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Bambi Sammich said:
1. You shouldn't make an anime based off some janky half assed DnD campaign...ever
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?
3. Espeically when you take into effect that she SAID "my home isn't far from here" when they found the raped elf woman.
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.
5. If the world is actually teetering on destruction why is monster hunting relegated to quests...for money...and fame?
6. Why does pope titty jesus lady do nothing....?



Ooooh so the explanation for shitty writing is that its a half assed DnD campaign. Now it makes sense. You can get away with anything with a "God wills" excuse.

I guess the idea is Slayer leaves absolutely nothing to chance but that still doesn't excuse everyone else being pants on head idiots. You don't roll a dice to decide whether or not to warn people that rapist monsters are in the area I guess. How is Goblin Slayer able to not have dice rolled on him? If nobody is sentient because this is all a "game", how can he function at all without dice? Dice rolls are necessary for actions, right?

This means the whole "don't be unprepared" meme is wrong. You can't be prepared if everything is decided by dice rolls. Like if that's the case it doesn't matter what weapon you bring to any location. If there are actual dice there's a set possibility of any action failing or succeeding no matter what you do.

If women are more likely to forgive a murdering rapist do all women have a negative modifier to intelligence?
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2 - She said she just left her forest. Elves are presented as reclusive. Its also been presented that goblins are beneath basically every silver adventurer, so they don't give two fucks and never really see the damage that they do. That's why Goblin Slayer himself has a one-track mind. He's seen what they do. He's experienced it first hand. That's why he doesn't give a shit about the world ending catastrophe. The poor villages will all be destroyed, raped and pillaged first, because there will be no one there to protect them. The elf, dwarf and lizard man are all silver ranked and its been stated in the show that silvers don't bother with goblins. It also reflects in how the elf reacts to his equipment.

3 - That's her realizing the threat of the goblins for the first time in her life. Even though she's 2000 years old, she's barely left her forest. So she's sheltered. She doesn't know what they're really like. The episode makes a point of that. She thinks adventures are all these fun and games but isn't prepared for the harsh reality of it and only awakens to the reality at the end of the episode when she finally understands why Goblin Slayer only really slays goblins. That's why she softens on the Goblin Slayer at the end of episode 4 with the flashback.

4 - Life goes on dude. Even in WWII this shit happened.

5 - Because there's not enough soldiers to go around and adventurers are basically mercenaries, supplementing the authority of the kingdom because their resources are spread thin. Even during the worst times, people still needed money and incentives to do things. Mercenaries have always been a thing during desperate wars and conflicts.

6 - You mean...I actually don't know who you mean.

Dice rolls in games are basically a metaphor for how skilled someone is. The more skills you develop, the better your rolls are. Goblin Slayer develops every single skill he can, while other adventures go 'pfft, I got this awesome equipment and shit, I don't need to do nuffin else' and then they get raped and slaughtered. Goblin Slayer says it himself, Imagination is a weapon. He thinks outside of the box, explores all his options, develops all his skills for a singular purpose. You can say he's just stacking the bonuses in his favor while other adventurers simply assume and never prepare and never get those sweet pluses to their rolls.

BeanBidan said:
I love the fact he just wants to kill goblins. Why do people make such a fuss about justifiable genocide?
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Also I'd love to read more manga, but mechas have always been better as anime due to being action oriented that it's just not as explosive in manga form, it's way more enjoyable as anime and always will be. I enjoy reading Ranma 1/2, Steins;Gate and Welcome to the NHK. Oyasumi PunPun is great too.
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I was reading that the Goblin Slayer is basically 'The Punisher' set in a fantasy world. And if you think about it, it makes sense. The Punisher doesn't give two shits if Thanos is a danger. Yeah, maybe he can put his skills and planning to help, but he really, really doesn't care. He's a force of nature, obsessed with his sole enemy. Same with the Goblin Slayer. And like the Punisher, the Goblin Slayer begins to enjoy what he does.

