| It's no secret that most light fantasy anime take inspiration from European mythology (vampires, orcs, elves, dwarves, etc) so I was wondering where slime monsters came from since I've never heard of them outside of anime, manga and Japanese games. |
hungrybroccoli said: It's no secret that most light fantasy anime take inspiration from European mythology (vampires, orcs, elves, dwarves, etc) so I was wondering where slime monsters came from since I've never heard of them outside of anime, manga and Japanese games. Actually, slimes are a common feature in western RPGs too. They date back to the early days of DnD at least. A wiki I'm reading says that back in 1977, ADnD Monster Manual already had that silly Gelatinous Cube as well as some more common-sense slimes. |
| Thanks for the replies, wasn't aware of the DnD connection. |
tokyosaladJun 20, 2017 10:43 AM
| There's actually American sci-fi/horror movie from the 1958 The Blob "A living slime from outer space that consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows". It was a small budget B movie that earned 4 millions in post office. While I couldn't find what inspired for the monster to be slime, they wanted to make a movie that didn't use a man-in-costume for the monster like every other creature feature did. A slime would be cheap to make on a small budget so they prob rolled with that. Space was the big thing then compared to fantasy, I guess fantasy genre borrowed it later. |
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| Maybe from the popularity of Dragon Quest in Japan, you know that blue slime that is always on the cover. Also, its not that hard to think of a slime monster really. |
Blarey said: Maybe from the popularity of Dragon Quest in Japan, you know that blue slime that is always on the cover. Also, its not that hard to think of a slime monster really. Yeah, I too think Dragon Quest might inspired it. |
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