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The opening credits disappointed me.
The fact that apparently that slime can look human is a huge letdown.
If he looks human, then it doesn't make the show all that different from any other OP isekai schlock, does it? We are only 2 episodes in and he's already powerful, he's best buds with a dragon and is going to get goblins for allies. It would have been interesting if he looked like a slime the whole time, but the fact that it can shapeshift into human form (apparently) completely undermines that aspect. Lame.

The skill set and plot is is even reminiscent of Re:Monster, and I hate that series. Absolute edgelord schlock that one is.

Don’t know that one.

 AduroT wrote:
Don’t know that one.

Its a manga series, I don't think it was adapted into an anime.
Its about some guy who was a monster in real life because he had super powers (he can steal abilities if he eats people), and he got murdered by his sister, and got reincarnated as a goblin in another world that has a RPG style class progression system. For whatever reason he still has his OP ability from his human life, so of course all he has to do is nibble on some monsters to get super strong, thus becoming da strongest and bestest monster eva who became a ogre faster than the other goblins and taught them how to use actual tactics, hunt and craft tools. Oh, and these goblins also have a weird reproduction system where they kidnap other races and mate with them, men included as there are female goblins, because they have lower fertility rates with other goblins.
Which is really just an excuse for the main character to have a harem (which, I must remind you, that he acquired through kidnapping and occasionally drugs), which the girls are fine with for reasons. I suppose its better than most harems though, as the mc actually does something with the girls instead of that infuriating pantomime they usually play, but its still trash.

To be fair, slime is a little better in that the main character was at least a decent, normal human to begin with and is actually endearing and there doesn't seem to be as much puerile edginess, but it still has the same sort of premise which I hate.
Given the choice, I would go with slime though.

Goblin Slayer seems very much another one of those series that has sprung up in the wake of World of Warcraft built around the weird artificial nonsense these games create. In this case, it's the fact players ignore content they've outleveled despite the situation they were tasked with resolving still clearly being a problem. It's similar (in premise) to the self explaining "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level".

I was about to say, one of those two is grimdark, while the other is cutesie as hell.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Don’t know that one.

Its a manga series, I don't think it was adapted into an anime.
Its about some guy who was a monster in real life because he had super powers (he can steal abilities if he eats people), and he got murdered by his sister, and got reincarnated as a goblin in another world that has a RPG style class progression system. For whatever reason he still has his OP ability from his human life, so of course all he has to do is nibble on some monsters to get super strong, thus becoming da strongest and bestest monster eva who became a ogre faster than the other goblins and taught them how to use actual tactics, hunt and craft tools. Oh, and these goblins also have a weird reproduction system where they kidnap other races and mate with them, men included as there are female goblins, because they have lower fertility rates with other goblins.
Which is really just an excuse for the main character to have a harem (which, I must remind you, that he acquired through kidnapping and occasionally drugs), which the girls are fine with for reasons. I suppose its better than most harems though, as the mc actually does something with the girls instead of that infuriating pantomime they usually play, but its still trash.

To be fair, slime is a little better in that the main character was at least a decent, normal human to begin with and is actually endearing and there doesn't seem to be as much puerile edginess, but it still has the same sort of premise which I hate.
Given the choice, I would go with slime though.

This hits pretty close to how I feel about harem series as well. That goblin one by the way is easily one of the creepiest ones I’ve ever come across. I think the only one I’v ever liked was Suzuka and that series spent most of its time deconstructions harem plot lines as ridiculous while presenting a classic coming of age romance.

Yeah, its pretty disturbing trash. Its not there to make an interesting point about the nature of being a monster or anything, its really just to be an edgelord power fantasy with a hyperactive sex drive.

Alucard isn't as creepy or disturbing as Rou, and he's a fethmothering vampire which you end up pitying because of how miserable his existence really is.
You know what's a good manga? Drifters. I want another season of Nobunaga and Friends Bizarre Adventure in Middle Earth.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah, its pretty disturbing trash. Its not there to make an interesting point about the nature of being a monster or anything, its really just to be an edgelord power fantasy with a hyperactive sex drive.

Only in Japan do mass murdering psychopaths end up less creepy than teenagers

It’s even worse after you realize most media in Japan is treated as a merchandising opportunity and there’s action figures for everything. Everything.

