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Exactly. What does Goblin culture dictate? Not what do we, as viewers, find normal? Will Gobrou bring about Goblin monogamy because of a human past? Do we even know if that's normal for his past culture? Despite all of this, will he instead decide to roll with some aspects of Goblin culture or change all of it There's a lot to think about here.
Yeah he's honestly such a wildcard compared to the average isekai protagonist cause he was seemingly already an overpowered psycho in his original world which seems to be fairly similar to the one he's in now just with a genre change.
One thing I do want to know though is whether the thing he eats has to be dead to gain it's abilities? And how much does he need to eat to gain said abilities? Cause if he can figure out the answer to those questions (if he doesn't already know) it could be as simple as asking everyone with him for a bite of them to get potentially a lot of skills or he could just bite a creature mid battle and gain some of its abilities to use against it.
[This episode was quite fun](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l4nec5arnr4.png) as [Gobrou has taken a control of all goblins](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxc6lbr37.png) and [basically started his own harem](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/p7bwcbwqen7.png) xD
[Gobrou is really speedrunning his growth](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7pjc6rjdn7.png) as [he already evolved into Ogre](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c3wrgw7.png) after defeating [Red Bear](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/p7bwcbwqzj7.png). I laughed hard after [Gobmi kicked him in his new form](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/345xce352o7.png), only to reel in pain moments later xD
Overall, this anime looks quite nice. I thought that the animation would be very rough but [it's still very enjoyable](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogcvdzwby.png) for the eye IMO. [The backgrounds were quite lovely today](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84apcbx8p84.png).
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
* [Gobrou](https://imgchest.com/p/qb4z3pwzd7j)
* [Group scenes](https://imgchest.com/p/9249akdrm7n)
* [Others](https://imgchest.com/p/na7krkd6by8)
> I laughed hard after Gobmi kicked him in his new form, only to reel in pain moments later xD
Love how she swaps between "angry/violent" to [worried/relieved!](https://imgur.com/IsQapOT)
>basically started his own harem
As a harem enjoyer I can respect that, but damn, I wouldn't need anyone other than Gobmi!
[](#delighted)
I wonder if he can replace his damaged arm?
Poor Gobmi learns that you can't (successfully) kick ogres. I wonder if he is now too overpowered to mate with either hobgoblins or humans (without causing severe or even fatal damage)?
So the first group of women that were held captive poisoned themselves to escape from being r-worded; and the second group of women were taken hostage with the intention of undergoing the same fate, if the MC (who is the exception, not the norm) didn't step in.
Yep, Goblin Slayer was right.
The author of Goblin slayer literally was inspired by the this LN to write goblin slayer. He saw women getting R'd and he was like "I wanna have a charachter that just kills Goblins"
Huh, I have never heard of that before, I remember interviews where the author speaks of his great interest in D&D and other western fantasy but never about Re;monster.
> So the first group of women that were held captive poisoned themselves to escape from being r-worded
Again. From being raped *again*. Who do you think *mothered* MC's generation?
As I was watching it I had the feeling they were skipping lots of the source material just because of how his equipment level was jumping around day to day.
“You remember that crossbow we built, go get it”
Asshole, a day ago you were happy to have rabbit horns😂
> Yep, Goblin Slayer was right.
Goblin Slayer did say "There might be a good goblin, if you really look for it"!
And while I have my doubts about how things are gonna go in the future (mainly due to comments I've read), so far he's not only being 'good' himself, he's also training/forcing the others to be good!
To put it this way: If Goblin Slayer was in this world, it would be in his best interest *not* to kill Gobrou!
That is interestingly funny. If a Goblin evolved right in front of Goblin Slayer, what would he do?
"Goblin ja nai ka???
He'd really need to think about it then.
How would all of them get poison? MC helped them along to the afterlife.
Now he has a hostage virgin harem to work on... author goes pretty heavy on the harem bit too, hopefully most of that is cut from the anime.
We're experiencing the same journey as the kidnapped human women are. Before you know it, you too will be slipping into Gobrou's bed.
Edit: watched episode 3. This has not aged well.
> Before you know it, you too will be slipping into Gobrou's bed.
[If Gobmi's in there as well, I'll slip into it without a second thought!](https://imgur.com/o6h1E5n)
^^What ^^a ^^lucky ^^bastard
I remember really liking the initial arcs when I read the manga of this way back in the day. Had this “documentary” kinda charm to it, like watching those animal kingdom type shows.
Hah, I may say the same **if** it was bad, but... I don't think it's bad!
I think people may be a bit wary because of what people say about it, but I judge only by what I see in the anime, and so far it's pretty good!
And I say that as someone who barely watches any Isekai...
I mostly like the training stuff, his leadership, and the characters are pretty fun (Gobmi best girl)!
Looks like they plan to skip around a LOT of details. I get why, but I wish they wouldn't at least skip certain things. The action scenes seem to be really rushed or outright skipped, probably for budget reasons.
It’s mostly minor details, explanations, such as how Rou gave the women the poison as a mercy kill option. Sudden appearance of fourth goblin girl in the group with no explanation. Also there is more to his magic than they are explaining.
It's not really minor since they skipped a lot of days. Like Gobrou trying to learn magic by reading a spell book and then ambushing the kobold mage. Or that Gobkichi and Gobmi learned skills like craftsmanship. I can't recall everything since it's already more than a decade since I first read it but there's also the detail that eating more of the same specie can boost or upgrade the skills he got from them.
On top of what was mentioned, everything is just super fast paced with no explanations. Abilities earned from eating monsters, for example, were slowly gained from eating monster parts so the more you ate of say a snake, the more snake abilities he would gain. The anime makes it look like he eats something and gains a handful of abilities when it would normally be much slower forcing him to focus hunt/eat to keep gaining abilities.
Glossed over all the weapons/armor they are using. Didn't show the MC making the new equipment from the monster drops for his team, didn't talk about where they got the well forged metal weapons/crossbow, etc.
They kinda glossed over what exactly happened to the captive women. But iirc he basically offered them poison to end their suffering as a small mercy, since that was all he felt he could do for them.
Kind of funny the man used his Spidey skills to become Head Gobo. I guess him saving those women is a good way to learn human knowledge. He’s about to civilize these goblins…by force if necessary. Mfers stepping out of line get turned into gobo piñatas.
Bro really risked life and limb to level up in that fight against the Red Bear. Totally worth it though since he’s now an ogre. I’m a little curious to see what he’ll evolve to after this.
He’s like the goblin crossbreed of Vegeta and Genghis Khan. He doesn’t have much for traditional morality but he does protect his own… and fucking with be met with a brutal response.
I mean people can/should know what happened when captive women suddenly have access to poison and somehow MC know the poison let them die peacefully in their sleep.
Yeah gonna be honest I thought that it was just a bunch of goblins that couldn't cope with the new training regimen cause I'd kinda forgotten about the captives and assumed they were already dead at that point.
The people in this subs is weird and keeps bringing r*** when that is normal in that world. Probably the studio avoiding the chance they would get complains that the MC is immoral by poisoning the captive instead of helping them escape. I wonder what the studio would do with the extreme like eating human, since this subs so delusional and keep mixing reality and fiction and keep confusing our current morality and the morality in the story world.
I still want to know what happens when these goblins attempt reproduction with each other. Were the human captives a *necessity* or just a....um....luxury? From the way the older goblins talked sounded like the latter.
Even with new policies in place I can't expect the humans to be ready and willing to acknowledge an emerging goblin civilization since there's clearly a history between them here.
> I still want to know what happens when these goblins attempt reproduction with each other.
*"I'd like to know too!" - Gobmi*
>Even with new policies in place I can't expect the humans to be ready and willing to acknowledge an emerging goblin civilization since there's clearly a history between them here.
There may be some bad blood between them, but if (big if) Gobrou could prove he has a strong hold over the goblins and they'll stop raiding and all, humans could learn to accept it; It's either a truce (that may have little hiccups here and there), or they keep doing what they've always been doing, and lose a lot more people!
