Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2

If there’s one ingredient that’s absolutely core to my enjoyment of a show, it’s relatability. It’s not necessarily that the characters have to be similar to me, it’s that I have to connect with some facet of their motivation. Rimuru Tempest (which I will refer to as “he,” despite being genderless, for ease of discussion) was easily the most appealing aspect of this narrative as he’s a character we all wish we could be. What made him stand out from the myriad of lackluster self-inserts was his open-mindedness and uncanny ability to befriend those who were once enemies--mostly due to his exuberant generosity and resources--which ... allowed him to build a robust, ethnically diverse, RPG-esque community. It was fascinating to see all the moving parts of Tempest, how each individual can utilize their unique talents to contribute to their little society. Even if it’s all fictitious, there was a level of comfort in knowing that such a welcoming community exists where even a bumbling fool like Gobta has inherent value as a member. And while it has somewhat maintained this general appeal, I feel as though it has lost its luster over the course of Season 2. Spoilers ahead.

There was a defining moment in Season 2 that dramatically shifted the dynamic of the narrative, and that was the Falmuth invasion. At first, I thought this was a good direction for the story to take. As the saying goes, you don’t know when something’s valuable until you’ve lost it, and witnessing the heartbreaking massacre on Tempest added some much-needed stakes to the story. It highlights just how fragile the city of Tempest can be, and it reinforces the idea that it’s something worth protecting. Such a loving community utterly devastated by humans, a race infamously known for their close-minded fear and ignorance. This can easily be seen as a metaphor for how minorities are often misunderstood and shunned because of it. The city of Tempest is truly the lifeline of the show, so it’s understandable that Rimuru would want to retaliate, but I feel as though he went too far. Up until this point, Rimuru kept that casualties to a minimum, only killing when absolutely necessary, so I was expecting the kind-hearted Rimuru to mourn the loss of his people, then try to establish a more sound relationship with the human race; this is a fantasy, after all, and I would like to believe people are actually able to be reasoned with, but the story took an unexpected turn. It introduced this cheap plot device where, if Rimuru evolves to Demon Lord, he can revive everyone who died in his city. Yea, you can kiss those stakes goodbye, ‘cuz from here on out, there will be none.

There’s really no going back from this error. From now on, I know Rimuru will ALWAYS come out ahead no matter what, because the story can just pull something out of its ass to make sure of it. Throughout the show’s entirety, Rimuru’s powers and resources were handed to him on a silver platter, so I was genuinely interested to see how Rimuru would respond when things didn’t go his way, but of course, that doesn’t matter anymore. Yes, I understand that Slime is trying to be an escapist fantasy where everything goes right, but the invasion of Falmuth was an honest attempt at introducing a compelling conflict, and it fell flat because it’s trying to have its cake and eat it too. Needless to say, this has made Part 2 kinda boring...ish?

Funnily enough, despite having no narrative stakes, it didn’t totally ruin the experience for me. I guess watching Rimuru and co. is enough to simply enjoy the show, so it wasn’t a chore to sit through, but it definitely isn’t as charming as it used to be. I, personally, enjoy shows from a spectator’s point of view, and I seldom enjoy things that require self-insert. While most people might project themselves onto Rimuru to live out their fantasy, I simply admire Rimuru as if I’m a part of the community, but after seeing the oh-so-kind Rimuru slaughter thousands of humans, it’s hard to appreciate him in the same light. Sure, he did slaughter hundreds of orcs in the previous season, but this time, he did it with this eerie sense of malice to him. It almost feels as though he’s this communist overlord coated with a veneer of humble benevolence and prosperity. I dunno, it’s kind of unsettling to see all of his subordinates obsequiously worship him with this unquestionable loyalty, and when someone does question Rimuru, he just responds with: “I want to make the world a better place!” and everyone is just like: “wow, Rimuru, you’re such a nice guy!” and I’m here like “dude, you just killed thousands of people in cold blood, who’s making their world a better place?” It’s hard to relate to all the characters who are doing nothing but blindly jerking off Rimuru, and it’s even harder to relate to the slime king who can do no wrong. Because the show has lost that relatability, the show just isn’t as engaging as it used to be. Now, the character interactions aren’t nearly as endearing and actually slightly obnoxious. The fight scenes have become overlong and exhausting. It’s well animated, but it’s just a bunch of badass wannabes standing around announcing meaningless attack names and doing some flashy nonsense, and the dreadfully loud, bassy sound effects make it especially nauseating to sit through. These are ultimately small, nitpicky details, but they do add up and take away from the experience.

I should also mention, Slime has had a villain problem for a while now where their only motivation is that they’re evil, but Part 2 has exacerbated this issue. Clayman was the “big bad” the show’s been building up to for a long while now. Every conflict before now alludes to him being the guy pulling the strings, and now that we actually see him in action, it turns out he’s actually quite cartoonish and pathetic. It’s as if reviving half the population wasn’t enough, and they just had to hammer home the fact that this show has absolutely zero tension. Oh wait, but Clayman isn’t actually the guy pulling the strings, turns out there’s a guy above him who’s the REAL villain! Oh boy, I can’t wait to see that confrontation, isn’t it exciting? No. No, it’s not. Remember back in 2012, everyone was freaking out about Thanos in the Avengers mid-credit scene? Yea, that was a cool reveal because Loki was already a cunning, world-ending threat. I suppose Clayman is the Loki of this universe, but this shouty dumbass is laughable at best and pompously overbearing at his worst. Seriously, this is just a pitiful attempt at raising the stakes where there is none, since Rimuru is so OP that he’ll probably just brush off the next villain with ease anyways.

