As you know by know i tend to write a lot of anime reviews but the majority of them has one thing in common. I am writing them after i watch the entire anime or at least 3-5 episodes in order to have a better point of view. This time though by just watching the first episode i think i really can tell where this anime is headed!
General Info That Nobody Cares But Should!
Goblin Slayer came out at October 7 2018 so as you can imagine only the first episode is out! The liceoncor behind it is Funimation and the studio is called White Fox! White Fox studio is known for anime like Akame ga Kill, Steins;Gate and Re:Zero Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu so expect only great things!
The genres of the anime or tags (name it as you like) are action and fantasy but oh god it's so much more! In a way it's a category of it's own! Also the number of total episodes is not yet known but i speculate it will be around 10-12. Finally, the anime is originated from a Light Novel which later become a manga too.
Plot
The world in this anime is similar to that of an MMORPG online game. It is very common for the people to enroll in guilds, becoming adventurers, doing quests and fight monsters for rewards. Thus, we have a young priestess that just join a guild and informed about the quest and the ranking system.
Soon enough a group of 3 people invite her to join their party as they need one more person in order to go to a nearby cave and kill some goblins. The other adventurers are the same rank as the priestess so seem a little worry but they tell her that everything is alright as they even have a mage in their party.
The group is consisting of 4 people, 1 boy and 3 girls. The boy using his sword to attack, one of the girl her martial arts, the other one fire magic attacks and the priestess uses healing spells. Soon enough they find themselves in the cave with the 2 main fighter of the group to be in front and the other 2 in back as natural.
Here is the interesting part. In the majority of the anime you will expect to see the goblins up front and the human protagonists to completely obliterate them but the author made it a little bit more realistic and hardcore. The goblins have set a trap and suddenly come up from the back and attack the mage.
While the magician manages to kill one they simply take her magic ward and stab a knife in her belly. When the other 2 realize what's going on they run to help their team killing a couple of goblins, but soon a bunch of them literally stab him all over while a hobgoblin (a stronger and taller goblin) stops the martial arts girl.
What happens then isn't another killing but all the goblins are gathered and rape the poor girl(How cruel). The priestess run to save her life while surrounded by 2 goblins and piss herself from the fear. Then a man in armor comes out of nowhere and start brutally killing them.
Long Story short he kills all the goblin with different methods and when he finds the nest that the rape girl is, he also finds some goblin newborns. What he does is brutally killing them to cut the issue from the root while the priestess cry as she now sees and understands the true cruelty of the world.
Is It Worth Watching?
If you like dark style anime with extremely brutal and gore scenes then this anime is the perfect for you. Don't expect to see much of the characters backstory as they die soon :P. Also, don't expect to see what you see in every other anime were the power of friendships, the power of love etc etc beats everything. The author tries to show a realistic point of view to a mmorpg world that everyone imaging as a paradise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aCy0y7Rwg
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The animation is pretty good too with only a tiny bit of CGI that wasn't but at all. Also i went to check the correspondingly chapters of the manga in order to find out if they skipped some of the gore scenes in the anime. They didn't skip a thing!
Rating 9.5/10
The New Anime Season is on and that means that i am gonna spent a considerable amount of time watching then on my PC and sitting on my throne!
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