Goblin Slayer Overrated?

Am I wrong for having this opinion?

Inces_Is_Winces said:
Wut GS does is nothing special and has been tried in every shit Grimdark story before, except this time it combines the shittiest aspects of Japanese Light Novel Fantasy tropes with the shittiest aspects of Grimdark stories, to make a Dumpster fire that ppl will worship because it's "totally not a generic seasonal anime with waifus and fanservice and one dimensional characters".

Edge for the sake of edge shallow writing which is completely unjustified and makes me feel absolutely nothing out of a rape scene, and a combination of shitty anime tropes, waifus, and fanservice.

Just because you kill or rape a character does not make ur anime good.

Aquas_Veritem said:
I think this is a case the hype being overblown. It's a lot slower and more measured than one would normally expect from a 'dark fantasy' anime, and a lot of people were put off by that fact..

I personally feel like it's a lot more deep and developed than most people seem to realize, touching on themes of life and death, nihilism, hope in a world that is uncaring and unfeeling, and self-awareness.

Sure there isn't much plot in the first four episodes, but the world is a lot more developed than it appears at first glance, the characters are fairly deep and have hidden facets that show through in some of the more dangerous battles they experience.

The point is that the plot is a slow-burner and the characters/world are being quite well developed. Give it a few more episodes before you decide to write it off.

UTJeff316 said:
Goblin Slayer has always been about more to me than just rape, gore, and/or fanservice. It's disappointing that critics focus on these things as if they ruin the series.

AiHikari said:
I believe it's quite the opposite, it's underrated. People have this expectation after the first episode and just lose interest because isn't exactly the same thing, while it's quite competent in what it is, it's basically a tabletop rpg adventure world in form of anime, down to 'long weapons don't work in caves' and limited number of spells per day.

It's a decent gateway to the novel/manga, enough to attract interest and the adaptation can stand on it's own if you watch it the way it's supposed to be, a tabletop adventure, rather than a fantasy gore rape thing.

soasucks said:



that's like saying: "why are people saying sword art online is bad? it's only generic boring, badly written, dumb, etc. aside from that the show is great!!" that's what your comment sounds like dude some small issues can completely ruin a show and especially for a show that's really slow like goblin slayer. but the goblin slayer's issues aren't exactly minor though.

UTJeff316 said:


Your argument makes no sense to me. I think the show is about more than those things I listed. Also, I don't think depictions of those things are issues either. Not sure what you perceive them as.

UTJeff316 said:


Your argument makes no sense to me. I think the show is about more than those things I listed. Also, I don't think depictions of those things are issues either. Not sure what you perceive them as.

UTJeff316 said:


Your argument makes no sense to me. I think the show is about more than those things I listed. Also, I don't think depictions of those things are issues either. Not sure what you perceive them as.

Aceofcard said:
Every problem I had with goblin slayer can explain in this link

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?

Aceofcard said:

I think it is fair call out goblin slayer setting is is nonsensical.

UTJeff316 said:

I'm not watching your trash videos so don't even try.

VileKurata said:
Yes it is.
Goblin Slayer is one of worst series to come out from 2018 and it's not because of rape it's how trash the writing, worldbuilding, characters and directing are.
Plus the visuals looked like they were fished out of a toilet thanks to it's uninprised characters desgins, horrible background scenery awful animation, and pathetic use of CGI.
Even Akame Ga Kill aka White Fox other shitty fanasty anime is better than this dumpster fire.

UTJeff316 said:

The only failure here is your posts.