I know I’ve been pretty negative throughout this review, but I still kind of enjoy the show despite all of its flaws. I wish I could just ignore these thoughts and experience the show for what it is, but alas, these things do indeed distract me. Like I said before, building the city of Tempest was what I found to be the most enticing aspect of the show, and I guess at some point, the show stopped being about the community and solely about Rimuru. Everyone either praises him or is impressed by him. We get a scene where 2 big bad demon lords talk about how mysterious and fascinating Rimuru is. In every fight scene, we have people shouting out how cool he is, and that kind of excessive stanning is lost on me.

Thanks for reading!

I thoroughly enjoyed the first season in all honesty, the action, development of characters and in general the overall experience was very enjoyable, but as far as the quality of this series goes, much like Tokyo Ghoul, the following seasons have been a letdown.

Firstly, the animation:

Previously, in my opinion, the animation was very good; fluid, attentive to detail and generally effectively communicated the amount of effort that Eight Bit had put in this anime. However, second season animation was reduced to a seemingly PowerPoint-style (not as bad as the way of the house husband), with a plethora of static scenes, a monocoloured background that ... lacked detail, minimising the amount of enjoyment viewers can attain.

Secondly, the content:

Scenes are unnecessarily drawn out. This could be seen in the early parts of season 2 part 1 where dialogue was added seemingly just to fill the episode quota, resulting in it lasting an unnecessary amount of episodes that could have been action, USEFUL CONTENT and actual character development. An example of this (which was repeated throughout season 2) was the absurd number of cuts to show EVERYONE's reaction towards what Rimuru said. These reactions were also just static images, void of any actual meaning and emotion that lasted too many seconds. Like, I know, Rimuru is cool and all but we already know that having a 20-second segment just consisting of constant cuts and pans of static images isn't necessary but instead feels like Eight Bit wanting to fill episode durations. Instead, you could've had Rimuru or anyone doing something, displaying that wow factor rather than boring images that really don't connect with viewers.

Thirdly, character development:

Who remembers the heroes? Because frankly, I don't. The building 'tension' that producers were aiming for simply fell out in this season. Instead of showing that they were vicious, evil and greedy, what was communicated was instead a group of psychopathic clowns, typical in those B grade animes or even Hentai antagonists. Overall, I am saying that they missed the mark for this and by a fair margin. But the voice actors were quite good in communicating their clown-like behaviours, if only it was intended.

In conclusion, this season has so far been quite a letdown, beginning with a 4 episode streak of them just nodding and being "shocked" at the meeting providing nothing really constructive or worthwhile for the viewers. However, despite this people will still rate it a >8 which is an overstatement, but people will still watch because of their trash taste such as myself, with the market being saturated by isekais I guess this is somewhat decent. However, I would argue that people are merely holding on with faith that this season will be better and hence giving it a 9 saying that it has great potential despite watching a group of demi-humans and monsters just nodding for 4 episodes straight.

Congrats, you have fooled yourself.

Stop lingering to the glorious past and be real with yourself, is this really a >8, or really just a 5-7.

The manga made the talk heavy parts more interesting.

The anime is just exhausting to watch.

I don't dislike anime with lots of planning and thinking ahead, but the exposition in this season is handled lazy and uninteresting.

They could at least try animate some parts of the things they are talking about to justify this being an anime adaptation, but it's just some guys sitting in a circle talking with each other.

As LN this works out fine, but if you just try to copy what was written there and don't add some scenes for the anime, whats the point of having an anime?

Read the manga ... for a better experience.

Some examples of talk heavy anime that are actually interesting.

LoGH

Death Note

Kaguya-sama Love is War (This sounds like a troll compared to the other two anime, but most action in this series is the main characters talking to themselves)

Getting boring.

First season was good and I really enjoyed it for what it was, but this season just keeps getting more and more boring. Can't get into specifics because of spoilers but I don't think that it really matters.

Part 1 of this (2nd) season was alright even though I found it to be a bit sloppy and lacking in some aspects but part 2 has just been getting worse and worse. The characters for one, don't feel real enough and some of the new characters that have been introduced aren't nearly as interesting as you would have hoped -and that includes some of the more ... important characters. I don't mind the comedy bits even if they're a little cheesy but they do take away a lot from the personality of the characters because they keep making everyone look stupid and unrealistic during parts that I feel should be more serious. Then we also have some of the scenarios. A large part of the 2nd half for this season has been the characters just talking and planning. I don't mind that even though it's part of why I found it to be getting more and more boring but it definitely feels like they have been stalling for some reason. One of the fights during the 2nd half of this 2nd part of this 2nd season felt really unimportant and underwhelming and I can't really explain why but Rimuru could've literally finished it all in 10 seconds and still have more than enough time to do other stuff.

Even though I've only watched 9 episodes thus far, I give it an overall score of 5. Might change my mind later depending on how the last few episodes go, but as of now I am not satisfied.

