That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime

Found the article and my old post about Slime Datta Ken

https://www.intoxianime.com/2018/04/ranking-de-vendas-mangas-mais-vendidos-mar-26-abr-1/

In terms of total sales at the time of the writing of this article,

1. One Piece (to the surprise of no one)

2. Tokyo Ghoul: re

3. Ao no Exorcist

4. Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

5. Diamond in Ace

Slime Datta Ken stands out to me since I had heard it was popular(both LN and manga), but had no idea it was THAT popular. I recognize a lot of other series on there are as well(Shinmai Shimai Gohan, Cardcaptor Sakura, Kimi ni Todoke, Mahoutsukai no Yome, Komi-san, Hi-Score Girl, etc.). To see it stand out like that pleases me a great deal and makes me look forward to the anime...somewhat. My biggest fear is the same fear as with Golden Kamuy and OP. That the sheer popularity of the work causes the people working on the anime to get lazy and complacent with the quality thinking that the sheer popularity of the work will carry it ie, people will still watch since they like it in spite of shitty quality.

edited 24th May '18 7:09:54 PM by doomrider7

Even BETTER Results from back in March.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1723272

4th in Manga beating out MHA, Golden Kamuy, Kimi ni Todoke, Card Captor Sakura, and Ao no Exorcist among others and came in 2nd behind only Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei. That's pretty damn good for a series about an everyday salary man dying from a stabbing who gets reincarnated into a slime in a Fantasy RPG Universe.

Regarding the sales... That's pretty surprising tbh! Then again... It's one of the best Isekai stories out there and its a little bit of a fresh air so yeah... But lets cross our fingers that it wont become terrible

And as for higher expectations or lower expectations that you're saying...Yea, I can relate to you about that

Hmm, I considered this one to be more of average series to be honest. Like, sure its better than most isekai, but it still starts with two cliches that annoy me: Character getting major power up too fast(even if they don't actually become the strongest being in setting which does offset that cliche) and the "Hey, the best skill you could have in fantasy world is jrpg style ability to examine stats and items" thing. There is also that pretty much everyone who isn't villain is really fast friends with the main character. Like, seriously, its something that annoys me in lot of isekai and power fantasies, its not just that main character is powerful they are popular too, no personality conflicts with anyone else or anything like that.

Like, its good enough to be good I guess, but its not really anything special, I've read enough isekai to know what the most of bad stuff is like and what rare genuinely good to great isekai there are, I didn't really get impression that this is one of them even though its focus on city building and such does give it more of identity.

Well opinions differ I guess so I think its alright if its series is not your cup of tea and consider it a bit average...

Speaking of manga sales... I wonder what kind of rank that TSSK placed right now for April-May manga sales?

I like it because it's more of a cerebral type of skill. He still needs to know how to best apply the skills. And people becoming fast friends with him are due to various circumstances. The monsters due to him being the strongest, they gravitate to him as their king of sorts(Dog Eat Dog world as gets stated early on) on top of him being a benevolent ruler who names just about everyone that comes to him. The Drawf king due to him being a rather curious individual capable of crafting amazing works(Full Heal potions and Magic Swords) easily on top of the previous. And Milim due to her basically being a kid and him an adult and knowing exactly how to cater to her whims to befriend her.

I'm curious about that as well. Will look into it. Odd that I've not found as much stuff about the upcoming anime since while it's only starting to be Summer, you'd think a bit more info would be getting drip fed.

Edit: Found this ranking list.

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1507334

edited 24th May '18 11:15:15 PM by doomrider7

Thing is though, having powerful friends is another way to be over powered. Like, doesn't matter if you can't beat everyone if you have friend who is very willing to do it for you

That is true, yeah. I don't mind a good power trip fantasy (I actually quite liked Death March specifically because of that), but it really depends on handling. Death March was good for that because most of the problems Satu ran into were not ones he could just Meteor Storm away; compare Problem Children, which solves every single problem by having the incredibly unlikeable main character punch it until it breaks.

edited 24th May '18 11:40:30 PM by RedSavant

This. I've kind of dropped that one and need to get back into it. Things get a bit messier and more complicated later on, but I've yet to fully read that far into things so I can't fully comment. With regards to having powerful friends, Milim can't exactly help due to the power truce between all of the other Overlords(I'm just gonna use the Disgaea term). This gets brought up when we first meet her and the other Overlords after the Orc Lord event.

Edit: As stated earlier, while I'm not great at creating them, I can help with the Tropes page. It just feels like it should have by now given it has an anime incoming soon.

edited 25th May '18 12:25:32 AM by doomrider7

Mmmm.... Youre referring into Tensei Shittara right? Interesting thought have to admit it will be a bit hard to follow.

