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

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Just recently read this Manga until chapter 91. --SPOILERS--

In my opinion you can look at this Manga in 2 parts. The first half, until around 45, which is rather "boring" and the second half, where it picks up quite fast.

First, i wanna talk about the biggest problem i have with this manga, there are never any problems, in the whole story there is never anything at stake.

Orc Lord? Easily defeated, Rimuru just lets Great Sage take over.
Charybdis? "No Milim we will fight it ourselves", after 10 hours of fighting "oh yeah why don't you just kill it".
Commander of the Church will kill the MC? Luckily ... it was just a clone he made.
Many friends and Shion died? Their souls are still here, just become a demon lord and revive them.
Clayman is in control of Milim? No he isn't, they were fooling him from the start.
2 Charybdis appear?? Benimaru kills them instantly.
Apart from that the MC is best friends with literally two of the strongest beings in this world, Milim and Veldora.

As you can see i still gave the manga an 8 because this can be overlooked, but i would understand if this really gets on the nerves of some people.

Also the Manga is quite long, 91 chapters doesn't sound that much but there is a lot of text and the chapters sometimes span more than 60 pages. This isn't necessarily a bad thing although i am not a big fan of it.

My score comes to be because most of the manga is a mediocre 7, it is a good read but nothing more than that, until Rimurus Demon Lord transformation and Walpurgis begins, there are many chapters and panels that are actually amazing, so that bumps up the score accordingly.

Also there are many interesting charackters. I was a fan of Souei from the start and like Diablo a lot as well. My favorites are Milim and Ramiris, as their scenes are always really funny.

This is my first review, it isn't structured that well, i just wrote what came to my mind.

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.