>has already reached insane power levels>is still just in the middle of the pack (anime)Are we ready for our slime to fight the merchant council, /a/?
Why does he still look like a girl
I hate isekais with overpowered protagonists that barely break a sweat when fighting bad guys, well except for isekai ojiisan but that was a self aware show
>>286498632Because traps sell
>>286498632Because he enjoys pleasuring men
>>286498660So you hate a solid half of isekai
>>286498588The pacing of this show is a bit fast for me and focuses on city/festival planning and inter-territory disputes, which is "eh". I'd rather they just have a good time fucking around.
>>286498632because he got his body shape from eating a girl. If rimuru wanted to look like a boy he'd have to eat a guy, so he'd have to eat a penis and that's gay.
>>286501677You'd think he would have absorbed at least one of those numerous people he murdered.
>>286498660This is what shounenshit conditioning does to you. You become an underdog tensiongger whose only stimulus in life is the exact literally same dynamic of man vs man conflict and "struggling against adversity" in the same exact fashion with only aesthetic differences in flavor every single time over and over again. It made you unable to appreciate any other types of conflict or other sources of excitement than "Oh no, MC IS ABOUT TO DIE FOR THE 89289323298th time! WHAT WILL HE DO?! WHOOOA! SO EXCITING!" Well in your case you can also apparently still appreciate "ironic self-aware comedy" so you are not the worst case scenario, not just because of that, but also because zero-attention-spam tick-toggers that don't even watch or read anything anymore and only watch summary-shorts or """watch""" the anime adaptation at 2x speed while doing something entirely different are the true absolute lowest. Still, the limitation itself is apparent in you.
>>286501932schitzo post
>>286500958Pretty much. I only like self aware or comfy isekais. It's hard to take the concept seriously that's why tryhard isekais like moshitku tensei or sword fart online fall flat for me, which coincidentally also have gary stu protagonists.
>>286502486 >sword fart online >isekais ngmi
>>286501739Why would an emperor eat garbage?
>>286498660Stakebros aren't sending their best...
>>286501677He absorbed my penis' cum countless times though.
>>286498632IIRC, he can shapeshift to a more masculine form if he really wants. He just doesn't bother since everyone is used to his "normal" form.
>>286498588Its a really good anime, I dont understand those who complain
Gabiru! Gabiru! Gabiru! Gabiru! Gabiru!
>>286501677He is obviously masculine, he looks adnrogynous but is a competent leader and hetero>>286501739murdered? cluster bombing enemy army who attacked and killed your civilians is not mourderkilling surrendering soldiers would be a war crime, but this was a unique situation, it was the only way to save his companies killed by them
>>286506323>killing surrendering soldiersIt's good you knew what the problem was.
>>286498588do people actually watch this shit? lol
>>286498632He can technically age up and masculinize/feminize the form anyway he wants. But the kid-girl form kind of just became the default and he just stuck with it.
>>286507650Why are men like this? Wanting to be cute little girls?
>>286501932This so much
>>286509034yes
>>286501932Your isekaislop does not have any other sort of conflicts either. That's the problem. It is blasted for lack of tension in battles because the only part of he world that does not already bends yourself to comfort and validate MC is the villains he has to beat in those battles.
>>286509034I get the feeling he prefers to be underestimated.
>>286505986>I dont understand those who complainI liked the first season, but I dropped it around the Clayman arc iirc (End of S2;P2 I think?). I can't remember my exact complaints, but I think one was that the anime felt too contrived; like things were too perfectly set up to go in a way that benefits the MC. Due to this, I couldn't find myself able to respect his accomplishments, and this lead to the events that happened feeling shallow.
>>286510598It's the opposite. You got so used to the world bending over backwards to obstruct the MC and have the MC be in constant hard mode all the time to make things ""exciting"" that a world that is just neutral suddenly seems like it's bending over backwards in favor of the MC instead. You also got so used to MCs being status-quo defenders who are reactive and only make a move to obstruct antagonists that you can't even recognize the MC being proactive and disruptive, creating conflicts by doing so.
>>286510598Hinata barely killed him. Also if Falmuth army wasn't retarded enough to tightly group up, knowning that enemy may have a magical eqivalent of artillery/bombs and have not communication between army units, they would win.
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>>286506787what you dont like watching some androgynous jap salaryman self-insert break the world record several times over in the category for getting your dicked sucked by as many forgettable mob characters as possible in a single episode while you struggle to stay awake?