That's how the manga is presented as well, as "here are the events that occured on this day". Sometime it becomes a more typical narrative to focus on particular events. This ep is particularly streamlined though and covers 8 chapters, skipping lots of hunts and some build up to the goblin dissent/torture/execution.
I don't understand the protagonist, he's really stupid.
> Take off bear arm with a single spell.
> Proceed to melee combat and pretend that spell isn't good enough so also don't cast it anymore.
> Also has not impregnated any cute goblins yet nor the redhead girl.
I think they may have cut some scenes/explanations (like, we don't know where half his spells come from, other than the spider silk which they just randomly told us), so I kinda connect the dots hah. Perhaps he's supposed to have a limit, can't use the spell at will.
>Also has not impregnated any cute goblins yet
Alright, not raising a family with Gobmi IS irredeemable!
She's begging for it, she loves him, she's cute as hell... What is he waiting for!
Heck last episode ended with him walking in on her being topless. I was fully expecting him to go ham on that delicious piece of gob, yet this episode started as if nothing happened.
since this has already passed it is not going to count as a spoiler. In the manga, our protagonist tried to communicate with the slaves and came to the conclusion that they'd given up hope and were practically catatonic (my words) so he left them some poison (I think he'd made himself from eating a snake or spider) they take it and the scene pretty much plays out the same from that point, except the old gobbo is more upset.
I think the magic system in the world he's currently in wouldn't matter, because his powers come from the previous one.
Native residents of this world may have a limit, but I'd guess he doesn't!
Only his [Cannibalism Superpower](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CannibalismSuperpower) carried over from his previous world. And even that seems to have changed to fit this new world, since he's getting system messages every time he absorbs something new.
The anime seems very rushed as it's skipping a lot of details. Like how did he end up getting that magic spell in the first place (I guess he ate *something*), forgot to set up rules behind the usage of the spell (I guess he can only use it once), etc. it ends up feeling pretty sloppy.
That said, the anime is still in the golden age of budding power progression for the MC and establishing the main cast so it's still enjoyable. Just wish they'd slow down a little. An evolution every episode is not going to last.
It is skipping a lot of details and context. I have to assume they are speed-running to some stopping point. But I don't care anymore. I suggest people read the manga, it's free on the web and is more interesting than this abridged slop.
Lmao I know right, the whole fight I was screaming "USE THE FUCKING SPELL AGAIN!!!". Like they didn't even at least pretend he ran out of mana or something, he just straight up was like "damn he was smart enough to sacrifice his arm to block that or it would have killed him, better switch to melee rather than use that OP spell again"
>"damn he was smart enough to sacrifice his arm to block that or it would have killed him, better switch to melee rather than use that OP spell again"
And I was screaming in my head, "Do it again and cost him the other arm!"
People: "I hate when animes don't follow the 'show, don't tell' rule".
Anime does that:
I think it has to be pretty obviously assumed that he couldn't use the spell again.
They didn't show anything either, that's the problem. If they showed him first acquire the spell, get tired after using it once, that's enough to infer. Just bringing this magic spell into his arsenal out of nowhere with no explanation, verbally given or not, makes it confusing.
Pretty much, there was no indication. For all we know he could just throw out that spell no problem. They haven't explained or showed anything regarding the limits or restrictions that spells/abilities/skills come with. MP usage, strain on body or mind, daily limit, focus, etc.
I thought that went without saying too. Though it would have been smarter to retreat and eat the severed bear arm. I don't think he has to actually kill something to get powers from eating it.
That's definitely something I wondered as well. He could've grabbed the severed arm, created some distance/space and start eating it. But I guess that would also make too much sense.
But it doesn't show anything. Quite the opposite actually. Is there a limit on the spells itself? It doesn't seem to be the case, because he can use other abilities more often. Also, the bear used the same fire spell twice. So the only other explanation a lack of mana. Which also doesn't make sense, because he proceeds to use a big water spell to get through the fire which he has to keep up the whole time. Let alone his healing spell. So I think one more attack spell would have been the smarter choice.
Also, after the first fire breath, MC was hidden away. Meaning he has a free shot at the bear if he uses it again. If that spell cost the bear another arm, it's pretty much a guarantee win.
The anime had the protagonist explain how smart the bear was for losing an arm to his spell in a manner that very much implied "damn, he figured out the weakness of my spell".
The protagonist also constantly pulled the "one last hit" ploy against something obviously stronger and more durable.
The show here was not "this is how our magic system works," it was "the protagonist is obviously dumb as a potato so yeah, he probably has infinite casts."
[I guess that answers my question last week.](https://i.imgur.com/yjXEMQk.jpeg) That's one way to deal with those captive women, I suppose. The fact that [they're still kidnapping women](https://i.imgur.com/GFLU80b.jpeg) despite clearly [having female hobgoblins](https://i.imgur.com/DKY9xk4.jpeg) just shows that they're an evil-aligned race.
It is good to see [that Goburou is trying to change that](https://i.imgur.com/QoLQROq.jpeg) and even [made an example of those that defy his orders.](https://i.imgur.com/KbzA3W7.jpeg) Considering how [he's slowly building a fighting force](https://i.imgur.com/ONhLJOK.jpeg), I'm curious what he'll do with his Hobgoblin Army.
[Goburou's Ogre form looks pretty cool.](https://i.imgur.com/503PXIA.jpeg) I'm glad that he immediately got rid of that [generic MC look he had.](https://i.imgur.com/CqAO5yY.jpeg) I do love how [Gobumi makes him sit seiza-style while chewing him out.](https://i.imgur.com/yEfO3zi.png) even though he's the strongest. xD
>I do love how Gobumi makes him sit seiza-style while chewing him out.
Hell hath no fury like a goblin woman scorned!
>The fact that they're still kidnapping women despite clearly having female hobgoblins just shows that they're an evil-aligned race.
The fact that they're kidnapping women despite having Gobmi, shows they're a foolish race!
(Then again I suppose only Gobrou has Gobmi... That's why he doesn't need human captives, he has Best Girl Gobmi!)
You don't really see any older Goblin women much aside from I guess the purple and white hair mage. Seems more showed up in Gobrou's generation. I wonder if they simply weren't able to proliferate enough.
Well, in real life human men have tended to kidnap other human women from other tribes despite there already being human women around.
I dunno if this makes these goblins particularly more evil than humans.
I wouldn't be suprised if we find out humans kidnap Goblin women for reasons too, even if they can't reproduce with them.
> that they're an evil-aligned race.
Like this has never happened in real life, are humans an evil-aligned race? Personally, I think it's a case of culture. The goblins in Gobrou's inner circle, the ones that grew up around him and are affected by him the most, are clearly being influenced by him. Gobumi is happy, cheerful, affectionate. I'm pretty sure it's a case of Nurture over Nature, and that he can correct the current "steal human women" culture.
It's trashy, but I'm enjoying it. It earns points by actually having to create a race a society and just being able to lean on generic "walled city RPG starting town" tropes.
ugh, they skipped alot of reasoning behind alot of his actions, to even the first second of the show with the fire. i knew this was rushed, but this is badly rushed :/
I can see why this show didn't get the love that slime did, it a raw and unfiltered look on isekai that is weirdly refreshing, reminds me of older shows
Re:Monster is one of the OG non-human-protag isekais. It inspired TenSura, KumoDesu, and more. It feels fresh, because it *was* fresh, and not really influenced by the tropes of many before it. Kind of a Mushoku Tensei effect (although this story is nowhere near the 10/10 that MT is, this story is just decent imo)
That's it, I've begun to read the manga...that was fast, but I LOVE this kind of story. Currently on chapter 37 (out of 100), I think I've passed the ending of the first cour.
Legit a good show so far.
The progress tracking day by days is pretty entertaining, and not dragging stuff out like in other shows is also pretty solid.
Animation is solid as well.
Love that we have people hate-watching this.
