No.885393
Farm arc begins. Calm before the goblins.
No.885398
>>885393
Goblin slayer was anally raped by goblins
No.885403
>>885393
>Anons thought farm arc wouldn't happen
Faggots I told you.
No.885443
Great episode and setup+payoff/ending. They really know what they are doing. Except GS in 3d. I cant fathom why they did it. Its probably takes longer to setup 3d over 2d.
No.885445
I guess they thought farm arc was a better ending than the sewers.
No.885455
>>885443
Usually they purchase a 3D studio for one or two scenes, but have to pay them a flat rate no matter how much 3D they use because of the contract so they're forced to use them for other stuff.
No.885456
No.885527
H-how many episodes remain this season?
I don't want to wait months for the next season.
No.885683
Welp, time to buy some lube, them meatshields are going to be hot.
No.885697
>>885683
Here's a sneak preview.
No.885706
>>885683
Time to disembark the ride. It was not worth coming this far.
No.885718
Glad we get the farm arc after all. I hope it can make up for the underwhelming sewer arc.
No.885737
>>885718
I thought we were going to wait for a next season. Didn't the season end at episode 10?
No.885738
http://goblinslayer.jp/news/367/
Recap episode with Cow Girl next episode.
No.885740
>>885737
12. Looking forward to the farm battle, but they made the tracks way too obvious. If goblins always scout before an attack and goblin scouting parties were that obvious, no one would have any excuse for being caught unaware.
No.885745
>>885740
Maybe they're mistaken for childrens' footprints.
No.885747
>>885740
It was like that in the manga too. I think it's to show that it's not just a few scouts for a small group but an army's scouting party.
No.885753
>>885747
>Our army is HUGE!
>That means we need a HUGE scouting party!
Those green little shits really are retarded.
No.885754
>>885753
They are goblins, what do you expect?
No.885756
>>885754
Goblin lords are supposed to be effective leaders though. Maybe it's more like this...
>Well, maybe if I send a hundred of the retards, six or so will actually do the job I sent them to do.
No.885758
>>885756
They are effective leaders... for goblins. Besides, causing panic is also a good strategy for a small town.
No.885761
>>885753
>Those green little shits really are retarded.
What are you talking about? Goblins are "no fools" remember? Or does that only apply when the writer needs to add shock value?
No.885762
>>885761
They are retarded but they are not TOTALLY retarded. I guess the biggest danger about goblins is underestimating them.
No.885780
>>885756
Basically the mindset of every Greenskin player of Warhammer.
No.885800
I can't wait to see Lancer being salty about praising GS this episode. Good to see the side characters did look less QUALITY than in the rats episode.
>>885403
>Faggots I told you.
So did I, so did half the thread but they didn't want to listen. Though deep down I was worried that they'd really skip it.
>>885738
Guess we'll get a 10.5 while the studio animates the big battle.
No.885809
Also, to all the fags who called him black haired last time, his silver hair is again in full display this episode.
Proving once again that he is a relative of Laius.
No.885875
>>885740
>no one would have any excuse for being caught unaware.
Maybe it's just that nobody bothers to check for goblin tracks?
No.885878
>>885740
If it wasn't for gobbo slayer living in the farm nobody would have found the tracks until it was too late. I'd say their tactics are retarded but worked for them so far because villagers are negligent about checking their surroundings. So the goblins are probably going by the "don't fix what isn't broken" logic and just doing retarded shit until it gets them killed.
>Tfw when deleting and reposting because you forgot to capitalize after a period.
No.886044
>>885878
Yeah. They where quite a bit away from the farm and at least they are careful enough not to leave any other trails.
Maybe their scouting party is that big so they actually have a chance to eliminate some a few people if they get spotted.
No.886047
>>886044
But are two episodes enouth to do the Farm battle arc? Does that mean there won't be a second season?
No.886099
>>885738
They'll probably fit in some of the Year One stuff, rather than it just being a straight recap episode.
No.886116
>>886047
Two episodes is more than enough. You don't even need two episodes, honestly. The first episode will be the set-up for the first half and the first half of the battle ending right at a climax where it looks like Goblin Slayer is in trouble, and the second episode will be the second episode/the conclusion of the Goblin King fight. The battle can either be dragged out for the final episode or the second half can be dedicated to the aftermath with maybe some sort of introspection/monologue about some moral about the nature of goblins and why Goblin Slayer must slay goblins.
