At the beginning, I knew that I was going to enjoy at least the MC from a voice perspective. Brittany Karbowski is my favorite VA and really impressed me with Rimiru. While it was kind of light in tone throughout the whole show for Rimiru, her presentation to each situation matched perfectly. I think what impressed me most about this within regards to the lack of range in emotion is the sheer volume of dialogue she had to go through. I think it could be safe to say that she had about half of all dialogue. I couldn't imagine just how exhaustive that would have to be.
In regards to the show and the storyline, I enjoyed how each situation was handled, however I think they were too many conflicts. Most were brought up and resolved in two episodes and all of the decisions to major problems were done on the fly, like with the Cryptid and the summoned children. It just happened all at once and been and BAM, they were resolved. It was extremely frustrating to watch. I really would have preferred if they cut back on one or two confrontation(s) versus having six or seven. Give me a longer, drawn out interaction, perhaps in three episodes instead of two like is seen in a lot of other shows. I would also like to have seen ownership by the characters rather than an easy solution, like when Milim took down the Cryptid. One large shot and it was over with.
Despite its shortcomings, it's well worth watching to enjoy. I know that there are spin-off episodes that I caught two of and a movie and five OVAs. I can't say that I liked the show enough to chase all of that down, though.
Certainly worth a recommend.