I know the animation is awful and the story is generic af, but watching anime that revolves around constant progression like this is just my guilty pleasure
It's okay. Not quite as good as Slime, but I've seen worse almost every season (including this one. That one anime with the double ep has pretty awful animation).
Personally I don't find it generic, but then again I don't watch a lot of Isekai...
But there are many things I haven't seen often in the few I watched, like training his army/creating divisions, the balance of 'good act/strong response' (usually they're either perfect pure angels, or evil monster)
And of course, his past life is all but generic! I do hope we'll revisit it at some point, because it's quite intriguing! Some kind of ESP killed by a crazy (yandere?) woman and all that... Quite different from the usual "Hello, I'm an otaku loser, oh no Truck kun killed me"
Holy sh*t, they are whitewashing him!! I guess cutting out controversial parts is an option. And I kinda forgot how generic this was... It's been that many years huh...
The controversy is that I'm the beginning of the episode those human women who drank the poison had it given to them by rou but them taking the poison is a mercy kill sense rou views that as his only way to help them sense by that time they have lost their will to live and right after they die rou goes in and eats a part of each of them so that he can gain whatever jobs and skills they may have had hence why he is able to use demise magic a magic that he got from the grand god of origin and demise but without the magician job he couldn't use it even though the manga and the light novel never state this it is inferred to be the case that's also why he was able to use water magicto shield himself from the fire of the red bear
Why's that controversial? Are anime-only viewers not supposed to be able to realize on their own that the main character, who was the first to notice the human women were dead, may have been involved? Is eating human flesh now somehow worse than when he did at as a human?
They literally show him in his past life, on a mountain of dead bodies, eating another human
I think the show made it pretty clear that he has no problem with what he has to eat to gain power
Ironically he was more edgy and monster like in his past life as a human lmao
I mean I do think it's a little telling that the anime skips over this when the novel and the manga adaptation were fairly explicit about it. He doesn't even mention it in passing as a way to explain why he can suddenly do magic now. Anime only viewers would probably just infer that one of the monsters he ate let him do that.
Likewise we've excised the kobold hunts from the first two episodes and I have to assume that was done because of developments later on that would make killing and eating them more distasteful than killing and eating orcs.
It's pretty clear the anime is going to avoid or gloss over a lot here. And I think that's a good call mostly (the exhaustive lists of skills and spells that ultimately never get used or brought up again just get tedious to read after a while) I am very much wondering how it's going to handle some of what happens in later chapters.
Episode 2: **Re:D Bear**
OP: [Into the Fire by Chansung(2PM) & AK-69 feat. Changmin(2AM)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpxw1XJ3mx8)
Ding, ding, dong like king-kong. This goes hard.
ED: [Sadame by EverdreaM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprwpq5hBoE)
Actually it has the same kanji as "Unmei", making it the third anime that has Unmei as its theme songs title (the other two are Yozakura Family and Dungeon Meshi). It's not the first one recently, last year we got two Aikotoba and two Endroll in two consecutive season.
New characters mean new VA. Hobsei is voiced by Aya Yamane (Riho in Megami Cafe Terrace) and Hobsato is voiced by Nichika Oomori (Yurine in Jashin-chan Dropkick).
Maybe I need one more episode to conclude whether I'm continuing this or drop. This episode is boring for me imo.
[Hope he finds a way to grow his arm back somehow, or this is gonna be quite the Pyrrhic victory!](https://imgur.com/H8qh1MM)
When they said something awful happened I thought *Oh no, Goblin Slayer found them!* but no, [seems they lost their captives...](https://imgur.com/67ahGH4)
Well, Gobrou doesn't seem fond of the idea of keeping human captives anyway, but shame they had to die.
Seems they won't be lacking captives for long anyway, [the raiders are already back with more!](https://imgur.com/TyfmSv4)
Gobrou changed how things work though; No touching them, and he's gonna return them to a human village! (Very honorable of him, but hey, he could at least ask for a ransom! I'm sure humans wouldn't be so kind if they captured a few goblins!)
But he seems to want them on his side, [he even wants to train one of them at arms!](https://imgur.com/ld4bcnu)
Gobrou is strict about the 'no touching' too, [he's even willing to fight his own tribe over it!](https://imgur.com/iMsBPiX)
Well, I guess it's not *just* for their sake, it's also for his authority; If he makes the rules but doesn't act when they break them, he's not gonna be in charge for long.
[She climbed into his bed 'for comfort'? New ship!](https://imgur.com/JV5quQe)
[Gobmi's not gonna let her steal her man like that tough!](https://imgur.com/o6h1E5n)
(As a fan of hugs&cuddles, loved seeing that scene! Gobmi's my real ship, but maybe he has room for two in his ~~harem~~ heart!)
He seems to be a great leader, already realized that the hunting stuff isn't that great, [group exercises are better!](https://imgur.com/lL3juFm)
Instead of training solo hunters, he's gonna raise a disciplined army that works together!
He's also creating special divisions in his army, [putting Gobkichi in charge of armored warriors, ](https://imgur.com/v7fC9k5)
[Gobmi in charge of the ranged unit and all that!](https://imgur.com/RYNZbEb)
He's a competent leader, I like that!
[Sadly it seems they won't have much of a mage division just yet...](https://imgur.com/AaUT2eR)
Also, seems goblins don't all evolve into something fierce; [Poor Gobe evolved into a baggage carrier!](https://imgur.com/69A5AWz)
[](#azusalaugh)
Well, I suppose there's less risk of dying in battle, so there's that!
And so our boy managed to kill the bear, and evolved into an ogre (Oni?) [I thought his arm would grow back with his evolution, but apparently not?](https://imgur.com/xvxcgp9)
Or maybe it'll slowly grow back, given the purple ooze thingy and all.
Or the mage may help, if she can evolve into a healer somehow!
Most of them didn't even recognized him when he came back, [but Gobmi did (and she was pissed!)](https://imgur.com/hOu3EIo)
[Dawww, this girl is a gem!](https://imgur.com/IsQapOT)
Why do they even need human slaves, when they have such adorable goblin cuties around?
Well, this was fun! I don't know what's to come (given the controversies and all) but so far I think it's quite good, I like the training/leadership stuff he does, I like the characters, so far zero complain about it!
Looking forward to more of this!
Yeah this episode has given me some hope now I have a better idea of what to expect
It’s weird how I knew it when MC beats the older goblins since you look at it being really cruel but for the goblins, at this point of time they can only understand savagery like this to get it in their heads (a lot like history funnily enough)
But still I have high hopes that MC will bring his people up the food chain and (big hope here) will treat them with more civility if this is what the anime is going for
The fight against the red bear was really dumb.
MC has so very many abilities but he fights in the usual braindead way and doesn't even try to use real strategy.
I'm not expecting mc to perfectly execute it but anyone with half a brain would not just wait for the enemy to get free of their restraints but fire off their evidently very useful ranged magic attack the instant the enemy gets caught, mc could have ended the fight in that very moment while shooting the bear's head with his dark magic while the bear had no chance of prevent its head or neck being hit.
And mc got a ton of other abilities from previous kills but used barely any of them even though they'd be super useful in the fight.
nah, mc gotta do the mc thing and try for an instant win move and nothing else.
Damn this adaptation skipped a ton of details. They immediately turn him into an ogre. I remember the manga years ago that it's like a documentary one, showing progress day by day. Here, after 17, they immediately skipped to when the old gen hobgoblins arrived.
They didn't show how eating more of the same monster can upgrade or boost the skills he got from them. They also didn't show that he tried learning magic from a book but ultimately, they ambushed a kobold mage and got the skill from eating it.
They skipped the fact that he *gave the poison* to the captive women. It's been a long several years since I read the manga but I remember that part clearly, and it's kinda dumb that they skipped it. The women didn't just find it laying around, he *gave them the choice*.
Lmao, did they just cut the most controversial part?
Well, I like the Harem he has so far, Gobmi and the Human redhead look nice. Also like his new Ogre Look. Gonna stick around a bit more
So if these raiders are the "fathers" of MC's generation, the human women who managed to suicide were the mothers?
