DON'T CALL IT A RECAP | That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime - Episode 17.5 | Season 3
Added 2025-03-25 23:51:55 +0000 UTCValentine gives us a little behind the scenes commentary
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When you realize the accidental pun you just made about the girl in ice 😂
Richard Diaz
2025-03-31 16:06:41 +0000 UTCMy top 3 isekai anime are Overlord, That time i got reincarnated as a slime and TsukiMichi: Moonlit Fantasy. I think it's the character & world building along with a great story that make them all stand out to me. They keep me on the edge of my seat and wanting more.
scott Carter
2025-03-27 00:03:04 +0000 UTCSo what’s so great about Tensura? I’m not good at explaining this, but I’ll try. I think I will have to dig into my first impressions, which is hard to remember at this point. When I saw Season 1, I really liked it, but I was really hooked when Rimuru became a Demon Lord. I just wanted to know so much. For most of my life, I was a big reader, but for several years I had only been reading manga. Part of it was how unsatisfying reading digital novels was for me, and part of it I attributed to a shorter attention span. It was this anime that made me read real text again. I couldn’t believe myself when I read volume after volume. Now, I can’t say it was the best piece of literature I ever read, it’s just that it kept my attention for the first time in years. That in and of itself was a breakthrough. Since then, I have read many other things (mostly light novels). A light novel is not the same as a novel, first of all. It’s much more self-indulgent for the author. Most light novels start out written as webnovels by amateurs, and as such the pacing and contents are not subject to nearly as much editing. This is a flaw in many ways, but it enables the author to expound on topics that they want to. So this author talks about everything. It struck me as unusually adult in its outlook. Not that there’s adult topics, per se. Just that the author has chosen an adult as his main character. This adult may not have been completely typical of the Japanese salaryman, but he wasn’t a shut-in, and he was reasonably happy and successful in his life. He wasn’t obsessed with anything (except his hobbies) but he kept it separate from his work life. Satoru Mikami had a family, too. He had friends. He was a nice guy. He didn’t work for a black company (what they call a company that exploits their workers). He also had some understanding of the world and some education about how it works. He approaches the fact of his reincarnation in another world and as a slime with open curiosity and excitement. He always says, he will do what he can do, nothing else. He doesn’t really care what others think or what is supposedly impossible, he just does it. He accepts people for who they are, and despite being a bit cynical, he is an idealist. He doesn’t give up, he just plows forward. He just naturally makes connections with people, and those people just want to help him for the most part. He collects enemies too, but he doesn’t let that stop him, he just deals with it as it comes up. I wish I could be so natural, maybe? He works hard while also delegating, he trusts his subordinates, and they trust him. He’s a natural leader. That’s the attraction of Rimuru’s basic personality, but there is so much more to Tensura. I actually like that Rimuru is nongendered. Yeah, he has a bit of a dirty mind, but not so much it’s distasteful. He can’t act on it, which gives all the fanservice a purity that most other isekai lack. There are equal or almost equal numbers of men and women among his followers, I am tired of harems and reverse harems. Shuna and Shion (and Diablo) fawn all over him, but for some reason it’s different from all the other similar characters in other isekai (and anime in general), it doesn’t bother me. About Rimuru himself, the bottom line is: I just really like him. The world-building is outstanding. Again, other isekai have worldbuilding too, and many times there are leaders who use their old-world knowledge to solve the problems of the new one. There’s something about the details in Slime that make me think the author is bringing a more realistic, therefore complex, picture about how the real world works into this setting. Despite the fact that Rimuru is idealistic at the same time. I like idealism. By definition, it isn’t realistic, but I like that Rimuru has a long-term vision that proceeds over the course of the story. It isn’t revealed all at once, Rimuru conceives it gradually and organically. Events in the story influence the development. The story is constantly building; it’s slice-of-life with an epic dimension. You know that eventually something big is going to happen. There are undercurrents that keep you guessing. Everything is in the story for a reason, it all means something, and you are constantly surprised by where