Not even Goblin Slayer himself can save this show from its mediocrity.
To begin with, the story is barebones. The characters are tasked with killing goblins. Obviously. I quit watching this show half way through episode 4. As such, I can't speak for the story later on. Maybe it gets better, but in all likelihood that wouldn't have mattered anyway. This show just reeks of laziness and mediocrity.
The art is pathetic. This show came out in fall of 2018. Just as a comparison, Bunny Girl Senpai also came out in fall of 2018 and blew Goblin Slayer out of the fucking park. It is inexcusable for an action-adventure fantasy anime to look so obviously worse than a romance anime- especially when the romance anime has the action-adventure fantasy anime beat on every other front as well. It should also be mentioned that the studio behind Goblin Slayer is fully capable of making a kickass anime. It's hard to believe that this garbage was produced by the same company that made Steins;Gate and Re:Zero. Dreadful static shots of characters delivering their script paired with lousy action scenes. Get that garbage out of here.
Moving on to sound, this is probably the best part of the anime, so I'll keep it brief. The OP is non-obtrusive. This means that the OP already has 99.99% of all other OPs beat. Also, the DOOM-like soundtrack is also pretty badass. Which reminds me: the "characters".
The only good character is Doom Slayer- I mean Goblin Slayer. He's fuckin cool. The secondary protagonist is also nice, she was shown to have some fortitude to her name. Unfortunately, she also falls into the trope of the "Hey, person I get along with and who I know has good intentions, be nice!". Annoying trope, stop writing that trope into characters. The other characters in this anime are lousy, lazy, generic, etc.
This is an anime that, if I'd never seen the good shit, I might think this is a good anime. Unfortunately, I have seen the good shit. I can no longer be impressed by static, boring shots of characters expositing in an unnatural way. 15fps animation will not cut it in a late-2018 anime. I was of the belief that standards were higher nowadays, but seeing as how this steaming pile of trash has a 7.7, maybe i'm just an exception.
3/10