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NEWS: Goblin Slayer Author Kumo Kagyu's Blade & Bastard Light Novels Get Anime

Looks like they're going with the awful manga designs instead of trying to get closer to so-bin's. The whole point of Garbage is that she's savage, not cute.

Andrew Cunningham wrote:

Looks like they're going with the awful manga designs instead of trying to get closer to so-bin's. The whole point of Garbage is that she's savage, not cute.

They haven't even shown the anime's designs yet...
No need to randomly insult a mangaka.

There's a key image for the anime in this article.

And criticizing a design choice is not a personal insult (compare to residentgrigo's comments, which directly call the novel author a hack.)

The "key image" is literally just the manga artist celebtrating. Of course it's gonna use his designs.

bassgs435 wrote:

The "key image" is literally just the manga artist celebtrating. Of course it's gonna use his designs.

I was referring to the first one, which is the anime announcement 'teaser image.'
But after tracking down the full size image it actually looks like so-bin drew it so my initial reaction is entirely out of line.

Also if I'd realized this thread was gonna be full of people being shockingly rude about one of the best novelists in the business I wouldn't have brought that negativity in at all...

It's easily the best out of the 3 main Kumo Kagyu works but that doesn´t mean much. Another middling dark fantasy anime about cardboard cutouts goes on the pile.

What does it have to do with Wizardry, what even is Wizardry (I do know that), who knows? ZILLION was made to advertise a light gun. Asking a web novel hack to use your D&D-light brand makes much more sense.

And speaking as someone who hasn't consumed any media created by this person, or based on this person's work... Goblin Slayer is that series most known for its bestiality/monster-rape fetish stuff, right? And one that, iirc, doesn't even give characters names? I dunno, man. I have a hard time imagining the person behind something like that could be considered "one of the best novelists in the business," and I'm curious why you think so. Who knows -- maybe I'm misremembering and/or conflating one series with another.

And speaking as someone who hasn't consumed any media created by this person, or based on this person's work... Goblin Slayer is that series most known for its bestiality/monster-rape fetish stuff, right? And one that, iirc, doesn't even give characters names? I dunno, man. I have a hard time imagining the person behind something like that could be considered "one of the best novelists in the business," and I'm curious why you think so. Who knows -- maybe I'm misremembering and/or conflating one series with another.

Goblin Slayer itself is very much taking a theme from fetish porn and very seriously thinking about how it would be like to live in a world where that stuff happens. The narrative structures are fairly standard adventure beats, but his prose is well above light novel level. The characters may not have names, but they're often types you never see anywhere else, and the way he handles character development and depth is frequently pretty novel, and he never takes the easy route on an emotional level. You can also get lost in weird worldbuilding if that's your thing; it's more of a nice spice.

GS is also his weakest series; the main cast are fairly static, and that didn't give him much to work with once it became an ongoing series.

Dai Katana is basically a pilot version of Blade and Bastard, and I like them both a lot more; not dealing with the goblin element likely makes them easier to take, though they're both quite dark in their own way. There's something about the way he treats the dungeons mysteries that really captures my imagination. The casts both keep what worked about the cast of GS but give them each more places to go in later volumes.

Moscow 2061 is easily his best book, and I do hope he writes a sequel someday. Getting away from the fantasy genre makes it feel more distinct, the protagonist has the strongest personalty, and there's an actual love story that really has no right to work as well as it does.