Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level

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So a year or two ago I started reading the first book and didn't like it but now that quarantine has started I read up to date and I absolutely love it and can't wait till the anime. I suggest this for ages 10 and up. This book is absolutely fantastic! I love it a lot because it has so many cool characters and the art looked the best I've seen. You should read the life novel it is an absolute game-changer. It started off slow but you'll like it once you get caught up. Personally, I think it's the best book I've ever read ... and it has insane plot twists.

Isekai is a genre with great potential.
That potential usually goes unfulfilled.
300 years a slime murder fulfills said potential.

A staple of isekai is an OP protagonist, but what's holding most series back is that they fail to understand the appeal of it. "Our protagonist is OP, so the villain should be OP too" is the standard school of thought. Having an OP protagonist is the primary prerequisite of an action/slice of life story, because otherwise the action takes up too much space in the story (usually the majority) and the tone is just generally off. Add an OP villain and the only thing affected by ... having an OP protagonist is that the world is forced to be at stake (which is generally accepted as bad storytelling) and that now the girls in the harem someone to swoon over.

300 years a slime murder has 6 fights up to where I've read. 2 end before they even start, 3 are over in one hit and the last isn't very long. This is perfect if you're like me and despise watching fights. This adds up to one roughly half-chapter long fight every 12 chapters. A series I recently dropped "Tensei Kyuuketsuki-san" bothered me because in the first 15 chapters it had like 10 fights.

But of course, "not being an action series" is not good enough reason to praise a series. Most series aren't action series.

- The series encourages the good practice of not overworking oneself.
- "And then 300 years passed", reading that is an interesting experience.
- In general, I find immortals interesting. It helps me put my life in perspective to contemplate the mindset of someone 300 years old.
- The slime loli's are pretty cool.
- In raw Japanese, the writing is nowhere near as obtuse as in other web novels.

The most important thing though, is that this is an isekai series that doesn't make you sit through long and boring fights. Isekai and action being intrinsically tied together is tremendously infuriating, to see them separated in a series which passes basic competency checks is enough.

The story seems like a standard isekai in the beginning, but gets better as it goes on. The characters are all fun and full of life.

The story is about a girl who dies from overwork, and is given a chance to start over in another world to live a more laid back life. However, after 300 years of just killing slimes for money she finds that she is the strongest person in the world. Word spreads and her peaceful life is no more. People are all coming to her to test their strength and that's when the story truly begins.

The art is amazing, and ... all the characters look great. This is one of my favorite light novels, because it's not like a basic isekai where people only care about becoming heroes in the new world. There is quite a bit of comedy in it and I recommend this series to anyone looking for something new to read.