Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season

"Note, this review doesnt contain spoilers"

My god....never did I undertsand the hype of this anime. I talked to some people on Discord why they liked it and they said, "I like the slice of Life elements in the anime" and "the anime is funny". And still I dont understand, yeah I could see the slice of life elements but people this season die right and left and show blood because the anime is trying to be "DARK" but still the style is to childish for the theme of the anime itself. I dont like this anime maybe becuase it isnt for me or the ... show is just objectivley bad just like my English.

Story-
The story of this season expands the worldbuilding and introduces new races and characters and also the racism against humans. As I already said in the beginning of my review that people are dying right and left and its up to our Main Protaganist to revive pointless chracters but hey, he has to do it because the story tells him to. Look, we dont get a sad but good anime like AOT where a lot of characters die and where you are like damn, they will never come back but in this anime its like "Oh no, this chracter died, anyways". Fucking stupid. And its never established why humans are racist against monsters, is it becuase they are "Different". How the hell do humans have this much power, they arent as strong as orcs, they cant live as long as elves and they dont have that good of a smell compared to beastman but still they have this much control. Couldnt the anime focus more on that instead of our Protaganist killing a bunch of meatballs. An other problem with this anime is that the Protaganist is just to OP. The tension is just removed and I just dont care about any fight in this show because I know how its going to turn out. Also I dont understand the side-quest because those are fucking lame but hey, we got to have them or else we will lost our fans. And what the hell is up that the Mc is teaching a bunch of kids how to use magic, never understood that part but you know what. I dont care really, becuase of how bad the story itself already is. Also, the pace is insulting for how fast it goes but thats not that big of a complaint.

Characters-
Characters in the show belong in 3 catagories and none of them are well written or funny in any kind of way so lets talk about that.

1. Comedic characters
2. Fanservice
3. Pointless side characters

1. Man oh man, why are there so many characters in this catagory. Like 40% of all chracters of this show belonged here. In the entire 12 episodes of season 2 I didnt laugh or smile a bit. I was like, "can this already end please". For some reason the comendy is just bad in this show, characters make funny faces and annoying sounds and think I am supposed to laugh, the jokes get repetitve and just badly written just like the characters them self. And lets go back to an other point. Because so many characters in this show are "Comedic" is even trying to make the anime "DARK" an extremly stupid idea. For other anime like AOT its justified because there only like a few characters and they are also well written. So, please stop doing this to me.

2. I dont even have to explain myself do I. Female chracters with boobs of the size of her head is already enough to make me hate an anime. Exept ofcourse if she is well written, well saidly no. None of the Fanservice characters are well written. Its just becuase the author didnt have a plan what to do in certian scenes so he was like "hmmm, boobs are a good idea" please, give me a break. I think like 15% belongs to this catagory. But still, fuck that trope man.

3. Well, I dont understand but I cant even name a single character in the show besides the main character. This just shows that this show is just filled with pointless side characters that have something to say because of bullshit. I dont know why and how this happend but they could have at least some well written characters right? Sigh, I guess not. Verry sad indeed. And I dont know if I just dont pay a lot of attention or if the show is just bad.

I forgot to talk about the protaganist but he is the best witten character in this show but that isnt really a plot-twist because he has the most screen time. I liked him more in his slime form then in his loli form because that is such obvious fan service. Not the worst Isekai Protaganist but not the best either.

Sound-
I tought it sounded fine, nothing special.

Art-
As I already said, I think that the art style is not that bad but if the show tries to have some darker elements, the art doesnt work well with that but the art isnt really that insulting like devilman crybaby,"Cough,Cough"

Enjoyment-
I dont know how I feel about the show but maybe its just me. Maybe this isnt my cup of tea and maybe it isnt even meant for me but I just didnt enjoy it alot. Yeah some of the fight were verry well animated stil, I knew how the fight was going to end and that kinda ruined it for me. Also as I said, the characters themself are just bad and dont add anything to the story or the anime. This wasnt a fun experience and thats sad becuase I expected more.

Overall-
You know how I feel about this anime. In my opinion it isnt a good anime and is as good as the average Isekai. It tried to be something diffent and they did it kinda, but still I see this anime as not good and I hope the next season isway better and fixes some of the flaws this season has.

Boooooring and slow paced so far spending whole episodes just talking nonsence .
when i watched the first season i thought this one would be better with more action but they seem to stretch the story and make unnecessary dialogues and scenes ,wich makes it so boring
I fell like i'm watching a channel 7 drama series.
first season i gave it an 8 overall mainly for the story and character développement,in my humble opinion when you make a first season like that you must make a better 2nd season not destroying it .
watching these 8 episodes was a pain in my butt
i think ... we dont mind good speeches and peaceful times but when you give characters great powers like those and them make them drink and farm all the time that destroys the whole purpose .

