Looking to branch out in my anime watching I was fascinated with this new-ish seeming satire based subgenre of isekai anime (anime where characters suddenly find themselves in some other world / life) which doubles down on both the main character being unreasonably powerful trope along with having some ridiculously long gimmicky name. This one continually coming up on lists as one of the "first" and highest ranked examples, we follow Rimuru, a middle aged Japanese man who suddenly died, being transported and transformed into a small blue androgynous slime. Somehow a magic being in their head is able to answer any question asked and they quickly set about powering up and making friends. The series is bizarre, and like most in the genre I assume escalates quickly beyond recognition. This series it quickly begins to feel more like watching someone speed run the good karma storyline in a video game than it does a narrative anime, but I get some people are looking for that. A show that's truly afraid of conflict, any tension or disagreements are just as quickly resolved as they arise, and the power scaling just goes exponential the longer it goes on. The animation is done well I must say, especially the fight scenes, which there are a decent amount of, and I understand some might just enjoy this "for the plot". It can get surprisingly brutal, and equally surprisingly tame and boring. Its never really a comedy, but it also never takes itself seriously; I'm not sure what tone its ultimately going for. Frankly I can't believe I watched nearly 50 episodes and with a new 3rd season soon on the way, it passed the time I guess, but surprises me that its so highly rated. There's a million and one characters, and a bunch more subplots, which I'm sure might go somewhere by episode 463 whenever that comes but I just don't have the patience to wait till then.
