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This show was very bland, multiple of the side characters were way more interesting and would be fun to follow, rather then the protagonist of the show. It moved pretty slow, and like i feel theres a lot more to do in a fantasy setting, espesially when you've just died, rather then just like. "make a laundry service" "make slime technology happen" like i feel like since its a low level tameable monster, a lot of the stuff would have already been figured out, that theres a foreign influence from another world to make most he did really dosn't seem like it happened.
The story really only happens with the same cast every episode, but like i feel like it'd be more interesting if they actually had some characteristics except for "one character trait + praising ryouma" The only difficulities we saw was literally just like "but your grace, what about the geneva convention" and "i froze someone since i was fucking 5 years old and dont control magic good, so now i'm sad because people think i meant to do it, younno, the 5 year old, meant to freeze that other kid, yeah totally, very epic"
Like i get its like a rehab for ryouma and stuff, and he has his aspirations, but like come the fuck one. Theres so many more ways of him reaching his goals and leaning about slimes and stuff. He got a super rare slime and used it fucking once until the season ended he didn't even touch it, and used only like a few types of slimes the whole way trough. Like yeah ok free money and whatever, but they have literal magic, i feel like some sort of magic to clean stuff would be possible, no?
Here's how you make the story good, FOLLOW THE ADVENTURING PARTY THATS ALWAYS IN THE ENDING CREDITS OR FOLLOW ELISE WHEN SHE WAS TRAINING AND GOT FUCKING OVER 100 WOLVES, HOW COOL WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN, like theres actual characters in this that are like already good and stuff, and its an interesting idea being like "ok what if there was this one kid, and he had a bilion slime companions", like it is a good idea, before you clearly see the limits that's on that idea. Like not even that, its just that the creator couldn't make up anything else with them. Like theres such a clear thing of seeing the creator almost gave up on the slime idea, SINCE THEY LITERALLY CAUGHT BIRDS IN THE LAST EPISODE, NOT JUST THE GIRL BUT THE PROTAGONIST TOO
I really hope the continuation to this story in the light novel was better. Since this was like the most boring anime i've seen in a while, they literally just went all like "congratulations, congratunations, congratulations" at the end too, and ryouma saying goodbye really had to say every individual name to show "oh but he cares about them" which really only padded out time, since he keeps naming everyone super slowly. This isn't the end of your youtube video where you say everyones name from your patreon boy, its a finite time for like a 20something minute per episode show.
Though it was interesting seeing them showcase how fucked working enviroments in japan is, and like how better he has it in that world, like thats really cool and good and it has a good message, its a very like supportive show.
But it's also quite boring, and i wouldn't say it's because of it, but them forcing and dragging on the supportive messages definetly is a part of it.
Final thoughts: If you wanna watch it, wait to see if it gets a dub, and just have it in the background while doing something else.
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