Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

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Well, I first read the manga, then I went directly to the webnovels and read everything available, and I must admit, I was quite hyped. For those thinking on starting it, let this be said: MC is OP, and so are his servants, yup, if you are expecting him to struggle, that will be kinda rare.

Think about it like in DBZ, how can he get even stronger? Well, he gets stronger, can he get even stronger? Yup, is he the strongest? The strongest demons, dragons and the Hero are still stronger, well, all important characters get kinda broken skills anyway... Think Predator and Great Sage ... are OP, pfff.

World rules:

As expected of the isekai genre, there are a few RPG typical rules here: Power boosted Master also power boosts servants, at the beginning, it almost feels like Pokemon in regards to species evolution, yet even with such a powerful "possible military force", MC is quite the peaceful guy who helps everyone and wants to build a country to laze around.

Another fact of this world is that summoned people are not really rare, there are many of them around, unlike Rimuru who was killed and ended up reincarnating, these summoned ones are actually intentionally summoned, so they remain human and everyone has their own unique skills and more powerful bodies compared to normal people, if you know Log Horizon, compare "Adventures" with "People of the Land" levels of difference.

Unique points:

As many stories have, there are usually some key characters that change the hero into something more noble, and the one here is quite touching, both in a happy and sad way, something I find very rare for stories of the isekai genre

I also found it to have a very unique way in expressing the sense of loyalty from the servants: Some are grateful for being helped by him and wants to be useful back, some feels like they would be discarding their own honor in submitting themselves, just to soon feeling admired and honored to be under him, even the ones that feels like they could go crazy anytime soon and rebel end up with quite a natural admiration towards him.

And while this is more about the webnovel, there are some really fast battles, thanks to the OP level of the many characters, even fights that would seem to drag on end up getting insta-finished simply because the enemy wasn't aware of the newer upgrades of MC's Servants, which is nice both for not having useless dragging out filler and skipping overall irrelevant battles, the reactions of both enemies and friends are quite nice too, reminded me of Mr Satan on Cell Games when he wasn't trying to explain and was just confused at everything.

He is usually also well prepared for battles, so if he knows the enemy special abilities, he will not take the wrong servants with him, this avoids the typical "You activated my trap card" of the enemy and dragging the battle more, though that can't be said for non-Rimuru battles


Overall, at first I compared it with Overlord, which I read the manga up until the Lizardmen arc as of now, and in comparison, I significantly prefer Rimuru's way of "conquering", which is done with humility, mutual understanding and some paranoic levels of security when compared to Momonga/Ainz, who wouldn't mind a massacre to let one of his "children" to grow...

Well, kinda...

Also, Wisdom Lord Raphael best Waifu!

So far I've read 26 chapters and my opinion is as follows: This seems to be a rather generic isekai, fantasy story.

The main hook of the story is the fact that the MC is reincarnated as a slime. Which is interesting for the first 10 or so chapters, but not so much after. Once the novelty of this idea is gone you are left with a middle of the road fantasy story. I mean it is entertaining while it lasts, I give it that, but it doesn't last that long. Moreover, sometimes they go a little overboard with how OP the main hero is, they ... don't do it often, but when they do, it is frankly ridiculous.The pace could improve a little too. I give props where it's due however, at least they didn't go for a harem, so we managed to avoid that genre trapping.

My biggest problem with the manga is the utter lack of interesting characters. The MC is as interesting as these overpowered, wish-fulfilling heroes go, fine, but I can not understand why the side characters are so bland. When I was trying to remember off the top of my head any notable side character I couldn't come up with anything. The Oni came to mind, but even in their case, I remember them more as a group rather than individuals. It's not that they are cliche, but that they are not even that, their characterization is almost non-existent. I was willing to give this a pass at the beginning because of the "I became a slime" thing was genuinely interesting, but as that started to run out of steam, it became more and more of an apparent problem.