*spoilers for both parts of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season*

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken has always struggled at maintaining the same level of interest when it gets going as it has whenever a new arc or season starts. The best story has long since come and gone with the end of Slime S1’s first ⅓. Since the series has shifted its focus from being about a cute slime starting and maintaining a kingdom to facing a new wave of outside threats to his ever-expanding kingdom of diplomacy, it’s been more difficult to let the series off scot-free for any mistakes as things get ... more serious.

This is where the 2nd Part of Slime S2 should have been a success. This is the series’ first real attempt at entertaining a farce. The outcome is a foregone conclusion and it’s about how a scheming upstart Demon Lord’s plans crumble under the weight of his own hubris as he’s outplayed by an equally egotistical, narrow-minded, and unaware slime. There’s no pretense of fake stakes until we near the end, and none of the new characters are so unbelievably tacky as to damage the series like in S2 Part 1. In all fairness, this is probably the best installment overall compared to S1 or S2P1, but not by much. Slime is still a disappointingly mediocre series only carried by what little charm it has left, as well as the decent audiovisuals despite the “visual” end of that statement becoming dangerously inconsistent once again.

8bit continues being the head studio behind this adaptation, and like with Part 1, the visuals are a step back from Season 1. At times, the art style feels a bit different compared to usual, and unlike P1, there aren’t any new or interesting visual shake-ups to speak of outside of there being more on-screen interactions between Rimuru and Great Sage. There are a couple of pretty backgrounds once again, and there’s less awful CGI. Unfortunately, there’s a similar lack of decent action cuts, let alone nice-looking fights. By the time we reach the penultimate episode, some of the action sequences are as bad as the Rimuru vs Hinata battle from Part 1 episode 6. The designs are still fairly decent for an isekai, but the action animation is still ranging from mediocre to subpar like in P1. There are barely any good cuts, and most of them are localized in the final two episodes like the first-person perspective shot of Clayman getting repeatedly slugged by Rimuru or Veldora performing a Kamehameha. Even then, those bits are surrounded by other moments of bad fight animation. It really does feel like the production peaked in the early episodes and the final one...again. Considering that several episodes in the back half either largely or primarily consist of fights, this issue is not only unfortunate, but a contributing factor to the show growing dull before and sometimes during Walpurgis.

Musically speaking, things do fare better. There are a couple new pieces that continue to be solid for the scenes they accompany. If you’ve watched the series up to this point, the OST is as solid as you’d expect. Additionally, both the new OP and ED are superior to what came in Part 1. “Like Flames” by MindaRyn is a solid action-packed banger, especially when they improve the visuals for the last few episodes, while “Reincarnate” by Takuma Terashima is at least better than the garbage from P1. They’re not quite as memorable or engaging as S1’s OPs or EDs, but they are a step up, and that’s what counts.

What counts more, however, is the writing. If nothing else, P2 is probably funnier than P1. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a double-edged sword in execution. The first half largely consists of meetings and deliberations to the point of weariness, so it's perfectly fine to punctuate those with gags that show off some character chemistry. The big, loveable oaf, Veldora, was practically built for these moments, and the same can be said for the returning pixie Demon Lord, Ramiris. Rimuru constantly threatening to spoil the manga they’re reading is probably the best running joke of the entire series. There are fun new dynamics being explored on top of the tried and true ones we've come to expect from this show. They do become more of a hindrance in the back half when the show still tries to come off as serious despite the farce. It's mainly a problem towards the end of the show when Walpurgis hits and they interrupt or deflate the fight scenes with jokes. It's difficult to get invested in the cathartic beatdowns when the show deflates itself like this and isn't good at selling the farcical nature of the current conflict. It tries to entertain the idea of Clayman being a threat towards the end despite constantly undercutting him with gag ends and punchlines during Walpurgis, so why even bother pretending this isn't a farce?

Speaking of Walpurgis, the general plot is certainly better than the previous arc. After the Farmus invasion and Animal Kingdom devastation that Clayman had a hand in orchestrating, Rimuru begins planning his revenge when he hears of Walpurgis: an event in which a Demon Lord council is called in by the agreement of 3 members. Both Rimuru and Clayman are upstart Demon Lords, with Clayman trying to gather up sacrifices by screwing Rimuru's kingdom and allies over, and Rimuru has not only achieved this status, but has cut off Clayman's main line of communication by replacing Myulan's heart. Ultimately, this arc documents Clayman's unknowing fall from grace in real time as he smugly believes he's got Rimuru pinned down despite being so in over his head that he can't see the proverbial sword of damocles hanging over him.

Interestingly enough, Rimuru himself is rather ignorant and narrow-minded as well. Sure, he’s doing better than Clayman, but by the time he brings Shion and Ranga to Walpurgis with him on account of needing to choose two fellow representatives, it becomes clear that at least some of whom he's about to speak to have a much better grasp of the situation than him. Chief among these members is Guy Crimson, who aside from sounding like an ArcSystemWorks fighting game protagonist, is an entertaining fellow who knows how this whole charade has played out for the most part. Anything he doesn't know is largely unimportant or contextual at best to Rimuru and Clayman, but he knows that this whole thing is a ploy to screw Clayman over. He knows Millim was never actually under Clayman's control and that she didn't actually kill Carrion when she fought him and wrecked his kingdom. Millim was just in on the act Frey and the others set up so that once Clayman's at the height of his big scheme to become a Demon Lord and get revenge on all those who mocked him and called him weak, he'd be outed as a total fool before finally getting executed. Hell, even Rimuru's Great Sage that resides within him and an idiot like Shion start understanding the situation better than him despite his insistence to the contrary. Sure, Rimuru does defeat Clayman, hell even Shion does multiple times before he ascends, but that doesn't mean Rimuru doesn't have egg on his face once everything's revealed.