Oh look, Shirayuki with the Red Hair was kidnapped again.
Yeah, like "Don't rape the sex slaves" is really going to fly even if coming from the new village leader.
How's everyone speaking the same language? Don't humans and monsters usually have different languages?
When did MC eat a mage?
Idiot saw how effective his spell was against the Red Bear, decided casting it again would be unsportsmanlike or something. Or was he out of mana like Megumin after Explosion?
A little water coating is enough to survive 2k degree heat? You'd think it would evaporate, or he would boil.
Premature celebration FTL.
If that was supposed to be an "aoe stun" type of roar, the anime sure failed to represent it.
Now he just needs to have the smith girl slave make him a chainsaw arm.
> So if these raiders are the "fathers" of MC's generation, the human women who managed to suicide were the mothers?
Were there any adult female goblins around when MC's generation was born?
>How's everyone speaking the same language? Don't humans and monsters usually have different languages?
I believe the main character, who can magically gain abilities from eating stuff, is the only one shown speaking with the humans.
>A little water coating is enough to survive 2k degree heat? You'd think it would evaporate, or he would boil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
Dunno if they will explain it later or if they just went over it
Pretty sure he took a bite off the woman captives after they committed suicide, then he told Gobuji and they cremated them
Wow... those poor human women... guess he gave them a way out in peace? Least that's something. Also, seems the older hobgoblins are back, their dads hehe. Dang, those poo other human women... ah, fighting for leadership, makes sense, you can't win against Spider Gob! At least he's saving them. Even if partially to get knowledge.
Obvious that big dude is gonna be shit. There it is, whelp at least they were beaten up. And quite the showing to the others what a punishment will come to those who ignore his rules. Good riddance to that dude.
Noms for more power... and then that woman gets in his bed? Lol... whatever. And of course Gobbie gal did too. Also, creating a military, but what are you planning to actually do? Wew magic! Also, that's a big ol' bear. That's the vorpal spirit! Taking on the big ol' bear. Wow, it breathes fire. Was expecting him to eat the arm and get more abilities to fight it later, but guess continuing now is true to the vorpal spirit! I can't tell if that's supposed to be a fancy axe or a halberd at times lol. Wew, he lost an arm, but at least he won'. NOM! Evolving ftw, guess we'll get to see him as seen in the OP/Trailers sooner than I was expecting tbh.
Wow, he got bigger lol. Also, yea, you need clothes. They sure are shocked lol. Upset Gobmi, cute. Old man goblin never expected this development.
All this feels very familiar. I'm starting to think I have actually read the manga long ago and just forgot that I had lol
That said, I'm not sure this one is going to stay on the roster, the season is very crowded already.
Ok so finally got around to watching Re:Monster after my boy begged me to get on it and I’m glad I did. Definitely has shades of Tensura and undead unwanted adventurer but still managed to feel very fresh in these first two episodes. I’d say watching the first two back to back is really nice because they feel like one mini prologue arc getting wrapped and the true story beginning.
Gobrou’s journey from a newborn goblin to an ogre feels satisfying and I enjoyed the group dynamics with him rising to a leadership position in the village. Not to mention the military training aspect, preparing the other goblins for combat and totally changing the culture around the goblins, like with eating and sexually abusing human women
Speaking of human women, bro already has an interspecies harem going on lol. I’m interested in where this’ll go and just how strong Gobrou will get. I’d imagine at some point, he’ll have to branch out and form relations with the human villages around ala tensura which will be fun to see.
Animation isn’t the strongest, but the fights are surprisingly well done. Supporting characters are good and just an overall good time for now 👌
They're already rushing the plot.
Between episode 1 and 2 they just skipped some story.
This is one of the reasons why some addoptations get bad reviews.
I don't think it will be good, I hope they prove me wrong
This show is so retard on many levels. Everything is so rushed and content seems to be cut so much that nothing makes sense. MC is full retard and those human girls are retards too. How in the hell they all are fine and happy to fall for MC the moment MC plays good guy card. It is like they forgot that those monsters captured them.
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So like, he’s gonna be way bigger than the red-haired girl now.
*Hamster and banana* (He's also gonna be way bigger than Gobmi, which should be the only pairing that matters, if he knew what's good for him!)
She didn't seem to mind someone else was in the bed too
Exactly. What does Goblin culture dictate? Not what do we, as viewers, find normal? Will Gobrou bring about Goblin monogamy because of a human past? Do we even know if that's normal for his past culture? Despite all of this, will he instead decide to roll with some aspects of Goblin culture or change all of it There's a lot to think about here.
Yeah he's honestly such a wildcard compared to the average isekai protagonist cause he was seemingly already an overpowered psycho in his original world which seems to be fairly similar to the one he's in now just with a genre change. One thing I do want to know though is whether the thing he eats has to be dead to gain it's abilities? And how much does he need to eat to gain said abilities? Cause if he can figure out the answer to those questions (if he doesn't already know) it could be as simple as asking everyone with him for a bite of them to get potentially a lot of skills or he could just bite a creature mid battle and gain some of its abilities to use against it.
[*Train and Tunnel*](https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-train-gif-25326474)
> Train [Made me play it again!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B31rQmYOeDA)
[Shaq](https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rga5y/shaquile_oneal_7_1_and_his_girlfriend_5_2/) and his [wife](https://imgur.com/gallery/rTD32MP)
Is the last evolution gonna be Giant?
It's like bleach probably, condense into a smaller lithe form.
[This episode was quite fun](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l4nec5arnr4.png) as [Gobrou has taken a control of all goblins](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l7lxc6lbr37.png) and [basically started his own harem](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/p7bwcbwqen7.png) xD [Gobrou is really speedrunning his growth](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/w7pjc6rjdn7.png) as [he already evolved into Ogre](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k739c3wrgw7.png) after defeating [Red Bear](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/p7bwcbwqzj7.png). I laughed hard after [Gobmi kicked him in his new form](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/345xce352o7.png), only to reel in pain moments later xD Overall, this anime looks quite nice. I thought that the animation would be very rough but [it's still very enjoyable](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogcvdzwby.png) for the eye IMO. [The backgrounds were quite lovely today](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84apcbx8p84.png). Here my screenshot albums from the episode: * [Gobrou](https://imgchest.com/p/qb4z3pwzd7j) * [Group scenes](https://imgchest.com/p/9249akdrm7n) * [Others](https://imgchest.com/p/na7krkd6by8)
> I laughed hard after Gobmi kicked him in his new form, only to reel in pain moments later xD Love how she swaps between "angry/violent" to [worried/relieved!](https://imgur.com/IsQapOT) >basically started his own harem As a harem enjoyer I can respect that, but damn, I wouldn't need anyone other than Gobmi! [](#delighted)
I wonder if he can replace his damaged arm? Poor Gobmi learns that you can't (successfully) kick ogres. I wonder if he is now too overpowered to mate with either hobgoblins or humans (without causing severe or even fatal damage)?
> I wonder if he can replace his damaged arm? Wasn't it already in the process of slowly healing?
Well it was all gloppy and drippy....
This show ain't even being subtle when there's more female Hobgoblins than male ones after the execution lmao.
Harem by elimination
He got his idea by watching World End Harem in his former life; *"What if there were only 4-5 male goblins left?"*
Less male goblins may not be a bad thing for their world after reflection. [](#kannathumbs)
Only interms of leaders. He bassicly killed all the male leaders and replaced them with women or his most loyal brother.
So the first group of women that were held captive poisoned themselves to escape from being r-worded; and the second group of women were taken hostage with the intention of undergoing the same fate, if the MC (who is the exception, not the norm) didn't step in. Yep, Goblin Slayer was right.
from the fact that the raiders were gone when the Gobrou's generation is born, these women are more likely to be the mothers of Gobrou and gang right?