I went in expecting the worst, and it did not disappoint. As with the first anime, it is nothing but a power-tripping main character defeating your generic super evil villain which is designed solely for the viewers to hate. There is nothing of value to this anime, it only exists for the viewers to live vicariously through the main character.

The characters are bland and shallow; there’s your generic female sidekick, another girl whose only personality is her breasts, and two generic males who we know nothing about. They all exhibit sameface; the only way we can distinguish them is the gaudy color palette used on ... each character: the main character is a bright blue, the main female sidekick is pink, the other girl is purple, and one male is red. They have no backstory; there is no emotional attachment to these characters, and as such, they can only be distinguished by their hair color.

The animation is similarly of low quality. In one scene, they allocate two frames for a tiger-drawn carriage. Their paws just go up in one frame, and down in the other. In other scenes, you have your typical still frame fights, and panning shots of similarly still frames. I'd wager that this video https://youtu.be/240Vq6tIxio has more keyframes than the two seasons combined. It's also obvious that the penultimate fight scene involving the main character is lazily animated. The main character's attack seems to have been designed to avoid having to animate complex moves.

Let's talk about the story. It's your typical overpowered character power-tripping fantasy. We meet a few villains; most of them are framed as edgy, pure evil, with no complex personality; just someone that presents a barrier for the main character that everyone roots for to be crushed. The main character first faces off against a villain who overpowers him. He retreats and as he lost his sidekick, he suddenly gains more power, to the point where he can just massacre the tribe that said villain belonged to. After the initial confrontation with the main villain, she is nowhere to be found. Her entire tribe is massacred with her nowhere to be seen. She was only there to provide a minuscule bit of tension and nothing else.

Obviously, the conflict within the anime is weak, as the main character is overpowered. When some of the supporting characters died, there might’ve been hope for some tragedy in this story, to provide a little depth. But as expected, their deaths were not permanent. Through some plot device, the main character's sidekicks are magically revived, and all goes back to normal. To some extent, it plays out much like a sitcom. The laziest plot device of this entire series is "the sage", a voice in the main character's head that is nothing more than an exposition machine. It powers the main character and grants him increasingly powerful abilities, in addition to spitting out verbatim exposition, with no attempt to integrate it into the story. The anime doesn't even attempt to animate an actual character to deliver said exposition; it's either a voice in the main character's head or a glowing sphere. He doesn't make much of an effort to acquire his superpowers either; they are just granted to him by the sage when the plot deems it necessary.

All in all, this anime was nothing but another generic isekai designed for the viewers to live vicariously through the main character. It has no value; it's just another cash cow in a sea of mediocre anime. It's the poster child for modern anime: poor plot, terrible animation, bland characters, fanservice, nothing but pandering to a wide audience.

loved the first season but not sure what changed in the 2nd season that has made it completely unwatchable to me. the plot lines, characterization, and dialog seem like they have all dropped off a cliff.

remiru seems bland now and their focus on the drama of the town has sapped all the comedy and laughs i got from him in the first season. wasn't expecting it to be as good as the first season but this just feels rushed and uninspired, like your typical hollywood cash grab.

i keep watching more in hopes that it turns around but i think this is probably just ... a lost season and hopefully someone in charge will realize how bad it is and fix it for season 3. if it even gets a season 3, could definitely see it being canceled after this season

My overview for the first season of the Slime isekai was well received in every site I uploaded it. And yet there were a lot of people at Anime-Planet who kept commenting about how wrong it was, because I didn’t read the manga. Why should I? It was an overview about the first season of the anime, not a much later arc in the manga. Do I really have to point out how stupid this is? How would you feel if I was going on every person’s review of the first season of The Promised Neverland and I was telling them they are wrong in ... everything they wrote, because the manga is different later on? It’s that sort of mental gymnastics that can make an average person to give up on reviewing, because he wouldn’t be able to tolerate the insanity of the fanboys. Luckily for you, I am not average and I watched the next season where the big twist happened. And no, it doesn’t contradict anything I said about the first season, because it’s a different season and it’s definitely not an ongoing manga. Holy crap, anime community, why do you suck so much?

Anyways, I had said about the first season that it was a bland power fantasy about an overpowered protagonist who solves all the problems in a breezy, wholesome way. He does the same for half of the second season as well, until a bad guy cancels his hax powers with a barrier and a lot of his allies get killed by an invading army. Things are no longer hunky dory, he has to take his position more seriously, he has to realize he can’t solve every problem with hax powers, and he has to accept that he can’t save everybody all the time. This sounds like a great twist and all the author had to do was to not go back to the bland power fantasy.