No.886181
>>886116
I'd end episode 11 where chapter 13 ended, then finish the season off at the end of chapter 15.
No.886195
>>886116
> the nature of goblins
They're green little shits, what more is there?
No.886360
>An anime based off of a manga where a lizard called 'Cheese Eater' goes around and eats cheese
>Its even called; Cheese Eater
>Shows how bad things really get when the party runs out of cheese
>Its not all curds and whey
Okay,
<"B-but feel bad for the cheese pieces he melts!"
What the fuck is this? Cow Mos? Upbeat music? God damnit, you see what those thing do to people?! I get that its supposed to be hertwarming for the Priestess, but making the viewer feel hungry for the dairy products"? Then they hint; "Oh, well, maybe not all cheese is good?" Are you fucking kidding me? Why not give it anothe name, like some generic Fantasy name? Why call it; "Cheesing Eater," when you try to make the notion that, at some point, cheese is bad?? It's like calling 'Berzerk' : 'Grilling' and making the final part be about how Griffith doesn't kill and eat diary cows and that he dindu grillin wrong! What sort of bi-polar thinking is this? This shouldn't be complicated! Its called; Cheese Eater, its about a lizard going around eating cheese because it is fucking delicious that should be devvoured. Not: "Hey guys, we know that these thingas are cheese wheels, but, maybe we're the real wheels."? Right?" Okay, if you're going that way, then call it something else! Or maybe make the Cheese Eater the food? Don't pull this fucking shit out and expect it to make sense, or even be delicious!
No.886419
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>Goblin Slayer has entered the chat
>Mordor Goblins has entered the chat
>Goblin Slayer has left the chat
>Talion has entered the chat
No.886421
>>886419
>Shadow of Shekels
Begone normalcattle.
No.886438
>>886421
>normalcattle
That's only one step above calling someone a "normalfag", anon.
No.886448
I knew they wouldn't skip it, i really knew it guys!!!
No.886880
Anyone here agrees that Cow Girl makes a good waifu?
No.886881
>>886880
I sure hope she doesn't get gobbed to death.
No.886882
>>886881
Don't ruin it anon.
She deserves nothing but love and marriage.
No.886900
>>885443
I assumed it was because he's a glitch in the proverbial system, so he looks slightly off compared to everyone else. If this was an older show, he might have been drawn with different line weights or something.
No.886912
>>886880
Why do I keep seeing modern clothes in fantasy animes?
No.886914
>>886912
>why do I keep seeing fantastical contrivances in fantasy animes
Fantasy designs in general have ever been in any way realistic, Japanese ones especially.
No.886936
Is there much of a point in watching a mediocre adaption of something you liked before it was popular?
No.886940
>>886936
Well it has a good soundtrack and some scenes have been nice to watch animated although it's just bad if you compare it to the source material.
No.886944
How big are Ogre, Goblin Lord, and the Goblin Champions supposed to actually be, anyways? The Light Novel makes it sound like:
>Ogre: ~18ft
>Goblin Champion: ~15ft
>Goblin Lord: ~6ft
>Goblin Paladin: ~6ft (?)
The Manga makes Ogre and the Champion seem significantly bigger, though, and the anime goes and makes Ogre absolutely fucking enormous. So I wonder what the actual canon sizes for all of them are.
Also, the text and illustration for the Goblin Paladin are inconsistent, since he's described as not being "much weaker than a human" and like a normal Goblin, but the illustration makes him look about as tall as Goblin Slayer. He also used a human-sized sword and shield easily enough.
No.886976
>>886880
>>886882
>You will never wake up next to this beautiful naked goddess in every morning.
No.887039
>>886944
The real question is how creatures that can get that big and powerful could possibly be considered an inferior species to begin with.
>>886976
An inevitable death by goblins isn't worth a girl you'll have forgotten about in a few months.
No.887082
>>887039
They're like ants. You don't think too much of them until they're already swarming you.
No.887094
>>887082
That's why you should always slay ants as soon as you see them.
No.887096
>>886976
Her meat is distributed perfectly.
No.887112
>>887082
I take it the aforementioned 15 feet tall ones are just really big ants then.