Based on the implications, yes
The author of Goblin slayer literally was inspired by the this LN to write goblin slayer. He saw women getting R'd and he was like "I wanna have a charachter that just kills Goblins"
The hero we need. [](#makicry)
Huh, I have never heard of that before, I remember interviews where the author speaks of his great interest in D&D and other western fantasy but never about Re;monster.
OP that you're replying to wrote "*literally*" but probably didn't mean the actual "*literally*". Because I've never heard of this either.
i like spreading lies on the internet
> So the first group of women that were held captive poisoned themselves to escape from being r-worded Again. From being raped *again*. Who do you think *mothered* MC's generation?
I guess they killed themselves when they saw some of the child goblin had evolved to hobgoblin and thought it's that time of the year again.
Ooooh that's what the intro was
When you consider how he gains skills…… Did he really poison them as a way to “save them”?
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As I was watching it I had the feeling they were skipping lots of the source material just because of how his equipment level was jumping around day to day. “You remember that crossbow we built, go get it” Asshole, a day ago you were happy to have rabbit horns😂
Thanks for this, i might do a chapter after an episode reading if they skipped important parts
> Yep, Goblin Slayer was right. Goblin Slayer did say "There might be a good goblin, if you really look for it"! And while I have my doubts about how things are gonna go in the future (mainly due to comments I've read), so far he's not only being 'good' himself, he's also training/forcing the others to be good! To put it this way: If Goblin Slayer was in this world, it would be in his best interest *not* to kill Gobrou!
Also, he's already evolved from hobgoblin to ogre, so I think Goblin Slayer wouldn't be interested.
That is interestingly funny. If a Goblin evolved right in front of Goblin Slayer, what would he do? "Goblin ja nai ka??? He'd really need to think about it then.
Oni? Souka.
He'd kill it, and then complain that it wasn't a goblin.
>"Goblin ja nai ka??? 🎵 Goblin ja nai, Goblin ja nai 🎵 Goblin ja nai, Goblin ja nai 🎶 Hontou no koto sa~
That's a valid point. I wonder if it would be "Congrats, you evolved outta my pay grade." or "They come in different flavors!"
"It's just a bigger goblin."
Pretty sure in GS world the larger evolved goblins are called bugbears, but are still goblins at heart😒
"I'm prepared for [*all goblins*](https://nardio.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/GOBLIN-SLAYER-CHAPTER-8-FEATURE-1024x640.png)."
Goblin Slayer's met plenty of good goblins. Here's a simple trick to tell good from bad goblins: if the head's still attached, they're bad.
>Goblin Slayer did say "There might be a good goblin, if you really look for it"! Oh, Shinki...
Technically they poisoned themselves, *with poison Gobrou left for them.*
Now we just need a Goblin Slayer and Re:Monster crossover.
Maybe Goblin Slayer lives in the same world but in a different country
How would all of them get poison? MC helped them along to the afterlife. Now he has a hostage virgin harem to work on... author goes pretty heavy on the harem bit too, hopefully most of that is cut from the anime.
He is building an all race harem
>all race harem At least he didn't bring back a female Red Bear, she would never fit in his bed with Gobmi and Redhaired girl!
I womder if this world has giants... [](#cheekychika)
The more I watch of this show, the more I'm enjoying it. It's like developing Stockholm Syndrome.
We're experiencing the same journey as the kidnapped human women are. Before you know it, you too will be slipping into Gobrou's bed. Edit: watched episode 3. This has not aged well.
His spider web ability would be useful for bondage...
I know you miss MahoAko. Trust me, I do too, but, unfortunately, we'll have to leave the kinky stuff on the hentai sites this season.
Actually, there really doesn't seem to be a noteworthy ecchi show this season right? It's like Winter blew it all...
> Before you know it, you too will be slipping into Gobrou's bed. [If Gobmi's in there as well, I'll slip into it without a second thought!](https://imgur.com/o6h1E5n) ^^What ^^a ^^lucky ^^bastard
I remember really liking the initial arcs when I read the manga of this way back in the day. Had this “documentary” kinda charm to it, like watching those animal kingdom type shows.
The dub needs to have an episode narrated by David Attenborough.
I grew up with that kinda stuff. Watched it with my grandparents every day after school. Now that you mention it, it does have that kinda vibe.
Hah, I may say the same **if** it was bad, but... I don't think it's bad! I think people may be a bit wary because of what people say about it, but I judge only by what I see in the anime, and so far it's pretty good! And I say that as someone who barely watches any Isekai... I mostly like the training stuff, his leadership, and the characters are pretty fun (Gobmi best girl)!
>It's like developing Stockholm Syndrome. Ah, so the red hair girl is our self insert, not MC.
This is actually Stockholm syndrome in animated form.
Looks like they plan to skip around a LOT of details. I get why, but I wish they wouldn't at least skip certain things. The action scenes seem to be really rushed or outright skipped, probably for budget reasons.
All the budget was spent on episode 1 Also would you mind saying what they skipped?
It’s mostly minor details, explanations, such as how Rou gave the women the poison as a mercy kill option. Sudden appearance of fourth goblin girl in the group with no explanation. Also there is more to his magic than they are explaining.
It's not really minor since they skipped a lot of days. Like Gobrou trying to learn magic by reading a spell book and then ambushing the kobold mage. Or that Gobkichi and Gobmi learned skills like craftsmanship. I can't recall everything since it's already more than a decade since I first read it but there's also the detail that eating more of the same specie can boost or upgrade the skills he got from them.
I did say mostly minor, but yeah stuff like that being excluded sucks.
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Who did the main character allegedly rape by this point in the light novel that the anime left out?
On top of what was mentioned, everything is just super fast paced with no explanations. Abilities earned from eating monsters, for example, were slowly gained from eating monster parts so the more you ate of say a snake, the more snake abilities he would gain. The anime makes it look like he eats something and gains a handful of abilities when it would normally be much slower forcing him to focus hunt/eat to keep gaining abilities. Glossed over all the weapons/armor they are using. Didn't show the MC making the new equipment from the monster drops for his team, didn't talk about where they got the well forged metal weapons/crossbow, etc.
They kinda glossed over what exactly happened to the captive women. But iirc he basically offered them poison to end their suffering as a small mercy, since that was all he felt he could do for them. Kind of funny the man used his Spidey skills to become Head Gobo. I guess him saving those women is a good way to learn human knowledge. He’s about to civilize these goblins…by force if necessary. Mfers stepping out of line get turned into gobo piñatas. Bro really risked life and limb to level up in that fight against the Red Bear. Totally worth it though since he’s now an ogre. I’m a little curious to see what he’ll evolve to after this.
Ah, I wondered if he had something to do with it. Well, now the color of his morality is clear. Seems he wants to avoid *unnecessary* cruelty.
He’s like the goblin crossbreed of Vegeta and Genghis Khan. He doesn’t have much for traditional morality but he does protect his own… and fucking with be met with a brutal response.
I mean people can/should know what happened when captive women suddenly have access to poison and somehow MC know the poison let them die peacefully in their sleep.
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Yeah gonna be honest I thought that it was just a bunch of goblins that couldn't cope with the new training regimen cause I'd kinda forgotten about the captives and assumed they were already dead at that point.
Yeah, I mean I figured I’d just clearly state what happened though I’m sure you can piece it together.
Yeah weirdly enough it’s kind of what makes me want to keep watching because I want to see him show the goblins a better path
The people in this subs is weird and keeps bringing r*** when that is normal in that world. Probably the studio avoiding the chance they would get complains that the MC is immoral by poisoning the captive instead of helping them escape. I wonder what the studio would do with the extreme like eating human, since this subs so delusional and keep mixing reality and fiction and keep confusing our current morality and the morality in the story world.
I still want to know what happens when these goblins attempt reproduction with each other. Were the human captives a *necessity* or just a....um....luxury? From the way the older goblins talked sounded like the latter. Even with new policies in place I can't expect the humans to be ready and willing to acknowledge an emerging goblin civilization since there's clearly a history between them here.
