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EP. REVIEW: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2

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...So, is anyone gonna bother asking the Queen of the Fairies what she came to warn Rimuru about?

Right? I'm guessing since it isn't a focus it might just be about things that have already happened, so it's going to get played off as a joke, but you'd think Rimuru would be a bit more concerned. Then again, unless Milim is on her way, it's not like there's much to worry about considering everything that's happened

Cryten wrote:

You dont make gods your leaders, you diefy them.

Depends on their particular leadership style.

^ To put it simply, there are two flavors of Demon Lord: self-avowed and True. Some people *claim* to be Demon Lords, and as long as the other Demon Lords accept it, then that person is considered to be a Demon Lord. A *True* Demon Lord is someone that has been stated to be a Demon Lord by the Voice of the World. This is what Rimuru did, and what Clayman *wants* to do. He was being set up to bring this about, but then a certain slime went and Ruined Everything(tm.). This has made Clayman... annoyed, perhaps excessively so.

I thought her "warning" was that Falmuth was coming to attack them, that's why nobody took her seriously.

Emerje

Also curious that they seem to imply some kind of horrible mangled body horror for their prisoners while still treating this like some 5pm kids show in the way people talk and joke. You know I would of thought that having a demon secretary would amount to more than him becoming more human and then slinking away to a mission. Did they author try and make his own Demiurge character but miss the part where he was actually really clever.

Yeah, you are probably right about the Overlord style of humor. You certainly do not want to get on Shion's bad side. Sounds like the anime didn't show you the full horror of what was done.

I really don't have any problem with what happens to the Kingdom of Farmus, they declared war, they invaded Tempest with the goal of killing and raping everyone, and then looting everything. When you look at it that way, it is quite clear that the Kingdom of Farmus will suffer a much kinder fate, than what they planned for Tempest. I think that adds points to Rimuru's good side.

I mean, I don't think it's a good practice to determine who is "good" by comparing atrocities and claiming that your own aren't as bad. Especially when one side technically hadn't committed those atrocities yet. I'm not going to pretend they didn't intend to but I'm not sure if that's something Rimuru knew 100% (they didn't brag to his face that they were going to rape and pillage, that was for the audience) nor something I think Rimuru particularly cared about. Let's not pretend that starting a civil war to install a puppet ruler (that clearly doesn't care about the country) is a kind fate for a country. We only need to look at any real life example to know what happens eventually.

Also, are we meant to take how they tortured and mutilated their prisoners as a joke? It's spliced in between a mundane conversation about how they'll instigate a civil war in Falmuth and Shion being incompetent at her joke. I mean, the prisoners are not nice people but torture isn't something good people do. Is Rimuru aware of how they extracted information?

I can't tell what the music person is thinking when working on this series. Long stretches where there's no background music (fine) but then they play that happy, triumphant jingle when Rimuru declares he'll go to war against Clayman. Normally, I'd expect foreboding, or tense, or dramatic music to accompany that. Are they in on the joke?

IIRC the anime changed it up but he does know even if he didn't witness it first hand. It just didn't bother him because he knows he can use his full potions to restore them back to normal as long as Shion didn't kill them.

GhostD wrote:

IIRC the anime changed it up but he does know even if he didn't witness it first hand. It just didn't bother him because he knows he can use his full potions to restore them back to normal as long as Shion didn't kill them.

I'm not sure how to interpret this. It's clear that Rimuru doesn't have a moral code where torture is ok but murder isn't. If anything, it should be the opposite since despite the mass slaughter from earlier, it seems like the soldiers didn't (physically) suffer more than necessary. Is Rimuru letting this happen because he wants them to suffer as much as possible as punishment? In which case, it seems strange that he's going to eventually let them go back to Falmuth.

Not going to debate the tonal whiplash. It is on each individual viewer as to whether you like it, don't like it, or simply don't care. It doesn't bother me at all, and when I think about it, I remember that there have been other anime series that start out light hearted, but become much darker as time goes on.

TarsTarkas wrote:

Not going to debate the tonal whiplash. It is on each individual viewer as to whether you like it, don't like it, or simply don't care. It doesn't bother me at all, and when I think about it, I remember that there have been other anime series that start out light hearted, but become much darker as time goes on.

I think what most people complaining about the tone have been taking issue with isn’t the series starting off lighter and becoming darker, but rather the subject matter becoming darker while the tone remains largely the same. So it seems to them the heavier subject matter isn’t being treated with adequate consequence.