#Another Slime Anime

Thanks to the success that was The Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime, there have been quite a few Slime-centric anime that popped up. By the Grace of the Gods was no exception to that rule. However, does that make this another run-of-the-mill Slime Isekai or does the production brings forth its own individuality? Well, yes but not really. Because here's the thing. When you're watching a Fantasy Isekai anime, you tend to look for a few things: good world-building, character writing and plot development. yes, Yes, I understand that this an anime adaptation from the Light Novel Series. But for the purposes of this anime, I am going to confine my evaluations to just that. But does the anime do well? Well, maybe yes. and I'm going to explain why. I also am not going to spoil anything because I like for people to find out the story themselves.

I'm going to get the negatives out of the way and one of that is world-building. There wasn't much explanation of the world the anime brought us into. All we knew are three places and that was about it and they haven't explained to us very well. We do know the purpose of the location where the majority of the seventy-five percent of the anime resided in. There is a place where the MC ventures to but that never really gotten into detail either. However, the world itself does look nice and the layout is typical of an MMORPG fantasy-medieval type game. But unfortunately for me, aesthetics doesn't score high when I do not understand why the world is constructed the way that it is. In any case, this gets only about 45/100.

Character writing was consistent throughout the entirety of the anime. Whilst that's generally a good thing, it shows a lack of innovation. In fact, there was not a single character that showed animosity nor hostility to the MC. There's no conflict, no discourse to spice up the series because everyone's just buddy-buddy with each other. Again, there're sixteen bloody volumes worth of LNs that might address this but that's external.
It is not to say however I dislike them. Far from it. I enjoyed how they were written and what role that they play. I hypothesise the constant tsunamis of warmth and sweetness is to offset the bullshit that was MC's past. Overall, this gets 65 out 100 form me.

So when the writing falls flat, I suppose you fall-back plan is the animation itself. I must say, it's for 2021 anime, it's very well done. Everything's bright and vibrant, exuding an inviting aura. I like how the animation for casting magic is not flamboyant. When it comes to animating emotions, again: simplistic. Not to over the top and shows what it needs to show. Just how generally Character in Slice of Life series are animated. The slimes are shown to be cute, wobbly creatures and it just made me go "Aww" every single time. This to me, was a huge positive for the anime. Show what you wanted to show, and allow the viewer to interact. 70 out of 100.

I really can see the potential of the anime I really like the direction it is heading and how it played itself out. I am looking with eagerness the release of the second season. I am pumped for it.

Overall Score. 60 out of 100