No.887115
>>887082
>Not immediately setting colony-killing bait when detected
>Not maintaining your property in a way that prevents incursions
>Not seeking professional help if neighbors become inundated
Even small pests are worth consideration if you actually care about what's yours. It's the biggest issue with the setting, but we've already hashed out that discussion several times.
No.887124
>>887115
The real lesson of Goblin Slayer is that pests cannot be ignored and must be exterminated before they become a problem. Pests caused the Black Plague after all. Be responsible and exterminate pests.
No.887133
>>887115
Man, all this ant talk reminds me of the time me and a friend removed ant. It looked like Hill 937 after we were done, not even the trees were spared.
No.887159
>>886914
Yes technically you CAN do whatever you want in anime, but what you SHOULD do is another story.
No.887160
>>887082
A swarm of ants would actually be harder to deal with, because they'r too small to stab.
No.887174
>>887160
He could forcibly remove the elf's ban on poison, fire, and water, but who cares? They're not goblins.
No.887175
>>887124
I don't know about that. The evil god just makes more.
No.887296
It's just like some anon said last week. I guess they need a bit more time for the battle scenes.
Hopefully, it will be worth the weight.
No.887311
Was there a single new scene?
No.887313
A FUCKING RECAP EPISODE, 12 EPISODE SEASON AND THE FUCKING JAPS PUT A RECAP EPISODE BECAUSE THEY JUST HAVE TO HAVE 1
TWO NUKES WEREN'T FUCKING ENOUGH TO PUT SOME SENSE INTO THEIR SLIT EYED HEADS!!!
No.887334
>>887311
I didn't watch it enough to find out.
>>887313
M-maybe since it's called 10.5 instead of 11, that means we'll still get two more episodes right? Right guys?
No.887336
Is it wrong to think Year One is worse than Brand New Day?
No.887346
>>887334
>M-maybe since it's called 10.5 instead of 11, that means we'll still get two more episodes right?
That's almost always what that means.
No.887352
>>886880
>>886882
>>886976
Anyone thinks that's she's super-strong cos she don't need no horses to push the cart?
No.887366
>>887296
Don't you worry, it'll be fully animated in 3D.
No.887376
>>887352
I feel like this is abusable if we make the shirt have an infinity symbol.
No.887519
File: dc042fd8dee5a04⋯.jpg (Spoiler Image, 165.9 KB, 1920x1080, 16:9, goblin slayer leaked battl….jpg)
>>887296
>>887366
Got some screenshots for you right here lads.
No.887526
>>887519
Stop it!
That isn't funny!
No.889347
>>887376
How does that make it abusable?
No.889802
Kinda miffed that the Goblin Lord's rousing speech got butchered, but caramel amazon and stitch related pacified my autism.
No.889813
Not sure how to feel about the meat shields. Feels like they purposefully tried to make the scene showing them as short as possible.
Yeah and the adventurers guild scene was also pretty bad in comparison to the LN one.
>>889802
Imagine being choked by caramel amazon's thighs.
No.889816
>>889802
Hopefully the real hero of this story will get the attention he deserves next episode, but it really should have been in this one.
No.889820
>>889813
>Imagine being choked by caramel amazon's thighs.
I can't even begin to list the things I'd want to do with her and want her to do with me.
Too bad she'll likely never get good fanart.
No.889824
>>889820
I got a real hot tag for you anon. amazon_(dragon's_crown)
No.889827
>>889824
Nah. I know she is based on her but it ain't the same unless it is art of her specifically. Especially of her animu version, since she is light skinned in the manga.
No.889834
Oi! My eyes are up here.
They better not fuck up the begging scene.
No.889837
>>889834
You know they will anon, you know they will.
No.889938
>>889802
>All of that detail just in that still-shot of GS.
God, could you imagine if everyone in the anime had that much detail? Could you imagine if they actually had the budget to make this show good? Could you imagine if we just had nice things?
No.889956
>>889938
>Could you imagine if they actually had the budget to make this show good?
I wish. They are obviously trying to do the best they can, with what little they have.
No.889960
I do think the guild scene was kinda heartwarming and the battle put a big smile on my face.
No.889970
>>889813
>No helmets
How many of them are going to get rocks thrown at their heads?
No.889976
>>889970
>wearing helmets
Are you stupid? They are clearly fighting goblins, not rock eaters. Besides, heroes don't wear helmets. If you want examples just look at just about every fantasy character from any fiction, including everybody except GS himself in this series.
