"Slayers" has been invented and drawn by two japanese men whose names are:

Yoshinaka Shoko and Kanzaka Hajime

Note that "Hajime" and "Shoko" are the christian names and "Yoshinaka" and "Kanzaka" are the surnames as in Japan surnames are written first.


other characters of the series are :

1. The good ones:
   
   
   Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun (female, obviously :-) )
   
   Gourry Gabriev (male, not so obvious :-) )
   
   Zelgadis Graywords (male)?
   
   Sylphiel of Sighlark (hmmm, well, I really haven't heard or read her Surname yet...)
   
   
   A few others whose names I tend to forget rather fast. They were minions of the evil ones before they realized they really hated the evil ones for what they had done to them. (if you know their names you are welcome to write them down inside here somewhere, I add if they are probably correct or definitely correct)
   
    
2. the evil ones:
   
   
   Red Priest Rezo (actually the evil inside him was a demon named Shabranighdo who took residence inside his eyes and thereby making him seek to gain eyesight, oh, I forgot to mention Rezo was blind from his birth on, well, so he eventually found a way to cure himself, but that involved to release Shabranighdo. When this happened Shabranighdo took over Rezo entirely and threatend to destroy the world. Shabranighdo was eventually killed by Lina Inverse) Red Priest Rezo (yes two of them the second is a copy-homunculus) Vulmugun the evil witch (since she was killed by one of her 'creations', namely the abovementioned copy-homunculus, before she had a chance to show her evil ways in the manga I should classify her as 'not evil anymore')?
   
   
   A few minions whose names I tend to forget rather fast (if you know them you are welcome to write them down inside here somewhere, I add if they are probably correct or definitely correct)
   
    
3. There are 2 that I have a problem with to categorize them properly.
   
   
   First : Naga the Serpent (Her laughter can be worse than any weapon sometimes. She doesn't do anything just beacause it is good or bad. She does it for money. She invites herself for dinner and eats EVERYTHING not just her dishes ! Then she leaves the bill to be paid by her victim... ;-) )
   
   
   Second : Lina Inverse (YES, TADA... :-) our Super Heroine is also not very purely good. Her main interest in live is to find treasure or remove stolen treasure from all kinds of thieves. And to KEEP them !She also indulges in eating-fights. Must be because usually SHE is Nagas victim... Well, yes, and she retaliates easily. Being a sorceress of Black Magic like Naga that means all too often that the restaurant they dined in gets blown up somehow in the process....) :-)?