Isekai is a genre with great potential.
That potential usually goes unfulfilled.
300 years a slime murder fulfills said potential.

A staple of isekai is an OP protagonist, but what's holding most series back is that they fail to understand the appeal of it. "Our protagonist is OP, so the villain should be OP too" is the standard school of thought. Having an OP protagonist is the primary prerequisite of an action/slice of life story, because otherwise the action takes up too much space in the story (usually the majority) and the tone is just generally off. Add an OP villain and the only thing affected by having an OP protagonist is that the world is forced to be at stake (which is generally accepted as bad storytelling) and that now the girls in the harem someone to swoon over.

300 years a slime murder has 6 fights up to where I've read. 2 end before they even start, 3 are over in one hit and the last isn't very long. This is perfect if you're like me and despise watching fights. This adds up to one roughly half-chapter long fight every 12 chapters. A series I recently dropped "Tensei Kyuuketsuki-san" bothered me because in the first 15 chapters it had like 10 fights.

But of course, "not being an action series" is not good enough reason to praise a series. Most series aren't action series.

- The series encourages the good practice of not overworking oneself.
- "And then 300 years passed", reading that is an interesting experience.
- In general, I find immortals interesting. It helps me put my life in perspective to contemplate the mindset of someone 300 years old.
- The slime loli's are pretty cool.
- In raw Japanese, the writing is nowhere near as obtuse as in other web novels.

The most important thing though, is that this is an isekai series that doesn't make you sit through long and boring fights. Isekai and action being intrinsically tied together is tremendously infuriating, to see them separated in a series which passes basic competency checks is enough.

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Maybe it's because i'v only recently started reading Novels in the past month or two. But when i compare this to every other novel i'v read so far, Then this is amazingly better.

I originally read the manga first. Finally got around to reading the Light Novel. I'd say from what little is available of the Manga i'd say that the Manga is the better version.

The pacing in this isn't great. I believe the first 20 chapters go by really fast with what's happening.

We also get impressions in the manga and the start of the LN that Lecia ( The Dragon ) is more of a ditz character. But in this she rarely talks and acts more shy then anything. I feel that she should either be a Ditz or a Tsundere

Things like the MC's daughters i find kind of weird. From what i gathered they are actually around 50 years old but have the appearance of a 9 year old. So scenes where the MC acts like they are still kids is kind of weird and when they act like little kids.

Also i find the idea of them only being born because of the MC killing slimes to make little sense. It would be a lot more interesting if it was the result of the MC's mana being so strong that it leaks out and the children were made.

In the manga we also have a real homey feel so far. In this with how many people are suddenly brought into the story, It starts to lose that feel

Overall it's still a good read, It's just i find the manga to be better so far.

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