No.890092
>>889976
Are you merely pretending to be retarded?
No.890101
>no Goblin Lord speech
>no Goblin Lord monologues
Half the fun of this arc was reading it from the goblin's perspective.
No.890111
>>889970
The heroic characters don't wear helmets because they don't need them, they've got Deflect Missile. Everyone killed by goblin rocks were fledging adventurers who were little more than villagers with big egos.
>>890101
The goblin lord's history from his POV will probably take up much of the last episode. They're probably saving the reveal that the goblin lord can actually speak for his "I'm so sorry, no really I am" begging.
No.890113
>>889973
>Cow Girl smiling
I must protect this smile from goblins.
No.890182
>>889748
Episode Eleven. Not a recap!
No.890195
Lipstick is a bad aesthetic for 2D girls, change my mind
No.890196
>>889970
Deflection field motherfucker.
No.890248
>>889820
>>889827
>>889975
Just imagine pallet-swapped Dragon's Crown amazon.I am
Although she's more like a barbarian or berserker to me....
No.890258
>>890113
Boy, then do I have the perfect cursed image for you to not open.
Seriously, don't open.
No.890265
>>890196
Why don't they have a deflection field for all of their body parts?
No.890317
No.890700
>>890438
Why aren't such spells more common? <Because they're more difficult
Then why are wizards going out into battle before they've learnt how to use it? There should be a legally enforced standard that magic users have to master such spells before going out, especially so if magic is difficult to learn because they can't afford to lose magic users as often as they do.
No.891233
>>890700
Adventurers are basically murderers for hire, lowlifes with nowhere else to go. No one teaches them which side of a sword goes into goblin. No one gives a single fuck if they live or die and you expect someone to quality control their education and have a fucking graduation postponed? They dont have a fucking graduation. They learn what they can afford and go on their way afterwards.
No.891235
>>891233
So apparently magic is easy enough to learn that "lowlifes with nowhere else to go" can learn it, but for some reason they can't learn missile deflect before going out?
No.891237
>>891235
Maybe missile deflect is a higher level spell?
No.891274
>>891233
This cunt graduated from a wizard academy, so it's not entirely unreasonable that their school system teach them deflect magic.
No.891286
>>890700
Because that's how it is in RPGs.
No.891358
>They even showed NotRance from the Day One manga
Nice nod, I hadn't caught up in a while and I was wondering if he bit the bullet for trying to get revenge for his waifu after she got skewered by a rock eater
It's a shame they pretty much skimmed all over the meatshields so fucking bad. I also hate that they fucked up the Goblin Lord's speech, and I bet they'll even fuck up the Goblin Lord's monologue about how he got this far. That was the one point that completely painted all goblins as what they are, filthy vermin that must be genocided to fucking hell and back lest you want a bigger one knocking on your doorstep eventually.
No.891379
Anime-only viewer here. The thing that annoys me about this is that the characters are named after classes. Which is strange since some anime have side-characters with family names, three sizes and bloodtype.
Anyhow, is there a list of their official names? eg. what's the official name of injun lizardman?
No.891381
>>891379
No his name is Lizard Shaman. His nickname is Cheese Eater.
No.891382
>>890700
>There should be a legally enforced x
No.891407
>>890700
Learning magic missile doesn't teach you how to shoot it at moving, intelligent targets or how to shoot it while your comrades' brain splatters to your lap. Also you need to pay for that school somehow. If your only schooling is to kill effeciently, that's the job you're going to pay the schooling with. Kill to earn money to spend on killing skills.
No.891410
>>891407
Battle requires defence as much as offence.
No.891416
>>891410
>He thinks he can deflect missile a goblin sword
>Probably these dumb mages have never seen a goblin and think everyone uses magic like them so they have gay magic shields
Magic is almost worthless.
No.891487
>>891416
Following DnD, wizards are useless at low levels and gods at high ones. Not hard to see which one >>891274 was.
No.891488
>>891416
>He thinks he can deflect missile a goblin sword
Well, missles usually move much faster and thus hit with a greater force than a sword, so yeah.
>Probably these dumb mages have never seen a goblin
If everyone underestimated goblins even half as much as they do in this anime, goblins would have wiped out most of humanity by the time it takes place.
