English Dub Review: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime “Benimaru’s Ordeal”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Rimiru meets with an arriving party of Tengus, among them Momiji, who is out to get Benimaru’s heart.

OUR TAKE

I guess we’re still spinning our wheels with this whole festival thing and talking with a bunch of other parties to solidify relations with other countries or something. As we finish the second third of the season, I can’t help but feel like the pacing and structure of how both this arc and the arc before have really ended up hurting it, but I can only hope that the remaining eight episodes can right that as things move forward. Oh yeah, and we have yet another recap episode coming up, something I thought we had somehow managed to save ourselves from for the remainder, but alas we were not so lucky and will deal with that when the time comes. Still, that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the fun every now and then, such as in this episode. Since I went through the first two seasons at such a breakneck pace, I admit I didn’t really keep track of all the love dodecahedrons that have no doubt popped up for certain characters as the story has progressed, aside from that at least a few women (and men, including Diablo) are madly in love with Rimiru.

So, I’m actually quite glad that this episode mainly focuses on Benimaru of all people for once, since he (and frankly a lot of the other ostensibly main cast) have tended to blend into the background until it’s time for a fight. I was similarly glad when Shuna got her own solo fight late last season because it gave her the spotlight for the first time in what seemed like forever, and same for what I HOPE will happened for Shion if we get to see her train those kids from last episode. For Benimaru, it’s apparently because he himself has also built up quite a roster of combat competent women who are pursuing him romantically, which understandably exasperates him, especially when one of them is only fifteen. But it at least gets a funny group discussion among those who are caught lacking any maidens, which is quite a few of them, though I really didn’t need a further reminder of how completely bloated this show’s cast has become.