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At the start I was barely engaged enough to keep watching, by the creepy image of two identical blond boys. By the time I got to episode 8 though the joke was wearing thin and I was only continuing out of sunk cost. The fundamental issue is that this series is a mix of a very anime plot, and the story throwing as many absurd things as possible at you.

The animeness of the plot really undercuts any investment because it draws your attention to how this is a work of fiction you've seen before. It also extends to some of the visual and audio ... cues too. One common anime plot point was used twice even. Saying all this without spoilers is really difficult, but I hope it makes sense.

The deluge of absurd things undercuts how interesting the show is. You know from the cover and synopsis that it's got one really weird thing going for it, but the rest of the plot is slathered in so much weirdness that it just becomes expected when you're watching the show. It's weird on top of weird with no rhyme or reason.

I ended up having to pause each episode once or twice to find something to perk up my attention. This is series is simultaneously too unrestrained and too generic to be engaging on it's own.

Wow this review sucks without spoilers. Not my problem though.

It's eminently watchable thanks to the comedy not good enough to make you laugh.
The political revelations are sometimes pretty satisfying when they're made.
But generally the characters are fools that luck their way to success or failure.
Even without that the plot is riddled with illogical details that pull me out of things.

Ultimately all this show does well is consume time without friction.
There's nothing here that's coherent enough to serve as a merit for this show.
The production values are barebones too, as you'd expect of Silver Link.
I'd probably recommend the manga for a series like this (not that I've read it).

Slimes are great. What I love most about this series is the slime research. The realisation that the alcohol slime keeps demanding more expensive liquour, the medicine slime steals the mushrooms the protagonist is farming, the metal slimes dangeorusly roll around, the army of 3000 slimes makes the protagonist OP at toilet cleaning, and an army of 5000 slimes trained in martial arts doing battle against a horde of goblins. The character component gets a 10/10 solely because of the slimes.

Every great moment in this series is related to slimes (or at the very least the cave the protagonist inhabits). The issue is that the ... series occupies itself with so much more. The protagonist is a slime researcher, goods manufacturer, laundromat manager, adventurer, teacher, noble by association, philanthropist, craftsman, chef and so many other things. All throughout this series what I was waiting for him to say was
"here are some slimes that can do this thing, figure out what to do with it, I'll be researching more slimes in my cave if you need me"
The adventurer work is kinda fine because he uses the slimes, but everything else is just keeping me from getting what I want out of the series. It gets a 6/10 on story because it dilutes the good stuff with nonsense.

So ... 7/10, needs more slimes.

Isekai is a genre with great potential.
That potential usually goes unfulfilled.
300 years a slime murder fulfills said potential.

A staple of isekai is an OP protagonist, but what's holding most series back is that they fail to understand the appeal of it. "Our protagonist is OP, so the villain should be OP too" is the standard school of thought. Having an OP protagonist is the primary prerequisite of an action/slice of life story, because otherwise the action takes up too much space in the story (usually the majority) and the tone is just generally off. Add an OP villain and the only thing affected by ... having an OP protagonist is that the world is forced to be at stake (which is generally accepted as bad storytelling) and that now the girls in the harem someone to swoon over.

300 years a slime murder has 6 fights up to where I've read. 2 end before they even start, 3 are over in one hit and the last isn't very long. This is perfect if you're like me and despise watching fights. This adds up to one roughly half-chapter long fight every 12 chapters. A series I recently dropped "Tensei Kyuuketsuki-san" bothered me because in the first 15 chapters it had like 10 fights.

But of course, "not being an action series" is not good enough reason to praise a series. Most series aren't action series.

- The series encourages the good practice of not overworking oneself.
- "And then 300 years passed", reading that is an interesting experience.
- In general, I find immortals interesting. It helps me put my life in perspective to contemplate the mindset of someone 300 years old.
- The slime loli's are pretty cool.
- In raw Japanese, the writing is nowhere near as obtuse as in other web novels.

The most important thing though, is that this is an isekai series that doesn't make you sit through long and boring fights. Isekai and action being intrinsically tied together is tremendously infuriating, to see them separated in a series which passes basic competency checks is enough.

Through millennia of evolution, the sound of a crying child has been genetically engineered to be the most insufferable noise imaginable.

Of course, in Candy Candy it's not nearly as grating but it tries to be and the characters are crying all the time. It's more realistic that way, but it's not in service of any goal. The anime is from the 1970's and hence so are the concerns it addresses (whatever those are). Insufferable realism is meaningless here.

Oh, and it looks and sounds awful, especially the sound of crying children.

It has it's moments and Donald Trump does make an appearance, but it's largely utterly insufferable.