Also, its pretty interesting that Tensei still held the 3rd position behind SAO and Aria which is alright IMO.

And I thought that Death March was famous for its food porn

edited 25th May '18 12:24:33 AM by ElfenLiedFan90

I meant as in dropped Death March. Need to get back into that one.

Yeah some of the later arcs get complicated and Rimuru can't really "Power" his way through them per se for various reasons it seems(the wiki is REALLY rough).

Edit: Have heard REALLY mixed things about SAO. Like the Justin Bieber of anime(it's massive popularity does not change the fact that the quality is poor). Aria I'm familiar with, but not it's status of consideration in the fandom.

edited 25th May '18 12:34:03 AM by doomrider7

Ah alright that makes sense ...Having seen Death March the anime version and it was meh as shit... Thought I'll give them credit that at least they're explain their world building a little bit and so many food porns in there sooooo yeh...Wonder if the novel is worth reading though

Alright back on track... Speaking of complicated arc. Hmmm... I really need to read the manga first to know what will Rimuru and co will do in the future

I will definitely watch Tensei when it comes out, but for now I think I'll probably be sticking with I'm A Spider, So What as my main manga for this kind of thing, given that it's basically exactly the same setup. I will admit that this is because I find Spider's protagonist more interesting; she does get some of the 'analysis is the most overpowered skill' power boost, but she also faces a bunch of obstacles, and tends to end up getting smacked down every time she thinks she's hot shit and gets careless.

I do like the setup for Tensei, though. Definitely going on my watch list.

Eh there is another manga that is just like Tensei... Interesting. How was it by the by? And yeah, this anime (Tensei) is still on my watchlist regardless even if the reputation of the polarizing reception for the studio itself.

I enjoyed it more than Tensei, but I've also read much more of it (there are four volumes out for Spider). So it's hard to say how things compare to later Tensei developments.

Spider one is pretty good mostly because its not power fantasy, MC is actively working through the hierarchy.

That said, since isekai genre are based on web novels were someone just does different version based on another version they saw, there is also isekai where someone gets turned into baby dragon(with same sort of leveling up mon game style and choosing which evolution to go through) and one that wasn't isekai but was pretty similar that had jrpg style fantasy world where mc was random adventurer who turned into a skeleton and then started killing monsters to transform into ghoul :p

Basically, you can be successful as an isekai author and you don't even really have to bother filing the serial numbers off.

Have skipped ahead and read some stuff from the WN and stuff is set to heat up a LOT in the upcoming arc of the manga which would be...Volumes 4 and 5 of the LN or there about. Not gonna post due to spoilers, but a lot of stuff happens that's gonna have some lasting impact.

Edit: Reading some of this stuff is making me nervous about the anime since it's both BADASS and deserves a good budget to make it look as awesome as possible.

edited 26th May '18 12:34:58 AM by doomrider7

Ouch... Seems that I'm too late to make the page. Ah well, I could contribute it in other ways Hopefully the anime could get released so that I could know more which tropes that match this serius pretty well.

Eh... not really "just like", no. They're similar in that they're both Isekai series with a twist that the protagonist is reincarnated as a non-human beings, but aside from that they're very different.

Kumo Desu is pretty much just one constant Level Grinding marathon with not much else to it. Kumoko is pretty much the only character, as she doesn't really interact with other sentient beings and the whole text in the story is just her monologue. The whole story is just her going from one area to another, fighting, leveling up and moving on. It's really repetitive and frankly gets pretty dull rather quickly. It's hardly comparable to Tensei, which is just as much if not more so about characters, exploring the world, politics etc, as it is about Rimmuru getting stronger.

You know, Shlugo, I think we now have enough data points to prove conclusively that you're me from a bizarro dimension where all my tastes are completely inverted. I do agree that how much someone likes Kumo Desu Ga is almost 1:1 with how much they like Kumoko as a character, though.

I mean if we're ignoring the fact that Kumo isn't the only character the series focuses on, sure. The novels explicitly have sections narrated by other characters such as Shun and Julius.

edited 4th Jun '18 5:52:53 PM by Chariot

The manga so far is very Kumoko-focused, yeah. There are some sections about the one who was turned into a lizard, but only in the tankobon as bonus chapters, I think?

Not gonna lie, it's made getting into the novel around the time Kumoko makes it back to the upper layer pretty slow going.

New visuals have been released:

https://youtu.be/bXCCKubabe0

Screeeeeeee.... Cant wait to see this on-air. But yea... Rimuru's voice could get grating to some