Anime Digest
Tensei shitara, Slime datta Ken’s second season is a continuation of their first season. It portrays a man named Satoru Mikami who transforms into slime after his death and embarks on a journey into a strange monster world. It is an Isekai (a sub-genre in which a character is transported into an unfamiliar world different from their own) drama, which is a humour-filled political drama with the setting to build a completely new world with tactical planning. As he assimilates towards his new journey as a slime monster, there’s a never-ending chain of events he has to go through that will change his life forever.
The Feel-Good Part
The show depicts humour at regular intervals of time, which keeps the viewers entertained. The first season has a lot of positive-toned scenes, which make us feel good. The show does not have an actual romance plot, but there are a few female characters who fall in love with Rimuru, which gives the story an interesting and heart-fluttering edge.
The Disappointing Factor
The second season seems to be a lot more flawed as compared to the first one. The character developments don’t take place gradually, and the story seems rushed and stupid. As Rimuru is suddenly faced with some real life challenges, unlike in the first season, he’s suddenly portrayed as mature without showing any gradual progress. It plays safe without putting anyone in real danger, as there are no real-life threats or stakes, which makes the whole action genre feel worthless. There’s also a perceptible decline in quality from the show’s production–lower quality animation, non-complex character portrayals, and lustreless fight scenes. The music score doesn’t match the expectations. The writing can get ridiculously predictable sometimes, as when the main characters die, they never really die. The evolution of Rimuru is sudden and huge, but there’s no time for character development.
In-Depth Analysis
The first season portrayed the main character, Satoru Mikami, who’s a bit of a rough character for a layman, as he is a 37-year-old virgin desperate to find love. One fine day, when he goes to meet his friends Tamura and Mijo, he’s stabbed by a robber and is reincarnated as a slime. That’s how the entire story begins. He comes to life as a slime named Rimuru Tempest. After starting to live as a slime, he gains some supernatural powers, which allow him to ingest an object and analyse it with his body. Once he’s done that, he can acquire the object’s skills or mimic it. The setting of the story is in an ancient style where humans and monsters all reside together. In the first season, we saw Rimuru as the captain of the Jura Tempest federation, which consisted of him and other monsters. The show succeeds immensely in depicting the bond between Rimuru’s past human life and his new life as a slime in the current unfamiliar world. Rimuru keeps evolving throughout the second season like a Pokémon, as he did in the first one. Season one ends with a lot of mysteries waiting to be discovered in season two.
Star Power
One of the antagonists, named Milim Nava, is undoubtedly the strongest character in the series. She is also known as the ‘destroyer’. She is one of the oldest demon lords to exist and, hence, is one of the only four true gods. She is so powerful and fast that she destroyed an entire country when she was young, which then showered upon her the title of the “demon lord”. Despite of her limited appearance, she was definitely a show-stealer.
Overall Opinion
All in all, the series is humour-filled and a unique story of a person transforming into something like slime, but only the last two episodes of the second season were life savers. for the entire season. Every other episode except for the last two felt inconceivably boring. This season saw a decrease in the number of fight scenes, which should not have happened. It was not up to the mark as the first season was.