Amusing as this is, Walpurgis still isn't as entertaining as it can be. Since the fights are lackluster, there isn't as much catharsis in seeing Clayman get his ass handed to him. He actually gets his own flashback power of friendship second wind once he remembers he shoulda relied on the rest of his Clown party more and that he was among their weakest. While a villainous example of this shite trope is more interesting and there is a moment in the beginning where one of them (Laplace) urges him to be careful of assuming he has as much control over Millim as he thinks he does, there should have been more interactions between them. At no point do we need to feel super sympathetic for the scheming bastard, but it would be more engaging considering the bond does exist and it does propel him to one last stand before he gets wiped for good. The group has been a thorn in Rimuru's side since the Orc Disaster arc, and their new boss, Yuki from the school arc, is revealed to be the ultimate bad guy of the series. There are some surprisingly compelling moments with Clayman refusing to sell his friends or clients out, or how Laplace deals with the man who smugly informs him of Clayman’s death, but why couldn’t we explore them and their dynamic more beforehand?

Oh wait. There's no time. The adaptation has always suffered from structuring and pacing issues. Apparently, this entire adaptation was supposed to be either 4 cours or 1 cour, depending on if you were the studio or the producers, respectively, and it took forever for them to agree to a 24-ep S1 and 2 split-cours later on. By that time, S1 was almost over. Of course S2 would struggle in terms of pacing. Both parts are adapting a volume in 12 episodes while also picking up on what S1 had to skip, and they somehow feel too slow in some places while skipping over or rushing others. Part 2 doesn’t suffer from this nearly as bad as Part 1 does, but there are some elements that had to slip through the cracks. Remember in the end of the first half of P2 when Diablo/Kuro, Myulan, Youm, and co. were set to get to Farmus to start a civil war and take it over, only for them to never show up again until the final scene’s montage? Apparently in the manga, we cut back to them a few times, but in the anime, that’s clearly not the case. There are other minor oddities like the fact that Suphia, a tiger, can fly, or how they never explain how Shion felt a sense of familiarity with Carrion’s disguised presence to the point of trying to ask Rimuru if it was him when we’ve never been told or shown that they met before. However, they and the mostly lame evil bad guy lackeys at Clayman’s disposal are minor issues.

All that’s left to cover is the cast. Every returning character is as you’d expect, and perhaps in top form outside of Rimuru being perhaps a bit too cocky and narrow-minded compared to usual. Shuna actually gets a moment to be capable and even show that her views on Rimuru are a bit more grounded than everyone else who just views him as infallible. Most of the new guys are kinda just ok or whatever outside of Guy and the one really angry humanoid dragonewt who leads Millim’s followership. Honestly, the banter is what saves a lot of the characters at this point considering most of them are pretty milquetoast or lame otherwise. This especially applies to Rimuru now that Veldora and Ramiris are thrown back into the mix. He and Millim are more entertaining when being pestered by their friends for whatever reason or nagged on by other Demon Lords considering they pretty much needlessly fucked everything up for everyone. It’s a fresh change of pace from all the Rimuru circlejerking most of the cast did...and sadly still do to obnoxious degrees. The returning Veldora is even more likable and fun than Rimuru ever was, considering he’s this boisterous big bro meathead powerhouse constantly getting distracted by manga and whatnot. He was hilarious when finally given a humanoid form at the end of Part 1, and kept that energy going throughout the entirety of Part 2.

A similar if not even greater amount of props must be handed out to Clayman. This utter clown is the first time a villain in this series has anything going for them. He was a somewhat entertaining puppy-puncher schemer in Part 1, but in Part 2, it’s somewhat entertaining seeing him maintain that while being clueless as to how deep he is in the shitter. Even more amusing is the lengths he’d go to posture and make himself seem intimidating when he’s flying off the handle against a clearly superior Rimuru or beating up Millim who’s just acting. This man is an utter joke and it’s a good thing the show took the more farcical route in this case. However, the final two episodes do present another side to him that was a bit too lightly suggested regarding his closeness with his unit. There’s the aforementioned power of friendship second wind he has, but then there’s also him telling Rimuru that he’d never betray a friend or client when the blue-haired war criminal tries to interrogate him for information before killing him off. Clayman was already way better than, say, the otherworlders or the king of Farmus from Part 1, but this was the first time he was genuinely compelling rather than just satisfying to watch get house by his own petard. Him apologizing to Laplace in his head as he’s dying was icing on the cake. No wonder Laplace snaps once a subordinate of a different Demon Lord smugly informs him of the bad news.

Actually, Laplace himself really ascended this time, as while he was a malevolent powerhouse, there wasn’t much interesting or entertaining regarding him prior to what Clayman brought out of everyone. Laplace killing the lackey in a fit of rage, countering every counterattack from the man before showing him his beautifully juicy heart and crushing it as the gorgeous vermillion gushes out of it, was sick! Him thinking about how the rest of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance will feel when they learn the news as he’s laughing and crying sealed the entire scene. Once again, in Slime’s final moments, it showcases what it had the potential to be. Fun and satisfying as that is, it’s nonetheless frustrating that the series always seems to stumble for a while beforehand. Maybe with better and more consistent presentation, this season would be more than just a mixed bag, but when has Slime ever been known for its consistency?