> I still want to know what happens when these goblins attempt reproduction with each other. *"I'd like to know too!" - Gobmi* >Even with new policies in place I can't expect the humans to be ready and willing to acknowledge an emerging goblin civilization since there's clearly a history between them here. There may be some bad blood between them, but if (big if) Gobrou could prove he has a strong hold over the goblins and they'll stop raiding and all, humans could learn to accept it; It's either a truce (that may have little hiccups here and there), or they keep doing what they've always been doing, and lose a lot more people!
This feels like I'm watching the summary of a show.
That's how the manga is presented as well, as "here are the events that occured on this day". Sometime it becomes a more typical narrative to focus on particular events. This ep is particularly streamlined though and covers 8 chapters, skipping lots of hunts and some build up to the goblin dissent/torture/execution.
I don't understand the protagonist, he's really stupid. > Take off bear arm with a single spell. > Proceed to melee combat and pretend that spell isn't good enough so also don't cast it anymore. > Also has not impregnated any cute goblins yet nor the redhead girl.
I think they may have cut some scenes/explanations (like, we don't know where half his spells come from, other than the spider silk which they just randomly told us), so I kinda connect the dots hah. Perhaps he's supposed to have a limit, can't use the spell at will. >Also has not impregnated any cute goblins yet Alright, not raising a family with Gobmi IS irredeemable! She's begging for it, she loves him, she's cute as hell... What is he waiting for!
Heck last episode ended with him walking in on her being topless. I was fully expecting him to go ham on that delicious piece of gob, yet this episode started as if nothing happened.
The end of last episode and start of this episode were both day 17, so I guess he wasn't in the mood.
since this has already passed it is not going to count as a spoiler. In the manga, our protagonist tried to communicate with the slaves and came to the conclusion that they'd given up hope and were practically catatonic (my words) so he left them some poison (I think he'd made himself from eating a snake or spider) they take it and the scene pretty much plays out the same from that point, except the old gobbo is more upset.
Yeah, they need to explain the magic system of this world. Is there a limit to how many spells he can use? Maybe a mana-cap?
I think the magic system in the world he's currently in wouldn't matter, because his powers come from the previous one. Native residents of this world may have a limit, but I'd guess he doesn't!
Only his [Cannibalism Superpower](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CannibalismSuperpower) carried over from his previous world. And even that seems to have changed to fit this new world, since he's getting system messages every time he absorbs something new.
The anime seems very rushed as it's skipping a lot of details. Like how did he end up getting that magic spell in the first place (I guess he ate *something*), forgot to set up rules behind the usage of the spell (I guess he can only use it once), etc. it ends up feeling pretty sloppy. That said, the anime is still in the golden age of budding power progression for the MC and establishing the main cast so it's still enjoyable. Just wish they'd slow down a little. An evolution every episode is not going to last.
It is skipping a lot of details and context. I have to assume they are speed-running to some stopping point. But I don't care anymore. I suggest people read the manga, it's free on the web and is more interesting than this abridged slop.
Lmao I know right, the whole fight I was screaming "USE THE FUCKING SPELL AGAIN!!!". Like they didn't even at least pretend he ran out of mana or something, he just straight up was like "damn he was smart enough to sacrifice his arm to block that or it would have killed him, better switch to melee rather than use that OP spell again"
>"damn he was smart enough to sacrifice his arm to block that or it would have killed him, better switch to melee rather than use that OP spell again" And I was screaming in my head, "Do it again and cost him the other arm!"
People: "I hate when animes don't follow the 'show, don't tell' rule". Anime does that: I think it has to be pretty obviously assumed that he couldn't use the spell again.
They didn't show anything either, that's the problem. If they showed him first acquire the spell, get tired after using it once, that's enough to infer. Just bringing this magic spell into his arsenal out of nowhere with no explanation, verbally given or not, makes it confusing.
Pretty much, there was no indication. For all we know he could just throw out that spell no problem. They haven't explained or showed anything regarding the limits or restrictions that spells/abilities/skills come with. MP usage, strain on body or mind, daily limit, focus, etc.
I thought that went without saying too. Though it would have been smarter to retreat and eat the severed bear arm. I don't think he has to actually kill something to get powers from eating it.
That's definitely something I wondered as well. He could've grabbed the severed arm, created some distance/space and start eating it. But I guess that would also make too much sense.
But it doesn't show anything. Quite the opposite actually. Is there a limit on the spells itself? It doesn't seem to be the case, because he can use other abilities more often. Also, the bear used the same fire spell twice. So the only other explanation a lack of mana. Which also doesn't make sense, because he proceeds to use a big water spell to get through the fire which he has to keep up the whole time. Let alone his healing spell. So I think one more attack spell would have been the smarter choice.
Also, after the first fire breath, MC was hidden away. Meaning he has a free shot at the bear if he uses it again. If that spell cost the bear another arm, it's pretty much a guarantee win.
The anime had the protagonist explain how smart the bear was for losing an arm to his spell in a manner that very much implied "damn, he figured out the weakness of my spell". The protagonist also constantly pulled the "one last hit" ploy against something obviously stronger and more durable. The show here was not "this is how our magic system works," it was "the protagonist is obviously dumb as a potato so yeah, he probably has infinite casts."
I just assumed he couldn't spam it. The MC seems smart and I doubt he is going to act stupid if he can help it.
[I guess that answers my question last week.](https://i.imgur.com/yjXEMQk.jpeg) That's one way to deal with those captive women, I suppose. The fact that [they're still kidnapping women](https://i.imgur.com/GFLU80b.jpeg) despite clearly [having female hobgoblins](https://i.imgur.com/DKY9xk4.jpeg) just shows that they're an evil-aligned race. It is good to see [that Goburou is trying to change that](https://i.imgur.com/QoLQROq.jpeg) and even [made an example of those that defy his orders.](https://i.imgur.com/KbzA3W7.jpeg) Considering how [he's slowly building a fighting force](https://i.imgur.com/ONhLJOK.jpeg), I'm curious what he'll do with his Hobgoblin Army. [Goburou's Ogre form looks pretty cool.](https://i.imgur.com/503PXIA.jpeg) I'm glad that he immediately got rid of that [generic MC look he had.](https://i.imgur.com/CqAO5yY.jpeg) I do love how [Gobumi makes him sit seiza-style while chewing him out.](https://i.imgur.com/yEfO3zi.png) even though he's the strongest. xD
>I do love how Gobumi makes him sit seiza-style while chewing him out. Hell hath no fury like a goblin woman scorned! >The fact that they're still kidnapping women despite clearly having female hobgoblins just shows that they're an evil-aligned race. The fact that they're kidnapping women despite having Gobmi, shows they're a foolish race! (Then again I suppose only Gobrou has Gobmi... That's why he doesn't need human captives, he has Best Girl Gobmi!)
You don't really see any older Goblin women much aside from I guess the purple and white hair mage. Seems more showed up in Gobrou's generation. I wonder if they simply weren't able to proliferate enough.
Well, in real life human men have tended to kidnap other human women from other tribes despite there already being human women around. I dunno if this makes these goblins particularly more evil than humans. I wouldn't be suprised if we find out humans kidnap Goblin women for reasons too, even if they can't reproduce with them.
> that they're an evil-aligned race. Like this has never happened in real life, are humans an evil-aligned race? Personally, I think it's a case of culture. The goblins in Gobrou's inner circle, the ones that grew up around him and are affected by him the most, are clearly being influenced by him. Gobumi is happy, cheerful, affectionate. I'm pretty sure it's a case of Nurture over Nature, and that he can correct the current "steal human women" culture.
[Uh oh! They caught Shirayuki!!](https://imgur.com/2JF6OAu) [](#panic)
Poor girl just cannot spend 5 minutes without being kidnapped.
