Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Episode 10 Discussion

AnotherGuy said:
I don't think it's unfair to compare this show to a "complete" series, specially because most series have already reached the climax of an arc by episode 10. This show hasn't had anything like that yet.

You might be right and the pacing is what's off here, but then this was the production's fault and doesn't exempt the show from my criticisms. I haven't read the LN so I can only go by the anime, and the anime has definetely been taking its time with plot development. Episodes 9 and 10, for example, could've been made into a single episode and not much would be lost.

AnotherGuy said:
And I know Rimuru doesn't have access to the resources Ainz and Shiroe had and therefore couldn't do the same things they did, but that wasn't my point. My point is that Rimuru isn't trying to do anything. He's just waiting, basically. It's never stated that he wants to gather allies to then go out into the world searching for the demon lord, and just building a city in the middle of the forest and waiting for him to show up seems really stupid. We, the audience, know that even if he justs sits there the enemies will eventually show up, but HE doesn't know that.

Grey-Zone said:

You make it sound like this series has to, for some reason, conform to some template of how things have to progress, even if it makes no sense in-universe. I don't really get what you even want to say here.

AnotherGuy said:
All I'm saying, since my first post, is that the MC not doing anything other than building and protecting the village is making the show unappealing to me personally, even if it makes sense for him to do so. Someone mentioned that building the village was a means to an end, that he's planning to gather allies and such to go after the demon lord, but right now I just don't see it. It seems the MC is just helping the village because he's a nice guy and that's all.

It's been 10 episodes already, I wish something would happen to move the plot foward, cause right now I'm more engaged in this conversation than on the anime itself.

AnotherGuy said:
(By the way, just realized that the worst part of Overlord by FAR was the portion they spent with the goblins on the village. Maybe I just don't like goblins and villages?)

AnotherGuy said:

In the beginning we were discovering the world along the protagonist, learning his powers and such. Now we're just being introduced to new characters every episode and all we get to see is the boring village setting. There's no worldbuilding, no further characterization of the existing characters. For all I know these ogres will be just as relevant to the plot as the individual adventurers, dwarves, wolves and goblins before them.

Again, we know Rimuru wants to build the village up into something bigger, but why? What is his ultimate goal with this?
He also says he wants to meet that one demon lord, but what steps is he taking to achieve that? We as the audience know that the plot will eventually bring the two together, but as far as Rimuru knows this will never happen.

And the orc army is just another problem that was thrown at the MC, like the Ifrit and the wolf attack. None of these events were consequence of Rimuru's actions. He just reacts to these things when they happen because he happened to be there and he's such a nice guy. We're at episode 10 and he's yet to do anything to move the plot forward. So far he's just going along with things, which is strange for someone with so much power.

In contrast, look at Overlord's Main Character, who is in a very similar situation as Rimuru. He sends his minions across the world to gather information and artifacts. He works under different aliases to gain influence with different factions. He doesn't help people for free. You never see him iddle, just sitting on his fortress waiting for his enemies to come (except that one time, but even then it was part of his plan). He shapes the world around him. Granted, he's an evil character, but there's nothing wrong with having a little ambition. Even the MC of Log Horizon, who was a good person, had schemes of his own.

As it stands I can't give this show a higher score than Log Horizon or Overlord season 1, which means a 7 or lower.

Minar-kyun said:
All the Ogres received names and joined Rimuru as subordinates.
Shion is a babe alright.
The orc army might attack Lizardman village. So Gabiru was sent to seek help from Rimuru's village. He's an idiot though. Yeah an idiot.

Mattinator95 said:


Gabiru was sent to seek help from goblin villages. The lizardmen don't know rimuru exist

Minar-kyun said:
I know right. I'm saying he's an idiot seeing his behaviour and how easily he can be manipulated.
And I've read the source material anyway. So I know what stuffs are going to happen.

LazyPanther said:


I can pretty much be Ok with the pacing if there was something of significance going on (drama/comedy/action/romance/mystery). There is just this setup to something that is occasionally alluded to, in amidst of all the random dancing, eating, passing out, naming people.

You mentioned it is SOL style.
Slice of Life should have characters that you connect with. As of now almost all of characters can be described in 1 word each.

I think the problem is cast is expanding too fast without enough time to flesh them out.
I cant even remember most of their names

ThumbsUpBaby said:


This series is a very long series and they're adapting everything to the LN. Right now, we're only at the first 5% of the LN where it's pretty much a SOL storyline about Rimuru meeting new comrades and beginning the development of a village. The next arc is when everything begins to unfold now that he has the Onis/Kirins on his side. If they were to pace this series faster, you'd miss all the important details. Everything that's been happening to this point is crucial to the storyline, especially when a certain someone (I'm not going to name who) comes to meet Rimuru. And yes this includes Shizue. They didn't just show Shizue so she can die and Rimuru can start using his mimicry as her. Her appearance and her death will be a crucial part of the story at the later end of the series (although I doubt they'll adapt that part... it'll take another 3-5 years).

Also idk about you, but I was able to differentiate all the characters pretty well when I first started reading the series.

Lairucrem said:
Ogre Shuna > Oni Shuna (in both manga and anime)

Also, I feel like Shion got nerfed a little in the anime

Gabiru vs next ep

-InfiniteLoop- said:
Rimuru has the cutest smiles




Looks like the ogres have joined Rimuru's party. Soon enough even the Lizardmen will also learn of the great Rimuru-sama.
It was mostly a build up episode with some character development for the ogres. Also it was nice to see how much respect Rimuru gets from the goblins. They were all watching Rimuru take his first bite of food hoping it's to his satisfaction.

EmperorAlfred said:
I really like the pacing of this anime it's good, it's also nice that Rimuru gained new allies now. A cute girl and a babe girl and etc, now that's really nice. I'm excited to see what's next, worldbuilding will happen next and finally I'm hoping to see some action and battles.
Gabiru kinda reminds me of Kazuma-san. Only this time, he's a lizardmen, not a human.

Mattinator95 said:



Same voice actor for gabiru that does Kuzuma

Zee530 said:
As fun as i find this show, progression is really slow, he's still in the same forest he started in, i still like the idea but its been 10 whole eps man.