Goblin Slayer (light novel)
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Comander-07 said: PS: Anyone knows other down to earth "dark" fantasy shows like this one? I think much of its appeal comes from not beeing a powertrip like every other fantasy show minus grimgar.
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| Story and dialogs might be fine but fight choreography is dubious at best. Each time cunning and ferocious goblins just stand in place waiting for priestess finish talking with 'GoblinSlayer-sama' I almost die of cringe. Is this franchise turn-based or what? |
| I thought this ended on a good note since there wasn't a cliffhanger except for that noble guy vs. the knight that came in via ship. I liked this season about the same amount as the 1st season since there was some character growth, especially with Priestess. I also liked how Goblin Slayer's group grew closer and were even invited to a wedding. However, there were many unanswered questions including what relationship, if any, the samurai guy in the OP has with GS (they do share the same red eye), which girl caught the bouquet, etc. Anyway, I thought the storyline and animation were good, and the character designs were fine although a bit different from season 1. I hope a season 3 is made/announced at some point. 8/10 |
| Wait so did the goblins do the princess or not? Seeing that she was su battered up. Is she tainted or not? I need answers... xD Also love how priestess when to her chainmail first. Interesting ending. Got to see some sword maiden action and the other mobs. Disappointed they used a different ED song, I love Kasumi no Muko e. |
| I didn't get enough action from Goblin Slayer this S2 than we did in S1... but it was still a fulfilling world building. |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| FUCK ME, THIS EPISODE WAS AMAZING! I REALLY THOUGHT LIZARDMAN WAS GOING TO DIE THERE (like a total chad protecting the girls), AND PRIESTESS DID HER 2ND KILL EVER, AND IT WAS NO OTHER THAN A GREATER DEMON! (well, it was just his hand, but still counts lol) THE SWORD MAIDEN SCENE WAS EPIC, AND "THE KNIGHT OF DIAMONDS" WAS REALLY COOL TOO! WHAT A WAY TO END A QUEST AND THE ENTIRE SEASON! I WILL MISS THIS ADVENTURER PARTY SO MUCH, PLEASE SEASON 3 COME SOON!!! 😭😭😭 PD: PRIESTESS MY BELOVED, FOREVER ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS, I LOVE HER SO MUCH ❤️ https://ibb.co/r3wqJtHhttps://ibb.co/9hHggRN |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| This ending feels a little empty to me as far as the new season goes it was meh honestly I liked the first season better. |
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Reply to kuroneko99
Comander-07 said:
PS: Anyone knows other down to earth "dark" fantasy shows like this one? I think much of its appeal comes from not beeing a powertrip like every other fantasy show minus grimgar.
PS: Anyone knows other down to earth "dark" fantasy shows like this one? I think much of its appeal comes from not beeing a powertrip like every other fantasy show minus grimgar.
- According to the GS2's page on MAL, one of recommendations is ..."iDOLM@STER Million Live". (Apparently, AutoRec thing should be repaleced.)
- Chat GPT-4 says: berserk, grimgar, attack on titan, re:zero.
- By the way, it seems characters in the show have models.