>Magic is almost worthless
And yet after having it for hundreds if not thousands of years they still use it for battle despite, you know, natural selection.
>Following DnD, wizards are useless at low levels and gods at high ones
And yet after hundreds if not thousands of years of having magic, they still go into battle at low levels despite, you know, natural selection.
No.891490
>Question: Are the humans in this anime absolutely fucking retarded and deliberately written to completely fail at both strategic and tactical thinking?
<Answer: Yes. This is done so goboslayer can look good. All other reasons are just post-hoc justifications and an attempt to pile shitty lore on top of shitty lore.
There, now you faggots don't have to argue about it anymore.
No.891493
>>891274
>This cunt graduated from a wizard academy
Which is the magical equivalent of graduating high school, i.e. she just reached the starting line. Of course she got her shit pushed in.
No.891625
This smile must be protected at all costs.
No.891757
>>890700
I haven't seen a single explanation for how magic works, so who cares about any of that? This is "make shit up as you go" style of writing that clearly doesn't put any focus on the magic system, besides stating that scrolls are hard to acquire.
No.891773
>>891488
Wizardry is taught at academies in this world. Think of all the idiots that come out of modern universities believing they're the greatest shit alive because they got an award on the way out. Many of them aren't worth anything at their actual jobs until they get some experience. In this case, instead of deleting a month's worth of work and getting fired, this fresh-faced graduate got stabbed and died of poisoning. Too bad for her, maybe she shouldn't have been so sure of herself.
No.891775
>>891381
Is it Dwarf Mage? High Elf Archer?
No.891784
No.891795
>>889960
Same. Spearman really is a good guy. Despite the above it all act, you can tell he actually does respect GS. He's too proud to just offer his help because he was asked but he used the act to help get as many of the other adventurers in as possible.
>>890111
>the spoilers
Yeah, that makes sense. It is unprecedented after all.
>>891488
>Following DnD, wizards are useless at low levels and gods at high ones
>And yet after hundreds if not thousands of years of having magic, they still go into battle at low levels despite, you know, natural selection.
How do you expect them to get past low levels without going into battle?
No.891833
>>891625
She's a slut who should have been raped by gobbos. Guild girl, however.
No.892076
>>891811
Goblins are cute. CUTE!
No.892152
No.892172
>>891811
>That skirt weighted entirely on the hip bone and without any cloth physics.
No.892300
What did you guys think of ep12?
>>891784
Arigatou.
No.892319
>>892300
I guess it was popular enough that they already can confirm there will be more. All in all it was an okay adaptation. The manga was still better. The scene where he took off his helmet was at least cute. On an unrelated note, is it possible the blu ray will have tits?
No.892324
>>892300
Wow they actually fucked up the begging scene. Judging how people have been shitting on how bad the adaptation has been, I'm glad I dropped it a few episodes in.
No.892336
Awesome episode.
>>892319
>popular
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2018/11/05-1/crunchyrolls-most-popular-fall-2018-anime-by-state-province-country
Its most popular on whole continent and really fucking popular in the world. Its even more popular than fucking JoJo.
>adaptation
Worse than JoJo but still great. They really gave their best. But JoJo 5th chapter might be the best adaptation ever, so its impossible to compete.
>>892324
Now get the fuck out, nigger.
No.892376
Year one confirmed?
It was a decent adaptation (read the manga) and I liked the OST.
No.892387
>>892376
Probably. Unless they start adapting LN (which I never seen). Manga is pretty much done, except spinoffs. Unless they do OVA which is possible considering how well anime was received.
No.892398
>>891773
>Think of all the idiots that come out of modern universities
Yes, MODERN universities that are the result of modern cushy conditions. Weaponized magic in a medieval era is not comparable to gender studies.
>>891795
>How do you expect them to get past low levels without going into battle?
Uh, hy learning better spells?
No.892399
>>892387
I remember trying to read the LNs, and it just being a hack-job copy and paste from the manga. Don't understand that shit.
No.892401
I like how this small bit of dialogue sums up his role in the world so nicely. He isn't an epic hero who's world changing deeds are remembered to the end of history. Just a guy doing his job, helping the common people.
Also, the guild party was the single moment where I preferred the anime to the manga. Must be the lighting and the music but it felt more touching.
>>892399
I don't understand your post.
