That makes no sense as this problem has been going on since "time immemorial" Meaning Goblins have been a problem since the very beginning of human history. If this was a new problem then sure, it'd be like a "the zombie apocalypse started last year and I'm still figuring things out" kind of deal. But time immemorial? So like what...hundreds...perhaps thousands of years? And these dumb fucks still haven't figured out how to handle goblins? The ""lvl 1"" monsters of this world? Then they all deserve to die. And that is me being generous.
Oh, I guess there's plenty of people that know how to take on Goblins, after all, the manga itself mentions that some parties of adventurers manage to get through, cause they actually do know what the hell they are doing. The party at the start is a group of overly confident idiots that go in unprepared since they completely underestimate Goblins for the aforementioned reasons. (Their function in the story has been discussed in this thread already in the thread btw)
And secondly, while Goblins have been a problem forever apparently, they haven't been a problem everywhere at the same time. Bigtits McCheesemaker's farm obviously hasn't been attacked in the past. Some other instances, Goblins do attack villages and farms but get taken care off easily cause they are piss weak and in small numbers, they aren't a threat, even to townsfolk.
They don't seem to be "level 1" monsters either, it's just that they are considered very weak and stupid (though GS himself points out that they still are sly bastards) so I guess whatever comes after porcelain rank is where adventurers should start killing Goblins in their lairs, but some rookies think they can handle them. Some actually can, some don't. That's it.
Thats looking at this with the mindset that human beings are all pants on head stupid. Realistically humans, elves, dwarves, lizard people etc, with all the available science and magic at their disposal, would have figured out how to eradicate goblins after the first few deaths. There is no acceptable reason for people to just 'ignore' goblins.
The video also points out that these people have mentors and teachers and family who adventure. Did these kids never get any kind of training from them?
Did no one say "by the way goblins can use tunnels to sneak up behind you." If every adventurer starts as a porcelain and at some point has to fight goblins, survived and rose up the ranks, yet none of them thought it was a good idea to pass on their "how to beat goblins" knowledge on to their own children...well then they're stupid. The internal logic of Goblin Slayer is stupid.
See, that's the funny thing. Swordbloke dies having a flashback to some adventurers telling him in the past a story of how they fought together to overcome the odds in an ambush. The Flashback makes it clear that the guy only took the "One for all, all for one" attitude of the adventurer to heart while completely ignoring the "We only pulled through cause we had a lot of experience under our belts on how to fight properly together". That's sort of his downfall.
And the manga also makes a point that apparently, there is not many old adventurers that work as mentors for younger folks. It's not like there's an academy of adventurers where they graduate from and one could surmise that the kids being trained by experienced adventurers and mentors actually do know what the fuck they are doing when they set out.
This doesn't explain anything. The vid asks why they send them out to die for no reason.
Your response is "because they send them out to die for no reason".
There is literally no reason to do things the way this world does it.
As I said: If the low ranks don't at least try their hand at this, noone else is going. It is made abundantly clear.
If the low ranks do not take on the Goblin threat, the high ranks don't give enough of a shit cause the payment sucks. So Guildgirl allows underskilled people to go out, even with a high chance of failure, cause otherwise, the afflicted towns and villages will not be helped at all. And she does try to talk the starting party out of it by pointing out that another group of adventurers will take care of it, to which Swordbloke answers: "We'll be fine, I've driven off plenty of Goblins in my time."
They do it strictly for money and fame. No one is forcing it on them at all.
So what. Are you trying to tell me this is something that's unheard of in the history of our fine world that doesn't operate under isekai logic?
To wit: There was an entire crusade led by
unarmed young adults that thought they could just stroll all the way over Europe to Jerusalem (through the mediterranean sea that would open itself up to allow them to walk through, I might add) and kick the saracens out of the holy land. Those that didn't die of exposure, malnourishment or exhaustion were sold off into slavery to the saracens or ended up as serfs in italy and france.
2. The only way this elf could h ave been alive for 2000 years and not know that goblins rape elves is if she lived an incredibly sheltered life. Or the writing is just bollocks. What has she been doing for 2000 years? Fingering herself?
It's one thing to know that Goblins rape elves, it's an entirely different thing to see the result first hand. Depending on how prudish the elven culture is, they might as well just refer to the elf girls as "abducted and tortured" or something, cause it's considered too brutal to go into details.
Either way, it seems you're overthinking this. I already pointed out that the worldbuilding in GS is "basic", I don't feel like coming up with headcanon to explain things that don't really need to be explained in such a story.
It's a straightforward action-manga, noone is denying that, and the setting is sufficient for that, even with these imperfections.
4. If the world is teetering on destruction why are there old guys selling ice cream , people ignoring the possibility of monsters living under their city even when there were corpses of mutilated women found in the streets, and a goblin was actually baited out and captured.
Cause that's what humans do. During WW2, some nightclubs in London didn't shut down business even though air-raid horns were blaring and bombs were going off all over town.
5. If the world is actually teetering on destruction why is monster hunting relegated to quests...for money...and fame?
You can't really blame a fantasy world for running on mild fantasy logic, you know. Sure, it would make far more sense to set up a large army and fight the threat united rather than waiting for some group of adventurers to swagger along... though at this point we're not far enough into the plot to know how this works in detail. We do know that a group of adventurers (with Tity Pope being part of them) have slain some demon king in the past, but we don't know what's going on in the rest of the world. For all we know, there might be large armies duking it out in the battlefields while small groups of adventurers do hit-and-run attacks on important targest far behind enemy lines.
Doesn't Tity Pope mention "city guards" when she brings up the whole Goblin thing?
6. Why does pope titty jesus lady do nothing....?
She hired adventurers, that's sort of what one does to take care of such issues in this world apparently. Or do you expect her to waltz into the underground Goblin lair and just tear them asunder with her bare hands?
I don't really feel like I should have to defend this any further since I'm not a huge fan myself, tbh. It's a nice little read and it is entertaining enough, but as I said, the worldbuilding is basic and it's a straightforward action manga. You might as well start to overthink Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and declare them nonsensical - doesn't mean they are any less entertaining.
It's just that the video takes something either out of context, completely misrepresents something and then goes on weird tangents on how stupid this whole thing is, even though the video itself is missing the point entirely.
GS is by far not above criticism and I have voiced mine a few pages ago, too. But when one wants to attack a work, it's absolutely idiotic to do so by lying about it or getting things wrong - which this video was guilty of.
GS isn't LotR. We get it. Don't worry.
We get it.
