Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

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Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken is one of the most different Isekai I've ever seen.

When I started watching this series it seemed like just another generic Isekai (fun but generic) but that's not what happened. I feel like as the story progressed it brought up more themes of tribal problems and politics. This is something you rarely see in an Isekai world. I remember seeing this only in Overlord and Log Horizon.

The way the series progressed was very coherent and fun to follow. The characters have their own plots that make them captivating to read. One downside is that over time some characters start to ... leave their own plots aside (at least they're not worked on in the series anymore).

The writing is full of dialogues and texts, so for those who like to read, this series has a lot of dialogues (not as much as Hunter x Hunter).

Like all Isekai, the protagonist ends up becoming very strong for the standards of that world. However, I like the fact that although Rimuru is strong, he is not invincible, at least not if we consider the demon lords. In addition, there are also political disputes, which the plot balances very well on all sides to create suspense in the story.

Overall, I had fun reading this work and that's why I give it an 8 since I enjoy reading it and I also feel that it has good depth.

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Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken é um dos Isekai mais diferentes que já vi.

Quando comecei a ver essa obra ela parecia ser apenas mais um Isekai genérico (divertido mas genérico) mas não foi isso que aconteceu, sinto que com o avanço da historia foi se trazendo mais esses temas de problemas de tribos e politica isso em um mundo de Isekai é algo que raramente se vê, lembro-me de ver isso apenas em Overlord e Log Horizon.

O jeito que a obra avança foi bem coerente e divertido de acompanhar, os personagens tem suas próprias tramas que tornam eles cativantes de se ler. Um lado negativo é que com o tempo alguns personagens vão deixando suas próprias tramas de lado (ao menos não é mais trabalhada na obra).

A escrita é cheia de diálogos e textos então para quem gosta de ler, essa obra apresenta muitos diálogos (não tanto quanto Hunter x Hunter).

Como todo Isekai o protagonista acaba virando muito forte para os padrões daquele mundo entretanto, gosto do fato de que apesar do Rimuru ser forte, ele não é invencível, ao menos não se considerarmos os lorde demônio, fora isso tem tambem as disputas politicas que nisso sim a trama equilibra muito bem todos os lados para dar um suspense na trama.

No geral me diverti lendo essa obra e por isso dou uma nota 8 já que gosto de lê-la e tambem sinto que tem uma boa profundidade.

Slimesekai.

It is a painfully average story.

That's it really. There's no factors in Slimesekai that you can't find done better somewhere else.

The only interesting facet of Slimesekai is the idea of reincarnating as a slime, and it's ruined within two chapters when the slime is A: not weak at the fuck all, B: not challenged by literally anything, and C: has no reason to even be a slime.

Ever played Terraria? Dragon Quest? Final Fantasy? Do you remember slimes being able to eat literally anything, absorb skills and attributes of those things, and just do generally unrealistic actions like shooting swords of water?

Yeah, that's not called ... a slime, that's called an unnecessarily OP protagonist in a shell that doesn't fit them. Hell, the story doesn't even manage to stick to the core concept of "This is a story about a slime" because within ten chapters our MC can now transform into a human form and (from what more I read) seems to vastly prefer that form.

Any tension that Slimesekai could have is immediately taken out of the equation by the absurdity that is 'eat literally anything', not to mention the fucking Chekhov's Dragon that Rimuru just has stuffed into his belly. Oh noes, not a legendary orc lord! Well, if anything goes badly just release one of the FOUR STRONGEST BEINGS IN THE WORLD.

Well that's any tension from battle out of the way. How about character tensions? Trouble with now being a slime? Your newly found Japanese friend dying in front of you? Goblins being your underlings? The fact that you just got reincarnated? Any kind of reactions to any of that?

Haha no. Rimuru's character can be boiled down to "audience insert/surrogate" and that's about it. Apart from a few asides about having weird hentai on his computer, or that he worked for a contracting company, Rimuru has literally no character traits. Just your basic "do nice things and be helpful" protagonist.

None of the other characters in the story have any interesting traits, and hell, the only one that I even thought to have been interesting is Veldora, who didn't show up for the 17 chapters I read. Shizue had promise, but then she died. There's no social tension, no interesting characters that don't immediately lose the facets that made them interesting.

