A guy with the personality of a bland slime becomes a bland slime.
Series in more sentences:
A man is killed in broad daylight and wakes up as a blob of slime in another world. With his basic set of powers, he manages to grow into one of the strongest creatures to roam this strange planet, and with the kindness he shows to other races, earns himself a devoted following.
I loved it, but as the series progressed, it became hard to ignore how unappealing and overpowered the main character was. He ended wars, prejudice, and saved children who were doomed to die and nobody else managed to figure out how to save before he showed up. Jesus Gary Stu Christ.
Being overpowered is not a character killer, but he hardly had a personality to make up for it. He's just your typical witty, helpful leader-person, with the occasional perversion and groaning. But liking sexy women does not make you interesting, spoiler alert.
Everyone fell in love with the guy upon meeting him, while many of the things he did could've easily been misinterpret as an act of villainy. I'm surprised the anime didn't take that route, just to spice things up. But there was no spice, no hardships, and the main character stopped being fun to watch.
For example, he brutally kills someone's father in front of him and later eats a human girl who was last seen to be alive and speaking; yet the son doesn't show a hint of anger towards him, ever, and none of the adventurers who used to travel with the girl questioned the slime's claim she "wanted to get eaten by him".
Who in their right mind would believe someone would make such a demented request? Why did they trust his words? Because of his watery eyes? He could've been a sneaky dictator who killed this girl as his opportunity to aquire a human form, but none of the characters even entertain the possibility.
No matter what this slime does, he can't to do wrong, even when he's being a complete douche. There's this powerful young demon lord he befriends later on, who absolutely adores him, but he more often scolds her than anything else. He doesn't even want to be friends with her because she's nice, but because he wants to stay on her good side, since she's probably one of the few who can rip him to pieces.
I also can't ignore the non-existent romance that was predicted for him by this random elf girl, as if it was going to be this big thing in the series. Supposedly, the human he ate was his one true love -don't even care about spoiling this- but these two only shared a minute together, whereafter she got a seizure and died. There was no relationship, even though he still talks about her as if she made an emotional impact on him.
He has a tighter relationship with the goblin boy he's been mistreating the entire series long. The fact this child could've died at multiple occasions because of his negligence is also shrugged off. Where are his parents? Why is no one angry for him?
The last few episodes were the worst, they could not grab my attention. If the creators had episodes to spare, why couldn't they've expanded on the slime and girl, or the group she travelled with?
The last episode was an extremely boring summary of all that happened and I'd rather read a Wiki page written by a 12-year-old than sit through that again.
If there are more episodes planned, I'll watch and likely enjoy them, but I hope these kind of flaws won't repeat, because they ruined what was otherwise a fantastic series.
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