''Goblin Slayer'' stands on its unique main character and world.

''Goblin Slayers'' is a dark fantasy. In this world travelers get picked up by gargoyles and then drop to their death, defensless villages get attacked by goblins and no adventurer come to help because pay is too low. Of course there are demons, evil lords, big bad guys who wants to destroy the world but stopping them is heroes' job and our story isn't about a hero but about a man called Goblin Slayer.

• This isn't a normal fantasy world and I am not talking about ''dark'' part its literaly a TRPG. Characters doesn't have names but referred with their class, rank and race for example: Dwarf Shaman, Priestess, Noble Fencer... And being TRPG is a big part of this world's rules. This is specialy shown in combat with talks about critical strikes and spell slots.

• This show doesn't realy have a overarching story, actualy there might be non at all. It goes somewhere of course but it kinda happens in background and our characters aren't even aware of it. Its about main character's changing personality and extermination of goblins.

Our beloved Goblin Slayer, only interested in doing his self proclaimed ''duty''. Years of training and years of slaying goblins with little childhood trauma as spice has changed him, he is a soulles man now. Story starts at his 10th year of slaying. after this point we follow him as he keeps slaying with his new found party while his new found party slays his loneliness.

Except few side stories there is 2 cycles in this show: killing and kind of a slice of life.

There are lots of fight and all of them includes goblins. Kinda sounds boring right? What makes them interesting is our party's way of fighting. Goblin Slayer is just a man, actualy he is less than most man he isn't smart, strong nor agile so he fulfils his shortcomings with strategy,practice and experience. Why should he fight a horde of goblins while he can redirect a small river to their cave and watch them drown? So one hob goblin and some greedy greens are coming my way, let me just oil that big guy then let him slide crushing others in the end.Watch while he uses his party's spell slots in clever ways and kills those bastards in creative ways.
He is a professional and watching professionals is always fun.

So I saw goblins rape woman and saw Goblin Slayer rape goblins. Talks about smell of burnt flesh and filth of goblins, does this disgusting shit ever end? Yes.
Another big part of the show is watching how people live in this actualy nice fantasy world. We see how guild girl worries about her clothes getting wrinkles, we watch as our big old mean Lizardman taste cheese for first time and we witness Goblin Slayer go drinking with his fellow adventurers for first time.
This is the slice of life part I am talking about.

This is what you are getting yourself into.

I won't talk about anything else because everything else is subjective, in the end only you decide if you like the characters or the world.

Its quite perverted in some places I personaly don't like it you might like it you should know that its very pervert in anime and manga. Also its already mentioned in other reviews with more context but ''Goblin Slayer'' can be very inconsistent.

There is anime,manga and light novel series.

1. Anime has its rape scenes that triggered lot of people fortunately they are very few ( And they never should have been animated like that, it felt like glorification instead of showing you the nature of goblins), but that unholy CGI is a real problem. Animation is not very good maybe you shouldn't start with anime if that trouble you.
2. Manga is more gory but better than anime in every other way.
3. Ah the holy light novels. There is no gory art that might disturb you. Also there is more content, toughts of our ~~heroes~~ and more information about his way of thinking.

I am not a native speaker so sorry for every error in this review please tell me about them so I can make it better next time.
Also if you don't agree with any of these please tell them too I would like to discuss