Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season

Rimuru Tempest is victorious following his climactic showdown with Demon Lord Clayman. With Diablo's aid, the war with the Falmuth Kingdom ends decisively in Rimuru's favor. Fueled by increased migration and the integration of Jura Forest, the nation of Tempest undergoes rapid growth.

Rimuru's victory shifts the balance of power, giving rise to a renewed period of peace—but whether that peace will last is another matter. Yuuki Kagurazaka and Kazalim are conspiring with the Harlequin Alliance to bring about Rimuru's downfall. Furthermore, the Western Holy Church continues its intolerant crusade against Rimuru and his non-human subordinates. Both allies and enemies engage in a battle of wits, carefully advancing their agendas without shattering the delicate status quo. But once the first domino inevitably falls, the race to supremacy begins.

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Tempest, Rimuru Main

Okasaki, Miho Japanese

Nava, Milim Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Diablo Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Shuna Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Shion Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Tempest, Veldora Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Benimaru Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Izawa, Shizue Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Ranga Supporting

Kobayashi, Chikahiro Japanese

Souei Supporting

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Shioya, Yoshiyuki Producer

Nakayama, Atsushi Director

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

Bodart, Michaîl Sound Director

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Sep 27, 2024

Stark700

Recommended

While slimes in isekai fantasy anime these days aren't unique or special, there's something really fascinating about following the adventure of Rimuru. You know, the guy who got killed and reincarnated as a slime and now leads his group with his alluring charisma. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season really needs no introduction because this is essentially continuing the adventure of Rimuru reincarnated as a slime.

I don't want to be the deliverer of bad news but if you plan to watch this season, be sure to have patience. I really mean it, lots of patience. The reason is that the first 7 ... episodes of this season revolves alot of talking. By lots, I do mean lots that stretches across several episodes. Most of this deals with boardroom meetings while throwing in some snarky sarcasm and balance of cheeky humor in between. Rimuru's leadership has influence on his group so the anime wanted to flesh out his personality as much as possible. But sometimes, we should ask ourselves if that many episodes is necessary for story development. To make matters more peculiar, many segments in those episodes talks about the same topics while looping around back and forth. It's like intentionally stretching a Youtube video to make it 10 minutes while talking about the same topics over and over.

Thankfully, Slime Season 3 does remind us what makes the franchise entertaining in the first place. After 7 grudging episodes of endless chatter, we are faced with the rivalry between Rimuru and Hinata. Their conflicting ideals and differences makes them opponents and of course, they end up exchanging fists on the battlefield. Rimuru's charisma and Hinata's determination both are shown throughout that battle, and for what's worth, it awards the audience's patience. While it may not be the grand battle of the entire season, it's still among the most important to see two opposite sides clash for what they believe in.

However, this season also suffers a consequence of having questionable antagonists. Even Hinata is branded as a somewhat antagonist if we see her side of the story. The Seven Days Clergy does represent a more mysterious side of this season, however. Given their motivations, it does add more time to invest into their roles. Given its large colorful cast, we shouldn't expect too much focus on Rimuru's companions. Yes, I say these are more of his companions because it appears Rimuru may not have a true friend throughout this season. Nonetheless, returning characters such as Shion, Albis, Benimaru, Diablo, Gobta, Shuna, among others are a welcoming sight. Their chemistry still brings together a charm this show had retained even after all these years. For Rimuru's group, they treat each other like family and accepts the blue slime as a leader. It's also no surprise that the show occasionally throws in some comedic character rivalries between certain segments.

Admittedly, this season has a strange direction in pacing. Season 3's obsession with boardroom meetings reaches its apex in the first half of the show. Never have we had 7 straight episodes in the history of this franchise with a group of characters doing nothing but talking. It does rebound itself through an exciting battle and character chemistry as more episodes progressed. Furthermore, this season adds some more flavor of entertainment through the employement of a tournament. Yes, fantasy anime these days love to use it as a plot device to give additional characters screen time. Gobta is one such example when see how much he's improved. Still, we really do need to question ourselves if 24 episodes were necessary or enough to adapt the season. The first half dragged us down while it's led by a much exciting second half. Overall, it's a balanced series that takes patience to get through.

