STOP MISSING THE POINT OF GOBLIN SLAYER
(okay, sorry. That title was complete garbage and was only meant to grab attention, pls don't hurt me)
I just want to begin with how I feel about the community watching this anime.
I feel like a ton of people are missing the point of Goblin slayer.
SPOILER (even though everyone knows this one already)
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So yeah, there is rape in the first episode. And that's all everyone talks about. That or that the anime is edgy which is for some reason is a bad thing...? Shounen anime are pretty edgy too but I guess nobody likes those anime ;)
Anyways, what I wanted to bring is the things about Goblin slayer that I felt a lot of people missed out or had fly right over their head. Here they are:
1. Goblin slayer defies conventional RPG tropes
Everyone who plays and knows RPGs usually think that goblins are petty, low level enemies who are really easy to kill. Welp, not even the noobiest of adventurers could do much against the goblins. Rather they got themselves killed by creatures that allegedly have the intelligence of children (ha... that says a lot about the adventurer group).
Excusing the really crappy adventurer party, the anime does show that goblins are capable of killing humans, rather easily (probably because they are always underestimated).
2. The NSFW scene and the perspective on Goblins
Yeah, everyone knows about this. It might as well not even be a spoiler. Anyways, whilst I know a huge amount of people hate the anime for this very scene. I sometimes feel like people forget that the scene is intentionally made to be disgusting. It gives us a reason to hate goblins, to believe that they are completely evil monsters. By no means is it meant to encourage rape. Not sure why anyone would come to that conclusion, since the scene is meant to do the exact opposite (Unless you have a fetish for that)
3. The whole situation with goblins raiding villages
This is the one I think most people miss out on. Yeah, we all know why goblins raid villages, what on earth could we be possibly missing? It's that this whole raiding thing is actually a representation of the Dark ages (There is probably a lot of people who have watched Goblin slayer but don't even know what the Dark ages were; if you do, good on ya, if otherwise, google it). During this time, Raiders would always pillage defenseless villages and DO THE EXACT SAME THINGS THAT GOBLINS DID IN GOBLIN SLAYER. Raiders would, steal money, steal livestock, steal food, steal equipment, rape/kidnap women, kill men and children and all sorts of other dark crap you can think of. The Goblins in goblin slayer are no different to those raiders.
Now onto the ratings
Story 6/10
As far as the main story goes, not a whole lot happens outside of killing goblins. The ultimate goal has to be reached so I can't say a whole lot on this. I don't want to come off as someone who is judgemental so I'll leave it here.
Art 8/10
I think the art is pretty good. You could say I have low standards, but when you learn to actually draw anime characters, you start to appreciate anime art a lot more. Plus, I find Priestess to be pretty cute. (Yes, I'm weak to the MOE attribute, sue me)
People often complain about CG in anime. I never really understood why people hate it so much. It has always seemed like a preconceived notion to me. Anyways, I believe that CG wasn't over done in Goblin slayer. The animations themselves weren't to bad either (albeit, CG was usually used in short scenes). At least they weren't overused AND poorly animated like the CG in Overlord where soldiers literally bounced off shields by charging at them (because physics)
Sound 7/10
Nothing exceptional, but nothing bad either. I don't have much to say about the sound effects since it mostly consists of stabbing and slashing sounds.
The music is not to my tastes, but this is completely subjective. I tried not to let my view on the music affect the rating here too much, since, in my experience, it didn't seem to affect the scenes too much.
Character 7/10
I struggled to rate this one the most. A lot of people will think that the characters are boring or are cardboard cutouts of stereotypical anime tropes. What made me give Characters a balanced rating was because of the voice acting and the character backstory; which kinda negate the negative of the seemingly bland at first glance personalities all the characters have.
The voice acting was pretty darn good in my opinion. The way the characters screamed and tried fighting back the goblins seemed at least somewhat realistic to me. I know a lot of people might disagree with me on that, but that's only because I have been in fights where people badly wounded each other. So yeah, I believe that people do scream like that in these kind of fights
Backstory is a quite a sidetrack for me since I read the manga after watching the anime, my opinion will be slightly biased and not representative of the anime here. I think the backstories are vital to the character development here in goblin slayer. Without it, Goblin Slayer really would have seemed like some dense as brick wall kinda guy. I can see how some people view him this way, since his backstory is far better elaborated upon in the manga, but not the anime.
Enjoyment 6/10
Wouldn't exactly say this was enjoyable watch because of the graphic content (unless you have a fetish for that NSFW scene). Which does make sense, since the anime is supposed to be as disturbing as it could possibly be. I dare say that the goblins are doing a good job at that. It feels awkward rating Enjoyment since the whole genre of Goblin slayer goes against it, but I ultimately decided in giving it a lower number.
Overall 7/10
In conclusion, I think that Goblin slayer does a excellent job at disturbing its audience. It's already evident in how many haters there are. Being a very controversial anime, I tried to stray away from the things people often complained about. I focused more on the representation of things such as how goblins are evil (obviously) and that goblins raiding villages is normal since the exact same thing happened during the Dark ages.
I realise I'm being a massive hypocrite here in saying that people missed the point of goblin slayer since I myself have also skipped over many details. The motive for this review was just to provide another perspective to Goblin Slayer. Pls I beg you, don't sue me T-T
Nov 4, 2018
Goblin Slayer
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STOP MISSING THE POINT OF GOBLIN SLAYER
(okay, sorry. That title was complete garbage and was only meant to grab attention, pls don't hurt me) I just want to begin with how I feel about the community watching this anime. I feel like a ton of people are missing the point of Goblin slayer. SPOILER (even though everyone knows this one already) ... |