the clues eventually lead. It can take a long time for these clues to come to fruition. People talk about story arcs in Slime, but they all connect and overlap. The characters are all distinct, relatable, and memorable. Unlike other stories where I can’t always remember who they are or tell them apart. They have distinct appearances and personalities, and they mostly all have a backstory that continues to influence them and their personalities mature and develop. They are just interesting. Everyone can choose which character they like the most, there’s someone for everyone. The power and skill system, being based on people’s personalities and desires, and the seemingly random bestowal of these abilities is very interesting. You can work at it, too, and get somewhere, it isn’t just who is lucky and who is not. The outside force of Words of the World is a concept I can’t recall seeing anywhere else. Usually these things are mediated through religion, or inheritance, or pure chance. There’s a logic and a hierarchy behind these Skills that you still haven’t seen the full picture of. There’s also a dichotomy between spiritual and material/physical. There are many races, but they evolve. The fact that you can’t know everything about this world and the story, but you want to know, so you keep looking for more. That you could be wrong, that interpretations vary. The fact that you keep noticing new things even after many viewings or re-reading. That sometimes things come together in your head that give new meaning to the facts you’ve collected. Back when I first watched this, there were some things that were the first time I had encountered them in isekai. They aren’t so unique anymore, since you see them in other isekai anime since then (I am strictly speaking anime, it’s much harder to know the chronology of how original some of these elements were when first written.) Some of these are: 1. Starting with the lowliest of RPG creatures, and going up the cliche power chain to goblins, ogres, orcs, lizardmen, and so forth, but with the twist of having the slime be the most powerful of them all. 2. Addressing issues that are only glossed over in other isekai, such as how the reincarnation works, how people get a new language, how magic works at the fundamental level, and many more. How souls work. People are usually expected to just accept these elements but here they are given a rationale missing from other works. 3. Making demons not exactly bad–but still bad. Chaotic. 4. Making angels not exactly good. We will see later. 5. Making our Hero a Demon Lord. What he had to do to get there. 6. The frequency of finding Otherworlders just scattered around liberally, and everyone knows about it. So I covered Rimuru, the other characters, the worldbuilding, the epicness and direction, the mystery, the politics and plotting, the turning of convention on its head, the skill/power system, and the complexity. I am probably forgetting a lot.
myst0dreamer
2025-03-26 10:18:14 +0000 UTCEpisode 18 was postponed because of the Olympics that took place at the time episode 18 was supposed to air.
Geriel-Tenebrae
2025-03-26 04:25:09 +0000 UTCWow, I didn't know Raphael was such a tricksy Slime Mom!
Aikuchi-san
2025-03-26 02:49:50 +0000 UTCi'm super hyped for season 4 and movie 2
Cerulean Spectre
2025-03-26 02:11:10 +0000 UTCdust to dust like they say lolololololo
Cerulean Spectre
2025-03-26 02:09:43 +0000 UTCi think she didn't think the sword would stab her
Cerulean Spectre
2025-03-26 02:06:04 +0000 UTCthis is like a refresher and great video
Cerulean Spectre
2025-03-26 02:05:31 +0000 UTCOoooohhh.... you asked one of the Ultimate Questions about That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is why is it different from the rest of the isekai? I thought about this alot, but I think I am going to have to think some more about how to express it. But you opened a can of worms......😅☺️ Anyone sticking with you through Season 3 is going to have some opinion. As for the rest of the episode.... I seem to recall there was some reason why there was a week break in the schedule at the time the next episode was due to come out, and they had to throw something in, and that's why it's where it is. I totally forgot this episode even existed. A lot of reactors skipped it at the time. Especially since interest was waning. But imo there is a lot to be gained from even the recap episodes in Slime. Many of the questions you raised were answered before. I'll try to do a quick "recap", but for more info, my prior comments have more. Frozen woman. The woman is encased in frozen holy magic which damages monsters like vampires. Even though she and her followers can use holy magic. Seems paradoxical. As for her being a god, I talked about gods in Tensura at Episode 16, but I should add that there is a trick to it that some have access to, and that is all I can say right now. Luminus has the goal of helping the low-level