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Reincarnated As a Slime finished. Alas, I did not like this show. It starts out pretty solid, with some alright humor and neat circumstances. I like the reincarnating as a slime idea. The parts with the goblin village and the dwarf city are both quite fun. There's some solid worldbuilding here, and I was consistently interested in what was going on. The animation and style of everything were super awesome too (the show keeps some of that style, but the animation definitely goes downhill over time). I love how the great sage displays text everywhere. It's presented in a super compelling fashion.

Unfortunately, I don't like much of the show after Shizu's arc at all (though ep 24 is fun). Once the Ogres appear I didn't find much to enjoy about the show. The transformations all the monsters get (other than the goblins) are terrible. None of the storylines are very interesting, since Rimuru's pretty overpowered and you know he'll beat any enemies. The city-building stuff started out interesting, but it's not focused on as the main plot point after that either.

The main problem with the show in general is the characters. People are a bit more likable early on, but I didn't particularly like any cast members by the end. The female cast members are generally shit, and while the males are a bit better, Rimuru himself is terrible. He has this way of being shocked by everything that happens that gets super old after a few episodes, and his sense of humor is terrible. All his powers are pretty dumb too. But where other shows with lame protagonists can get by due to focusing on the rest of the cast, the show keeps focusing on Rimuru, even though it doesn't give him any development. Honestly, barely any of the cast members develop after their introductions. The ogres are definitely the worst part of the cast though. None of them are interesting, and they basically instantly become the main cast when they appear. I hated all of them, Shion most of all.

And then we get to the last arc, where Rimuru somehow becomes a teacher? Like what? Why? How does Rimuru know how to be a teacher? Why are we focusing on these boring kids? Every episode of this arc was absolutely terrible. Show definitely knew how to go out poorly. Bleh.

The nice atmosphere of the show is probably the main thing it had going for it, but the author doesn't really make use of that in an interesting way. Felt like it could've been more successful if it had been more episodic and focused more on developing the cast
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