That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime
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| Hinata displays a lot of leadership this episode as part of this military council. She has a tough exterior and charisma with commanding presence so it's not surprising to see her in that role. So ye, another one of those buildup episodes but with a lot of tension. Rimuru didn't seem too bothered but I really hope Hinata knows what she's doing. |
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| Meetings after meetings after meetings… this season just can’t without such roundtable meetings, can they? Moreover, introducing a bunch of new characters who we’re supposed to believe are as super strong and as righteous as one could be, voicing their opinions over Rimuru and Veldora, as if they could do anything about them was kind of infuriating to see tbh. Anyways, leaving aside the entire blame game, and how Hinata is so ready to fight her past mistake of letting Rimuru escape, at the very least it was somewhat good to see that Farmus guy coming in and briefing them about the destruction he and his kingdom went through when Rimuru went full bonkers last season. Enough of typical meetings and pikachu faces, we actually do want to see some action this season, which they kind of gave assurance we would, with Hinata. Now that she’s already coming with others, hope this thing doesn’t turn into a negotiation meet-up sort of, instead of an actual genuine fight. |
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| Great, let's have the big fight to satisfy everyone and then return to 30-minute meeting episodes. In the Holy Empire of Lubelius, a summit convened between two prominent factions: the Crusaders, led by Hinata, and the Rook Geniuses. Amidst heated exchanges, Hinata invoked the divine decree of Luminu, forbidding any aggression towards Rimuru. She aimed for reconciliation, even contemplating an apology for past transgressions. However, tensions escalated when Rimuru issued a direct challenge to Hinata for a one-on-one duel. The shading in this episode was good, but that's about all I can say. It was pretty tiring how they spend the entire time sitting at this table with occasional flashbacks. Sigh. |
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| All the politics and information wars are so interesting, I'm absolutely loving this season so far. There will probably be a big fight between Rimuru and Hinata, but I hope everything ends peacefully. Btw was it ever mentioned that Hinata is also an otherworlder? It came as a surprise. Also it's so fun listening to them talking about Veldora like that while we know his true nature (he's really super strong tho). |
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| In a vacuum, I didn't think this was a godawful episode. It was slow for sure and very limited in animation, but the shading was pretty good and unlike last week and wasting its time talking about the barrier, this week's episode did feel a bit more important on the Holy Knights side at least. Not the most exciting dialogue or characters besides some intrigue in Hinata, but again, better than being in the same old setting in Jura with the same old characters that have been in meetings already forever. The thing that probably hurts this is the buildup to this season and a big chunk of season 2 already being dedicated to various meetings that were even more boring, anticlimactic and lacking in tension and delivery of stakes that this meeting did no favors in clouding my expectations for this episode a bit. It was nice seeing Hinata's character a bit more and it is intriguing on paper to see her meet up with Rimuru again and seeing what exactly will happen there, and she does present herself as a leader and a good listener who wants to piece together everything and is willing to take responsibility for herself too for some stuff previously. I just wish the rest of the Knights and the actual dialogue that took place were more interesting since everyone else felt so bland as characters that made the episode to feel less interesting and engaging than it should be. A lack of movement considering all the meetings prior made the episode feel even more tiring in places as a result, shading was nice but more could have been done to show some expressiveness about Rimuru's actions and Hinata's decisions to give it more impact. As an episode, it is very slightly better than the bottom of the barrel meeting episodes earlier in this season (mainly due to this meeting feeling like it is resulting in something actually happening after and focus on new people) but beyond the shading, the execution was still as lazy and dry as it could have been. This series really needs something more exciting, something that actually features tension and genuine challenges to Rimuru to make conflicts feel interesting that feature him because otherwise, the anime has felt extremely dull and vapid as a result. |
animejasMay 3, 8:50 AM
| THE fated fight between hinata and rimuru has begun also poor reyhiem and rimurus message was most likely altered by those seven day bastards because they want rimuru and hinata to fight |
