Goblin Slayer Episode 1 Discussion

Zizou_DW said:
I wish that this site or the show itself had some sort of warning so I wouldn't have had to see....that, because I sure didn't know what I was getting into. If they really wanted to show '"that" scene, at least give me a warning so I wouldn't be sitting here feeling depressed now.

I...can't watch this.

Naxrrhid said:
Well this was an easy 1/10.

Another one added to the Wikipedia list.

Roinamu said:

It's somewhat similar to the gore scenes but based on the first episode this anime is going to be more gorier

SNDT said:


Well, no wonder with such competent guild employee lol who doesn't give a fuck about kids.


Oh, stop with this bullshit. She just said: "I'm sure if you wait a little while, other adventurers will show up" That's all. She didn't even try to persuade them. Didn't insist to prepare for that mission like buy potions etc. It's criminal negligence.

Esquirtit said:
Lol bitch what? Who are you? I'm sorry you're just another MAL user you dont decide what gets discussed and what not suck it and read it yourself because I dont think you understand

AndoCommando said:
If I hear one more person try and say that Goblin Slayer is bad mainly cuz rape I'm gonna go insane

uninstallthegame said:
there's no female goblins. goblins gotta fucking reproduce somehow

uninstallthegame said:

, there's no female goblins. goblins gotta fucking reproduce somehow. people just see the act of rape and turn their heads around instantly without even thinking for the motive of why it was shown

seeker_moc said:




I know, it's funny right? There are only 28 chapters so far... Based on a lot of what that guy has been saying in another thread, I'm beginning to doubt he even read the manga.

SNDT said:

how convenient for the sake of rape xD

NoviSun said:
I’m hoping there will be a birthing scene somewhere down the line. I have a feeling they’re born via Auto-Caesarean. Curious minds want to know.

Moe_VII said:
First time commenting here. But watching that, I didn't get past the cave part, it's just senseless violence and rape. It one of the rare types of anime which I hate. And I hate I even watched that far into it. Probably the worst anime this season.

Reichter said:


"Dark stuff needs to have meaning." Maybe I'm jaded from having seen too much of the real stuff, but violence and 'edge' rarely have higher meaning. People die for all sorts of stupid reasons, people do terrible things for no other reason than to do it. You're right that over the top violence can be comical, and honestly that's what I was expecting from this show titled 'Goblin Slayer' -- I even went so far as to tell some of my anime-watching friends that I'd sighted the comedy of the season.

This isn't comedy of the season though. I can't speak for the rest of the series, but this first episode handled its material well. It calibrated our expectations for the world and for Goblin Slayer himself, and quite frankly I love that this show depicts violence as senseless and bestial and brutal -- that's what violence is. The violence on display here feels (mostly) genuine, and my only real complaint with this episode is that cleric girl was waving her plot immunity around a little bit too obviously by having the goblins ignore her on multiple occasions.

uninstallthegame said:


you know, that's actually a good reason. i haven't thought about that. because the world just puts us on the spot that there are no female ones. but why thought?

i searched it up and found up that they could be non-dimorphic which means that there are no clear difference in appearance between the sexes, so that would mean that there are female goblins, but we can't spot the difference between a male and female. but that would make even less sense for the rape part


so i found out that this is a legit anime trope



and there are tons of example of usage - here





i could only suggest you to read some doujins for something like that, dude... i can tell you that they're explosive breeders (like rabbits) which means baby goblins come out like crazy. imagine the emotional trauma the girls go trough

GemTastical said:


How did you even end up watching it when it's reputation is kind of notorious? Not trying to knock you, just genuinely curious. It's like someone blindly stumbling into Gantz, Kara no Kyoukai or Berserk and not expecting half of the wild stuff everyone talks about them.

ChyllyWylly said:


The world sucks, but this isn't the world. This is an artistic piece of media that should have something more. I've seen media that shows how random and brutal violence is while using it to push its own overlying themes, but that's all Goblin Slayer has. There's no message here, it's violence and brutality for the sake of violence and brutality to draw a cheap, easy reaction. It goes for shock value and that's it, there's no substance. It's just hilariously over the top as within 20 minutes goblins do literally everything they can to make you hate them without any nuance, I would be angry if it wasn't utterly transparent.

