That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime
| Why do people hate anime having actual dialogue, character interaction, and story building? Because they lack the patience to sit through this and need constant action to keep their attention. |
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| Saying this as someone who has been watching One Piece for 12 years or even more now, the pacing seems fine for Tensura, at least we actually get proper story progression and information about many things. I don't mind not having action every 2 minutes unlike some people as long as the story actually makes progress. Imagine waiting for a new episode each week just to get 20mins of random npc chars running and screaming for the 30th time while nothing happens with the story and then you get recaps of the things that happened 5 episodes ago. So yeah, I don't see that much of a problem with the pacing here when it still moves the story forward while giving us useful information on what has happened/is happening right now so we wouldn't just be left confused with whatever is going on. |
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Moppit said: ejleon said: Why do people hate anime having actual dialogue, character interaction, and story building? Because they lack the patience to sit through this and need constant action to keep their attention. There's nothing wrong with it. They spent the first 5 episodes of story building, spending time in just meeting rooms and almost nowhere else. At least in my case when I watch, I like seeing what's going on also. A lot of what's going on has been mostly a recap of everything, so it's a bit stagnant, with any current plot. I agree that it is a type of recap, but I also think that it is intermixed with new current events after walpurgis. At the same time it is reminding us of where we left off, it is doing so to help us understand current events, that are leading to what seem like major archs in the story. This type of style, could run into problems with pacing, but I think the current presentation isn’t boring or too slow, plus I also enjoy the humorous parts added in, which make the anime more lively than just serious talks in meetings. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
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Moppit said: @ejleon That's where I found it boring. They repeated the same questions every week for 5 weeks. I know it's to get different points of view, to show how the world was reacting. Still it was basically the same questions being asked, and answered. It just feels like it stuck in one place at the moment. I can definitely understand your perspective and I agree that these 5 episodes have been spent slowly addressing similar issues, so it can seem like no progress is being made. However, I looked up the amount of episodes in this season, there are 24, so although I don’t read the written material, I think its not entirely crazy to assume that they are building a foundation for the later episodes that will have more action in them. I considered you as someone who is an expert at knowing the written material, so if I’m wrong and all 24 episodes are without any action at all, then that would be a drag. And I do hope you didn’t think I was addressing my original comment towards you, I respect and trust you. |
ejleonMay 6, 2024 4:27 PM
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
Ryodran said: @ejleon I've been watching and enjoying apothecary diaries while waiting for new episodes this season and it doesn't have any action and is amazing. My issue with slime is that we never had this long of a sit and talk in all of whats been done up to this point. I loved the Apothecary Diaries. That anime was one of favorites. I wouldn’t say it doesn’t have action, but that the action in that anime was of a different form. It does not have action fights / battles / wars / etc, but it has the action that happens between people, dealing with their words and deeds, with the MC using her knowledge and intelligence to read, interpret, investigate, figure out, prevent, and even stop other humans. Your description of how you feel about this season of “Slime”, reminds me of how I felt with “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV”, except the opposite. I thought it was all action, devoid of character dialogue and interaction that previous seasons had. I won’t argue, previous seasons of “Slime” did have a different pacing and better balance between explanation and action, in that light, this season’s start does feel slow and like it’s dragging on. However, I’m hoping that with 24 episodes this season, it will lead to a faster more action based anime later. Although, I don’t know the written material, I’m just hoping. |
ejleonMay 6, 2024 2:49 AM
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
It appears that the author really likes large tables ๐ค |
| I like this season, a lot of interesting talking and worldbuilding. Hope this season would deter many Tiktok kids from continuing this because I know this is hell for them, they need constant action because of their goldfish attention span :D |
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The bigger, the better |
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| @Todday Lmao atleast table is getting big in every episode |
| The action in Tensura is it's most boring component imho. At least now it genuinely feels like they care about the world and it's various people and laws. I do admit exposition could be done without consecutive meetings and reports. |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
| The pacing of the season sucks, and this is coming from someone who sat through around 500 episodes of One Piece before switching to the better-paced fan-edit (and i'll be honest, the worst-paced pre-timeskip One Piece arcs somehow have better pacing than this season). It honestly doesn't feel like the same show anymore, like if I didn't know any better, I'd think that a different studio and director made this season. The main issues that I have with this season are that there's barely anything between the exposition dumps, and they all take place in one room for most of the episode, which both make it a slog to sit through. Like look at some of the more dialogue-heavy episodes from the first two seasons and you'll see why fixing those issues could make the show better. |
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Why do people hate anime having actual dialogue, character interaction, and story building?
Because they lack the patience to sit through this and need constant action to keep their attention.
Because they lack the patience to sit through this and need constant action to keep their attention.
| @ejleon Just like when I go watch football I don't expect players to settle the score by discussing whole 90 minutes. Can't you see we've had meetings only for 6 straights episodes? This is a freaking Shounen, and even if it wasn't, I can't think of of any different anime even in a different genre that has spent so much time on JUST talking. Believe me I don't need constant action, but this show is supposed to have at least some in it |
osoichan said: @ejleon Just like when I go watch football I don't expect players to settle the score by discussing whole 90 minutes. Can't you see we've had meetings only for 6 straights episodes? This is a freaking Shounen, and even if it wasn't, I can't think of of any different anime even in a different genre that has spent so much time on JUST talking. Believe me I don't need constant action, but this show is supposed to have at least some in it Well it looks like my original post does not apply to you. Honestly, I’m enjoying all these episodes, but I like history, and a total of 3 hours of meetings is quite realistic, so I don’t have complaints. But, people have been making good points about the talks being repetitive, redundant, not concise, and episode time not being used efficiently. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
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