TenSura is forever too disappointing and rough to truly become good, but too competent and likable to be too hard on. It’s hard to straight-up abandon this series, but it’s hard not to get bored or frustrated when it gets into the thick of things and can’t present or execute things too well. It’s forever trapped in or perhaps settling for mediocrity, and reserving its best for the earliest and latest moments of any given entry. A lot of the action is mediocre to bad, outside of a few particularly sick cuts. Most of the charm is gone aside from some of the gags and banter the main characters have. Things always start out fun, get boring or frustrating in the middle, and come out the other end better than before like it didn’t almost ruin itself. Oh, Slime, what in the world are we to do with you?

This show is grossly overrated. It's basically nothing for 12 episodes and then hint of something happening at last few, only for it to be followed by nothing again. While I will endure whole 12 episodes for completion's sake it was definitely a chore rather than enjoyment.

In summary this show lacks logic and constantly breaks rules it sets for itself. This wouldn't be such a problem if the rest of it was any good, which it is not. Last season Rimuru became a demon lord but that had exactly 0 effect on his character, behavior, people around him and his powers. There's no different and ... interesting arcs, no twists, no branching story lines. It's all princess Rimuru and endless sea of flowers and happiness while everyone takes turns in saying how great he is.

Frankly it's disgusting and I can't honestly stand the fact this show is at almost the same rating as Kimetsu no Yaiba, which is a masterfully animated, or any of the other great shows like Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, One punch man, etc.

THIS SERIES IS A 9. A MASTERPIECE OF A 9.
But,
A VERY
A VERY, VERY BIG
BUTT after

This season has been highly toned own compared to its predecessors, thus why my lower score. The focus is on, To put it simply, SLIME wasn't the usual SLIME; generally, we have an overarching plot of 24 episodes but with great subplots leaving to the overriding plot's success and execution.
This season only had one plot ANd STUCK TO IT, SO KUdOS, but that's not slime. The season is still fantastic but, to give it a score in words is it's fine. Cant say more, JUST FINE.
Not good, not bad, just fine.
But, ... I can say with complete confidence this season is a bit on the lower scale just for them to nuke the scale next season; I TRUST THEM WITH THAT. So I cant wait for the next season.

Thanks for reading, and take care.

**Contains Some Spoilers**

Part 2 of season 2 of 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime' is here and we can finally see Rimuru deal with that pesky Clayman once and for all. However, this showdown (& the season overall) is a bit more lackluster than one would have hoped for.

Part 2 can essentially be divided up into two sub-sections. Wartime meetings & the infamous ‘Walpurgis’. While I know many fans were disappointed with how long the meetings lasted, I cannot fault the show too much for having them. Clayman has been hyped as the big bad for a while now and it is expected ... for Rimuru and company to want to strategize and not waste their opportunity to take Clayman down. However, when the meetings take about 6 of the 12 episodes, it does start to feel a bit tedious and tends to slow down the pace dramatically.

Once that section is over we finally get to the action! Unfortunately, this is where I found part 2 to be the most disappointing. The end battle was essentially one-sided and continued the power fantasy trope that part 1 prominently showcased. Had Clayman not been so hyped up, the end fight may have landed better. However, Clayman has been a threat since season 1 and to have the battle resolved within minutes was quite the buzzkill. I said this with part 1 of season 2 as well, but there is no tension in ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime’. Rimuru continues to be all-powerful and even his threats aren’t actual threats to him. In order for the audience to become more invested, I hope that future installments of the franchise increase the danger level of the enemies to be more on par with our favorite slime.

On a positive note, we got to see more of Veldora and gain a piece or two of valuable information on his past. We also got to see some development with Shuna and Shion, and actually see both of them both make a difference in a major battle for a change. One of my biggest gripes with Slime recently has been the large cast of characters and the minimal impact they have on the plot. Giving Shuna a chance to step up to the plate was greatly appreciated, and something I would like to see the franchise do more of in the future.

Overall, the part 2 of season 2 was alright. The pacing could be better, and the fights could be more meaningful. However, it did improve upon some of its existing issues by fleshing out a few of the side characters. If you liked the previous installments of this series, you will most likely find this part enjoyable enough…just may not be your favorite part of the franchise.

Frankly, before I start the review, I can say that Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Season 2 Part 2 is on its way to being my least favorite season. I don't know what other viewers will think, but I don't think it's as good as season 1 But since it's too early to talk about these, let's see how the anime progresses for now.

I can't say much since the first episode was the beginning episode, but it wasn't above average. Let's get to the 2nd episode, first of all I didn't remember much about the episode so I watched it again and I see ... the beginning of the damn meeting. The third episode was the most boring episode I've ever watched. I don't want to be misunderstood, these kinds of meetings are important, but unnecessary stretches suck. Other than that, there wasn't much difference in the fourth episode.

Still, I will watch it with hope, most likely the 2nd part will open later, but we will find out together how good it will be.

Overall : 6

This review was written after watching the first 6 episodes.

I am getting more and more frustrated at how slow the story is progressing. I watched 6 episodes, and I believe they should be all condensed into 2 at most for them to be decent.

