English Dub Review: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Episodes 10-12
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
Mariabel makes her last stand, Rimuru and Milim face her resurrected dragon friend, and Tempest takes its next steps to becoming a greater country.
OUR TAKE
And so, after an odd delay in episode dub releases, we come to the pretty disappointing ending to this arc and Mariabel, as she meets her end at the hands of Yuki, who reveals that he wasn’t actually under her control after all. This ruse seems to work on Rimuru for a bit until his living cheat code Raphael informs of it. Damn, we almost had a bad guy get one over on our main character, can’t have that! Then our viewers couldn’t use him for their self insert power fantasy if he were capable of making mistakes! Ugh. And that’s with leaving aside the utter overhyping of Mariabel since the start of this season. You might be asking why I thought that the little girl was going to be some huge threat, to which I would answer BECAUSE THEY MADE HER LOOK LIKE SHE WOULD. Even down to giving her the whole ED sequence and building her up as if her entire life of previous connections and lessons from then would have any sort of impact on her plans for this one, where she was literally called the last hope for human supremacists…and then after a handful of totally botched plans, she doesn’t even last halfway through this section of the season. At least they had the decency to not use her ED for the episodes after she died, since they were done pretending she was threatening at all.
It’s not even some clever thing that does her in, it’s just that Yuki, another reincarnated human, simply takes her Greed power that was her whole thing and kills her. Goddamn, what was even the point of that? Just to hype up Yuki as an eventual threat? Well, apparently it was also to give Milim a chance to revive her old dragon friend that was part of her backstory, and that was hinted at in the OP so I guess it’s good to see that pay off. The last episode of this batch is mainly everyone licking their wounds and introducing new magical technology (we get it Rimuru, you played Final Fantasy when you were a human), but mostly just moving on like the last few episodes didn’t impact much, which just further deflates whatever presence Mariabel was supposed to have. Like I’m not a huge fan of her as a character either, I’m just trying to reconcile what the show was making her out to be BEFORE and what it’s making her out to be NOW. Ah well, next episode is the beginning of the second half of this batch of the season (remember that this one is apparently supposed to be 2.5 times longer than a usual one, but the first part of that is just the regular length of a season) so let’s see where the next arc takes us.
