kawamura).

TheSlayerscrossover collab event inTales of the Rayswill last from June 07, 2025 JST, to August 12, 2025 JST.

The trailer uses the opening theme song ofSlayers Next(season 2),Give a Reasonby Megumi Hayashibara.Slayers Nextis the most beloved season so they knew what they were doing.

Slayerswill also have a30th anniversary event on December 20. A similar event, in a much bigger scale and at Tokyo Dome City Hall was supposed to happen on March 29 but got canceled with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Slayerswas trending on Japanese Twitter after the announcement, showing the series is still beloved.Slayershas been getting more and more collab events recently with its 30th anniversary.

Slayersis originally a light novel series written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated byRui Araizumi. The novel got multiple anime, manga and game adaptations over the decades. You should definitely watch the anime adaptations if you haven’t yet. In release order. There’s a good chance it’s hundred times better than anything else you’re watching right now. Not that all anime nowadays sucks needless to say, but in myUnneeded Opinion tm, Slayersis still rarely equaled 30 years later, with an incredible mix of comedy and tragedy, an intricate amount of world-building, great story developments and iconic characters. You won’t regret getting in the series.

Slayersis also one of the many novels included inFanasia Re:build, a crossover RPG coming out soon.