Also, Goblin Slayer is clearly based on old-school D&D stuff, where races were basically evil and good and evil was more black and white.
 
BeanBidan said:
>bunny girl senpai
Why am i not surprised something like that would be in the top 3
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So far, I've liked it. If you haven't seen it so far only the first 5min are really about a 'bunny girl'. Story focuses on a weird 'adolescence syndrome' e.g the titular bunny girl is a former idol and is vanishing from peoples eyes and memories and she dresses that way to see if people notice or react to her. Last episode was a time loop 'groundhog day' and might be following that style for a bit.

I recommend the comedy 'Grand Blue' if anyone hasn't seen it from last season. Premise is protagonist goes to college and joins a SCUBA club, what it is really about though is hard drinking, stabbing your friends in the back and 'titan' faces.
 
Jub-Jub said:
I recommend the comedy 'Grand Blue' if anyone hasn't seen it from last season. Premise is protagonist goes to college and joins a SCUBA club, what it is really about though is hard drinking, stabbing your friends in the back and 'titan' faces.
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Grand Blue suffers from some of the same problem that sane people complain that GS has, in that the anime is a long 1:1 adaption of the source material with nothing added in the anime. There are reasonable explanations for why someone would want to watch it instead of read it, nothing wrong with that, but I'd suggest people just read the manga instead.
 
Secret Asshole said:
2 - She said she just left her forest. Elves are presented as reclusive. Its also been presented that goblins are beneath basically every silver adventurer, so they don't give two fucks and never really see the damage that they do. That's why Goblin Slayer himself has a one-track mind. He's seen what they do. He's experienced it first hand. That's why he doesn't give a shit about the world ending catastrophe. The poor villages will all be destroyed, raped and pillaged first, because there will be no one there to protect them. The elf, dwarf and lizard man are all silver ranked and its been stated in the show that silvers don't bother with goblins. It also reflects in how the elf reacts to his equipment.

3 - That's her realizing the threat of the goblins for the first time in her life. Even though she's 2000 years old, she's barely left her forest. So she's sheltered. She doesn't know what they're really like. The episode makes a point of that. She thinks adventures are all these fun and games but isn't prepared for the harsh reality of it and only awakens to the reality at the end of the episode when she finally understands why Goblin Slayer only really slays goblins. That's why she softens on the Goblin Slayer at the end of episode 4 with the flashback.

4 - Life goes on dude. Even in WWII this shit happened.

5 - Because there's not enough soldiers to go around and adventurers are basically mercenaries, supplementing the authority of the kingdom because their resources are spread thin. Even during the worst times, people still needed money and incentives to do things. Mercenaries have always been a thing during desperate wars and conflicts.

6 - You mean...I actually don't know who you mean.

Dice rolls in games are basically a metaphor for how skilled someone is. The more skills you develop, the better your rolls are. Goblin Slayer develops every single skill he can, while other adventures go 'pfft, I got this awesome equipment and shit, I don't need to do nuffin else' and then they get raped and slaughtered. Goblin Slayer says it himself, Imagination is a weapon. He thinks outside of the box, explores all his options, develops all his skills for a singular purpose. You can say he's just stacking the bonuses in his favor while other adventurers simply assume and never prepare and never get those sweet pluses to their rolls.



I was reading that the Goblin Slayer is basically 'The Punisher' set in a fantasy world. And if you think about it, it makes sense. The Punisher doesn't give two shits if Thanos is a danger. Yeah, maybe he can put his skills and planning to help, but he really, really doesn't care. He's a force of nature, obsessed with his sole enemy. Same with the Goblin Slayer. And like the Punisher, the Goblin Slayer begins to enjoy what he does.

Also, Goblin Slayer is clearly based on old-school D&D stuff, where races were basically evil and good and evil was more black and white.
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1.Alright, so 2000 year old elf is actually super ignorant about the outside world. I guess thats fair. If the hobbit can be stupidly ignorant then so can an elf. Though I still think its ridiculous that she is surprised by what she sees. As if no one ever told her. 2000 years is a long ass time to be alive and have nobody tell you about goblins. Especially when you are not a comfy fat n happy civilian but a certified adventurer that has the ability to kill things, and does so for a living, this kind of knowledge would be useful. Random nobodies know what a high elf is but a high elf doesn't know that goblins are a problem. But high elf has been alive far longer than any human. This does not compute.