And yes Drifters is amazing but our luck we won’t see anything until three or four years after the manga concludes and it’ll be an epic OVA series that takes another seven years to finish before TFS makes a much more entertaining parody version of the storyline. So you know. Worth it in the end

It's not an action figure, it is a collectable statuette, thankyouverymuch.

And ha, was just thinking of Drifters when I saw the "mass murdering psychopaths end up less creepy than teenagers" comment.

Anyway, time to talk about things that are good.
Like Jojo. Everyone likes Jojo.
That first episode was pretty good, and Gold Requiem is probably one of the more interesting stands so far. I noticed how Giorno said that its not fully under his control, which would imply that it has a will of its own.
Or maybe its because of his weird genetics? I don't quite understand how if its Jonathan Joestar's body, that Gio could have Dio's genes. I'm pretty sure sperm doesn't work like that.


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 BrookM wrote:
It's not an action figure, it is a collectable statuette, thankyouverymuch.

And ha, was just thinking of Drifters when I saw the "mass murdering psychopaths end up less creepy than teenagers" comment.

I was too. Hellsing and Drifters are both from the same author, after all.

I give him credit for managing his premise so well. Making historically “evil” people the good guys of the series while placing historically “good” people (mostly) as the antagonists and he’s managed to avoid either side coming out like complete heroes/villains.

My favorite part is when the Zero pilot dog fights the dragons

 LordofHats wrote:
I give him credit for managing his premise so well. Making historically “evil” people the good guys of the series while placing historically “good” people (mostly) as the antagonists and he’s managed to avoid either side coming out like complete heroes/villains.

My favorite part is when the Zero pilot dog fights the dragons

I like how Toyohisa is best friends with the Dwarfs. "Father, Grandfather...I found myself true companions. In a place like this, I found true Satsuma companions". Awesome.
Needs more wild bunch though. We haven't seen them in like, 30 chapters. The interaction between them and the zero pilot is pretty funny though. They had to lie and said they were Bolivians, because that pilot really hates Americans.

 LunarSol wrote:
Goblin Slayer seems very much another one of those series that has sprung up in the wake of World of Warcraft built around the weird artificial nonsense these games create. In this case, it's the fact players ignore content they've outleveled despite the situation they were tasked with resolving still clearly being a problem. It's similar (in premise) to the self explaining "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level".

Watched the first episode of Goblin Slayer and its a hard pass for me The whole thing just seemed mean and unpleasant for no real reason other than to try and shock.

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Goblin Slayer seems very much another one of those series that has sprung up in the wake of World of Warcraft built around the weird artificial nonsense these games create. In this case, it's the fact players ignore content they've outleveled despite the situation they were tasked with resolving still clearly being a problem. It's similar (in premise) to the self explaining "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level".

Watched the first episode of Goblin Slayer and its a hard pass for me The whole thing just seemed mean and unpleasant for no real reason other than to try and shock.

That's the entire point of the show/manga. It's edgelord for the sake of being edgelord. It's intentionally trying to offend.

I don't think intentionally trying to offend is the point. We're not talking Brickleberry here. I'd say they more went down the Berserk/Ubel Blatt road of anti-heroism. When the hero is dark, you have to make the villains darker to keep the audience on the side of the maniac. Goblin Slayer stands out because it has a clean cut Shonene art style compared to others of its brand, and plays its premise off light heartedly outside of action sequences.

 LordofHats wrote:
I don't think intentionally trying to offend is the point. We're not talking Brickleberry here. I'd say they more went down the Berserk/Ubel Blatt road of anti-heroism. When the hero is dark, you have to make the villains darker to keep the audience on the side of the maniac. Goblin Slayer stands out because it has a clean cut Shonene art style compared to others of its brand, and plays its premise off light heartedly outside of action sequences.

I agree with this.

I also think it has a very rich world in comparison to many manga/anime. Look past the gratuitous violence and...other stuff and there's a very detailed world in there. I mean alchemy and magic are discussed at length outside of action sequences, as well as detailed studies into Goblin culture, starting, obviously, from reproduction and growth.

I must be honest at first I felt it was very basic and people read it only for the hentai factor but something sucked me in. I think it's the fact that the stakes feel a bit more real than many other anime and the world is created with such attention to detail. Its not for everyone, no doubt, but don't write it off as a basic anime because of the first episode. I promise there's more to it than the obvious.