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| Seems the council is far from a unified force. The civil war in Falmuth was long predicted by Rimuru to begin with. I mean for a kingdom that prized its military so much its loss was such a blow to their pride that it's almost guranteed. The seven luminaries making their entrance sure was unexpected. Still them helping to think of counters to Rimuru's ability was insightful. For how brash he seems Saare at least has some common sense of not picking fights where he can't win. Rimuru's expressions as he listened to the report was damm amusing. Curious to see what happens next given the plots that the Seven seems to be spreading. |
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| Tensura doing everything to can to beat the “rushed adaptation” allegations most isekai LN adaptations have. They’re taking their time with this arc 😂 Time for another slow build up meeting episode this time from Hinata side to see how they’re reacting to Rimuru’s moves. Hinata, like Rimuru is the voice of reason for her side discouraging any unnecessary aggression against tempest. With Rimuru having Veldora on his side and now being a demon lord, provoking him would be foolish + Hinata realises that Rimuru is not a bad guy and just wants to be left alone That is.. until that altered message came in of Rimuru seemingly challenging Hinata to a 1v1+the luminaries showing up. Now it looks like we’re headed towards a battle between the two otherworlders while Falmuth falls into civil war. A lot of wild stuff going on politically in this world rn. Hopefully cooler heads prevail. Poor Rimuru, look of disappointment on buddy’s face when he finds out Hinata is on her way with a sword says it all. Doesn’t want to fight her at all. So we’re almost halfway through cour 1 and we’ve had largely build up episodes. At times it feels like 24 mins have passed and nothing’s happened, but I promise it’s all gonna pay off and you’ll appreciate the world-building. |
Marinate1016May 3, 10:31 AM
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| I'm confused, why is Rimuru surprised that Hinata is coming ready to fight? Edit: I now know that the message might've been tampered with, thank you. |
felixsifuriMay 5, 1:23 AM
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| I was not expecting so many events to happen at the same time. I'm assuming Reyhiem was killed by the Luminaries before he got to Lubelius and the message was replaced with one that challenges Hinata to a 1v1. Meanwhile, word spread that Reyhiem was killed and Falmuth interpreted it a provocation from Rimuru. I thought we had a few more episodes before things got ugly again, but now it seems like there are going to be two fights at the same time in the next episode. |
| Looks like Hinata and Rimuru are gonna clash again. Finally. |
| Was very satisfying watching them terrified after learning the truth. Rimuru is an awakened just like Guy and Milim after all. Those three luminus or whatever couldn't be more shady even if they wanted to lol. Clearly messed with the message and is sending Hinata to get rid of Veldora or the both of them like she suspects. Hinata's pretty smart and caught onto that. Also I never thought Hinata would actually be this reasonable, pretty surprised actually. Hoping they'll be able to resolve things peacefully but unlikely. |
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felixsifuri said: I'm confused, why is Rimuru surprised that Hinata is coming ready to fight? Ikr I’m confused too, his message practically was provoking her for a fight, unless it had a deeper meaning Hinata failed to notice. Well.. and us too 🤣🤣 |
| Another boring meeting episode... |
| Boring table talk anime...wtf |
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Softhenic03 said:
Meetings after meetings after meetings… this season just can’t without such roundtable meetings, can they? Moreover, introducing a bunch of new characters who we’re supposed to believe are as super strong and as righteous as one could be, voicing their opinions over Rimuru and Veldora, as if they could do anything about them was kind of infuriating to see tbh.
Anyways, leaving aside the entire blame game, and how Hinata is so ready to fight her past mistake of letting Rimuru escape, at the very least it was somewhat good to see that Farmus guy coming in and briefing them about the destruction he and his kingdom went through when Rimuru went full bonkers last season.
Enough of typical meetings and pikachu faces, we actually do want to see some action this season, which they kind of gave assurance we would, with Hinata. Now that she’s already coming with others, hope this thing doesn’t turn into a negotiation meet-up sort of, instead of an actual genuine fight.
Meetings after meetings after meetings… this season just can’t without such roundtable meetings, can they? Moreover, introducing a bunch of new characters who we’re supposed to believe are as super strong and as righteous as one could be, voicing their opinions over Rimuru and Veldora, as if they could do anything about them was kind of infuriating to see tbh.
Anyways, leaving aside the entire blame game, and how Hinata is so ready to fight her past mistake of letting Rimuru escape, at the very least it was somewhat good to see that Farmus guy coming in and briefing them about the destruction he and his kingdom went through when Rimuru went full bonkers last season.
Enough of typical meetings and pikachu faces, we actually do want to see some action this season, which they kind of gave assurance we would, with Hinata. Now that she’s already coming with others, hope this thing doesn’t turn into a negotiation meet-up sort of, instead of an actual genuine fight.
