English Dub Review: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime “After the Festival”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Post-festival business is concluded, but Rimiru and the rest of Tempest start to suspect sharks in the water as forces begin working against them.

OUR TAKE

And with that, another season of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is in the books, and with a fourth season recently announced and even a second movie on the way, it’s clear the franchise has no signs of stopping any time soon. But while we’re talking about this third season, how did it manage to wrap up after six months? Well, turns out they handed their finale just about the same as they did most of the episodes this season: with characters sitting around a board meeting table and discussing what happened. Before that however, was the bit about the merchants that was left open at the end of the previous episode, which apparently was the machinations of the Rosso Family, who sent an agent to get the merchants all riled up and requiring to be paid in universally accepted currency instead of Tempest’s own or something. This is quickly thwarted, making an already mundane sounding problem feel that much more insignificant, and considering every other scheme the Rosso Family has been behind has had all of the impact of wet fart, you can probably see why I see any mention or involvement of them in the plot at all to be rather annoying and tiresome.

And frankly, given how this entire season has played out, to have the finale also be made up mostly of sitting down and recapping the situation just confirms that this was probably the weakest of the three I’ve watched. But that could also be because it’s the only one of the three that I’ve had to sit down and think about extensively for weeks, so the others could be just as bad, but I distinctly remember there being more meaningful events happening in those, but who knows. My point is that we had one arc that was a whole lot of build up leading to very little fighting and an arc after that which was mostly pointless shenanigans with very little character development, and I have had to come up with thousands of words discussing these at length for half a year. Not that a season has to necessarily have action in it to be meaningful or significant, but we have definitely seen a lessening in it since this show began and I am not really sure why. Maybe there will be answers in the season review as we look back on this whole thing one more time.