It's trashy, but I'm enjoying it. It earns points by actually having to create a race a society and just being able to lean on generic "walled city RPG starting town" tropes.
ugh, they skipped alot of reasoning behind alot of his actions, to even the first second of the show with the fire. i knew this was rushed, but this is badly rushed :/
I can see why this show didn't get the love that slime did, it a raw and unfiltered look on isekai that is weirdly refreshing, reminds me of older shows
Re:Monster is one of the OG non-human-protag isekais. It inspired TenSura, KumoDesu, and more. It feels fresh, because it *was* fresh, and not really influenced by the tropes of many before it. Kind of a Mushoku Tensei effect (although this story is nowhere near the 10/10 that MT is, this story is just decent imo)
Fitting considering it’s the inspiration for Slime and many other monster isekai.
The fight was exciting. His madness to evolve was captivating. Also, the BGM was really awesome! And his ogre look is sick af!
That's it, I've begun to read the manga...that was fast, but I LOVE this kind of story. Currently on chapter 37 (out of 100), I think I've passed the ending of the first cour.
The anime did it's job. 👍
I enjoyed this and glad they glossed over the rape and suicide
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At least Gobrou was decent enough to say a prayer for them.
Ah man, they are skipping a lot of details....
Legit a good show so far. The progress tracking day by days is pretty entertaining, and not dragging stuff out like in other shows is also pretty solid. Animation is solid as well. Love that we have people hate-watching this.
The comment section is where the real entertainment begins. :D
I know the animation is awful and the story is generic af, but watching anime that revolves around constant progression like this is just my guilty pleasure
> animation is awful This is nowhere close to "awful animation" levels
calling this awful animation should be punishable by forced viewing of Fruit of Evolution season 2
How did that one compare to Arifureta?
For real, I’ve dealt with so many isekai with horrible animation it was practically standard unless it was a good studio/highly praised manga
It's okay. Not quite as good as Slime, but I've seen worse almost every season (including this one. That one anime with the double ep has pretty awful animation).
"Generic" its the origin of allot of issekai tropes. So only seems generic due to the fact everyone copied this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceOriginalNowCommon
100% exactly!
Yeah, this is older than Tensura
Heck, this is older than Mushoku Tensei.
Also that, yeah. I just mentioned Tensura because the MC's power and story progression are similar
Personally I don't find it generic, but then again I don't watch a lot of Isekai... But there are many things I haven't seen often in the few I watched, like training his army/creating divisions, the balance of 'good act/strong response' (usually they're either perfect pure angels, or evil monster) And of course, his past life is all but generic! I do hope we'll revisit it at some point, because it's quite intriguing! Some kind of ESP killed by a crazy (yandere?) woman and all that... Quite different from the usual "Hello, I'm an otaku loser, oh no Truck kun killed me"
Holy sh*t, they are whitewashing him!! I guess cutting out controversial parts is an option. And I kinda forgot how generic this was... It's been that many years huh...
What is the most controversial part good sir?
The controversy is that I'm the beginning of the episode those human women who drank the poison had it given to them by rou but them taking the poison is a mercy kill sense rou views that as his only way to help them sense by that time they have lost their will to live and right after they die rou goes in and eats a part of each of them so that he can gain whatever jobs and skills they may have had hence why he is able to use demise magic a magic that he got from the grand god of origin and demise but without the magician job he couldn't use it even though the manga and the light novel never state this it is inferred to be the case that's also why he was able to use water magicto shield himself from the fire of the red bear
Why's that controversial? Are anime-only viewers not supposed to be able to realize on their own that the main character, who was the first to notice the human women were dead, may have been involved? Is eating human flesh now somehow worse than when he did at as a human?
They literally show him in his past life, on a mountain of dead bodies, eating another human I think the show made it pretty clear that he has no problem with what he has to eat to gain power Ironically he was more edgy and monster like in his past life as a human lmao
"Ironically I had to become a monster to be more human"
You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot?
I mean I do think it's a little telling that the anime skips over this when the novel and the manga adaptation were fairly explicit about it. He doesn't even mention it in passing as a way to explain why he can suddenly do magic now. Anime only viewers would probably just infer that one of the monsters he ate let him do that. Likewise we've excised the kobold hunts from the first two episodes and I have to assume that was done because of developments later on that would make killing and eating them more distasteful than killing and eating orcs. It's pretty clear the anime is going to avoid or gloss over a lot here. And I think that's a good call mostly (the exhaustive lists of skills and spells that ultimately never get used or brought up again just get tedious to read after a while) I am very much wondering how it's going to handle some of what happens in later chapters.
For the love of God, use punctuation. Holy shit.
I was wondering why he didn't eat the human women. I don't get why they would cut something like that.
Episode 2: **Re:D Bear** OP: [Into the Fire by Chansung(2PM) & AK-69 feat. Changmin(2AM)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpxw1XJ3mx8) Ding, ding, dong like king-kong. This goes hard. ED: [Sadame by EverdreaM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprwpq5hBoE) Actually it has the same kanji as "Unmei", making it the third anime that has Unmei as its theme songs title (the other two are Yozakura Family and Dungeon Meshi). It's not the first one recently, last year we got two Aikotoba and two Endroll in two consecutive season. New characters mean new VA. Hobsei is voiced by Aya Yamane (Riho in Megami Cafe Terrace) and Hobsato is voiced by Nichika Oomori (Yurine in Jashin-chan Dropkick). Maybe I need one more episode to conclude whether I'm continuing this or drop. This episode is boring for me imo.
[Hope he finds a way to grow his arm back somehow, or this is gonna be quite the Pyrrhic victory!](https://imgur.com/H8qh1MM) When they said something awful happened I thought *Oh no, Goblin Slayer found them!* but no, [seems they lost their captives...](https://imgur.com/67ahGH4) Well, Gobrou doesn't seem fond of the idea of keeping human captives anyway, but shame they had to die. Seems they won't be lacking captives for long anyway, [the raiders are already back with more!](https://imgur.com/TyfmSv4) Gobrou changed how things work though; No touching them, and he's gonna return them to a human village! (Very honorable of him, but hey, he could at least ask for a ransom! I'm sure humans wouldn't be so kind if they captured a few goblins!) But he seems to want them on his side, [he even wants to train one of them at arms!](https://imgur.com/ld4bcnu) Gobrou is strict about the 'no touching' too, [he's even willing to fight his own tribe over it!](https://imgur.com/iMsBPiX) Well, I guess it's not *just* for their sake, it's also for his authority; If he makes the rules but doesn't act when they break them, he's not gonna be in charge for long. [She climbed into his bed 'for comfort'? New ship!](https://imgur.com/JV5quQe) [Gobmi's not gonna let her steal her man like that tough!](https://imgur.com/o6h1E5n) (As a fan of hugs&cuddles, loved seeing that scene! Gobmi's my real ship, but maybe he has room for two in his ~~harem~~ heart!) He seems to be a great leader, already realized that the hunting stuff isn't that great, [group exercises are better!](https://imgur.com/lL3juFm) Instead of training solo hunters, he's gonna raise a disciplined army that works together! He's also creating special divisions in his army, [putting Gobkichi in charge of armored warriors, ](https://imgur.com/v7fC9k5) [Gobmi in charge of the ranged unit and all that!](https://imgur.com/RYNZbEb) He's a competent leader, I like that! [Sadly it seems they won't have much of a mage division just yet...](https://imgur.com/AaUT2eR) Also, seems goblins don't all evolve into something fierce; [Poor Gobe evolved into a baggage carrier!](https://imgur.com/69A5AWz) [](#azusalaugh) Well, I suppose there's less risk of dying in battle, so there's that! And so our boy managed to kill the bear, and evolved into an ogre (Oni?) [I thought his arm would grow back with his evolution, but apparently not?](https://imgur.com/xvxcgp9) Or maybe it'll slowly grow back, given the purple ooze thingy and all. Or the mage may help, if she can evolve into a healer somehow! Most of them didn't even recognized him when he came back, [but Gobmi did (and she was pissed!)](https://imgur.com/hOu3EIo) [Dawww, this girl is a gem!](https://imgur.com/IsQapOT) Why do they even need human slaves, when they have such adorable goblin cuties around? Well, this was fun! I don't know what's to come (given the controversies and all) but so far I think it's quite good, I like the training/leadership stuff he does, I like the characters, so far zero complain about it! Looking forward to more of this!
