Goblin slayer Is it still with the worst anime ever?
So what's up guys Foxen here, the very popular and controversial anime Goblin slayer just
had its finale a few weeks ago.
I finally watched the first episode of it and gave you my initial impressions, but now
the story is complete mostly.
Anyway, so let's go ahead and dive into my quick thoughts on it and I'm sure I'm going to
piss a few people, but if you survived Goblin slayer, you should be able to handle this
review.
So first off, what exactly is Goblin
slayer about? In case you really have no idea Goblin slayer .
is actually an isekai anime. At the very start of the series you
have the main character girl just dying, getting wiped the hell out.
Fast forward to the Goblin Slayer world.
She's now become this blonde loli priestess or magge something like that.
The actual Goblin Slayer world is this typical isekai type of setting.
You can become an adventurer and go off to do adventures,
Just joining a guild, doing quests, gaining money, potentially fighting the demon king.
At the same time
hopefully your class doesn't suck.
Hopefully you're not born poor.
And you
Definitely don't want to be a female in Goblins
Slayer more on this in a little bit.
If I really want to compare this world to a different anime and just think like Konosuba,
Rezero overlord, maybe even the recent slime isekai anime. It's pretty much that
type of deal except this world is supposed to be much, much harsher and yes, it's now
getting into the controversial part of the first episode, the Goblin grape stuff.
Forget about fighting the demon king.
If you're just unfortunate or suck or weak in this world potentially you could be taken out by
goblins.
On the other hand, if you're unfortunate to be a female and get captured, you're most
likely going to become a Goblin play thing.
Goblin Slayer clearly going for that shock value.
They want you to hate the goblins guts. For Goblin
Slayer in that regard
I honestly feel like it does a poor job at it and I definitely do say that as someone
that's seen a crap ton of anime. The rest of the stuff that involves to Goblin play
things, even the stuff in the first episode, the scenes feel very watered down.
I'm sure that the manga counterpart was much more graphic and definitely the novel
being much more detailed about this stuff.
That being said, I do think that Goblin Slayer does succeed in its core message, which
is this isekai
like type of fantasy world that's supposed to be harsh.
You do have people are dying left and right, and of course people have violated specifically
females by fricking goblins.
That's why if
that's all Goblin Slayer is going for I you do have to give it to a lot of credit.
They're going to win you over in the first episode.
That is if you actually stick around.
So far we've gotten a ton of isekai fantasy world type of adventure settings.
I think it's actually beneficial to have this more harsher setting or at least something
to point at.
That being said, if you actually look at the top adventure isekai series like re zero,
Konosuba, or potentially even overlord and the slime reborn series.
If you actually examined those worlds in detail
it's not like those worlds aren't harsh too. If anything for a lot of the stuff in ReZero
I actually felt a lot worse of watching that.
And then for KonoSuba I can say this as someone that's read the novels. That stuff in KonoSuba,
is not all sunshine and rainbows.
If anything in the novel, they actually have something similar to Goblin Slayer except
that goes exclusively for males and I'm talking about Kazuma.
But let me actually take a step back here.
I know some of you are just screaming.
It's not supposed to be Rezero or KonoSuba
those are top series and sure I'll give it that.
I actually don't think Goblin Slayer is trying to be at those levels.
So let's move on into talking about some of the other aspects about Goblin
Slayer like the world building and the actual quest. Was seeing this group of individuals
actually interesting or least enjoyable?
The world is supposed to be this adventure or fantasy setting every now and then they
do make some references to dice and throughout the episodes do you hear about the gods
creating this in the past. Potentially this being all a past game and perhaps even an ongoing
current game.
It actually really reminded me of how the world was initially created for no game no
life.
What I really did like seeing was that as Goblin Slayer went on adventures with
his party here and there, they would find ruins about this lost world, about how this
whole place came to be.
It was really a nice touch then so it wasn't in your face about it.
As for the actual goblin killing quest and the actual fights related to those.
If I want to be completely honest, there really wasn't anything to memorable in terms of fights
and the actual quests themselves,
they really involved finding goblins, fighting goblins, collecting the reward.
Then repeat the next time when fighting bigger goblin enemies, whether that was goblin
champs, Goblin Paladins, goblin hulks, goblin kings, they shouldn't have had an explosion
goblins and unsurprisingly for a series titled Goblin Slayer, you're going to be seeing
a lot of different Goblin fights. For the actual goblins themselves
they really don't have any depth to them.
They're supposed to be enemies that are simply ultra bad guys.
In other words, if you're looking to have a fleshed out villain, try something else.
Goblin Slayer is really the type of anime in case you're in the mood for a harsher fantasy setting
that's a little more edgy, potentially far edgier than similar series.
Next up
let me actually get into the cast.
First off, we have the main character of the series, Goblin slayer.
To be honest, this guy is like a piece of wood.
You want to talk about personality?
Well, we're not going to get too much of that here.
You're going to get this ultra serious guy and with very short replies, almost robotic
and potentially even blender if you actually know Japanese like I do.
That being said, they actually use this guy pretty effectively.
I mean if I do have to point out something positive out of this series is just the interaction
between these guys.
Naturally Goblin Slayer is going to be playing the straight man role and yes, it's
not my much but Goblin
Slayer does develop a little bit by the end of the series.
Now getting into the rest of the party.
Just a quick intro.
You got the blonde loli that warms up to Goblin Slayer, that likes to pee on herself
and even sleeps with Goblin Slayer.
