The TV programme I loved the most when I was younger (I love it still, though) was "Slayers!". Slayers! is an anime from the ninety's based on the homonym Japanese novel. The anime starts halfway of the original story from the novel and it's about a very young lass called Rina (or Lina) Inverse. She is a very skilled magician who left home to go on adventures. While being chased through a forest by some thugs she actually robbed to, she happened to encounter a travelling swordsman that shows up to defend who he thinks is a poor and defenseless gal. Rina let this strange, blond, long-haired man deal with the thieves. When he's done she thinks that even though she could have dealt with the ones after her by herself, she should be thankful to the person that intended to save her life. So she does but then she notices that the swordsman looks rather disappointed. The man thought to be saving a beautiful princess, as this was what Rina heard from his mumbling. Rina feels blue and angry to be looked down as a child, though she recovers and thanks the man. The not-so-much gentleman introduces himself as Gourry Gabriev and offers to take Rina to her homeland. Rina endures this humiliation and reconsiders that Gourry didn't seem to have any dark intentions and to be very caring. She makes up her mind and decided to travel alongside him. Thus the anime starts; the story is full of magic, comic scenes, and a deep complex plot involving spells, demons, different worlds, powerful enemies and the main objective cliché (to protect the living).