No.892406
>>892401
>Also, the guild party was the single moment where I preferred the anime to the manga. Must be the lighting and the music but it felt more touching.
Its the color. Wood in dimmed lights looks super cozy and elf looked super horny.
No.892409
>>892406
That too but I meant the scene where he took of his helmet specifically. It was nice to see him warm up a bit more.
No.892422
I'm kinda disappointed they didn't show the goblin lord's speech nor show the full extent of how he got the axe and became a lord.
Orcs are goblins in the Goblin Slayer universe, aren't they?
No.892424
>>892422
Yey, they called orks by elfs, for example. This is why he is called Orkbolg by elf.
No.892425
>>892422
>Orcs are goblins in the Goblin Slayer universe, aren't they?
Yes. Just like in Middle-earth.
No.892426
>>892424
>>892425
Oh...
Well, that's more tolkien-like I guess. I can't have my orc breeding fantasies with those jew noses.
No.892428
>>892424
>being so much of a warhammerfag that you spell orc with a k even when it's explicitly spelt with a c in the setting you're referring to
Disgraceful.
No.892433
>>892426
>something is "tolkien-like" because it shares a few naming conventions
You could have a huge story about space and different alien races and have it be more Tolkienian in spirit than something featuring elves and dwarves.
No.892434
>>892433
Well, not only the name, but the hobbit thing, the ring thing and orcs and goblins being the same race instead of cousing races.
No.892435
>>892428
Could also be due to that anon's native language.
No.892440
>>892434
You could have a huge story about space and different alien races and have it be more Tolkienian in spirit than something featuring rings and hobbits.
No.892442
>this single scene looked better than entire 2016-17 Berserk series
>>892433
>>892440
I don't really think that's what the series is trying to create something unique and original. Those are just references.
It kinda has to be a standard fantasy setting, like you see in countless other media, else it wouldn't work.
No.892444
>>892426
I think if Tolkien was still alive he would be insulted by everyone comparing everything else to his works like that, least of all this shit.
>I'm cool with monsters raping women but my peepee gets soft if they have big noses
You're an embarrassment dude
No.892450
>>892444
Get gnomed, faggot. Fall of your high horse.
No.892453
>>892450
>Get gnomed
I bet you'd like that wouldn't you? Maybe you'd like to see gnomes breeding human women with ogres like in that one game. Ogres aren't especially known for having big noses so I'm sure you'd love it.
No.892472
>>892435
We aren't here bastardizing anon's native language, there's no reason he should be fucking with ours.
No.892473
No.892475
>>892398
Plenty of other people graduated from magic school, perhaps some of them worked harder on gaining practical skills instead of getting the highest grades for a shiny staff. They might have learned things like How Torches Work, How Caves Have Multiple Paths, and How The Fighter Might Be An Idiot, Consider Not Listening To Him while she had her nose buried in a book. Her spells were deadly in the right situation but she blundered into the worst one and paid the price. Blame her arrogance and her naivete, not her school, for making bad life choices.
No.892495
>>892399
>copy and paste from the manga
Nice one but the LNs are the original source.
>>892387
It's probably gonna be the LNs considering there is enough material for like 4 seasons from them.
No.892600
>>892398
>>892475
People who get confused by the antics of the first party are the type who have clearly never ran a game on the table-top before. Their behavior is almost a 1:1 match for exactly how a bunch of newbies might behave in that scenario.
Paranoia is the domain of veteran players. Those are the nuts who point to the seven flasks of oil they picked out for starting equipment, or similar wacky antics. The same shit goes for ambushes - until a player loses his first character, you'll never see him plot one of those. So it would make sense the same shit happens here, except in this case, these people only have one life to spare.
No.892615
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>>885393
I'm still kind of disappointed they didn't exaggerate the hollow echo-y sound inside his helmet more. I always imagined his voice sounded like Reaper from Overwatch with constant reverberation from the helmet.
No.892637
>>892615
Your repertoire of masketta'd men is lacking, to say the least.
No.892670
>>892442
I dont think Tolkien was trying to make anything original. All he did is just referenced mythology. Who does he think he is writting about rings of power? A fucking Wagner making Der Ring des Nibelungen?
No.892673
>>892600
This anon speaks the truth.