| @kuroneko99 yeah those are AI recommendations allright.. grimgar fits though. But Berserk and AoT are not down to earth at all. I guess Berserk fits atleast for the 90s anime part. Its just a shame we have billions isekai and fantasy shows yet Goblin Slayer, an utterly mediocre show, stands out by virtue of beeing a little different. Really a shame grimgar never got more content. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| I'll be missing this OP, it's probably the best of the entire year for me |
| Powerpoint presentation is over. I liked the first season more, but the second one was fine. 6/10 |
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| holy fuck !! sword maiden with her army is fucking awesome !!! |
| Goblin slayer slaying goblins. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Will probably comment more on this later down the line at some point, but I have to just say for the time being that while it definitely still retained some of its redeeming features, the biggest disappointment of this second season for me was the alteration to the art style with the studio change. The change in visual appearance, which I registered as a definite downgrade, really took away something from the slightly more gritty and realistic feel season one had. Season one had that and it blended well with the fact that in many ways the world of the series seemed to take place within a heightened reality - like within a game (since it's based on the tabletop roleplaying game D&D) and with characters who were on some level conscious of the fact that they were within a game or that their world had a certain gamification or gameplay aspects going on. From the references to the gods rolling dice in a literal sense to determine fate (of nations and kingdoms, individuals, etc.), to characters being referred to by their occupational titles and roles in adventuring parties versus more personal given first names. The appearance of the characters had a slightly more semi-realistic look which offset and balanced against that in a way which gave it a very fun and enjoyable feel. Felt like more realistic characters were struggling trapped in this crazy gameboard world. Whereas here, as I said in an earlier post on the sub-forum in a different thread topic, they basically neutered that subtle element of it by going with the slightly different but noticeable enough to be intrusive more airbrushed kawaii-fied generic look. When judging the qualities of an anime, and that is a topic which comes up very often on MAL, I've made a point to say on many previous occasions that art style and animation are by far the least important major elements of an anime to me regarding what I value and prioritize in how I'll receive it and judge and evaluate it. So it's super rare that you'll ever see me go on about that being a troublesome enough element which detracted from one for me, but here it genuinely did. I just felt the change was absolutely awful, and that's a lamentable thing. In one respect, there's no use crying over spilled goblins' blood, but looking at it another way, I think it was a callous, not thought through decision and I do not like what it portends for the future of the series, if indeed it is a series which ever does go on to continue and get more seasons at any point in the future. I also was not a fan of how there seemed to be a recurring tendency to cut away just at the moment when major battles were either going to fully start or start to get interesting. They would cut away from individual shots and sometimes from entire scenes, skipping to the end of a battle. Sometimes it seemed as if it was being done for censorship purposes to make it tamer and watered down, and sometimes for time and budgetary constraints of not wanting to have to animate too much motion and complex or fluid action sequences or not having enough time to fit into the episode (even though there usually wasn't anything else shown in any given episode which was so important and essential as to justify cutting out a bunch of action). The first season is one I gave an 8/10 to and even long ago placed Goblin Slayer as a series in my Top 50 overall series on the basis of the first season alone (obviously, since the second wasn't out yet and the film from 2020 is just whatever and kind of a throwaway side story with a hefty amount of recap padding grafted onto it), whereas this season to me is more of a 6/10. The reason for the lowered rating is definitely: 1.) Uglier, more unfitting art style which seemed to remove something of the spirit from the show 2.) Presumably censorship of action scenes 3.) Dulling down of action scenes, presumably for money and time |
WatchTillTandavaDec 23, 2023 7:34 AM
| Hopefully there is 3rd season! Great story! |
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| A season that went by without having a single cool goblin slaying fight. Seriously, what a disappointment. Not to mention the heavily downgraded art. I've heard that they skipped a whole story arc, so it makes sense why this season felt like they were going from place to place without much impact. No good character development, Priestess became more and more annoying without actually becoming a more interesting character. 4/10, probably the fairest rating I can give this. I will no doubt forget about this season a few days later after writing this. I won't be continuing the anime and might just probably check out the light novel if I want to get some more goblin slaying action because clearly the new studio can't provide it |
| ANIME. OF. THE. SEASON!!! Love this show!!! Awesome character development! Can't wait for season 3!!! |
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| The start of this season was terrible but it did manage to get better in the later half. Overall still very disappointing compared to season 1 and a big step down. |
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| I laughed when Goblin Slayer saying "This is Goblin Slaying." Self aware meme LMAO "HAND" for the Finale Boss just felt meh. Season 1 Finale still much better imo. Shout-out to Sword Maiden coming with reinforcement. 6/10 Hopefully we didn't have to wait another 5 years, for goodness sake please i hope not. |
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| plotless season was plotless, there was not a single clear goal aside from going to a wedding. I appreciate the character development of priestress and the quality screentime of our hyperactivity Elf, she is a true gem. Goblin Slayer san is the person he is, but he got no character development at all, most of all having a helmet on the head all the time is unsanitary XD It was an unnecessary second season without any importance. |
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| Nice season of goblin slaying. |
| Sword Maiden is damn OP and damn hot. Now I feel the part where the princess kidnap of the villian part seems to be added randomly (I am not sure if there suppose to be a story that goes with it |
 "Don't give up after failing just twice. We'll be able to do it next time. Failure is the stepping stone to success." |
| Well I suppose it was fine |
| شقایق، اینجا من، خیلی غریبم |
| With luck we’ll get a third season. |
| The first season was a little bit better in terms of graphics (animation and character design) imho but I liked this one too and the progress of the story was really interesting, in the end we can say that new devs have done a good job anyway, hope for a 3rd season. |
Reply to Embient
Are Lizardmen weak to cold temperatures?
