English Dub Review: I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level: “My Daughter Turned Into a Slime and Couldn’t Change Back”

Overview: When Falfa (Lizzie Freeman) is turned back into her previous slime form, Azusa (Skyler Davenport), Shalsha (Suzie Yeung) and the gang seek the help of Beelzebub (Erica Mendez) in the hopes that her demon expertise will allow them to turn Falfa back into her human form. 

Our Take: When Falfa is turned into a slime, we are taken on what feels like a long and meandering journey of finding different slimes with various specialties in the hopes that one of them has a cure for the blue haired slime spirit. More often than not, they are simple characters and don’t bring anything especially interesting to the table personality or otherwise.  It can be hard to tell whether this was done ironically or not, although I tend to lean towards the former because of the annoyance on the character’s part of the long slog as well as the audiences (mine at least). But thankfully because of that subtle fourth wall break, it made it a bit more comedically enjoyable because of the fact. Also as a side note, similar to the previous episode’s sloppy implantation of Beelzebub, the way they fit Provat for a quick cameo feels hastily thrown together. Although at the very least the tedious first half of the tale was not done without good reason. It was all clearly meant to be a catalyst for the rematch that most people wanted to see in Azusa against Beelzebub.

So while it was a long and tiring journey to get there, we do indeed get the long-fated rematch between Azusa and Beelzebub. On the upside, it was decently animated enough but it was truly nothing groundbreaking. It felt a bit underwhelming because of restraints placed on them and their Super Saiyan levels of power that these characters have. It’s especially disappointing when taking into account how great but brief the red and blue dragon battle was. Some longer more fluid takes would have been nice but what’s given is fine enough. It just would’ve been even better and exciting had the animation strove to be more than that. Lastly, Beelzebub takes on a new apprentice in Fighter Slime (yes, that’s her actual name) but remains to be seen whether she will be an actual recurring character or even a memorable one with her love of money being her main distinguishing factor. If she ends up having good chemistry with Beelzebub and the main cast and is wacky enough in her own right, the ending may have been a worthwhile endeavor after all. 

I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years conjures up an alright entry that strings you along for half of the run time. However, the subtle tongue and cheek manner of it all along with a decent bout between Azusa and Beelzebub make it a fun enough episode.