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At first I didn't want to watch GS because it looked like a cheap ripoff of KonoSuba, and thats exactly what I thought for the first few minutes into episode 1. I mean, I'm not saying it was exactly KonoSuba, but I had some extremely serious KonoSuba vibes and raised my eyebrow like 7 inches when I heard "Priestess" and saw a quest board. Then there are these "parties" like a group of adventurers and I was extremely sure that GS was just a KS ripoff. *Minor spoiler* Then the Priestess joined a group of noobs... and one gets raped, another gets ... shredded, the third gets killed. Honestly though their deaths were their fault, since they were honestly pretty shit at handling their weapons. Then Goblin Slayer comes just in the nick of time and saves the dumbass Priestess who also wet herself (not once but as of episode 8, TWICE).

Story: Story is very simple. Man loses village to goblins. Now he kills goblins for a living. If you couldn't follow that, then go back to Lucky Star. Just being honest. However, due to the simplicity of the story, instead of being edgy and dark, the anime just became ridiculous. I have to admit, the battle scenes are pretty cool though, but then again they don't hold a candle to Megumin's explosions. Also, basically half of every episode is a battle scene... so it doesn't make much room for storytelling. I like the battles, but I also want some story, which is kind of hard when the story is already told in episode 1.

Art: The censoring is pretty heavy in this anime. Hair covering nipples, to be very specific. Personally, I think it should just not be censored as it is R 17 already, so you should expect stuff like SKIN. Art is okay, I guess, but somewhere around episode 6, I noticed that the animators got lazy. I don't know how, but it just feels that the art quality dipped slightly. At least the art isn't like Serial Experiments Lain where you literally have to squint through every damn scene to make out whats background and whats dust on your screen.

Sound: VA... is OK I guess. I'm not a VA expert or anything like that, so I can't judge, but the BGM in this anime feels lacking. Sound is OK, I guess. Not great, but usable.

Character: High key Goblin Slayer himself carries this to a 10/10. All other characters all feel cliche or copied from some other franchise. The high elf literally brings bread... packaged in a leaf. Lord of the Rings, anyone? Lizardman is a shaman... hmmm where have I seen that before? But I have to admit, a Dwarf magician is something I strangely have never seen before. Cause Drarves usually use big hammers and smash shit. And the Priestess... absolute fucking dumbass if I do have to point out. She's not even loli enough to be cute, nor old enough to be LEWDED. Also, she's dumb. Need I say more? Alright I'll say more.

She wants to be an adventurer, but she can't handle blood
She can only cast 3 spells a day... 3 support spells that is...
She cares about goblins
She's basically the support character that was initially OP but then got nerfed 100 times and is now unplayable
Ignore that last point, she's the support character that needs a major buff, but since nobody uses her its okay, right?

Also, it would help if our main fucking cast actually had NAMES.

Enjoyment: Not bad, not boring, but definitely not as good as Erased, which I enjoyed from first episode to last (which means you should watch it). Its ok, I guess.

Overall, is an 8. I know that not everyone is accustomed to the violence and rape, but those shouldn't be a reason to give it a bad score anyways. But still, the anime doesn't really deserve the 8 that I'm giving. I'm just being biased because I like battle scenes.

I decided to finish it because I wanted to see the Tempest and also if Aya's brother died because honestly, if you like him, you should die too. The ending was actually really good and the fight scenes were good but not "wow" like C3's or Fate/Zero.

8/9/10/9/5/9

Now that I've watched the whole thing, I feel like a through review is in motion.

Story:
The story is unique; I haven't seen this before, and it doesn't feel like a blatant copy of some other anime, or just another anime in a generic genre. Most episodes made me feel uneasy, because the amount of edge and disgusting ... stuff is over the line, but there were some moments. The ending was the de-facto best part of the anime, mainly because *cough* it involved yuri *cough* and it closed the series nicely.

Art:
I haven't seen a more diverse cast in such a long time. Each girl actually has something that differentiates them, unlike SAO where every girl is just the same with different looks.

Sound:
The sound was pretty good. Sounded too real, and added to the said unease.

Character:
The girls' personalities are also very different from one another, and I can tell the niche that each fills pretty clearly.

Enjoyment:
I can't say that I didn't enjoy this, but there were many parts that I wish I could unsee.

Overall:
Watch for the ending, and ONLY the ending.


Previous Ratings: 6/9/4/8/3/3
Very rarely do I not like anime; in fact, it's very common for me to like whatever anime I find. At first glance, I read the title, and decided to watch it because, come on, it's a magic girl anime, who doesn't like those?

My reaction to the first scene: "what the f*ck"

I dropped the series after 7 episodes because it was purely disgusting. I'm very serious when I call it that, because if you thought School Days was bad, this is over ten times worse. I'm warning EVERYONE not to watch it, because I have seen many, many things, and even I threw up after watching a specific episode (forgot which one). DO NOT watch this anime. YOU WILL NOT HAVE A GOOD TIME.

Girls are all basically the same model.

and did I mention that there's a "scat" tag?

MC is weirdest kid ever.

Really bad, thought it was good until the electric chair in episode one.

The haven has let me down.

... For the sake of a longer review, let's just read that there's a "scat" tag again.
Like, who likes that stuff? It's on the same level as yaoi, so naturally no normal guy would want to watch this stuff.

Voice acting... very bad. How is this euphoria? No idea, mate, no absolute fucking idea.

actually, I think that this is one of the worst things on the haven right now. At least it doesn't have th eUgly bastard tag.