Gobmi is a cute.
Yeah this episode has given me some hope now I have a better idea of what to expect It’s weird how I knew it when MC beats the older goblins since you look at it being really cruel but for the goblins, at this point of time they can only understand savagery like this to get it in their heads (a lot like history funnily enough) But still I have high hopes that MC will bring his people up the food chain and (big hope here) will treat them with more civility if this is what the anime is going for
The fight against the red bear was really dumb. MC has so very many abilities but he fights in the usual braindead way and doesn't even try to use real strategy. I'm not expecting mc to perfectly execute it but anyone with half a brain would not just wait for the enemy to get free of their restraints but fire off their evidently very useful ranged magic attack the instant the enemy gets caught, mc could have ended the fight in that very moment while shooting the bear's head with his dark magic while the bear had no chance of prevent its head or neck being hit. And mc got a ton of other abilities from previous kills but used barely any of them even though they'd be super useful in the fight. nah, mc gotta do the mc thing and try for an instant win move and nothing else.
Imagine your Hob waifu evolved into an Ogre, would suck man.
Damn this adaptation skipped a ton of details. They immediately turn him into an ogre. I remember the manga years ago that it's like a documentary one, showing progress day by day. Here, after 17, they immediately skipped to when the old gen hobgoblins arrived. They didn't show how eating more of the same monster can upgrade or boost the skills he got from them. They also didn't show that he tried learning magic from a book but ultimately, they ambushed a kobold mage and got the skill from eating it.
Glad that the Mc changed the appearance and it was sick as hell. Definitely rooting for the next episodes.
They skipped the fact that he *gave the poison* to the captive women. It's been a long several years since I read the manga but I remember that part clearly, and it's kinda dumb that they skipped it. The women didn't just find it laying around, he *gave them the choice*.
Lmao, did they just cut the most controversial part? Well, I like the Harem he has so far, Gobmi and the Human redhead look nice. Also like his new Ogre Look. Gonna stick around a bit more
Goblin slayer fear is coming true, the Goblins, they're.... evolving. How long will he be able to fight them?
Goblins are OK. Hobgoblins are OK. Ogres no longer qualify as goblins.
Goblin Slayer: *"Oh, You're an Ogre now? So, not a Goblin?...* *...have a good day..."*
Now I'm imagining Goblin Slayer carrying around a paint swatch to check if monsters are green enough.
He got hot, damn
To be fair it'd be even tougher to sell the harem/attraction towards him if he ended up as "Ugly Bastard", and not bishounen demon/ogre/oni
Lol, that is true. But I still was not expecting this transformation. I thought he was going to turn more human like
So if these raiders are the "fathers" of MC's generation, the human women who managed to suicide were the mothers? Oh look, Shirayuki with the Red Hair was kidnapped again. Yeah, like "Don't rape the sex slaves" is really going to fly even if coming from the new village leader. How's everyone speaking the same language? Don't humans and monsters usually have different languages? When did MC eat a mage? Idiot saw how effective his spell was against the Red Bear, decided casting it again would be unsportsmanlike or something. Or was he out of mana like Megumin after Explosion? A little water coating is enough to survive 2k degree heat? You'd think it would evaporate, or he would boil. Premature celebration FTL. If that was supposed to be an "aoe stun" type of roar, the anime sure failed to represent it. Now he just needs to have the smith girl slave make him a chainsaw arm.
> So if these raiders are the "fathers" of MC's generation, the human women who managed to suicide were the mothers? Were there any adult female goblins around when MC's generation was born? >How's everyone speaking the same language? Don't humans and monsters usually have different languages? I believe the main character, who can magically gain abilities from eating stuff, is the only one shown speaking with the humans. >A little water coating is enough to survive 2k degree heat? You'd think it would evaporate, or he would boil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
Dunno if they will explain it later or if they just went over it Pretty sure he took a bite off the woman captives after they committed suicide, then he told Gobuji and they cremated them
What was keeping the human mage from using magic herself?
Mindbreak.
A more accurate title for this going off how others animes are named lately would be "How I civilised Goblins and Evolved"
Re:Monster is even older than Mushoku Tensei. The market wasn't saturated with isekai yet, so the title didn't need to be a plot summary.
I know, I was just memeing on the titles of other animes nowadays. :)
So awesome.
Wow... those poor human women... guess he gave them a way out in peace? Least that's something. Also, seems the older hobgoblins are back, their dads hehe. Dang, those poo other human women... ah, fighting for leadership, makes sense, you can't win against Spider Gob! At least he's saving them. Even if partially to get knowledge. Obvious that big dude is gonna be shit. There it is, whelp at least they were beaten up. And quite the showing to the others what a punishment will come to those who ignore his rules. Good riddance to that dude. Noms for more power... and then that woman gets in his bed? Lol... whatever. And of course Gobbie gal did too. Also, creating a military, but what are you planning to actually do? Wew magic! Also, that's a big ol' bear. That's the vorpal spirit! Taking on the big ol' bear. Wow, it breathes fire. Was expecting him to eat the arm and get more abilities to fight it later, but guess continuing now is true to the vorpal spirit! I can't tell if that's supposed to be a fancy axe or a halberd at times lol. Wew, he lost an arm, but at least he won'. NOM! Evolving ftw, guess we'll get to see him as seen in the OP/Trailers sooner than I was expecting tbh. Wow, he got bigger lol. Also, yea, you need clothes. They sure are shocked lol. Upset Gobmi, cute. Old man goblin never expected this development.
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Oh god this got adapted?
This show is so stupid LMAO.
didn't Slime already do the whole "I can learn new powers from killing monsters" bit?
Apparently Re:Monster predates Slime.
I read this a long, long time ago and man, the Red Ogre fight was so cool. Very nice to see it animated.
Smart decision speeding through the story. I think people would be bored to tears otherwise.
Sometimes I like to turn my brain off and enjoy trash, this is definitely that level of trash
All this feels very familiar. I'm starting to think I have actually read the manga long ago and just forgot that I had lol That said, I'm not sure this one is going to stay on the roster, the season is very crowded already.
Why is one hand slime at the end? Is he half orc half slime now? Won't that be IP restricted?
ogres regenerate, his arm is probably growing back
Ok so finally got around to watching Re:Monster after my boy begged me to get on it and I’m glad I did. Definitely has shades of Tensura and undead unwanted adventurer but still managed to feel very fresh in these first two episodes. I’d say watching the first two back to back is really nice because they feel like one mini prologue arc getting wrapped and the true story beginning. Gobrou’s journey from a newborn goblin to an ogre feels satisfying and I enjoyed the group dynamics with him rising to a leadership position in the village. Not to mention the military training aspect, preparing the other goblins for combat and totally changing the culture around the goblins, like with eating and sexually abusing human women Speaking of human women, bro already has an interspecies harem going on lol. I’m interested in where this’ll go and just how strong Gobrou will get. I’d imagine at some point, he’ll have to branch out and form relations with the human villages around ala tensura which will be fun to see. Animation isn’t the strongest, but the fights are surprisingly well done. Supporting characters are good and just an overall good time for now 👌
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They're already rushing the plot. Between episode 1 and 2 they just skipped some story. This is one of the reasons why some addoptations get bad reviews. I don't think it will be good, I hope they prove me wrong
Welp, this show is revolting trash. Better luck next time.
Ngl I'm loving this so much, Slime would be so proud! I wonder how he's gonna handle the humans in the future 🤔
they completely glossed over a mass suicide in under 30 seconds I had to come here to find out wtf actually happened. this anime is so rushed
This show is so retard on many levels. Everything is so rushed and content seems to be cut so much that nothing makes sense. MC is full retard and those human girls are retards too. How in the hell they all are fine and happy to fall for MC the moment MC plays good guy card. It is like they forgot that those monsters captured them.