I enjoyed the previous series which even more makes watching this one frustrating.

In the first 6 episodes of this season, almost nothing happens. I keep waiting and thinking: "ok, in the next episode it will all have to explode and action will start and it will be amazing. And then nothing happens. Again. I believe that asking your audience to ... go through 6 episodes of boredom is excessive.

Most of the dialogues do not push the story forward and are often disturbed by sudden appearances which seem to be an unimaginative way to fill up the minutes till the end of the episode.

The artwork is good, however, nothing interesting happened in this season to allow for a decent review of some quality scenes.

We haven't learned much about new characters and nothing more was introduced about the old ones.

Overall I am disappointed with this series so far. It had the potential to be much better.

this will be the review ONLY of the second part of the second season. It may contain spoilers and will be personal opinion only. This series is one of the most awaited by me but since I started the second part of the second season I started not to like it anymore. The characters, especially rimuru, started to get stupid starting from the fact that rimuru became arrogant by repeating every holy time the phrase "if you hurt my companions you will become my enemy" or "kleiman made me angry making him my enemy". And one thing that gnaws at me is the behavior of ... the dryads who protect the forest. At one point comes the fairy demon king, the most useless and ball-breaking seen on the face of the Earth. She is spoiled and when they get ready to go to the meeting between demon kings, the dryads behave like 5-year-old girls begging rimuru to accompany the fairy to the meeting and for no apparent reason he accepts without even asking her why. The second part also has a crazy plot hole and it is the fact that it is mentioned that Kleiman is not 100% demon king, but then why can he participate in the meeting of demon kings? he may be the strongest in the universe but since he is not a demon king he would not have the right to participate. The raphaele ability unlocked by rimuru doesn't seem normal to me. What I mean is how does he know that Kleiman is not a demon king and how did he know that by killing all the inhabitants of Eurenzia he would wake up to 78%? The last thing that pisses me off is why not send Veldra to kill Kleiman? Even if it is discovered that rimuru has Veldra it would not be dangerous as he wanted to announce it anyway. As a score I put 7/10 for the story because it is still the usual isekai without anything new, art 10/10, music 7/10, character 8/10, enjoyment 6/10 and overall I put a lower score which is 5/10. I hope this review was helpful to you.

I don't have any complaints with art or sound but the story dragged too much. They could have finished this story within 6 episodes but dragged to 12. In my opinion it wastes time unnecessarily. The pace is that of One Piece.

The story was not bad but it was too short. All that for defeating one enemy.

The art and sound were up to standard. Not too bad but not too good either.

Only very few new character were introduced because of the pace of story.

It was too much boring because of the pace and I didn't like it. It is trash compared to first season

This review may or may contain spoilers as some mild instances from the anime would get jotted down as i review it.

Successing its season 2 part 1 , this anime turned to be the most hyped anime this season. It really followed some common anime principles which are not satisfying to every anime watcher. It is considered as one of the most hyping isekai shows of all time. People just wait for the boss demon fights and slime evolution every episode to entertain their eyes. But actually thing is something else.


"Quantity over quality". This very statement is totally followed in this whole anime(not only ... this part 2) and i pretty much guess that same thing was followed in " kumo desuga na ni ka?"...Overwhelmed with a vast number of characters filled with some really intriguing or weird names, this anime is a total cover for the weak quality points it has got on its other side. Since the very first season, this anime was nothing but a normal fantasy isekai, where the main character evolves and get stronger. " level-up"- maybe this is a right word for this. Almost the same policy is followed in most isekai in most anime right? So nothing is that unique. As it progressed the innumerable character breeds, animals, slime, goblins and others species even dryads , fairies and other demons almost filled this anime and that is what gradually made me to lose interest in this. It just turned out like any other babbling shounen at times where story doesn't matter. You just have to make something with plenty of likeable characters with different powers and it should be full of battles. that's all . it will be enough to get a nice score.lol.


It shamefully continues to be rather lethargic plot and dialogues and meanders around a lot due to excessive padding and I felt like often the writer was out of points to add in this anime as he is no longer able to mask out the fact that the story is actually nothing good. The scenes did not know when and when not to switch up the gears and hype. Even the boss battle which was the most hyped battle through out the series did not seem that great to me. Clayman almost got thrashed by shion right at the start and that took out the enjoyment actually. Maybe the writer actually tried to depict her strong. But as it is the boss battle no one would one it to end quick. All would want the villains to be stronger right but then also the hero would somehow win the game due to plot armor..the whole anime followed some of the shounen thingies and that is why it could have followed this principle too- "make the boss fights bigger. make them so long that they can carry many episodes". of course the writer was out of plots to extend ...lol....

that;s all...overall the hype is everything i guess. That's why it is still at the overall top of summer 2021.

Stay safe. Goodbye!!!

The second part of Slime's second season is like the first part but with even more of the taste of committees filtering and sterilizing the personality of the first season. Neither the anime or source material of Slime was ever really deep or complex, but it was at least fun. This half of the second season is rarely interesting and always slow.

One of the worst parts of the first half of the second season (and one that was often complained about) was the long stretches of dry and sappy meetings surrounding the invasion of Tempest. The second half starts off with a full SIX ... episodes of meetings! Perhaps the producers wanted some sort of complex, intriguing buildup to Walpurgis, but the meetings simply aren't that complex, emotional, or otherwise interesting. It's basically dry exposition, and a lot of it. Reading the equivalent plot points for the WN would take less than an hour, but the anime needs two full hours to do the same.

