About story and adaptation

@_gt_ohn Let me be clear AGAIN, the universe of Tensura is really complex and have a good depth both on story and characters. As I said before the story will show us a slime getting powerful( please read spoilers tag), so it’s illogical complain about the fact that enemies wont win against him unless they are already more OP than the MC( he’s a demon lord constantly evolving).

You are complaining about story and it’s visualization at the same time. Firstly, I totally agree that the bad visualization screwed up the quality of anime during the first 6 episodes; Secondly, if you found boring the story itself than clearly Tensura isn’t for you or you misunderstood the premise that I gently explained on the first post :) .

About world building Mushoku and Tensura have different aspects on their WB, so it’s not fair compare them.

Please tell me how many anime adaptations based on light novels were successful without a slow or fair pace. You probably would drop Monogatari series if you see the massive amount of information that is presented to you just like Tensura does.

Nowadays, I find that Tensura suffers from three fundamental problems: bloated cast with a bunch of useless characters, shitty pacing that source readers will somehow justify because it's "all according to the source material" and a poor excuse of "worldbuilding", and the seriously high power creep.

A lot of characters in Tempest that made a lot of impact in the first few episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 have been reduced to nothing more than mere Yes-Mans (I swear if I hear that "Sasuga, Rimuru-sama!" one more time, I'm gonna lose my shit). Every time they appear on-screen praising Rimuru for every little thing he's doing is a waste of precious runtime that could've been better spent building the world or progressing the plot, but who cares about plot when you can just watch Shuna and Shion (all of Rimuru's subordinates actually) fall head-over-heels for Rimuru for the umpteenth time, right?

Speaking of plot and worldbuilding, my God it's a fucking mess. We spent half the first-cour (seriously, it's surprising how Tensura can get away with this when many one-cour original animes have written a way better plot during that time) of this season confined to a single room, while characters debate on the same, single problem for 6 episodes. You could cut that amount of episodes in half and you'd be losing nothing essential to the plot. Basically, what I'm saying is that half of those 6 episodes of meeting accomplished nothing and conveyed no information that we don't already know.

And don't give me that stupid "But it's for worldbuilding!" excuse as well. When you write a fantasy world as rich as Tensura, the potential for worldbuilding is practically limitless... IF you know how to execute it properly, AND take advantage of the anime medium. I mean you have all these monsters, knights, nations, and cities introduced, but somehow your idea of worldbuilding is people sitting mindlessly at meetings for 6 straight episodes, when there are far better-paced, less-boring ways to build your world? Tensura should take a page out of Mushoku Tensei on how to do worldbuilding right.

Those first 6 episodes weren't even about lacking action. It was straight-up boring. Tensura should stick more to slice-of-life like adventures and nation building, since serious story arcs seem to be its weakest point. Case in point, this whole preparation for the founding festival that the anime is in right now has been way better than those first 6 episodes (still not as good as Season 1 though).

Perhaps the pacing is to be blamed for this. In which case, the anime should adapt (it's in the name after all, anime ADAPTATION), and take advantage of its visual aspect. I get that they're just following the source material, but as this is a visual medium, following the source material TOO CLOSELY can also be a hindrance towards the adaptation.

And lastly, the insane power creep of the story makes it hard to get invested in any serious moments in the story. Every death feels cheap, every saving moment feels undeserving, and any attempts at upping the stakes falls flat because we already know that Rimuru and his cult are going to breeze through their adversaries anyway.

It baffles me how this season still has a rating of 7.85. In my opinion, it should be way lower than that, but honestly not even Rimuru can hope to get through source readers who refuse to acknowledge its flaws.