Edit: Actually nevermind, I take back a bit of what I said earlier. I think it's literally impossible to be alive for 2000 years and not know anything at all about the outside world unless your society is made of actual vegetables.

There is a ridiculous dissonance between Goblins actually being super dangerous being coupled with nobody caring because killing goblins doesn't pay well. Killing Goblins does not pay well despite the fact that they can wipe out entire villages and towns without assistance from other monsters. To make matters worse is that this has been going on since "time immemorial" and that means "a really long ass time." Maybe hundreds or thousands of years. This means all humans, all elves, all dwarves, all lizard people have known about Goblins and what they are capable of, have had their women raped, homes burned down and families killed, for hundreds to thousands of years. More than enough time for silver and higher adventurers to wake up and take notice...and yet nobody cares.

The second biggest problem is Goblins cannot reproduce without women to rape. Soooo for thousands of years Goblins have kept up their numbers simply because literally nobody gives a shit. Not even their brood-mare rape victims. When the first thing anyone with common sense would do is make 'goblin extinction' the quickest path to riches and glory. It shouldn't even be hard, they can't reproduce naturally. With all the available science and magic, these people could probably kill every goblin down to the last in under a decade. Its not like goblins have resources to fight back besides a few champions and a rare shaman. All they have is numbers, and an experienced person could easily kill a ton of goblins. What is the alternative? Do nothing, let their numbers swell until they become a problem worth being paid to kill? Well at that point, adding them to the pile of other monsters that are dangerous, you might as well kill yourself. You let the easy solution slip through your fingers. For thousands of years...

4&5. Not enough soldiers to go around...really? In a scenario where apparently monsters (that in the manga we haven't even seen yet, we're just TOLD they're out there.) are on the brink of destroying all of humanity? Not enough soldiers? In that case every adventurer should be a soldier. Your logic just collapses in on itself.

6. I'm talking about the Archbishop, apparently a very powerful character, is just standing around with a blindfold on doing nothing.

Everyone is a passive pile of shit just so the Goblin Slayer can look cool. Or an incompetent pile of shit. This is fine in a video game but this isn't a video game.

Its logic that only can exist in a shallow artificial world like a video game. Where all the characters in this manga seem to be functioning on a meta narrative like they are gamers and not actual people existing in a real world.
 
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree that Goblin Slayer's world-building is garbage. You can have a threat be credible, you can have a threat be common and you can have everyone underestimate the threat but you can't have all three at the same time. What really gets the noggin jogging is the scene where all of these mid level adventures are talking shit about Goblin Slayer wasting all his time on slaying goblins when statistically according to the priestess's monologue at the end of episode 1 they know many other adventurers that have been killed by goblins, have themselves survived the goblin meatgrinder and have recovered human remains/mindbroken goblin breeding factories from them. Like, just the raw amount of hate these buggers would generate for the rape-breeding alone would ensure there would be a fuckton of support financial and otherwise for exterminating all goblins with great prejudice.

You wouldn't have one Goblin Slayer, you'd have a Goblin Slayer organization filled with edgy Batmans that are going to genocide every greenskin because they made off with their mom/sister/aunt/childhood best friend.
 
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I love the show Zombieland saga. I'm usually not weeb enough to watch an anime while it's still being broadcast but I am for this one. The parts where the zombies are just as scared of the humans is really cute. Clever twist and satire of common anime tropes in this show but it stands on its own as just a good show that's fun to watch.
 
I've only ever watched two series of anime programs (That being Slayers and a little bit of Outlaw Star) but this Goblin Slayer thing is pretty neat so far.

I wonder if that Lodoss War thingie is worth it...
 
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