You have the 2000 year old Elf girl can you say extra loli.
At first she doesn't really like Goblin Slayer but then warms up to him and she also likes
drinking, which I liked. You got the dwarf magic guy that likes to drink and also
likes food and finally the Lizard guy that likes cheese and get some in this skeleton
dog.
I got to admit that the actual male characters in the series aren't that memorable.
On the bright side, my two favorite characters in the series involved with the Elf and the
actual blonde mage. At start of the series I was really hoping that none of them would
become Sakura or would that be Aqua this case?
Just take your pick! For the little loli mage
one of the things I really enjoyed for her in this series was her role in the actual
party.
She just gave you this different tastes of the magic character type of role in this fantasy
world type of setting.
She's not supposed to be someone like Megumin super overpowered what the one hit
skill. The blond girl is playing the supporter role that could make walls of light, flash
you and heal you, but despite not actually being on the frontlines herself, I never once
felt that she wasn't needed and there's definitely plenty of times that she uses her defense
moves as offensive ones too, which is really nice and that's actually another thing I enjoyed
about this series.
Just seeing the tactics used in battle.
Pretty often you do feel that this party is in real danger, that just a single wrong move
and then it could be totally wiped out, although it just like any series that does have its
questionable moments. Like how exactly the Goblin Slayer survive that or forget about that!
How has Goblin Slayer even walking or standing up?
But anyway, for the second character, I liked the high elf extra loli.
The Elf grow is a very skillful archer and I don't know, perhaps I'm just weird, but
I definitely always liked seeing the Elf characters in anime.
That's why it really sucks when you get terrible versions of these characters. For the high
Elf in Goblin Slayer thankfully she wasn't just boobage.
I mean she doesn't really have any and overall I really liked her design.
On top of that the thing that completed the package was just her fun personality which
goes along with our interaction with the rest of the group.
Next step, let me actually bring up a potential negative for Goblin slayer, which is godless.
Goblin Slayer really building his own harem throughout the series.
Yes.
This being a fantasy type of series, that is no surprise.
I do have to mention that at some point is that don't seem like they're trying to play
it up for laughs.
since Goblin Slayer is not interested at home, this guy may not have anything down
there, but I mean by the end of the series you have the whole town that freaking loves
him
After he takes off his fricking helmet.
Since it was really playful, I didn't mind the stuff too much except when it got to the
Sword maiden character.
I mean you have the super top tier hero character that once defeated the demon king supposedly,
but oh Goblin Slayer
comes around and suddenly this girl could fricking cut diamonds with her
chest.
She really wanted the Goblin Slayer d.
I mean at the very end of their encounter, she gets on the fricking ground and it's just
almost begging for it.
I was like, what the hell am I watching?
So I could definitely see that turning a lot of people off. As for something else as a potential
negative, which is really the CG used for Goblin
Slayer himself. For most of the action scenes and a lot of the faraway Sean's, they just
chose to go the CG route for Goblin Slayer and just being aware about the studio situations.
I totally understand that this decision, often though they don't do a good job mixing the
two. potentially if you're more sensitive to this stuff is just going to take you completely
out of the story.
All right, so going back to the grape stuff at the beginning.
Well, let me become Mr. popular now.
I really think their reactions for overblown online for the series, especially when you
have people calling this the worst anime ever.
It just to be crystal clear, if you're the type that sensitive to this stuff for whatever
reason totally fine.
You don't have to like this or you could have been hated.
The overreactions I'm telling you about are definitely the people calling this the worst
thing that happened to anime in the longest time. that it shouldn't have ever been made
and so on.
I mean hey it's not like anyone's forcing you to watch this.
Hopefully. And this actually leads to the very end of the series, which says that Goblin Slayer
will return, which is like a season two confirmation.
I got to say this was super surprising.
Let me just mention some insider information, so I was actually in Japan in the first month
or two when Goblin Slayer was airing and of course by now you're very familiar
with this being super controversial worldwide online.
However, in Japan I literally didn't see anything regarding Goblin Slayer.
There wasn't any buzz about it.
I didn't see Goblin Slayer promos, I didn't see it anywhere, so that Goblin scene got
a lot of attention worldwide, but it definitely wasn't true in Japan and I did check the figure
sales for the novel and Manga.
They really weren't anything too special like about 50,000 each and just seeing the lack
of reaction from Japan
I don't think this anime is actually going to raise the sales by that much.
So just going back to the original question is Goblin Slayer
Really the worst anime ever made?
I think by now you'd definitely know my answer.
That's definitely not how I feel about it.
I really don't think that Goblin Slayer is trying to be a top series like rezero
Konosuba or even the reborn slime series.
If you aren't comparing it to those series, I think you might actually enjoy this series.
I mean you will have fun seeing these guys go adventure out and fighting some goblins.
Just beating out super ultra bad guys.
If you are sensitive about the actual goblin stuff, I might even suggest just going past
episode one, at least that part. in the rest of the series
you only really see the aftermath and that's very, very minimum. For myself
Goblin Slayer
was fine.
It was good.
Potentially I'll forget about most of the by next week.
Definitely by the time that season two comes around, but I don't regret and watching it,
but anyway, more importantly let me actually hear from you now.
What do you think about Goblin Slayer?
How do you feel about the reactions that said this was a worse anime ever made?
Does anyone else see that
Overblown?
What did you think about the world and cast of Goblin Slayer?
Who was your favorite?
Come on
Someone else has to like the blonde loli, and elf too!
Anyway, go ahead and smash that
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