Naga has first appeared in the 1991-2008 "Slayers Special" series of light novels, which was later (from volume 30 onward) re-titled as "Slayers Smash" (an ongoing series since 2008). Like in the case of other "Slayers" novels, most of the "Special" series stories were first published in "Dragon Magazine". Some of them were first collected in the "Slayers Delicious" series and some are subtitled as "Slayers Excellent" or "Slayers Superior"; some were also later re-published in the series "Slayers Select". The "Special" series, which axis are the joint adventures of Lina and Naga, serves as a prequel to the main series (starting about three years prior to the first meeting of Lina and Gourry Gabriev) and is less serious in its content. Naga is the main protagonist of "Slayers Special 3: Nāga no Bouken" ("Adventures of Naga") and is the titular subject of the 2012 bonus book "Slayers Addition: Nāga Ijin-den" ("Legend of Naga the Great"). An exclusive side-story of Lina and Naga, "Slayers Gaiden", was published in the issue #200 of "Dragon Magazine" in 2002.