Even when the anime shows us action, it's pretty uninteresting. The show wants us to see how dominant Tempest's forces are, which is fine. But instead of an emotion-filled, revenge seeking army like we saw after
the attack on Tempest, we get calm monsters quickly and easily disposing of their prey. The best emotional moments are often quick hits from side characters, and usually not ones that we've spent much time with before the season started.

The WN is far more enjoyable and quick. The overall story is looong, but that makes it even more stupefying why the anime chooses to slow down on relatively unimportant and uninteresting moments in the story. The lack of interesting characterization is also mystifying given how good Slime Diaries did that. Next time, hopefully the producers do better than ride the inertia of the first season.

I am a pretty lax guy when it comes to reviews; my average score for an anime is about 8. This aint it.

Story: 2

First 6 episodes: Legit a business meeting i cba

Next 6 episodes: Decent progression and pacing but all the fights were literally satire

Overall, it always feels like nothing EVER goes wrong in the show. Everything goes how the MC would like it, and there are never any dangers to him at all. AND THERES ALWAYS THIS STUPID FUCKING SOUNDTRACK ALWAYS FUCKING PLAYS WHEN THIS SHIT HAPPENS. Like, can there be ANY sense of tension at all?? (btw the soundtrack is Determination)

... Art: 7

There are some bits that are super satisfying to watch, like a teleportation technique that gets alot of detail. Some fights have some nice terrain destruction as well.

Overall, could be improved but generally decent.

Sound: 8

Takehito Koyasu carried, made me root for clayman honestly.

Some fights have this nice bass boost for an effect of strength, which also works quite nicely. SFX in fights was actually quite good overall tbh, with VA's carrying badly written conversations quite well

Character: 7

Veldora carries really really hard in this aspect. Especially in the last couple episodes. Besides that, Clayman is pretty meh and i fucking hated Shion until the last couple episodes, which made her OK. The other demon lords were also not nearly as threatening as I thought. They kinda just become

Enjoyment: 5

I'm not gonna lie, the first 6 episodes had me doing the right arrow key a few times, which is a pretty good indicator of my enjoyment. Honestly, the dick measuring contests of strength were not bad, but it always felt like the protaganists were way too strong.

Overall: 6

Damn man, this anime was going strong. The demon lord shit is cool as hell, but they threw away alot of potential with it. The script was fucked, but they managed to do pretty well with the other areas; if the story wasnt such a steamroll of victories for the protaganist and a business meeting, this second part would have been a solid 8 or maybe even a 9.

Despite my low review, if you are thinking of watching it, I highly reccommend you do. The anime has done really well in every aspect for the last couple seasons besides this one, so I think next season will be a lot better. Think of this season like watching a much worse version of Noragami season 1 as a preface to an upcoming Noragami aragoto

Really boring season as half of part 2 of the season is LITERALLY JUST TALKING. Yabba labba dabba doo that's all you'll be hearing for the first half of the season because it's literally mostly just meetings on meetings. The very end is where the actual actions happens, so you're going to have to suffer to get to the good parts like a metal kinder egg that contains money inside. My positive comments are the female characters, the sound effects, they are nice. The art is same as always. Just can't believe part 2 would be this underwhelming. Didn't really get to see a ... lot of the stuff I was anticipating to see at the end, or especially a lot of Veldora. I guess the references are fine as well? I mean I guess it makes sense not much happened, It seems like the anime has pretty much caught up with the manga or whatever.

Not gonna say any spoiler but I'll briefly review for those who are thinking of watching it or not. It doesn't matter if you loved it in the first season or just felt lukewarm. I really think this is a simple lesson about how an interesting story becomes a joke, literally. The comic relief in this one dampers the very logic of the world and the action is limited to some scenes in some chapters so the rest it's just politics and many talking with some slightly perturbing fanservice just to refill the chapters. I actually love Politics but this one looked like it was ... just made by a troll from the internet because anything that mattered in the whole season, that was somewhat interesting in this arc became... nothing. The relevant information was scarce and the rest was an entertaining filler but didn't excite me at all. Why? Because I still don't feel any danger and the antagonist feels distant. It became too shallow. So that's why my score is "nice", at least it didn't bore me.

I'm not going to lie, I haven't been enjoying Slime for a while now. The latter part of season one and the first part of second season were really forgettable. I figured it was building to something decent, and that we would just have to hold out for it to get good. And what it delivered was actually pretty decent! The world is fleshed out more and we see poetic justice to characters we despise. It may upset people that Clayman has always been this looming final boss for a while, but him getting rocked really shows the progress made by Rimuru and the potential ... for more development. This show still remains very mid in my mind, like many isekai, but it's story and animation is back on the right track. Yay for not failure!

This review is for the entirety of what is currently available on blu ray in North America as of the time of this review (March 2024), which is all of seasons 1 and 2, through episode 48. In mentioning the blu ray, I'd like to start this review by quoting, word for word, the back of the blu ray case for the very beginning of the series- "Ordinary 37-year-old Satoru Mikami dies and is reincarnated as the most unremarkable creature imaginable- a slime. Initially things are pretty grim. He's blind, deaf and weak". There's a bit more, but it's these opening remarks I'd like to ... discuss. In short, they're very misleading.

