Slayers This is the place where reality breaks down and all heck breaks loose. These anime are usually exceptionally frenetic and fast paced. They go to every length to breakdown your expectations and satirize anything they can get their hands on. You may not get what is going on but you will be laughing at it. These stories revolve around some sort of mystical force that is the key to the whole of their universe.
Characters often face dark forces that are conspiring to control humanity.
The only way to stop these forces is through the use of special powers or magical objects and then to manipulate these forces with some power from within. They often draw heavily from stories of ancient Shinto and Buddhist magic. These stories are pretty self-explanatory. The vast majority of the story involves characters fighting, chasing, or blowing things up in huge and catastrophic ways. The focus is always on elaborate action sequences and making them look as cool as possible.