>>286511364>>286513497And that's a big advantage of this anime; moments like these are satisfying every time.Also whats wrong with self insert?Author of the LN wrote that he based Rimuru on the boss he would like to have, so it can be also "your boss/commander insert".
I really wish I liked the show. Finishing season 1 was such a slog. MC is such a cute plapable brat, it's such a waste.
>>286513497If that were the case, Tensura would have countless competitors that do some or all of the same things people "accuse" Tensura of, yet in reality all those others either flop, barely stay afloat as mediocre existences or pivot into some other direction to find success while Tensura keeps being the indisputable #1 best-selling isekai. And the CEOs of both Kodansha and Bandai are huge fans of the series themselves. So the accusations don't quite add up now, do they?
>>286513497People unironically hate tensura?
>>286513831>Japanese have better taste than most of anonsMany such cases
>>286514067I think it's less about nips vs international audience and more about who the target audience is. Tensura seems disliked or at least not very popular not just on 4chan but also with the likes of 2ch. Places like plebbit have some fans of Tensura but they are the 2nd-lowest bottom of the barrel among fans that just lust after Rimuru, with the only group that's even worse being the jewtube randos who just like it due to those fake powerscaling videos where all content is just made-up randomly. The real audience is silent, but it's not just average normalfags either. It's a niché of at least above-average earning rich individuals, often managers of all levels for whom it seems to hit just the right spots. This can be concluded from sales data and the fact that it has like ~10 spin-offs by now which only makes sense with an audience that has an upper ceiling in terms of pure quantity, but who also have a lot of money to turn per person compared to the average series. I mean what other explanation is there for such a huge amount of spin-offs? It's the only way the handling of the franchise makes sense.
>>286511981Not at all, dumb schizo.>You got so used to the world bending over backwards to obstruct the MC and have the MC be in constant hard mode all the time to make things ""exciting"" That rarely happens in fiction. In shonen manga? Almost never.Hard mode in ficton would be something like "MC is genuinely, unironically an average scrub without any sort of cheat, or power that seems weak on the surface but actually is omega bullshit, if applied/cultivated in a transparently obvious way".>You also got so used to MCs being status-quo defenders Again, that's just you being insane.
>>286513897I don't quite hate it but I don't know why it ever got popular. I remember reading the manga well before it got an anime serialization and I thought it was incredibly mediocre.
>>286518153>That rarely happens in fiction. In shonen manga? Almost never.No, it happens in pretty much every shounen, ESPECIALLY in retrospect when you learn that the MC actually has super ultra mega extreme ultimate genetics or is some kind of reincarnation of one of the strongest beings, yet just happens to have had a lot of life-or death crises against low-level low-potential scrubs because apparently the MC's power has some seal or is conveniently a """late-bloomer""" which are usually signs of retcons, as an answer to too much power-creep, to make the supposed "underdog MC" able to compete against antagonists that don't just have wasted talent but also work hard themselves. It also comes with utterly horrendous "level-scaling" where the new antagonist of the new arc is always conveniently just exactly stronger enough than the MC to such a degree that a training arc and/or new mcguffin will be just barely enough for the MC to just barely eke out a win once again. >Hard mode in ficton would be something like "MC is genuinely, unironically an average scrub without any sort of cheat, or power that seems weak on the surface but actually is omega bullshit, if applied/cultivated in a transparently obvious way". No, that would just be the audience being in uproar that the MC is a genuine Mary Sue/Gary Stu (as opposed to the fake Mary Sue/Gary Stu where any MC succeeding """undeservedly""" in terms of effort is considered one) because the narrative tries to paint the MC as a "normal/average person" yet somehow keeps succeeding anyway so it's deservedly looked down upon as a constant plot armor story.>Again, that's just you being insane No, I am just pointing it out as it is. Rimuru causes most of the conflicts himself by suddenly popping up and building up an entirely new force out of nowhere and thus cutting into the interests of others, such as by-passing the Falmuth trade-route which causes Falmuth's largest source of income to just evaporate to nothing.
>>286518611>No, it happens in pretty much every shounen, If I don't need to go farther than Dragonball or FMA to disprove your argument, it is clearly fucking invalid. >because the narrative tries to paint the MC as a "normal/average person" yet somehow keeps succeeding anyway so it's deservedly looked down upon as a constant plot armor story.So, basically, your brain had atrophied to the point that the very idea of someone succeeding by other methods than literally getting a cheat is incomprehensible to you.>No, I am just pointing it out as it is. Rimuru...Has nothing do to whatsoever with whether I'm used to MCs being status-quo defenders or not. Holy failure to read.
