Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (WN)

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Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 1503 votes)
5 | 62% (925 votes) |
4 | 19% (279 votes) |
3 | 9% (136 votes) |
2 | 4% (66 votes) |
1 | 6% (97 votes) |
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2013
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
Main Story:
14 Volumes / 256 Chapters (Completed)
Side Story:
2 Volume / 47 Chapters (Completed)
14 Volumes / 256 Chapters (Completed)
Side Story:
2 Volume / 47 Chapters (Completed)
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Completely Translated
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Weekly Rank: #7146Monthly Rank: #4602
All Time Rank: #110
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On 27177 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #145
All Time Rank: #7
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A man is stabbed by a robber on the run after pushing his coworker and his coworker’s new fiance out of the way. As he lays dying, bleeding on the ground, he hears a voice. This voice is strange and interprets his dying regret of being a virg*n by giving him the [Great Sage] unique skill! Is he being made fun of?!!
Piccoma Award 2021
Associated Names
One entry per lineRegarding Reincarnated to Slime (WN)
Tensura (WN)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (WN)
关于我转生后成为史莱姆的那件事简介
転生したらスライムだった件 (WN)
Tensura (WN)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (WN)
关于我转生后成为史莱姆的那件事简介
転生したらスライムだった件 (WN)
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Or maybe that’s just because the MC got lucky in this timeline and he got completely annihilated in the other timelines.
The author has really made some weird decisions, making the MC gender-less, while having a romance tag? The MC doesn't interact romantically with the females at all. Heck, he even got a Great Sage title for being virg*n at 37, but he is born gender-less? Also the author is inconsistent with his rating (violence, s*x etc.) The author is clearly against violence and mu*der. Some chapters/arcs the MC kills a lot of dudes. But others the story is made for kids, hit 'pet' dragon rampaged in an entire country in the past, but luckily didn't kill anyone? How is that even possible, a giant dragon rampaging without taking a single life, it's extremely weird and I stopped reading after that. Also the author put in pointless sex-references with Hinata and her partner. The MC doesn't get any action, why would you only let one side character get actions?
Enough rambling by me.
I first started reading Tensei Slime well before the anime adaption, and probably when the novel had around...50 chapters? The beginning of the novel is fine. You could even call it pretty good. However, as the novel progresses, the power creep just keeps on coming and coming, and you wonder if it'll ever stop. It really doesn't.
Many webnovels suffers the fate of going from lvl 1 to OP tier way too fast, and as we all know, there needs to be a decent balance to a novel for it to be good. Tensei Slime has the actual worse power management with characters and plot. Characters don't "progress." They get absurdly OP within a span of tens of chapters. Coincidentally, they're also all characters on the "good side." Pair this along with "magic science/technology" (Literal 5th grade science, makes you wonder why other people that transmigrated didn't come up with anything) Rimuru's "country" becomes absolutely unstoppable very quickly. In the end, Rimuru and all his subordinates are extremely OP, and there's literally no opposition to speak of. Rimuru is the player, everyone else are NPC's at his whim. It's extremely sad. Super high level existences become a mere nuisance for Rimuru to deal with.
Rimuru wins fights against entire armies. "Wars" are fought yet it's a complete wipeout and surrender from the enemy with 0 causalities on Rimuru's "good" side. Prisoners and neighboring countries integrate within his territory. Subordinates are empty husks that serve as plot armor for Rimuru. There is no sort of struggle that Rimuru or his comrades ever have to deal with. They just plow through with their OP abilities. "Peace" is then achieved, Japanese culture keeps on getting integrated. Random tourist attractions get added.
What I'm basically saying is that this webnovel has no sense of balance in story, characters, world building. Rather, it seems like the author is just making a wish fufillment novel of a bland japanese man that transmigrated and got spoon fed until he became the strongest in the world. Then, he pretends to be righteous in all his actions and integrates his own culture into his own country with decisions and actions that have the maturity of a ten year old. Rather than have an interesting plot, it's more of a formula of getting strong--->"formidable enemy, " can't win------->MC gets op ---------> wins effortlessly. Other than developing Rimuru's subordinates, every other character and place gets a few sentences of flavor text because they're obviously not important and will get taken over by Rimuru's army eventually. This novel is too boring because everything is so easy. I get that it's imaginary, but this novel is like a game I used to play with my friend when I was in second grade. "I have a super death laser that will kill anyone." "Well, I have a super shield that blocks everything!" "Well, my sword can cut down your super shield and also warp space and time... etcetc." Yeesh. My rants been going on long enough.
The only thing left for me to talk about is comparing this novel to Overlord. Overlord also has a transmigrated MC with OP subordinates, yet the difference is stark. Subordinates are extremely loyal to MC, yet they also have distinct personalities that you eventually get to learn of after having multiple character building arcs that barely involve the MC at all. Tons of world building is included, so you get to learn about other territories despite them seemingly being unable to have any chances of beating Ains Ooal Gown. Many weak side characters that are important to the plot are fleshed out, either supporting Ains or against him. The novel is slow paced, yet as a result, it feels extremely satisfying when big events happen. When a war happens, there are volumes and volumes of exposition behind it. Politics are actually a thing in Overlord, despite one side being absurdly more powerful than the other. There are mysterious characters and forces that actually might rival the OP MC and his gang so it;s not a complete steamroll. You care about characters dying (which tends to happen quite a bit). You aren't killing the random king of weak kingdom A, you're killing the king of Re-Estize, who dearly loves his kin, has reasons to not surrender, cares for the kingdom, is sorrowful for the loss of his Guardian Knight, and despite not being the smartest, still tries his best at managing the kingdom to his last breath. This is the difference. Not setting or character difference. But worldbuilding, plot, and good pacing.