Slime starts with how a lot of these shows do as an overworked salaryman is stabbed and murdered when he tries to defend a co-worker from a thief ( huh I guess Truck-kun must have been out sick for the day). He is then given the option to reincarnate in another world and given some advantages that give him quite the edge against most of the denizens of his new world. After meeting with a mighty dragon named Valdora, they become friends and to free him from his imprisonment Rimaru ( the protagonist who is now a slime)absorbs him. This causes Valdora to disappear and creates a power vacuum in the forest where Rimaru has spawned. Rimaru comes upon some goblins and decides to help them.
From this point, the show turns into a lite kingdom building show. Which let me tell you if done right is one of my favorite genre's. But therein lies the problem. I much enjoyed much of the start where Rimeru starts a village, and it becomes more powerful and prosperous, but at the same time, it felt like the whole show was rushing to get through some story beats. This is problematic as a good kingdom building story needs a decent amount of time to explore the minutia of the process of starting a state. Slime is also the rare case where I have read the source material( keeping in mind I dropped it a ways back as I had caught up to the current issue of the light novel, but it never was enjoyable enough to go back and catch up) to know that they were skipping a lot of crucial details.
As for the cast, Rimeru is a nice guy who tries to settle things amicably first in most scenarios. He was a reasonably exciting character to follow — the rest though not so much. No one was awful, but in that same vein, no one stuck out either. It has only been one day, and I have forgotten about most of them. I am sure I could tell you a detail or two but nothing that would make them memorable.
Animation wise Slime was nothing to write home about. In the sound department, it was the same nothing stuck out. The OP was good, but that was about all.
All in all, Slime is going to be the show I forget about two weeks from now unremarkable in many ways. It is alright, but I would not recommend watching this show.