I was strongly considering giving the manga an overall 5, due to its weak characters and lackluster plot, but since this was just the beginning of the story and it was consistently entertaining, I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, and a weaker 6. However, if the story doesn't give the characters some personality or pick up the pace significantly in the near future I will drop the manga.

=Art=
Artstyle and character design are generic, forgettable at worst.

The only notable thing I like is a specific Orc's tanky armor much later in the story. It looked kinda cool~

=Characters=
I don't care for them because they're either:
- Rimuru fanatics
- friends/allies
- future friends/fanatics, before they get their asses handed to them
... - some evil character to be killed off
Only two, maybe three characters have grown. The rest remain static, especially Rimuru fanatics.
The MC is the most uninteresting of them all, as detailed below.

=Story=
"Weak" slime is actually god-like sums it up pretty well.

You've got all the typical bad traits of isekai trash:
- dead MC reincarnated into another world
- MC gets OP skills for no reason
- Powerup through eating
- MC breezes through all the problems that he encounters, no sweat!

I don't have a problem with reincarnation, but the rest...

==MC gets OP skills==
Getting all these skills through no effort, or just "randomly" by doing simple stuff isn't impressive at all. If not by chance, miraculously, he'll get a powerup that'll let him demolish his opponents, or get a resistance skill that makes him immune to stuff during a fight, or later in the story. No struggle equals no interesting story!

Not only is he the most powerful, but he also has a ton of skills! My eyes just glaze over whenever he suddenly learns a bunch of skills. No one's gonna bother remembering all of that anyway, at least until he pulls it out of his slimey ass later.

I wouldn't complain about this if there are limits to their abilities and/or if they struggled and took a long time to attain their power, but the problem is they usually have no limits nor a price to his powers whatsoever. Even if he was an absolute saint in his past life and he deserved being OP, it would still not make for an interesting story without the struggle.

Since it's part of his skill, let's also talk about the Great Sage. I loathe her existence. She's an exposition fairy that violates "show, don't tell", and most of his OP-ness is caused by her. Rimuru would be struggling a whole lot more and wouldn't have done some things if she didn't exist, but he would've been a better character as a result.

==Powerup through eating==
One of the most basic actions for survival apparently makes you OP as heck. If this isn't an indication of lazy writing next to becoming OP just because of existing, I don't know what is!

If it took a while to learn and get better at his skills, then great. The problem is he'll quickly if not instantly master them, and apparently, not even a friggin dragon is immune to his eating skill. All of this would make some sort of sense if he was a glutton in his past life, but he wasn't even that.

==MC breezes through all the problems that he encounters, no sweat!==
No stakes at all in this manga! He'll just learn a skill later that will win him the battle/war easily! But enough about him being OP combat-wise, what about other stuff?

Met a powerful character that could've killed him or destroyed his village? We're just friends, nothing to worry about!
Lording over a village, and later a country? Easy-peasy! It's not like a forest in a fantasy world is that dangerous!
Winning a war, and incorporating the losing side to his village/country? No bad blood nor food shortage problems whatsoever!
Some character being a jerk to Rimuru, or rightfully being cautious of such a god-like being? Eh, they'll worship the very air he breathes later!
Other powerful countries? 100% trust the god-like slime, and we're also friends! Enemy countries just get steamrolled.
That one horrible thing that happened that could've made the whole manga a lot more interesting? Lol, let's just literally rewrite the laws of reality and undo all that! Might as well make the MC and everyone in the country stronger too!
Let's summon some powerful demons, what could possibly go wrong? The answer is: nothing, because they're all absolutely obedient to him!

Problems are the spice that makes stories interesting, but there are no problems that he can't solve easily and swiftly.

=Enjoyment=
I'm aware life is hard, but how can people root for someone that has everything handed to them? I did not enjoy reading this, and I'm merely reading this to get better as a writer cause you gotta read garbage too to avoid making the same mistakes. I would give this a 1, but I'm saving that for absolutely horrendous things.