Dec 2, 2018
Goblin Slayer is one of my favorite fantasy series and here's why.
Story
It's bland story of a man killing goblins. But that's what make it so good. It's pretty realistic, I'll explain why in the character later. How goblins are considered trash and such but this man keep killing them because of his traumatizing past. I love that unlike most fantasy anime with RPG from video game themed, this one has the tabletop RPG theme like DnD with their unique classes like mage dwarf, monk dragon, and stuff like that. Like I said, the story is simple, straightforward, but that what makes it so good. From
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the title I can say I want them to slay goblins, and hey, it delivers.
Art
I can feel that they have decent budget. Few CGs here and there, mostly on Goblin Slayer, maybe to make his armor looks shiny while he's walking. But hey, at least the CG is not a total disappointment like Overlord. Other than the CG part, all other animations look nice and fluid. The fighting scenes are really good.
Sound
One of the few that I like from this anime. Almost all the seiyuu are experienced pros so they work great. Priest Girl especially sounds great. I love her crying and screaming voice and can feel the chill. The music is great, and pretty much serve their purpose. Heart pumping music during fighting scenes, soft music during wholesome scenes. But what I like most? The fighting SFX. The sound of weapons hitting the goblins' flesh, and the sound of the blood spurting, and the arrows flying. They are great and sounds pretty realistic and echoing in my ears.
Character
This is the best part that I love the most from Goblin Slayer. I especially love that none of the character has an actual name. They're just called Goblin Slayer, Priest Girl, Cow girl, etc. This is one of the series with the "making the MC looks bland so the other side characters shine" type in my opinion. But I'll say this, that Goblin Slayer is a pretty realistic character. I worked in hospital where cops bring their criminals and their victims. Goblin Slayer acts similiar to many other people actually acts after traumatizing event (such as rape victims, and DV victims) where they seems to become stoic and lost interest in many other things. And I also love how, unlike Eren from Attack on Titan that swore he will "kill all titans", Goblin Slayer clearly shows that he knows he won't be able to kill all goblins, but he will at least try to kill as many as he could. And of course, no generic stuff like suddenly getting superpower, or getting power from friendship. The dude use logic, knowledge, and experience, alongside tons of training. He's like budget Batman. And you can see how with interaction he grows with the other characters later on. Good unique main character, that makes the other side characters shine and doesn't feel like this is the "main character is the center of the world + other characters". In here you can feel that... The other characters exists. It doesn't give the "Goblin Slayer and His Bitches" feeling. But more like "this is a group of people with goblin slayer in it".
Enjoyment
I really really enjoy this of course. I give this 9 instead of 10 because, well, in the end the story is pretty bland. He comes, he kill goblins, he finished. I don't say I don't enjoy watching goblins getting pummeled, but in the end I still know "these goblins are getting their butt kicked". So yeah, that's why this get 9 instead of 10.
Overall I give this a 9. Really recommend it. Some parts are indeed a bit disturbing and maybe kinda gory, not something you wanna recommend to people who's new to this kinda series and children of course, but it's enjoyable. The gruesome and disturbing parts just show us about how the world really works and such, and thus should not prevent someone from watching this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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