Naga the Serpent

Naga the Serpent
Slayers character
Naga in Granblue Fantasy
First appearance"Naga's Challenge" (ナーガの挑戦, Nāga no chōsen) (1990)[note 1]
Created byHajime Kanzaka (character)
Rui Araizumi (visual design)[1]
Voiced by
Japanese
Maria Kawamura[2]
English
Kelly Manison (anime films and OVAs)[2]
Eva Kaminsky (Evolution-R)[2]
In-universe information
AliasGracia Ul Naga Saillune (birth name)[3]
Nama (living armor)
NicknameWhite Serpent
TitlePrincess (incognito)
OccupationAdventurer sorceress
Family
OriginSaillune

Naga the Serpent (白蛇のナーガ, Sāpento no Nāga) is a fictional character in the light novel, anime, manga, radio drama and game versions of Hajime Kanzaka's media franchise Slayers, who was introduced in Dragon Magazine in 1990. She is also often known as Naga the White Serpent, which is a more literal translation from Japanese (白蛇JP, lit. "white snake"), and an early English version by A.D. Vision had her name transliterated as "Nahga".[5] The name she is best known by is in reality an alias of Princess Gracia Ul Naga Saillune (Japanese: グレイシア＝ウル＝ナーガ＝セイルーン Gureishia Uru Nāga Seirūn).

The character has great magical powers and an unstable but resilient personality. She is particularly obsessed with a fellow wandering sorceress and the central character of Slayers, Lina Inverse. While occasionally referred to as Lina's sidekick and traveling partner, Naga's arrogance and self-imagined rivalry made her just as likely to antagonize Lina during the course of any story. Naga is a few years older than Lina and takes great pride in her much more voluptuous appearance, but like her she has numerous character flaws, often played for comedic purposes. She was well received by anime critics and general audience alike.

Naga's Japanese voice actor is Maria Kawamura, and her English voice actresses are Kelly Manison in the OVAs and movies. In the anime series Slayers Evolution-R, Naga appears as a cameo character named Nama (ナーマ), voiced by Kawamura in Japanese and by Eva Kaminsky in English.


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  1. ^ "「スレイヤーズ25周年記念展」が東京青山で！来てくんないと暴れちゃうぞ - 週刊アスキー". Weekly.ascii.jp. 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  2. ^ a b c "Voice Of Naga the Serpent". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference p2b was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ BLASTER! I - Collection of interviews with the author Hajime Kanzaka. (Japanese)
  5. ^ "ADV - Active - Interviews". 1999-04-29. Archived from the original on April 29, 1999. Retrieved 2016-03-28.