Art is fine. Nothing outstanding, but it's better than a lot of other stories.

Plot? What plot? The entire story so far is just Rimuru reacting to things, and not in any especially interesting ways.

Overall, Slimesekai sucks, read a better isekai nerd.

Story: 5
Art: 7
Character: 2
Enjoyment: 4
(18/40)
Overall: 5

=Art=
Artstyle and character design are generic, forgettable at worst.

The only notable thing I like is a specific Orc's tanky armor much later in the story. It looked kinda cool~

=Characters=
I don't care for them because they're either:
- Rimuru fanatics
- friends/allies
- future friends/fanatics, before they get their asses handed to them
... - some evil character to be killed off
Only two, maybe three characters have grown. The rest remain static, especially Rimuru fanatics.
The MC is the most uninteresting of them all, as detailed below.

=Story=
"Weak" slime is actually god-like sums it up pretty well.

You've got all the typical bad traits of isekai trash:
- dead MC reincarnated into another world
- MC gets OP skills for no reason
- Powerup through eating
- MC breezes through all the problems that he encounters, no sweat!

I don't have a problem with reincarnation, but the rest...

==MC gets OP skills==
Getting all these skills through no effort, or just "randomly" by doing simple stuff isn't impressive at all. If not by chance, miraculously, he'll get a powerup that'll let him demolish his opponents, or get a resistance skill that makes him immune to stuff during a fight, or later in the story. No struggle equals no interesting story!

Not only is he the most powerful, but he also has a ton of skills! My eyes just glaze over whenever he suddenly learns a bunch of skills. No one's gonna bother remembering all of that anyway, at least until he pulls it out of his slimey ass later.

I wouldn't complain about this if there are limits to their abilities and/or if they struggled and took a long time to attain their power, but the problem is they usually have no limits nor a price to his powers whatsoever. Even if he was an absolute saint in his past life and he deserved being OP, it would still not make for an interesting story without the struggle.

Since it's part of his skill, let's also talk about the Great Sage. I loathe her existence. She's an exposition fairy that violates "show, don't tell", and most of his OP-ness is caused by her. Rimuru would be struggling a whole lot more and wouldn't have done some things if she didn't exist, but he would've been a better character as a result.

==Powerup through eating==
One of the most basic actions for survival apparently makes you OP as heck. If this isn't an indication of lazy writing next to becoming OP just because of existing, I don't know what is!

If it took a while to learn and get better at his skills, then great. The problem is he'll quickly if not instantly master them, and apparently, not even a friggin dragon is immune to his eating skill. All of this would make some sort of sense if he was a glutton in his past life, but he wasn't even that.

==MC breezes through all the problems that he encounters, no sweat!==
No stakes at all in this manga! He'll just learn a skill later that will win him the battle/war easily! But enough about him being OP combat-wise, what about other stuff?

Met a powerful character that could've killed him or destroyed his village? We're just friends, nothing to worry about!
Lording over a village, and later a country? Easy-peasy! It's not like a forest in a fantasy world is that dangerous!
Winning a war, and incorporating the losing side to his village/country? No bad blood nor food shortage problems whatsoever!
Some character being a jerk to Rimuru, or rightfully being cautious of such a god-like being? Eh, they'll worship the very air he breathes later!
Other powerful countries? 100% trust the god-like slime, and we're also friends! Enemy countries just get steamrolled.
That one horrible thing that happened that could've made the whole manga a lot more interesting? Lol, let's just literally rewrite the laws of reality and undo all that! Might as well make the MC and everyone in the country stronger too!
Let's summon some powerful demons, what could possibly go wrong? The answer is: nothing, because they're all absolutely obedient to him!

Problems are the spice that makes stories interesting, but there are no problems that he can't solve easily and swiftly.

=Enjoyment=
I'm aware life is hard, but how can people root for someone that has everything handed to them? I did not enjoy reading this, and I'm merely reading this to get better as a writer cause you gotta read garbage too to avoid making the same mistakes. I would give this a 1, but I'm saving that for absolutely horrendous things.