Fans are singing Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

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here is no doubt that “ Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken ( That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime )” is one of the most popular franchises today, not only in terms of anime but also for being one of the most popular light novels. sold in Japan. Currently, the long-awaited third season of the anime adaptation is airing , however, some fans have begun to get upset for a very particular reason: there are too many meetings and not enough action!




When it comes to anime, fans obviously expect to witness spectacular battles and exciting outcomes, and although this third season promises this, viewers have to binge, so far, a total of six episodes where the group of protagonists or the villains on duty sit down to have a meeting and talk for the entire episode.

All of these meetings are evidently a factor in the worldbuilding of the franchise (that is, establishing the foundations on which the world of “Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken” works), and are surely an appreciated detail for anyone interested in this type of information. . It's pretty clear that they also serve as a precedent for the battles in the upcoming episodes, so they're actually taking their time to set up and set the stage for it.

Although it may not seem like it, the meetings in “Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken” are a crucial factor for the plot that appears from the source material. In the light novels, the meetings are a large part of the plot and serve to learn about Rimuru Tempest's views, her inner thoughts, and the dilemmas she faces. In fact, many claim that, if these scenes did not exist, Rimuru Tempest would remain a one-dimensional character who in the end only ends up “doing things just because.” In many ways, some argue that this is what should have been done with “Classroom of the Elite,” where many of Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's monologues are omitted.

But as with anything, there is a great diversity of positive and negative opinions regarding how the third season of this popular series has developed. However, it is more than evident that everyone is going to forget this when the confrontation between Rimuru Tempest's group and Hinata Sakaguchi's group finally begins:

  • « I think the problem is the direction of the anime. If there's a worse way to build the world, I haven't seen it yet. The episodes are not well paced, at times it is as if you are watching still images. And the fact that for 5 episodes in a row it's just meeting after meeting after meeting, information after information after information .

  • « And everything is done in the most bland and unimaginative way possible. The first season was very good at world building. "That's literally what attracted most of the fanbase, but the world building was done by really exploring the world ."

  • « We've all read the light novels or the manga, so it's not that we don't have the attention span to follow the world building. The problem is that the episodes are poorly paced, low budget, and poorly directed. So yes, I agree with people who say that this season has been a disappointment .

  • « I have no problems with the meetings in the light novel or the manga. I have a lot of problems with these in the anime. In the light novel it works, you can read at your own pace, which makes the experience much faster. The anime stretches the dialogue to fit 24 minutes of something you could have read in 5 minutes. The rhythm is not adequate, despite being very faithful. The context of the dialogue is not the problem, but the way of presenting it .

  • « Tensura never had the type of action that you are talking about but it still had episodes that had characters moving. Do you know how to move? Moving images? Your body parts moving? Not just the mouth, but the entire body. The anime couldn't even match the quality of the light novel or manga, even if it tried to be original .

  • « Presentation and direction are essential and key to this. You have to realize that watching meetings, where most of the time they are sitting and talking back and forth, with occasional pictures, is not the most exciting, but if you do it weekly, several times, you will annoy the people. fans. The information in them is fantastic, but it's a dump of repeated exposure when it's the same information, just retold to other characters, plus characters and visuals barely move on screen, this is the reaction you'd get .'

  • « The meetings are one of my favorite parts of Tensura, every time there is a meeting, they either drop a big bomb or introduce something new, but the meetings in season three feel like they are trying to save animation budget. They don't have to go in depth every time they explain the same information. This time not everyone is Hinata, but everyone is Hinata ."

  • « Everyone is missing the point of complaints. Meetings CAN be exciting. Just don't animate an entire episode of people sitting in static poses. Make them get up, move around the room, knock on the table, get passionate, make reference to the things they are talking about, make the people listening participate in the conversation, make their eyes light up, that some get bored, etc. etc SHOW MORE than you tell. People watch court shows for this very reason. Most people are sitting, but there is still something visually attractive .

  • « It's true, nowadays we are conditioned to look for more action-packed programs. I don't mind reunions, but it would help the series a lot to trim them down a bit and eliminate scenes that don't sufficiently serve the progression of the narrative. In my opinion, this series would be better a little more condensed. I still like it, it is an acceptable series, but it could be an exquisite series with a better rhythm .

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