vampires to gain access to nourishment, while protecting humans from monsters, particularly Veldora and other Demon Lords, and eventually the angels. You could say that could be a god's job: protection in exchange for devotion. The devotion has a concrete benefit for Luminus, again, you'll see later. She said "there is no justice that can satisfy all free will", which we talked about at the episode where she first said it, but it means that happiness cannot be achieved via complete anarchy (as she would see it). There needs to be constraints on society. This does indeed differ from how Rimuru would go about it, and there are some negatives that result... no matter whose vision you're talking about. It's all about where the balance lies. There is no denying, however, that Luminus' people (the ordinary citizens who are actually living in Lubelius) are happy, but at some cost to their freedom. Hinata is still dedicated to Luminus' way of doing things, despite some doubts, because she sees it as a utopia, based on her history. Lubelius's society places a high value on equality. This matter of the best society for humans to live in is one of the subthemes of Tensura. I don't think Rimuru intends to interfere in the running of Lubelius unless something he can't tolerate happens. So what happens when Rimuru "ingests" someone or something? The stomach is a separate dimension, capable of partitioning. Some things get truly absorbed as fuel (which Rimuru doesn't actually need, it's just a vestige of his slime origins). Others get sequestered away. Rimuru can save souls or eliminate them or use them as he did when he became a Demon Lord, although there are only a few ways they can be used, and only a few opportunities. If Rimuru comes into true contact with someone with a Skill, he can absorb those Skills, but only to the extent that Rimuru has the predisposition to be able to use them. We have seen many cases where Rimuru has access to Skills but cannot use them at all or only in a limited way, or is simply not as good as some of his subordinates at using them. With Veldora, until the Unlimited Imprisonment was unsealed, he could not access anything about Veldora's abilities. After releasing Veldora, he acquired the Ultimate Skill Veldora, and access to Veldora's soul (via Soul Corridor, which isn't actually a Skill). He also received abilities related to storms. However, he did not receive any Skills related to Ultimate Skill Faust. After becoming an Ultimate Skill, Raphael is able to organize, optimize, combine, and discard Skills that Rimuru has access to though Food Chain or by absorbing abilities from those he has predated. More recently, Raphael can simply observe Skills and phenomena, and in some cases, can analyze the workings of a Skill such as when she acquired the attack prediction Skill by observing Hinata's version. Raphael needs to come into physical contact to get the best information, however, such as when Raphael "sacrificed" Beelzebub to get a close look at the spiritual particles that constitute holy magic in Melt Slash. I believe that Raphael kept the data that made up the Skill Beelzebub and was able to recreate it. Yuuki has already deployed his plan and we have already seen what the outcome was. Meddle in Falmuth, mostly, leaving the church component to the Rozzo's. Rimuru is an interesting mix of naivete, idealism, and pragmatism. But he is becoming less naive due to events and responsibilities. When Hinata warned Rimuru of her attack, she was giving him information deliberately so he could survive it. I don't think she held back, though. Luminus' Skills have some common themes, which might be hard to figure out at this point, but some of them were on display. Some of the clues were in the names of the techniques. Hinata is a true saint, and although it takes centuries for the body to catch up with the name, her body rejects magicules, and can only be affected by holy magic (made up of spiritual particles). Magicules are also made up of spiritual particles. As described before, the defense that Rimuru used in the final attack by the Seven Days, Trinity Disintegration, is the perfected subskill Absolute Defense of Ultimate Skill Uriel, that Raphael just wasn't satisfied with originally. So she tricked Rimuru into coming into contact with the Melt Slash beam directly, so she could analyze the spiritual particles in holy magic. As a result of Raphael's analysis, she beefed up the Absolute Defense (which was already almost perfect). This subskill, Absolute Defense, is very special, about which I cannot say more now. Raphael both knew Rimuru would want to understand holy magic, but was afraid if she told him her plan, Rimuru would nix the whole idea as too risky, so she rationalized that because it fulfilled Rimuru's true desires, she would just keep it from him. Also called deception, lying, in some people's eyes.
myst0dreamer
2025-03-26 01:48:36 +0000 UTC
