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Naga the White Serpent (白蛇のナーガ, Sāpento no Nāga) is a fictional character in the novel, movie, OVA and manga versions of Slayers. Her Japanese voice actress is Maria Kawamura, and her English voice actress is Kelly Manison.

It is believed that Naga is really Gracia Ul Naga Seiryuun (Japanese: グレイシア＝ウル＝ナーガ＝セイルーン Gureishia Uru Nāga Seirūn), the older sister of Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun. While occasionally referred to as Lina Inverse's sidekick and traveling partner, Naga's self-imagined rivalry made her just as likely to antagonize Lina during the course of any story. Naga's is presumably a few years older than the teenaged Lina, and thus takes great pride in her mature and excessively busty appearance.

Overview

Naga is a tall and overly-buxom woman who wears a leather bikini-like garment, and has a laugh that could cause whole towns to evacuate just to get away from the sound of it. However, Naga takes pride in her laughter, and may take offense at those whose laughter is not like hers. Naga also has an aversion to the sight of blood, and would faint if someone was slightly scratched. Like Lina, Naga is proficient in many spells, especially healing spells and golem-forming spells.

Because Naga did not appear in any of the TV series (The Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try), she has not been written up in the Ultimate Fan Guides role-playing supplements for the series by Guardians of Order, unusual for such a major character in the Slayers mythos. This is because GoOrder only possess the rights to the TV series, and Naga is strictly an OVA and Movie character. The license is set to expire soon so it is unknown if she will be added if the game is picked up by another company. However, Naga did briefly appear in the Slayers Premium movie, employed as "the octopus sorceress" to go against Lina.

After being a part of a chimera experiment (which took place in the events of Slayers Special), there are now eleven clones of Naga running around the world. Ten of them are just like her, minus the fact that they don't possess any of her memories or magic skills, and the other does have her skills, but has a complete opposite personality (a whiny, extremely modest girl).

Biography

Naga's real full name is Gracia Ul Naga Saillune, making her the first daughter of Crown Prince Philionel El Di Saillune and the older sister of Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune. She has one living uncle, Christopher Wil Brogg Saillune, one deceased uncle, Randy Saillune, and a deceased cousin, Alfred Saillune. Her grandfather, Eldoran Saillune, is the king of Saillune, although Philionel acts as a proxy ruler.

Naga's mother was killed several years earlier by the famous assassin Booley, and as a result, Naga took revenge and killed Booley with the crown princess' original spell, Chaos String. After the funeral, Naga found the outfit she currently wears inside her mother's closet, and shortly after this, she left home to learn the ways of the world. Contrary to popular belief, Naga still keeps in touch with her hometown, and occasionally she will be sent money through a messenger. This may explain that, while Naga has a similar obsession with treasure to Lina, she is rarely seen actually carrying much loot off. In the end credits to the Slayers Special OVA, Lina can be seen sitting atop a large pile of gold, gems, and other treasures, gleefully tossing them and showering herself in gold while Naga merely stands laughing triumphantly. Moments later, the two are shown walking into the sunset, Lina carrying a pouch of loot while Naga is empty-handed.

Being a princess, Naga knows when to be graceful, and when to be self-confident. She does not flaunt that fact that she is royalty (her heritage is never mentioned in any series and has only been acknowledged in informal discussions), but the way she acts makes it quite apparent. When she stands before other members of royalty, she speaks to them as equals, while Lina will bow her head and speak only when spoken to. Many of her confident poses and speeches are strikingly similar to those of Amelia or Martina Zoana Mel Navratilova, another princess (now queen). To her dismay, Naga is often referred to as Lina's sidekick or "that other girl."

Abilities

Despite her appearance and Lina's assumptions, Naga is especially good at white magic. Naga also specializes in shamanistic magic, especially spells of the earth and water variety. She enjoys creating her own golems (even if they usually don't turn out very well), and one of her favorite spells to use is Freeze Arrow. She also takes pride in being physically intimidating, preferring a spiky and revealing outfit (though the exaggerated size of the spikes means she has been known to stab herself in the face when spellcasting), an outrageous laugh, and her skills at manipulating men. Her large sword is a similar prop, due to Hemophobia after witnessing her mother killed. Her massive ego and somewhat lacking common sense means she often gets herself (and Lina) into trouble or just plain screws up.

Relationships

In Movies

The only Slayers character Naga really interacts with is Lina. Naga proclaims herself to be Lina's strongest and foremost rival, and this annoys Lina to no end. Nevertheless, these two will often work together despite their differences, and when they do, they are a great team.

Cameo Series Appearances

In the first season of Slayers, episode 17, Question? He's proposing to THAT girl?, a woman with Naga's distinctive build and outfit walks in front of the disguised Amelia, Gourry, and Lina; Amelia appears to do a double-take. In Slayers NEXT Episode 9 "Hidden Ambitions! The Shocking Confession?" Zelgadis made a reference to Amelia's eldest sister who had run away from the kingdom. In Slayers TRY episode 11 "The Hurdle's Cleared? Jiras' Hidden Power!", much like in NEXT, Naga isn't seen but often referred to. For example Amelia once remarked on Gourry's comment in regards to her height, that her older sister was almost as tall as Gourry was. Then later in episode 24, "No way to Guess! The Forbidden Gateway is Opened!" Lina bursts a laugh identical to Naga's followed by a rather Naga-esque remark leading Amelia to say "I don't like that kind of laugh, Lina-san!" In Slayers Evolution-R, the party meets a soul trapped in a set of armor that pleaded a case of amnesia. She called herself "Nama... Or something like that!" indicating that she had forgotten her real name. Although Nama's mannerisms were different in plain view, during battle her resemblance to Naga becomes shockingly clear through her laugh, spell selection, and insults (towards Lina). After her Hellmaster's Jar was broken, her soul returned to the original body, and the scene focused on a person trapped in a box, laughing Naga's infamous laugh.

In Video Games

In the Slayers video games, Naga met the rest of the TV cast, but not Amelia. In Slayers Premium, Amelia was blasted off shortly before Naga's appearance. However, there was one time when they did meet; in Slayers VS Orphen. Naga was wearing a mask that hid her face, and Amelia began to ask Naga a question, but Naga interrupted and told Amelia she was a friend of Lina's. Amelia finally "meets" Naga (in the guise of Nama) in Slayers Evolution-R, but no prior history/recognition is exchanged between the two beyond a noticing of very similar personality quirks.

Appearances

Anime

• Slayers Special OVA series
• Slayers Excellent OVA series
• Slayers Perfect movie
• Slayers Return movie
• Slayers Great movie
• Slayers Gorgeous movie
• Slayers Premium movie
• Slayers Evolution R (as Nama) TV series

Other

• Slayers Special novels
• Slayers Delicious novels
• Slayers VS Orphen novel
• Slayers Return manga
• Slayers Special manga
• Slayers Premium manga
• Slayers VS Orphen CD drama
• Slayers Royal game
• Slayers Royal 2 game
• Slayers Wonderful game

Musical appearances

• A Skilled Rival Always Conceals Her Claws
• Pink Typhoon
• Seriously

See also

• Nāga

• Articles with topics of unclear notability from April 2009
• Fantasy film characters
• Fictional princesses
• Fictional witches
• Fictional shamans
• Fictional characters in anime and manga who use magic
• Slayers characters