…And then he goes back to the power fantasy and completely destroys the twist, thus making the show even worse than it was before, because now it comes off as pretentious. The only thing the protagonist had to do is to get even more overpowered. The invading army that seemed unstoppable was easily annihilated by his hax powers, and all his allies who died were magically brought back to life. Hooray for taking things more seriously where there is still no tension or negative consequences. The fanboys of this bland power fantasy will insist it’s deep because he was forced to kill a lot of people and to be more serious hereon, but who gives a damn when he can easily solve every problem with his completely broken powers and to dragonball back to life anyone who died? Oh, as for the part where he is forced to kill people in order to protect his friends, did everyone forget the hundreds of creatures he has killed already, including the father of the wolf who carries him around like a pet?

Therefore nothing really changed and all those idiots who were making fun of me for not reading the manga when I was reviewing the anime were full of crap. The show is still lazily written, it’s nothing special, it’s a run of the mill trash isekai for people who hate their lives and want to escape in a videogame where they are amazing and solve all their problems without having to actually work hard or sacrifice a thing. For a much better version of the same (supposed) twist, read my book. I also have a guy who becomes a leader and who doesn’t have hax superpowers for wiping out entire armies, nor he can resurrect anyone he likes, whenever he feels like it. It’s what the author of the Slime isekai can only dream of writing, because all he cares about is creating a bland power fantasy for gamer dorks, who will rush to defend his trash by making fun of anyone who didn’t like the anime, because he didn’t read the manga. Defenders of this trash, you all suck and I am both a better analyst of anime and a writer of better fiction.

I loved the first season and was looking forward to season 2.

I really enjoyed how the first season built upon itself, episode by episode. It was relaxing, entertaining and also made me smile in some parts.

However, so far, in my opinion, the second season really poor. At first, nothing is happening. It would be alright if there was either a slow acceleration of the plot or just a plot twist, but what happened during later episodes feels non-consistent. Random people come killing the whole town. An op enemy shows up, attacks, and disappears just like she appeared. I mean, ok. It is up to ... creators. However, it does not give me the same vibe as the first season. Not by a longshot.

In the end, I would like to remind you that it is just my opinion and you are free to like it if you do not mind what I did. It is just that I am a little bit sad since I was really looking forward to the second season.

I was a massive fan when the first season released, which lead to me reading the manga, light novel and the web novel. So when season 2 was announced I was excited the see more of the story animated, I am however disappointed to see parts of the story stretched out, and a series of constant recaps for the past 4 episodes dragging out the same part of the story.

The fans deserve to have an anime that is true to the novels, and not to have the same thing forced down their throat every week. I am sure many fans are upset with how the ... studio has wasted their budget with recaps and are also sad to have to wait so long for anything interesting to happen.

I would recommend reading either the manga or the novels instead of watching an anime that can't stay true to it's source.

I really do not understand how people are still watching this Season of Slime Isekai. It has been a non-stop slug fest to even get to episode 9 and honestly it's incredibly disappointing after the first seasons stellar cast and interesting plot.

This season has been marred by filler episodes left and right, constantly repeating the same facts we already know, or re-stating an entire section of a previous episode. If you like this show I guess that's fine but I can't really understand how much of a masochist you are to just endure a show that has given like 1 good scene in the past ... 9 episodes.

Gross, to be totally honest. the experience watching this vs watching season 1 is night and day. Season one is a fun, nostalgic, action-filled, generally well-thought out anime which, while not being a mature or super unique anime, at least had this loveable spark that made it irresistible and this season- this first half of it at least that this page is for is thoughtless, generic, careless, and edgy.
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Now, if the show got dark, that would be fine- honestly it would be interesting. But it doesn't get dark it get's edgy and frankly dull, and disgustingly so too. No regrets or thought at all for very big and profound actions and no emotion or weight to whatever shams of emotion they try to shove in.
And the fights, I am not a fan of action shows in general. I don't get it. But I'm not soulless, I like a great fight scene that makes you go "OH!" and GASP and other monke sounds too. Other than a decapitation, the fights are pretty boring. If not solely for the fact that the fights are pointless and usually with characters we either don't care about, or whom fighting could probably be talked around if Rimuru decided to actually keep talking.

Nothing has any weight in the show, especially not death. I mean, we can't let anyone we know die, noooooo forget we did last season and it was very sweet and interesting. The waifu must live :,( . And then Rimuru fucking kills thousands of innocent people with 0% mercy. It was honestly disgusting to watch; and they didn't want it to be, they wanted genocide to be "cool" and "cold-blooded." Well, it wasn't. it felt completely out of character and fucking stupid and childish in the bad ways.
But, yknow, the show is very fast paced and thus despite all its issues it's easy to sit through and watch and I admit even has its good, charming VERY FEW moments. The show is popular, I'll sit through its grossness just so I can at least talk to other anime fans. I loved the first season so much, I am utterly stupified at how they could fuck it up this bad.

It is bad.

You see, the art is nice, the animation is okay, characters are likeable (albeit quite stereotypical), and there are couple of nice moments, but the PACING. The pacing is awful and pretty much kills it.

