Yeah, another one. After a horde of shows of people being sucked into a MMO-world or some medieval fantasy place with the rules of RPGs, the deal became reincarnating failed japanese citizens into worlds where they can have a life outside a work office and slave-bee-tasks. We got Youjo Senki, we got Knights & Magic, Isesuma, Death March, and plenty of others. Now it comes yet another one, yet more of the same fuckn thing. Yup. This is Tensei Shitara Slima Datta Ken, or Isekai Slime for short.

Perhaps the only twist to this show in comparison to every other is the fact our protagonist is a slime in this new life. Mikami Satoru, a random japanese guy who never dated a girl, is stabbed to death by chance and is pulled into another life as a slime, a basic monster of RPGs. Well, at least he is not a super-powerful god, right? Right? …oh, shit.

Yup

Rimuru is the new name of Satoru in slime form, a goey thing in the likes of a poring from Ragnarok Online. Yet the slime is just a shape, Rimuru is everything we can expect from a lead in this kind of show: an overpowered piece of shit. Yeah. He is seemingly immortal, can absorb anything he touches, including new powers, he can even do some sort of alchemy inside his body to craft potions, forge weapons, and so on. In fact, Rimuru may be as well the most powerful lead in this kind of setting we have ever seem. Damn. So much for being a fuckn slime.

It is kinda of an Overlord rehash

Rimuru absorbs a massive ancestral dragon in the beginning, and from there he starts to build a village with a few goblins and wolves, recruiting smiths, artisans, and slowly becoming some sort of powerful leader in the region. It is extremely similar to how Overlord approached things, yet here Rimuru is not hiding behind the mask of an evil king, but that of a innocent-looking slime and later of an androgynous cute child.

It is honest though

Although similar, Isekai Slime is an honest show. It never tries to tease the audience into thinking this is anything more than a rise to power of a slime guy. In fact, it quickly gives us answers about other people from our world being present in this new world, as well as making things happen with a decent pace, which means introducing new plot hooks and solving them with decent speed to avoid blank episodes where nothing happens.

It can’t get good too

Well, you know the deal with these overpowered protagonists from light novels: they break any damn show. Isekai Slime may veer away from the ecchiness and siscon, but being shown of how awesome and powerful Rimuru is gets boring quickly, and the show doesn’t change its focus to more human and frail characters in any way. It is a full season of Rimuru meeting new people and conquering or befriending them with his power, learning more absurd skills and ultimately becoming a god in this alternative world. In fact, it can even wet its feet into ecchi territories when it later introduces a half-naked loli and turn every non-human creature into cute girls with animal features. Sad, truly sad.

It also manages to make things worse by moving away from its focus on the last part of the season, shifting gears towards Rimuru teaching kids and forgetting all about that world conquest and exploring demons and everything else. It tries to be a change of pace, but it is sadly a change for a even more boring aspect of a show that was already becoming stale.

It does have style

If pace and honesty are good factors in this show, the same could also be said about its visual identity. Although it does look simple in its background and details, the character design is quite interesting outside Rimuru’s cute form and the japanese girl. You get the chubby orcs, human-like ogres, dwarves, and a lot of people with a design that mixes non-black contour, bright colors, and non-standard frames. It’s a shame Rimuru’s voice is your typical annoying screech, because the rest of the sound department is solid in what needs to be done.

Isekai Slime had some qualities to explore. It is about the same fuckn idea as half the modern light novels, but it got perhaps the best pace of its genre. The tales is fluid, you get something new in every episode, problems are solved quickly, and the world is presented nicely. It even got some visual style to boost! Sadly though, this doesn’t mean it achieves a higher grade.

There is a boring concept behind Isekai Slime, especially when it slowly drenches itself with ecchi fluids instead of becoming more serious and raising the stakes. Rimuru doesn’t help too, being such a carefree and emotionless guy you can never really feel anything about him. The rest of the cast also gets boring quickly, but at least new people are presented every episode to refresh the atmosphere.

Anyway, a good shounen if you take the contemporary similar ones, but nothing special.