Retaining the art style of the previous seasons, Tensei Slime delivers on the entertainment front when it doesn't have the cast running their mouths in boardroom meetings. From day one, the cast had chemistry and Rimuru serves as the poster child of the show. He earned it through hard work, charisma, and the charm of his personality. Nonetheless, Tensei Slime sets what the show has been doing this whole season and we should appreciate what we get.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 21, 2024

Ultron-Sigma

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

If you haven't already heard, the strengths and weaknesses of this franchise has finally started to become more apparent to the general public... and the copium/mental gymnastics of the fandom as well.

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken/That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime season 3 has received scrutiny as for the first 11 episodes were nearly entirely done in a single room where the cast simply sat around and discussed current events and what to do next. Not only that, but weirdly enough, the art and animation were somehow noticeably poor during these 11 episodes as it honestly felt like a slideshow.

However, after episode 12, ... the anime suddenly feels like it was picked up by another anime studio as more life and movement starts to fill the screen. As if it was an actual anime. The 2nd half of the season then shifts to its main draw: which is the slice-of-life. Where Rimuru continues advertising his nation with a bunch of entertainment venues with a big focus on a battle coliseum and a 'dungeon crawl' where teams of adventurers may attempt to go through, kill mobs, challenge bosses, and obtain loot.

To clarify, the weakness of this series ISN'T just because of the long, drawn-out meetings. It's actually the things discussed in these meetings. For some reason this series has been constantly trying to convince the readers that this is a 'serious' world and push "national" and "political" consequences onto Rimuru and his nation due to his sudden arrival and strategically-valuable location. Rimuru & friends will then discuss on how to proceed should these other nations start to impose themselves on them.

However, this is still a POWER FANTASY isekai. Whenever trouble finally arrives for Rimuru & friends, they simply resolve any problems through brute-force anyway and then get the most out of the situation later while still being the "nice guys" in any political maneuvering. It's essentially a running-gag in the anime, manga, and light novel. A few troublemakers show up, Rimuru's subordinates show off, then the troublemakers quickly cower and behave themselves.

Just so you know, Season 3 is nearly caught up with the manga, at least up until Chapter 118. So with the end of this season, a 4th season and even another movie was announced. The show will quickly surpass the manga very soon.

I have very mixed feelings about this season and the series going forward. The first 11 episodes will be painfully slow and will only get worse on rewatches as I imagine it will often be skipped over and when you get to the slice-of-life content it starts to get stale as you already know how Rimuru & friends will just clown everyone who challenges them. Essentially, if you're already a big fan, you'll probably watch this no matter what. If you're not, I don't think this season will change your mind.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Sep 27, 2024

sunfire230

Not Recommended

Tensura was already a pretty safe anime, but had some interesting ideas, and some very high moments.
I actually enjoyed season 1 and 2.
Sadly season 3 bring it down, a lot.

First my thoughts on the season:
There were many, many, MANY meetings, most of them could've been compressed into small scenes, or even a summary from one person.
This made most of the season very boring, to the point that I watched it on 2.0x speed by the end. (No anime ever made me do this before.)
The small amount of fight scenes did not really help either, as they were cut very short, and even those parts were ... rarely anything special.
And yes, there was potential for great fights or at least showing some power levels here and there.
I had no problem with the production value, but it's funny to think about praising art and animation when most of the season was spent in static rooms, with maybe mouth movements.

Now, something I feel like I have to write about adaptations using Tensura S3 as an example:
Not all written stories are worth adapting faithfully into animation.
As written above, a lot of the season could be a lot shorter with smarter writing and adaptation techniques, leaving it shorter, or at least more time for something else. I understand the everyone who read the novels are defending the season, and I get it. But if you take a step back and look into what made S1 and S2 good as an anime, you will see it's not 90% world building in meeting rooms.
And at that point you'll have to realize that people are not hating because its not a shounen anime with hyperpowered fights every scene, it's because the base material is not interesting as a 1:1 adaptation.

My conclusion:
I just dropped this series, it will probably get better, I read some spoilers here and there, but honestly I can't recommend this to myself, and neither to anyone else.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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