Essentially they're stretching 6 or 8 episodes worth of information into 12. Something *important* happens in this season, and if you read the LN or manga, you know what that something is. At the speed the anime moves initially, it should've happened in the middle of the season, but that is a no, and so they start stalling it, pushing it back and so on.

What does it mean? It ... means they'll start using every stalling shounen trick in the book. Artificially lengthened fight scenes, artificially lengthened dialogues, dozens of scenes where everybody is heroically preparing for something important, but nothing actually happens and in essence we have a talking head scene that lasts 15 minutes and adds nothing to the story.

Maybe it feels better if you haven't read the source material, but if you did read it, it is awful. You want that "great thing" to happen, and they delay it. Then they delay it again. Then again, and again and again, and when it happens it is sorta underwhelming because the stuff you imagined was cooler than that.

It is awful, it feels bad and gives bad impression.

At this rate, "part 2" is probably mostly going to be Rimuru slapping the antagonist for 6 episodes, where the same scene is shown from different angles.

Obviously, I'm quite disappointed. The stretching of source material makes even less sense, given that in the second half of the season 1 they were RUSHING the material instead.

Therefore final stats.
4/10 story, 6/10 art, 5/10 sound, 5/10 character, 2/10 enjoyment, 4/10 overall.

I really enjoyed Season one of this series, but oh my God!

Season two of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken in which all the heroes that were built up in season one are turned into a bunch of weak fucking morons who can't do shit against absurdly overpowered Deus Ex-Machina enemies appearing out of nowhere.

Who greenlit this atrocious claptrap? There's no humor left. No reason to root for the main characters who seem to have lost their brains and their reason for existing. Especially the main character seems to have dropped at least 80% of his IQ.

Christ!

I can't find the words to ... explain what a load of garbage this turned out to be!

Season two is what happens when people without talent cosplay as writers.

It's truly not worth watching.

DROPPED!

Sleep inducing. I somehow made it through this anime, but almost every episode made me almost fall asleep. And I am serious about this. If you have insomnia just watch this; it is a great cure.

I thought the first season was good, but this one is filled with endless talking about some of the most boring subjects imaginable. They just talk for ages explaining very simple concepts, but it takes them almost a full episode to explain something that isn't complicated.

The main character is dumb. In, I think episode 3, he is warned that Falmour (or something like that) will wage war because they want ... power. This person tells him the reason why they will attack. About 2 episodes later, the protagonist has forgotten and says something like 'I cannot figure out why they would attack.' You were just told an episode ago! Does he have short-term memory loss?

In the midst of these troubles and threats, the main character decides to take a trip to meet his students in another city. Great timing! He teleports there for pretty much no reason but to put the main character in that place. There is no other reason for him to be there.

And I bet you can guess what happens next! Yes, a great surprise happens when Falmour attacks his territory whilst he is away. But the reason he can't back is even more stupid than him leaving.

The main character has the ability to teleport directly from the city back to his territory, but he decides not to do that. He decides to ride out of the front gate and teleport from outside the city where he gets trapped by a spell. This spell stops him from teleporting and he gets attacked. If he just teleported from the city (the sensible thing), he would never have that issue.

The most annoying thing, though, is when one of his allies dies. There is a lot of boohoo and upset for about 10 minutes, but this turns out to be pointless because the main character revives the person about 5 minutes later. A completely pointless storyline. It would be better if they stayed dead or, at least, left them dead for far longer.

I really liked the previous season. It was decent, especially compared to waves of isekai crap that were so popular at that time. But this?

It's horrendous.
Otherworlders are useless shits with a character of a 3rd rate grunt A.
Power levels lost their sense.
Music sounded like something remixed from free samples. It kind of sounds like old school 8bit music if you increase speed enough, but normally it's unbearable.
The worst thing is that the whole story seems to be written by edgy 13 y.o. Not going to spoil it, but everything seems to be forced to explain the MC decision which was basically: "Oh hey, the literal ... wiki of the world doesn't know that, but some random, deus ex machina gal heard that there is that thing you can do to reverse everything bad that has just happened."

I'm not going to ask if the author thought that readers are retarded, it's too obvious.

Well, at least the art was decent enough to not hurt your eyes.

Don't expect much from it, at least from the later episodes. My only hope is that next season won't be THIS bad.

More than half of this season are fillers..... Such a waste of time.

I was expecting this season to be decent since season 1 and the manga is pretty good. But Season 2 is a complete disappointment. With so many fillers, We can easily feel how the producer is trying to milk this series.

Usually, when I watched an anime releasing by season, I don't expect any filler but this is a new kind of low from the producer and whoever decides this was a good idea.

The fillers were soo cheesy and annoying, I feel like most hentai has a better plot and ... much more entertaining than this.