Perhaps they use the word "initially" very, very loosely, but what ACTUALLY happens is our main character is completely, utterly, laughably overpowered within just the first episode or two and only gets more ludicrously powerful from there. This show is falsely advertised as starting out weak and from the bottom and slowly, with great struggle and sacrifice, beginning to gain power. In reality, Rimuru Tempest is Kirito levels of overpowered from very early on and the entire show revolves around everyone around him bowing down to his untouchable strength and swearing fealty without much of a fight. It's another generic isekai where the main character is conveniently among the most powerful beings in the entire world and the fate of races, countries and perhaps the entire world around him rests on his shoulders.

As a whole, while I wouldn't cite it as my FAVORITE genre, isekai has consistently been the SAFEST genre of anime for my wife and I in that we almost always enjoy them, even the unremarkable ones, and it's very rare for us to find one we legitimately dislike. We've seen a ton of them, as you can see by checking out my list, and I mention all of this as a prelude to my opinion that there isn't anything about this anime in particular, highly regarded as it is, that stands out as being special or memorable amongst an ever-crowded field of genre contemporaries. It cannot measure up to the gorgeous visuals of Grimgar, the world-building of Log Horizon, the combat or emotional punch of Sword Art Online, the comedic moments of Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon or the darker more mature tone of Goblin Slayer. You're left with a program that, while not a blatant failure at anything, simply isn't amazing at anything either and fails to distinguish itself.

Something I personally didn't care for, and perhaps it's just a classic viewer versus target audience mismatch, is what felt to me like a blatantly more juvenile tone as a whole, and definitely far too much "Bro, what?" and "Bestie for restie" and similar clearly aimed at teenagers ways of speaking throughout the entire program. The target audience for this is clearly younger than I am, and that's fine, but in that same breath I'd tell you this is perhaps not the correct isekai for the mature adult viewer. The second season does have a somewhat darker tone than the first, which I appreciated, but at no point is this truly a dark anime, nor does the obnoxious "cool if you're 15 or younger" manner of speaking ever let up.

While unwaveringly portrayed as the protagonist who we're supposed to be rooting for, I'm not all that convinced that Rimuru Tempest is all that great of a person. In the second season he commits cold-blooded, merciless genocide and this is not questioned or pushed back on by any of his numerous underlings. He had a reason for doing it, and he told us it's right and it's okay, and therefore it is and we support him. Since his humor and manner of speaking fell really flat for me, combining that with what came off to me as very self-righteous, power-hungry decisions throughout the entirety of the show, I found this main character difficult to connect with or be enchanted by. He never seems to think twice about his right or his worthiness to command so many and to hold the fate of so many in his hands. He simply moves forward, growing stronger all the time, and is always 100% self-assured in everything he does. He never truly feels threatened by any enemy and there's never a fight he's not absolutely certain he will win, which simply harkens back to my point about him being overpowered- he is and he knows it, and he exploits it to the max throughout the show and never hits so much as a speed bump. The show also grants him countless ridiculously convenient benefits, such as introducing an underling out of nowhere, himself super overpowered, who immediately swears his loyalty to Rimuru Tempest and does his bidding without second thought.

This review probably made it sound like I really disliked this show, and that isn't the case. Judging by its score here on MAL it's definitely overrated, but that's not the same as me disliking it. It does have most of the bread and butter of what makes isekai so appealing in the first place- an enormous cast of characters, many different races, skills/leveling/progression, fantasy elements, etc- but for me there simply wasn't anything about this program that pushed it over the top of the numerous others that I've watched and enjoyed, and as a whole I found it just a bit too immature and aimed at too young of an audience for my personal taste. I thought it was OKAY, and I'll watch the third season whenever it's available to me, but if a friend asked me to give them a list of five isekai I think they should consider watching, this definitely wouldn't be on it. Meh...

OBJECTIVE RATING- 7~
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT RATING- 7 and not a fraction of a point more

I started the story of slime Rimuru with the first season of the anime. It was over and I read the manga up to the point that covered the story of the second season when it had already begun. I didn't get hooked on anime like the manga or the first season did.
Anime is the second part of the story of the war between Clayman and Rimuru. All episodes can be divided into three sections: deliberation-fight between subjects-Walpurgis. Everything is clearly laid out, but it adds confusion to the timeline. The fight between the subjects and Rimuru on Walpurgis took place at the same time ... and by separating them they completely took part in our excitement. Everything is also very idealized in the contacts between the characters. The theme of friendship is too overdosed and it destroys the perception of the world as real.
However, I am glad that I was able to see the new versions of the characters in the animation. After the defeat as it took place after the invasion of the kingdom of Falmuth, all were angry and gained strength after the evolution of Rimuru. Shuna's anger and strength were shown in the fight against the dead and can no longer be called a defenseless princess. Rimuru, furious with all the events, is also not going to spare Clayman. The eye-catching animation highlights the characters' details in their most emotional moments, giving a clear indication that there is something to be afraid of. Thanks to this and the musical setting, several scenes worth remembering were created in the season. The opening theme was on my favorites list.
I had a lot of fun, but with each episode, I saw shortcomings and not the manga. There are no small details that added character to the characters and the world. It was fun, but I would prefer it to be more manga-like.