Episodes 1 - 5:
The second season is shorter then the first one was and tries to tackle a pretty big chunk of the story. With that in mind, I seriously dont get why are these episodes here. Literally nothing happenes in these episodes so they feel really pointles. You could probably cut them out and it wouldnt really hurt the story in any way. The only thing that is sort of set up here is the romance between Mjuraan and Youm and let me tell you, this is one of the worst romance subplots I have ever seen.
Episodes 6 - 9
The plot finally kicks in and its absolutely retarded. Rimuru gets attacked by some random chick, they fight for a bit and then she fucks of. Tempest gets attacked and several characters are killed. And to top it all of Mjurran betrays them and Youm defends her because his entire character is he loves Mjurran. There are several problems I want to talk a bit in depth here.
1. The random attack
Not much to say here. The whole scene was so random I dont really get why is it in the anime. They fight for a while and then she tries to use the nuclear option and fucks off. My guess is that she will be an important character in the future, but this encouter sucked balls.
2. Mjullan
As it turns out she was a secret agent of the demon lord Clayman and casts a massive barrier around Tempest. So how does Rimuru deal with her? He forgives her and the anime tries to show you that she is actually a really good person. You can turn an antagonist into a part of the main cast, both dr Stone and Re zero did exactly that and those are shows that came out in the same season as this. Sadly Mjullan is an example of how not to do this. I wouldnt really mind it if the show tried to stay lighthearted and simply didnt want to go into executing someone. This isnt the case since after this, Rimuru shows absolutely no mercy to the army and slaughters them all to the last men. Youm also betrayed Rimuru and again nothing happens to him for it. This whole subplot was just so stupid.
3. Tempest gets attacked and characters die
This part was ok at first and actually set up some scenes in the later episodes. The problem is that everyone gets revived so it made the whole thing kinda pointless. Not only that, but any death in this show will from now on have absolutely no impact since we know that Rimuru can just revive everyone. Again what a stupid thing to do.
Episodes 10 - 12
These 3 episodes absolutelly rescue this season. Before them I wanted to give slime something like 4/10 and be done with it, but these episodes clearly shoved us a much better anime then what we actually got. Its really sad that the enitre season couldnt be like them.
So this is it. This season was a massive flop that got saved by the last few episodes. I hope that the creators learned their lesson and that the next season will be much better then this. If there is no 3rd season or it isnt good, I wouldnt reccomend watching this even if you liked the first one because you will probably be really disapointed.
