Slayers NEXT (スレイヤーズNEXT) is the name of the second season of the Slayers anime. It has 26 half-hour episodes. It is a rough adaptation of the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth Slayers novels and the basis of the Slayers: Super-Explosive Demon Story manga volumes 6-8. Slayers Next aired on Fridays from April 5, 1996, to September 27, 1996.