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

Im afraid Im just not the seriously critical type or at least I try not to be

Hiroki not Takuya wrote:

...I think most people who have encountered such people in real life would expect V's reaction to be trying to get get revenge on Kaijin and Rimuru somehow.

When people irl behave that way it's almost always in service of their own ego and desire for wealth, power and recognition. So when they get outed for bad behavior, they want revenge against whoever outed them and thwarted their personal goals.

Vesta's motivation was different... The only way to get back in Gazel's good graces and earn his trust again would be to change himself, so he changed. Trying to get revenge on anyone would've only made his goal even more unobtainable.

Neither Clayman nor the Harlequins bother to show up in person, so we don't get any satisfying closure with them.

Clayman's absence from this episode suggests that he and his minions are out of the picture for the time being

That tone carries over into the episode's second half, where Rimuru and Milim are quick to let Phobio off the hook for his actions.

What puzzled me more was Phobio's instant switch from revenge-seeking to apologetic. Wasn't hurt pride from getting his ass kicked by Milim his entire reason for falling for the clown's scheme so easily? Then he gets his ass kicked even harder and he's all "oh, i'm so sorry for inconveniencing you" all off a sudden. That just felt rather...abrupt. I did like Carrion and his special form of tough love, though...

I read the web novel years ago and I honestly don't even remember the Charybdis fight. I do remember it in the manga, but it was either added afterwards or was just so forgettable I can't remember it. But yea, Rimuru only has a couple, truly desperate fights in the whole web novel. It's like 80% him just building his nation and chilling with people , 15% stomping someone who messes with them and 5% actually fighting dangerous enemies.

This was, unfortunately, my least favorite episode of the show so far. Tortured pacing leading up to anticlimax is not the best way to run an arc. If it weren't for the fact that it's almost over I'd drop a show after a run like that, but I'll see if it gets better for the last few eps.

I second the impression of some pretty poor animation this ep. The ogre pair were distractingly off model in their little "last stand" scene, and the animation loop with Rimuru dodging Charybdis' attacks in the sky that got played like 3 times was hilariously bad. Still, I can forgive bad animation, it's the boring, low effort resolution to an arc that was pretty forgettable in the first place that really got me.