Goblin Slayer Overrated?

gastert said:
It is underrated, it should be 8+...

UTJeff316 said:


Yup, exactly right.

Aceofcard said:
You would say that fanboys. Next 3 years Goblin Slayer will remember for first episode. Goblin Slayer rip off Hellsing

gubruikertje said:
It was very clever to have a pretty controversial first episode, in case like this controversy just means a lot of free publicity. I started watching this just so I could shitpost about goblin rape.
The show itself was somewhat enjoyable despite the lack of story and the characters that felt like they were written by a 12 year old.
By MAL standards a 7,7/10 seems like a fair score even if this show was way too popular for what it was,

GreenNet said:
I would say it's OverHated. This series did not wanted to be anything more than what it is.

UTJeff316 said:

In those movies, you have eye candy Megan Fox who is barely even a character. You have all these zany supporting characters who do these insane things. The mother gets high on pot and then runs around tackling people and talking about seeing her son lose his virginity. The father going crazy about his dogs humping each other. That is juvenile, immature writing and characterization to me.

Just because Goblin Slayer features themes of violence, rape, and other mature issues in a fantasy setting hardly makes it juvenile.

Why the hell does the series try to pretend he is some kind of dark anti-hero just for slaughtering inherently evil creatures? For some mysterious reason it is absolutly not done that he uses water fire or poison (or something like that) to kill the goblins but the elf girl doesn't complain when killing them one by one with swords and arrows?

A fantasy world doesn't need to be dark or edgy like berserk or have people dying by droves like in game of thrones but this kind of world feels to me like a kid tried to make a similar world with "mature" and "dark" themes like rape and violence but build the entire world around the protagonist and will it with cardboard characters and women whose sole purpose is swooning over the overpowered MC with their big bosom.

UTJeff316 said:
I brought it up as something that feels like it's written by a 12 year old or would be more pleasing to teenagers and adolescents, which those movies catered to. I don't get that sense from Goblin Slayer despite your flawed critique.



Who said he was a dark antihero? How is the show pretending he is?

As for not using those methods, the practical reason is that they could be dangerous and have dangerous side effects. In episode 2, Priestess asks if they can not use flammable liquids because they can cause an avalanche or cave-in or landslide.

They didn't want them doing too much damage in the sewers because that could potentially endanger the town. Goblin Slayer tends to think more about "kill all the goblins" as quickly and efficiently as possible without worrying too hard about what comes after.



Not the very best constructed argument. For one thing, Goblin Slayer isn't really over-powered. The female characters also exhibit plenty of character development and characteristics outside of swooning over the main character.

Aceofcard said:
This you, every time you defend goblin slayer from sane fans admit flaws in goblin slayer or people who hated it "Stop it making of fun Goblin Slayer or You being SJW". The Author admit Goblin Slayer is nothing than some shitty dnd fanfic with tit and bloods.

UTJeff316 said:


I've yet to see a sane remark from you yet on these forums, or anything that reads in a coherent fashion.

Aceofcard said:
Author decided that a work where the primary antagonist species has one single trait, "rapist," and that was a super cool idea. You can provide whatever in-setting justification that you like, but there's plenty of space to make a menacing enemy without jumping to the laziest gut-reaction-producing trope.

UTJeff316 said:


None of those are valid reasons why the goblins can't exhibit that trait in order to reproduce. No author has any obligation to tell a story to fit what you believe is a menacing enemy without using the laziest gut reaction.

Also, why is it lazy? Because it's a cruel and horrific act? I mean that's not a good reason not to use that topic in a story.

Aceofcard said:
A races that need to rape to exist as a species. Sound like every b horror movies and aliens. But Alien did first and wasn't writing by light novels author trying make name for themselves. I can forgive and over look alien films. Because alien did first. Man and Women can implant by face hugger.

UTJeff316 said:


I'm not seeing why that's a problem or should be restricted from a story.

So basically, you acknowledge a classic sci-fi horror franchise that did this and is held up as classic and iconic is acceptable? So what if Alien did it first, which I doubt it did, why do you not trash it for using it the laziest gut reaction trope?

Also, Dragon Age has a species like this. They are called the Darkspawn.

BadAshley said:
to remind us that he's Goblin Slayer and he slays goblins.

Aceofcard said:
People in dragon age recognize darkspawn as threat to world ,creating grey warden and sent aid to help their cause. As people in goblin slayer are incompetent and see goblin as low tier monsters. Why only few people see goblins as threats?

seanmagicalweeb said:
Yeah, it definitely is. There isn't enough actual story to care about anything that is going on. Who cares if the characters are in a bad situation if we don't know anything about them? To me it is a show that is constantly bombarded with so much action and so little story that you don't really care about anything.

UTJeff316 said:


We seem to learn quite a bit about them.

Aceofcard said:
That goblin slayer is about author stupid fetishes and got punish for it.

UTJeff316 said:


Because the demon lord is resurrected and assembling an army. The capital is filled with his minions and demons. The Kings and rulers of the other races are more focused on that threat.

It's called paying attention to the story. Something I wouldn't expect you to understand.

UTJeff316 said:


Your grammar and posts are hot garbage.

loafman said:


Gee, its almost as if its important to SHOW people this particularly "important" info instead of just TELLING people about this off-screen demon lord.

UTJeff316 said:


Yeah I wonder why they didn't.

UTJeff316 said:


Yeah I wonder why they didn't.

loafman said:
A few seconds of flashbacks that don't properly convey the threat that the vague silhouette of the demon lord poses hardly SHOWS anything. Its lazy writing.

DaylightBlue said:
I think you saw only the surface. Definitely overhyped but not overrated.

VengefulAura said:
This show has been okay to watch, the gore, animation, and art style are nice but, the characters are cardboard and boring. Even Goblin Slayer himself is not very interesting, barely has any dialogue. All episodes turn out the same basically, "Let's kill Goblins". Am I wrong for having this opinion?

VengefulAura said:
the characters are cardboard and boring. Even Goblin Slayer himself is not very interesting, barely has any dialogue. All episodes turn out the same basically, "Let's kill Goblins"

Blink_Dagger said:


can't agree more..

NoradTwo said:
Given that you see about as many people talk about how worthless it is as you see talk about how awesome it is, I don’t think “overrated” really works here.

I would say the show is “rated.”

Aceofcard said:
Goblin Slayer is stupid dnd fanfic and you fail see it.

Nanideska said:
without being elitist ( and guys i've only seen the anime so i cannot tell about the manga content ) i would say that goblin slayer is destroyed by the fan service and by the basic "isekai fantasy" that we could see these last years. in MY opinion and yes because my opinion isnt the truth it looks like a typical sword art online bullshit "solo character , meet females , fall in love to this guy" this anime is TOO MUCH BASIC and the fan service let me think that the story isnt enough serious. The only good thing on this anime is the good acting voices and the quality of the artistic content..but hey this is only my opinion

UTJeff316 said:


Except it's not isekai.

UTJeff316 said:


Except it's not isekai.