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What started off as an interesting premise quickly degraded into yet another generic isekai story. A 30-something year old man is killed and reborn into a fantasy world as a slime, with abilities developed from his last words stated as a human. As a slime, Rimuru gains godlike strength by absorbing every creature in his path and gaining their abilities. Instead of slowly developing these abilities, he masters them at the blink of an eye and one-shots future enemies within a few minutes, barely allowing him to get any kind of character growth. The gimmick of being reincarnated as an OP version of one of the typically weakest creatures in fantasy/RPG games is a cute idea that sells the story, but gets stale fast.

While the majority of Tensura revolves around the development of Rimuru's village, that might be the only interesting part. The forgettable supporting characters have no personality and are mostly one-note, and aren't given any growth outside of their initial dilemmas. Battles are fairly boring - Rimuru gives them the old "that was cool, but watch this" OHKO move and that's it. We never stray from the formula of new enemy -> 5 second battle -> join my village, only rinse and repeat ad nauseam. By the time the second half of the season rolled around, watching Tensura became more of a tedious chore than having a fun experience.

As somewhat of a newcomer to the isekai genre, I'm not sure if this is pretty par for the course, but it definitely bored me out of exploring the genre further. Guarantee you can find doujins of Shion's tits more entertaining and better written than this show.