So, they covered the tree fort part of the manga, which is the second early messed up part from the manga.
And they covered it by...not really covering it. You see a brief glimpse of the aftermath, but most of the brutal details were omitted.
Which is a decent move, but I feel that they should have at least kept the part where the rookie party leader gets a rock to the head, because that was the significance of the scene where the Slayer gets hit in the head with a sling; it shows that armor is really important in this world, and if you don't wear a helmet in battle you will probably die.
The part where that rookie gets hit in the head and Slayer gets hit in the head is a contrast, and showing who the victims were at first would provide a bit more context, which is always good to have in a story.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So, they covered the tree fort part of the manga, which is the second early messed up part from the manga.
And they covered it by...not really covering it. You see a brief glimpse of the aftermath, but most of the brutal details were omitted.
Which is a decent move, but I feel that they should have at least kept the part where the rookie party leader gets a rock to the head, because that was the significance of the scene where the Slayer gets hit in the head with a sling; it shows that armor is really important in this world, and if you don't wear a helmet in battle you will probably die.
The part where that rookie gets hit in the head and Slayer gets hit in the head is a contrast, and showing who the victims were at first would provide a bit more context, which is always good to have in a story.

Yea, me and the Mrs just watched ep 2. She's oddly keen on the anime not having read the manga Anyway I'm sure there were a few differences, the most major I noticed was that when the Priestess cast protect there was also a hand that looked all too human trying to escape, which is what put her question of faith into action. I didn't see this in the anime. As you've mentioned the rock to the head scene didn't happen, but we got more character building from the supporting heroes, cow girl and goblin slayer himself.

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Watched the first episode of Goblin Slayer and its a hard pass for me The whole thing just seemed mean and unpleasant for no real reason other than to try and shock.

Yeah, I also watched the first episode of GS, but it just didn't really appeal to me. Oh, well.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So, they covered the tree fort part of the manga, which is the second early messed up part from the manga.
And they covered it by...not really covering it. You see a brief glimpse of the aftermath, but most of the brutal details were omitted.
Which is a decent move, but I feel that they should have at least kept the part where the rookie party leader gets a rock to the head, because that was the significance of the scene where the Slayer gets hit in the head with a sling; it shows that armor is really important in this world, and if you don't wear a helmet in battle you will probably die.
The part where that rookie gets hit in the head and Slayer gets hit in the head is a contrast, and showing who the victims were at first would provide a bit more context, which is always good to have in a story.

Very much this yes, on the one hand glad they left it out, but yes the context was missing. But with that out of the way we can move on to them partying up and do the really awesome stuff.

Make sure you watch the credits on this week’s AoT.

 AduroT wrote:
Make sure you watch the credits on this week’s AoT.

What a cliffhanger. I shouldn't have watched it! Damm it!

I just finished watching Violet Evergarden, and man, parts of that show were straight depressing. I heard people complained about how technologically advanced her arms were compared to the rest of the technology in the show... But I found I could give it a pass, and didn't find it to detract from the setting too much.

 AduroT wrote:
Make sure you watch the credits on this week’s AoT.

It's the sort of thing that makes you want to skip a week of your life.

Also new goblin slayer complaint, the 3d walk cycles are awful.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Make sure you watch the credits on this week’s AoT.

It's the sort of thing that makes you want to skip a week of your life.

Also new goblin slayer complaint, the 3d walk cycles are awful.

Agreed, the CGI walk scenes are straight trash in Goblin Slayer.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Make sure you watch the credits on this week’s AoT.

It's the sort of thing that makes you want to skip a week of your life.

Also new goblin slayer complaint, the 3d walk cycles are awful.

They aren't great. This bad CGI trend in anime needs to die. Stop being lazy and learn to draw, ya gitz.

Reminds me of Kingdom. All of Kingdom's anime adaptation was done in CGI. There were times it was so smooth you didn't even notice it, and other times it was so choppy and mechanical it stood out like a sore thumb.

At least it isn't "The Dragon Prince" where the entire thing is bad CGI.... on purpose.

The Dragon Prince is a great series but his animation style... the fighting scenes are great but the framerrate of everything else...

But you can do only so much with a small budget.

I'm not looking forward to Zombieland Saga episode #3 as the preview showed off crappy CGI dancing.