Sword Maiden appearing like that was epic!
The part with the noble and the knight felt like a teaser for the next arc at first, but I suppose it's just one of those little peeks at what's going on in the world, like with the Hero defeating the demon lord in season 1. This getting a 3rd season would be both surprising and unsurprising, with all these sequels being announced right after an anime finishes lately.
I feel bad for GS here, but yeah, this is the path he chose, and he's not going to waver. Him looking back on everything is so wholesome.
8/10
I think I enjoy Goblin Slayer more than most people. It just feels very atmospheric to me. Love both action and slice of life parts. I like the artstyle of season 1 way more though. Also the OP by Mili is really good. I hope she gets to make OPs for more anime in the future.
Btw I heard that 2 volumes got completely skipped from the anime (between season 1 and the movie). Were they important? Would be cool if they got adapted too someday.
Sword Maiden appearing like that was epic!
The part with the noble and the knight felt like a teaser for the next arc at first, but I suppose it's just one of those little peeks at what's going on in the world, like with the Hero defeating the demon lord in season 1. This getting a 3rd season would be both surprising and unsurprising, with all these sequels being announced right after an anime finishes lately.
I feel bad for GS here, but yeah, this is the path he chose, and he's not going to waver. Him looking back on everything is so wholesome.
8/10
I think I enjoy Goblin Slayer more than most people. It just feels very atmospheric to me. Love both action and slice of life parts. I like the artstyle of season 1 way more though. Also the OP by Mili is really good. I hope she gets to make OPs for more anime in the future.
Btw I heard that 2 volumes got completely skipped from the anime (between season 1 and the movie). Were they important? Would be cool if they got adapted too someday.
| @Embient Lizards are cold blooded creatures, they cannot self regulate their own temperature, so they have to rely on things like the sun to warm up. When they are too cold they are basically paralyzed and can die from hypothermia just like that. It's nice to see nature "lore" being the actual lore for the races. |
| bruh |
| I like how the Goblin Slayer is relying more and more on her teammates now, but the last enemy this season was tough for their party. At first, I thought this season would be a lot of relaxing moments, but they skipped it and made more fights. I'm really looking forward to the next season if possible because they have introduced various new characters. |
| Nice final battle which was sure more impacting than the ones before, and of course everything is resolved now, but with that kind of ending we can expect anything next, would like to see that in a 3rd season possibly |
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| The show's lost its edge, it didn't want to kill any characters or do anything too rapey so it's just become another generic fantasy show. |
| Ayo, those two twists were really fun and surprising. Firstly there was the one with unexpected boss fight; then, we had even more unexpected sight of Sword Maiden leading in person the whole army (and a dragon) to the rescue. Epic stuff worthy of being in the final episode of a season. Heh, so Princess started seeing Priestess as a role model of some sort. Nice. Speaking about nobles, wasn't that overpowered Diamond Knight actually the king (Princess' big bro) in disguise? I enjoyed this season. It wasn't as good as the first one, but I had more fun than while watching the Goblin's Crown movie. I'd love to see Season 3's announcement. |
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