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EP. REVIEW: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3

And yeah, this does feel more like Slime Diaries than the main show, but at least that makes all the meetings and transitions more interesting and fun compared to the first half. I can't help but think the author does better with world-building SoL than any attempt at doing a serious plot with stakes.

Nice to see some old friends you'd probably have forgotten unless you'd done a recent rewatch.

I wonder about Ramiris just abandoning her duties as Queen of the spirits, guarding the intersection between the great spirits and the mortal realm in her dungeon. Yes she has always been a mostly joke character but she had a role before. Now she really does seem like a vagrant.

I also curious about wether the Lycanthropes would want to be all housed in a labyrnth surrounded by untamed and uncivilised monsters. Also feels a bit weird to setup a monster farming dungeon under a nation of civilised monsters. Its like your encouraging human heroes to see monsters as barbaric even while doing the whole civilization thing above. I suppose on the surface level its just a society doing the isekai free resources from a magical dungeon thing. It just becomes another layer of ignoring the logistics of tempest so the show would not be any different.

Could you imagine the tempest orcs eating orc meat burgers from resources from the dungeon?

Then we get to see what Shuna is working on—and in the process get introduced to Yoshida, a chef who was also transported to this world from Japan.

I did some wiki browsing and am now super confused about the structure of Sarion's royal family—mainly in how everyone is related to Elmesia given her age and lineage. I think I need to see a family tree.

Why does Erald hide his ears even within his kingdom and in front of his emperor?

Yep, thats my issue with the logic of it all as well. But I do not expect it to address such logic at all. It certainly has avoided logical assumptions in the past.

There isnt much to say otherwise about the show the last few weeks is there. Its all well and good, but it also doesnt have much there. Its taken the time to have all the planning conversations but none of the issues that would normally take place. Its happy go lucky and thats fine. What else do you say?

Ahh right, the redditors would say: Isnt it adorable how X character does Y thing.

Originally I thought the show would be about how monster societies in this world form and how the world works based on that. But that never happened after the lizards has 2 episodes about their society way back in season 1.

I'm sure it'll work out fine in the anime, but this whole plan seems a bit convoluted and I'm not sure officially blessing monster killing as entertainment would normally cause people to treat monsters as equals.

Yep, thats my issue with the logic of it all as well. But I do not expect it to address such logic at all. It certainly has avoided logical assumptions in the past.

Just making sure I understand what's going on here.

This world has monsters, some of which are sentient (like the goblins, lizardkin, and wolves), some of which are either not sentient or unwilling to cooperate with anybody (like the antlions and regular slimes). Giving a monster a name gives them an immense power and intelligence upgrade, but many monsters are able to form civilizations of their own even without special names.

Rimuru's goal is to try and convince the world that humans and monsters can live together in peace. I'm assuming he means specifically monsters living in Tempest and not the primal uncooperative type. I'm not fully clear on his stance on monsters outside of his borders, since he did ultimately provide shelter for the beastkin refugees and orcs, but we haven't really seen a lot of other encounters that I recall.

To drum up interest in his city, Rimuru is now adding a lethal dungeon full of deadly traps. If you buy a one-off item, you can recover from death, though this seems to be an optional (potentially expensive) purchase rather than included in the price of admission.

Veldora's aura has a high enough magicule density that new monsters will spawn from it. These monsters are intended to battle adventurers. I'm assuming these are part of the unintelligent/primal type and the show won't explore what happens if you could create new goblin/ogre/etc. tribes and intelligent creatures just from exuding energy. That might get convoluted quickly if Rimuru could then name them all in an infinite army/subject generation cycle.

The visiting dignitaries are expected to be impressed by the dungeon and not horrified by detecting Veldora's unrestrained aura or the giant labyrinth of death traps and such hosted in the city. People will get excited and travel from all over to the city of monsters to challenge a labyrinth of monsters in battles to the death, and this will convince the world that Tempest's monsters are great people and you can live next door to them in peace. At least the monsters on the surface of Tempest, not the monsters in the dungeon.

I'm sure it'll work out fine in the anime, but this whole plan seems a bit convoluted and I'm not sure officially blessing monster killing as entertainment would normally cause people to treat monsters as equals.

The anime didn't say that anyone that dies respawns, it said only those who form a pact with Ramiris respawn and that the braclet (that they will charge a large price on) gives a one off version of it. So that reflects differently to your book translation on what was presented to us.

Also nothing with monster cheifs yet, just a mention of capturing monsters in the forest and putting them inside, plus transplanting the refugees inside and using veldoras aura to spawn other monsters.

What they make is the most bog-standard, video game dungeon you can imagine. I mean, the thing even has checkpoints and a save point system. The traps within are classic RPG staples and Rimuru even goes out of his way to create boss rooms and populate the dungeon with treasure chests.

I would be terrified if I were a ruler visiting Tempest. Veldora and three Demon Lords are just hanging out there—and I expect that both Carion and Frey will be showing up as well (not to mention Hinata). Rimuru may not mean this festival as a show of strength but that is certainly what it is.

So if Veldora's miasma is what causes the monsters to appear in the dungeon—with stronger monsters spawning closer to him—how are they planning to choose and distribute the boss monsters for each area? I think the logistics of managing the dungeon are going to be way more than Ramiris expects.