can people like you actually just not enjoy an anime unless it has city leveling fights every episode? i really enjoyed this ep and thought it was quite cool to see their thoughts and what they’re all thinking. as well as the setup for the oncoming meetup
| @Cryloll Action isnt even the strongsuit of the anime that I look forward to but the meetings and how they translate to this anime are too boring and slow, no real movement or fun angles with good directing and compositions to make meetings have more weight or tension to them. This a better ep than last week but after 4 episodes of absolute nothing, this didnt help one bit. Meeting didnt even be effective in showing the others off and making them interesting to watch besides Hinata. The setup this week is more relevant and actually goes somewhere with the next ep but 5 episodes of this series hasnt been good. Even the last season had many meetings that didnt accomplish much interesting things |
| The meetings continue, much to the chagrin of those who are craving for action, but I'm still enjoying the world building so far. It was good to see what Hinata is up to, as she took part in the meeting with the saints present, whose opinions of Rimuru did vary. While I do like how Hinata did reflect upon her previous actions when she fought against Rimuru in the past, it didn't help that the seven aging luminaries butted in for their own gains, mainly to see Veldora be defeated. They even went as far as to give Hinata a precious sword that was made to fell a dragon. Along with the doctored message of Rimuru challenging her on a 1v1 fight amongst others things, it does look like thing will indeed go down that route. So it is a bit of a spanner thrown into Rimuru's plans, where Diablo also revealed that Reyhiem was killed, which did have Diablo feel saddened for it to happen. Either way, it does look like things will head down the action route. I do look forward to seeing how things will go from here, where I do hope that things don't turn too ugly. |
| another amazing episode this week Hinata being fooled again, that message in the crystal ball was manipulated from being peaceful message to a duel challenge. But I guess Hinata has already some hints that she is being manipulated, which is a good sign. cant wait for next weeks episode to see hinata and rimuru meet |
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| yap yap yap and yap. love a good yapping session but now it's time for action! hope we get some next week. I'm guessing rimuru's message was altered?!?! people really shitting their pants about our otaku dragon veldora, it's warranted tho |
| I pray to the gods that these politics stop already lolz. Damn so annoying kek |
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| Finally something is happening. This should've been episode 1... |
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| It seems that Hinata finally realized she got tricked and used and is ready this time, just letting them think she took the bait this time, it was pretty funny to see the holy knights be all high and mighty and then get humbled to know how strong Rimuru really is. |
| Oh good, Hinata finally realized the truth: that Rimuru was an otherworlder like her, and that she was being used by the eastern merchants...but I wonder if she still believes Rimuru "killed" Shizu, like the fact that he technically absorbed Shizu after she passed away. Reyhiem died. Oh no...anyway. Since those floating dudes knew beforehand that Reyhiem was carrying the message orb... they must have done something to alter the message. Looks like the Luminaries guys need to die now just like the Falmuth army, as they're going to be a thorn in Rimuru's side as a hostile force. I also wonder what's Diablo is gonna do with his soul...he still gets his soul after death, right? Is "Catastrophe" the strongest classification achievable? |
| 5 episodes of pure info dump, what an awful attempt at storytelling. At least it seems like it's finally going somewhere, but that's some C- writing and plot development. Doesn't have to be action I'm fine with the slice of life content but overusing information dumps is a horrible attempt at storytelling. Most the info we've been given could be picked up without ever being openly explained. Even if they wanted to keep using info dumps you still need something to break up the monotony so the story feels more dynamic. Literally any writing teacher would call this a poor attempt at plot development. It doesn't have to be action or fighting, but back to back info dumps are just an awful way to tell a story. |
Hot-PantaloonsMay 3, 3:44 PM
| Lol, too many action brain rot people that can't even handle some proper world building. I prefer slow proper world building than brainless 100% action all the time. |
| I actually don't want that fight between Hinata and Rimuru to happen. Hinata almost immediately realised that something about this message was off, especially after she reconsidered her first meeting with Rimuru with a calm mind. Still, the tension is palpable and moving forward, it feels every minor action could get interpreted as danger or hostility and let things escalate. Even her having the dragon buster could be enough. But I want them to talk things out so badly. |
Reply to Moppit
What happened to the pact Archbishop Reyheim was supposed to be under? He was to report Veldora killed the army in his reawakening.
Moppit said: What happened to the pact Archbishop Reyheim was supposed to be under? He was to report Veldora killed the army in his reawakening. That fake report was for the Falmuth nobles. The Western Holy Church was monitoring Veldora so they would know that it's a lie. Rimuru wanted to see how they'd react so he let Reyheim report the truth to them. |
Reply to felixsifuri
I'm confused, why is Rimuru surprised that Hinata is coming ready to fight?
Edit: I now know that the message might've been tampered with, thank you.
Edit: I now know that the message might've been tampered with, thank you.
felixsifuri said: I'm confused, why is Rimuru surprised that Hinata is coming ready to fight? There are scenes missing from the anime. Before Reyheim is killed he wanted to report to Diablo that the message could've been tampered with. Rimuru wanted to make peace with Hinata that's why he sent his message originally. Also that's why he ordered Reyheim to tell the truth, not the fake story to Hinata. |
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