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Dec 17, 2024
Another great way to revisit the best of Bisco Hatori's style. Although a short series (only seven volumes), there is a great overarching character arc for everyone involved in the story. While the ending may feel a little rushed (whenever I see shorter series like this I am curious if it was planned this short or was cancelled), but the story still feels satisfying. In some story settings, you can only do so much. If we continued to do "We have make X for Y genre of movie!" it would get very stale quickly. Thankfully, this manga strikes the perfect balance of paying tribute to
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the craftsmanship that it takes it's title and plot from, while also focusing more on the inter- and intra- personal relationships.
I think what makes this a refreshing, new work from Bisco Hatori is it is not focused on romance. While there are romantic side plots and elements, the story is at it's core about a group of friends who all love making art. They all have baggage that both helped them discover said art and make it an escape for them, but baggage that also limits their ability to make it or continue making it. Set in a college, they are all at a crossroads in their life, for different reasons, and have to decide whether to take the risk and continue making that art post graduation, or join society the way they are expected too. In that way, it has similarities to OHSHC, but many series have that same feeling of "all good things come to an end/you have to grow up eventually". What really drives this manga is the protagonist, Ranmaru, and his growth from his low self-esteem to becoming the one to motivate everyone else to action. The manga leaves the reader with a great feeling about an individual's ability to inspire others with their art, and the cyclical nature of it. Even if you think it's nothing, your work may go on to inspire someone, and they may in turn be the one to inspire you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jul 27, 2021
I'm an anime only viewer but part 1 of S2 already proved itself to be going down some morally gray/darker story tones, which I was fine with. However, as part 2 continues, I think it's best to warn some viewers that there might be even darker moments that could be upsetting to some people.
While the animation is still top notch, the story has sort of entered a lull as we introduce more characters and begin the "planning" of the next arc and big fight. Slime sort of has a character problem now, where it keeps introducing new characters because politics, which wouldn't be a
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problem since season 1 established the series as a slower, world-building focused isekai, but what's sad is that it really has sidelined some of the main characters in the meantime. It's not that the recent episodes are boring, but it's just tuning in week after week just knowing it's going to be more of characters doing nothing but talking about WHAT their plan will be.
I'm writing this review as of episode 40's release (which I believe is 4 of part 2) and as I said before, I think some people should be warned that the series does have some darker moments. If you are easily disturbed by gore or body horror I recommend you prepare yourself before continuing, or start to wane off of Slime as a whole since it might no longer be enjoyable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 23, 2017
I first started this series after it's anime aired, based on a review from the Youtuber 42Believer who described the show as "OHSHC with Machineguns". On that premise alone, I thought I had found something to fill the whole OHSHC's conclusion in both anime and manga had left me with. Now, while the series does start off seeming to be ripping off that concept, I soon found that it was a very bare minimum description of what the series ended up being. While I do love the art style, especially the way the author is good at emphasizing characters emotions during battle, I'm one of
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those readers who tend to focus more on the text in the panels. The story itself I found to be going rather well, but as of the most recent chapters, its dropped a little and felt somewhat rushed, as if the author might have been forced to speed up the pacing, or as Super Eye-Patch Wolf has described in his numerous videos about the Big Four in Anime, the series may not have meant to go on for this long (although it has not been that long, nor has it been going so south that it becomes prominent). Recently, some of the newer side characters that popped up have seen rather...bland and cliche, but I'm willing to look past that. As for the main cast, what makes this show interesting is the way all of them are disturbed in one way or another. Now, while I do not believe the author's intent is to make these characters actually "disturbed", if they were all a single character in one story, they would all be that one quirky character, like Hisomu in Kiznaiver for example. However, the entire cast, except for Hotaru, is like that. You've got Yuuki playing the role of the perverted, masochistic otaku to the extreme, Mattsun having severe abandonment issues about everyone that just becomes even more impossible when its coupled with his already (what those of us in the west) would find unrealistically sensitive for a "man". Most of the characters often fall on the S or M side, which can be seen emphasized in some of the cover pages, like where Yuuki and Mattsun are wearing muzzles in a spread in (I think) volume 6. However, this isn't a detractor from this series, but rather, I find it to be rather a plus. Especially in Midori's case, you get to see these characters leading normal lives with some oddities and quirks in their personalities that make them more anime-like, but then when you put them in a survival game environment, they become crazed and malicious, and then they can walk away into the real world like nothing happened. It also helps that most of them are adults, so it gives off this vibe that I can only describe as that feeling when you realize your teachers have lives of their own and hobbies of their own. Additionally, if I were to go by what many people use to determine whether sports anime is any good, the author does an excellent job at making you like and want to play survival games. The way the characters perform in the game is never too OP (except in Hotaru's case) and its never overly strategic, as most of what has to occur is acting on instinct after a lot of training. I'm giving this series an eight overall because while I enjoy it immensely and love the characters, I really feel as though the story has fallen recently, and I hope it improves in the coming chapters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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