So far the whole series has 50 volumes in total (long novel series: 15 volumes, Special series: 30 volumes, Smash. series: five volumes), and its total print has reached 20 million copies.
The series was launched in January 1990 and it has been 18 years since the long novel series’ last 15th volume was published in Japan.
The official website for Fujimi Shobo’s Fantasia Buko has confirmed that the long-awaited 16th volume of the original long novel series of Hajime Kanzaka’s long-running fantasy light novel series Slayers, titled “Atessa no Kaikou” (The Encounter at Atessa), is set for a release on October 20, 2018.