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Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken starts with a fascinating premise: a salaryman reincarnated as a slime in a fantasy world. This setup had the potential for an engaging and humorous narrative, but the series ultimately falls short due to a lackluster story, uninspired art, and bland battles.

Story:
The plot begins with promise as Rimuru Tempest explores his new life and builds a community of diverse creatures. However, as the series progresses, the narrative meanders and key plot points feel underdeveloped. The pacing is uneven, leading to moments that lack tension and urgency. While there are occasional engaging conflicts, they often feel predictable and recycled, which diminishes ... overall investment in the story.

Art and Animation:
Visually, the series is a letdown. Character designs are simplistic and lack the distinctiveness found in other anime. While the backgrounds are colorful, they often feel generic and uninspired. The animation quality is inconsistent, with some action scenes appearing lackluster and failing to capture the excitement of battles, resulting in a disappointing visual experience.

Battles:
Combat in Slime Datta Ken lacks excitement and depth. Rimuru’s overwhelming powers often make conflicts feel one-sided, reducing any sense of stakes. This turns what could be thrilling encounters into mundane spectacles that don’t resonate with viewers.

Conclusion:
Overall, while Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken has its charming moments and an intriguing premise, it fails to deliver on its potential. The uninspired story, mediocre visuals, and dull battles make it hard to recommend. Fans of the isekai genre may find some enjoyment, but those seeking a captivating narrative and vibrant animation might want to look elsewhere.

Story:
I tried to like the story but it opted for cheesy melodrama, bad action sequences and a love triangle that I did not care about. It tries to go for gut wrenching emotions but falls short because it does not bother to establish a conflict we truly care about, nor does it establish characters that I really cared about much at all.
Art:
The art ranges from absolutely awful, to pretty good, sometimes varying wildly between episodes. One thing that I absolutely hated was the CGI dogfight scenes, the action and the choreography were well done, but the computer generated graphics felt clunky and out ... of place, and could have been replaced with hand drawn frames with more fluidity.
Sound:
The music and sound effects in this anime are absolutely wonderful. I am a major fan of Kanno Yoko's work, and the music here is her working masterfully. I loved both Sheryl's Techno arena hits and Ranka's ballads also the classical mood music is wonderful and it evokes the traditional feel of the Macross franchise.
Characters:
Truthfully I can't stand most of the major characters, Sheryl is the only one that I like and that I feel plays out realistically. Alto is a major jerk to everyone, and it's a wonder to me that he even has two love interests, thinking on how he treats them. Ranka is whiny and timid, except when she sings, we can see this play out throughout the the series, her character never changes from that mold. Sheryl at least is the only one that acts in a believable and likable way. She is confident and arrogant in a way you would expect a star of her caliber to be, yet she is not unkind and shows streaks of humor that I find to be very likable.
Enjoyment / Overall:
I enjoy Macross Frontier mostly for its characters and the wonderful music. I keep hoping for interesting dramatic developments or good action scenes but I come away disappointed every episode. So it earns a mild recommendation on my part.

Glass mask is one of the best shoujo manga out there. Despite having a common enough shoujo setting, the plot hardly ever falls into any of the comon cliches that shoujo manga often times fall into. The artwork is in a classic 80s style, nothing outstanding, but the mangaka does not skimp on the minor details, and her understanding of common facial expressions is top notch.
Where Glass Mask really stands out is in the main characters and in the story. We are presented with a main character that is hard not to sympathize with and all the supporting characters and antagonists are really well ... fleshed out and have realistic and human personalities. The plot arc is interesting, each mini-arc has trials in the main characters confidence and abilities which she eventually solves to our amazment and the amazment of the audiences. The main arc slowly building until half way through where there is an impending crisis.
Glass mask's theme of working hard, having natural talent, and succeeding despite lacking beauty or grace make it one of my favorites and mark it as something that every shoujo fan should at least try.

As a former student of music I found this to be an absolutley fantastic read. The story is realistic and has a good feel to it. The characters in multidimensional and engaging and the understanding of music and musical terms is very good.

I would reccomend also listeing to the nodame cantabile CDs in accompanyment to reading the manga, it makes it a much more enriching and enjoyable experience.

The only downside to this is that tje romantic development is very slow, though it does not fall into any of the typical shoujo manga cliches.

I know this is grave digging, but After having discovered the Glass Mask manga, and then this anime, I was suprised how superb they were. The newest version updates the style of the characters, but it still follows the manga fairley closely.

THIS is the kind of shoujo I want to watch, much, much better than the typical shoujo we get these days. The characters are all engrossing and interesting, even all the supporting characters are well fleshed out and with an interesting and realistic story. If anyone hasn't seen this I strongly reccomend watching the manga, and then watching the anime.