Additionally, it's pretty obvious already that every female character exists to be put in rape or near rape situations. This is just like a poorly written, trashy B-movie that I don't understand why people try to claim it is deep and holds meaning. It's fine to like it for what it is, but not while calling it something more.

Tamikus said:
Its funny how you seem to know all about the Show jsut from 1 episode >.>

uninstallthegame said:


i could only suggest you to read some doujins for something like that, dude... i can tell you that they're explosive breeders (like rabbits) which means baby goblins come out like crazy. imagine the emotional trauma the girls go trough

ChyllyWylly said:


Yes, the first episode should establish everything we need to know about a series. It sets the tone, it sets the themes, it shows what you should expect from here. If it takes more than half an hour to do any of that, trim down and cut. All I saw was trashy violence and shock gore, so that's basically all I expect, what's wrong with that?

Magicman2552 said:
Yo what the actual fuck is this show.... Shocked.

uninstallthegame said:


i agree. people fail to understand where those baby goblins came out from. even though the answer was right near them

the rape wasn't added for the edge, there's no female goblins. goblins gotta fucking reproduce somehow. people just see the act of rape and turn their heads around instantly without even thinking for the motive of why it was shown

GemTastical said:


Considering by your own admission you've only read the manga, I've read a significant amount more than you. I WILL concede to one thing though.

If they completely skip over year one, then it will be significantly less. At least up until the point where the manga currently is, which is highly unlikely since the manga isn't even done with it's current arc. Kind of thinking they might go with an anime original ending for this one.

epidemia78 said:

I've read 28 chapters of the manga. There's not that much rape, and it never gets worse than in chapter 1.

NoviSun said:
I’m hoping there will be a birthing scene somewhere down the line. I have a feeling they ’re born via Auto-Caesarean. Curious minds want to know.

Early in the episode, the audience is told that slaying goblins is a piece of cake. That they're small and dumb as kids, not worth bragging about if you kill one -- and this all is coming for a porcelain level adventurer. This sets up the world's view of the creatures.
Then they get easily annihilated. After being flanked from both sides, the guy is brutally murdered and the girl is raped. Shows you that goblins are not as dumb as everyone considers them and that they are also savage and brutal. The girl is left alive even after the rape for uhhh "further use"... Plus, there were no female goblins, but they had newborns hidden away. Where do those come from I wonder...?? *cough* from the females the goblins caught.

So, yeah... It is there for shock value, I am not going to deny that, but saying that it has no other meaning than that is not only ignorant but also a lie. Especially when it's coming from someone who's "read ahead".

MrMushin said:


Dude, it's a tv series, not some denpa visual novel even a school kid should be able to handle it.

And I didn't say I couldn't handle the violence, I said it's overdone.
I just think they are trying way too much to make the the viewer feel uncomfortable, it's just a really bad tragedy writing in my opinion, but I guess they wanted to build up tohe protagonist character instead.

seeker_moc said:


Way to dodge the issue. All either he or I have mentioned is the manga. So I don't really get your point. You said you read more manga than 28 chapters, but there are only 28 chapters so far.

It also doesn't change the whole point of the conversation, which started with this:



Which is absolutely true. There is very little rape, despite your nonsense. 95% of the rape explicitly shown in the story (based on the main Goblin Slayer manga) already occurred in the 1st episode.

Samoan said:

Then why they dont go rap something else like femal elf or dragon or whatever they have in that world . it had to be a cute girl with big boobs it just for fanservice. Or no one gonna wach this shit

Tamikus said:
Nothing wrong , All i hear from is you is like * i have read one chapter of a book/manga and now i know all about it and i dont need to see more * Thats the impression im getting from the whiney bitches here on the forum , Also if you dont like rapey things then dont watch the new SAO season since there will be rapey things too ( there was a rapey scene in the light novel so it will probably be in the anime as well ) . ( saved you a trauma ) And the best solution for you is like i posted earlier * People that dont like the show should drop it and move on , let others enjoy their anime , and stop acting like a moral police * thanks

joe_g7 said:
@ChyllyWylly Since I see you insist on your pointless argument, I'll give you the same response I gave to another user earlier who thought your original comment was correct: