Good day, everyone. I'm here again 😅.

Watching anime is one of the things I love to do in my free time. I don't like criticizing anime because, whatever way they present it to me, I like to look at the bright side of it. Well, this is kind of hard to look at, although at some point in the series it went on to be interesting.

Early last week, I wanted to watch a movie in my free time, but I don't have any anime at all, which is somewhat odd. So I went to the anime page to search for one to download, and I saw this anime. So I said to myself, Let me watch it. There's one thing I have with series. I don't really like suspense; I always download a full season at once to avoid any form of stress. So I decided to download a full season of this anime.

Review.

Goblin Slayer is an adventure story, particularly centered on a man whose name is "Goblin Slayer," who holds a great grudge against goblins due to past encounters. Despite being a silver-ranked adventurer, he takes missions only related to goblins to be able to eradicate them from the world because he thinks of them as formidable foes that could destroy the world.

There was one other person, a young priestess, who was able to join the adventurer. She found a group of newbies who were really excited about adventuring. They chose the task of eliminating goblins, thinking it would be a straightforward task, only to find themselves overwhelmed and defeated by the goblins. Being a novice herself, she was very afraid and scared. On the verge of being killed by them, she was saved by the goblin slayer. After being saved by the goblin slayer, she felt grateful and wanted to assist him in his adventures. So, later, they became friends, and their adventure began from there. Along the line, they formed groups with other teams, which made them able to face formidable foes in the goblins and others.

There are a lot of reasons why I believe that this anime could have been better.

First, the concepts of goblins, orcs, and adventures have become common concepts in anime, as we've seen in "Reincarnated as a Slime" and other ever-interesting anime, which made it hard for this to look interesting even if it had a good ending. The high taste for those great animes made this movie look average and hard to accept.

Another thing is the level of violence. When starting the first episode, I was quite terrified, to be honest, due to the fact that there were violent acts by the goblins towards people. Men were killed and women were treated unfairly, which first made it hard for me to continue, but I had to summon my courage to continue it because I've already downloaded the whole season and I don't have any other one to watch.

What I was saying is that first impressions last longer, and these scenes that were introduced in the first episode degraded the high expectations I had for the movie.

Apart from the first episode's problems, I found it hard to grasp the concept of the plot even after the fourth episode. Only until the fifth episode was I able to grasp what they were actually trying to pass across; the first four episodes weren't able to live up to what I expected.

But after the sixth to seventh episode, the anime got interesting after they were able to form groups with other members; this went on to be interesting till the end of the movie. But it's a little too late for me. This has been one of those animes with the slowest start. I was only able to be patient enough. If I hadn't waited, I could probably not recommend it to anyone. But seeing it through to the end, I was able to leverage everything together to give it an average.

Season 2 is still currently airing, even though season 1 was quite average. I have high expectations for season 2 because I understood some parts of season 1 and the suspense that was in place for season 2, so I had to give it my best shot for season 2. Wish me luck 😅.