>There are still anons who haven't experienced the joy of tabletop RPGs
>There are still anons who refuse to accept Goblin Slayer is one of said tabletop games
Goblin Slayer is the equivalent of a DM's favorite NPC when he refuses to play favorites to keep him alive. I imagine he's like the poster child of a hobby store that holds regular tabletop sessions with different folks coming in and out. Some customers find him weird while others love him/want to go on adventures, but they all like that he's the DM's NPC that's always around.
No.892696
>>892444
>I think if Tolkien was still alive he would be insulted by everyone comparing everything else to his works like that
Well, his son sure is.
No.892698
>>892600
We're all aware of that actually, the problem is that applying table-top tropes to an actual world results in a lot of retarded plot holes because they're games, people don't play as if there are any real stake because there aren't, and the settings are not designed as if they were really lived in.
No.892699
>>892670
The ring from the hobbit might not have being, but the one from LOTR was. In any case all stores are inspired to some degree by something else, better to research actual myths and epics rather than copying a copy of a copy of a roleplaying game with no real plot or themes.
No.892702
>>892699
>actual myths as opposite of copy of the copy
You understand how myths work right? Its a retelling of a retelling of a story of a lie of an exaggeration. And half of these stories involved some sort of fucking game or a puzzle. Fiction is better than fiction, for fuck sake, you are retarded.
No.892708
>>892670
Well any fiction tends to be inspired by something. He did still invent an original world and the things he did copy were re-written or re-combined in new ways.
>Muh Wagner
That's a different case. It's his version of the Niebelungenlied. Pretty much a remake by today's standards.
No.892712
>>892673
>There are still anons who haven't experienced the joy of tabletop RPGs
But that involves having friends.
No.892714
>>892712
>>892673
>>892600
Anybody still got the "replay" greentext?
No.892716
>>892712
Or people you can tolerate with similar hobbies.
No.892718
>>892716
>people you can tolerate
No.892720
No.892726
>>892716
Nakanaide Ian-san.
No.892754
>>892324
>>892300
I agree.
The begging scene was WAAAAAY the fuck too short.
I mean the big scene is for the audience holding their breath while the priestess is being tested.
You see the goblin actually crying, begging and saying that if he only is left alone, if only he is spared he would go away, never to return, a pathetic creature that only wants to live.
Then, the audience wonders "Could this be true?", or at least the dumb audience wonders that and you're shown ALL the past of the lord, all the people that spared him and got killed, how he used others, how he abused females, how he killed and raised to the top because he survived, no matter how pathetic he had to look, no matter how much dirty work he had to do: he survived and this is why he is lord.
And then you pan back to the scene and you see the purity of the priestess against the sin of the goblin, tense moments pass... then and only then can Goblin Slayer raise and do the deed, after it was shown that the priestess is knowingly letting the lord be stuck in that death wall can GS cut his throat.
Otherwise it's just a "pls let me go D:" "lul im goblin srayer", where the priestess isn't actually making a choice but just tagging along GS.
Frankly, they've could spend less time in the fighting scene (who was done poorly anyway) and more in the backstory of the lord.
No.892756
>>892702
You forgot, "of a roleplaying game", when your foundation is shitty, your work is going to be shitty. And that's what modern fantasy is, an endlessly shittier recursion of whatever is popular at the time.
>And half of these stories involved some sort of fucking game or a puzzle
They weren't a game or puzzle themselves though, unlike DnD, which doesn't hold a candle to the classics of old.
>for fuck sake, you are retarded.
Why so mad?
No.892759
>>892754
>at least the dumb audience wonders
Do you really think it was a moral choice for priestess? Do you really think we must make shows for dumb as fuck audience? Or last episode of a show for a people, who never seen previous episodes? The only moral choice they have, at this point, is whenever they should use poison gas or just cut their throats while they sleep. The only test she had is whenever she consider killing goblins more important than saving her comrades.
No.892768
>>892600
>>892673
You know how the Japanese like to make references to things in their shows that they don't necessarily understand or care about, or perhaps in spite of that, because it seems cool or it'll make their show stand out? Because that's what this show has done with tabletop games. There's no respect or care shown for the medium at all, it's just used to try and propel this show to greater heights. The people who ignore that and try to explain away the show's stupidity with D&D comparisons are to me the worst kind of fans, even worse than the rapefags and waifufags. Almost as bad as redditors.
>>892698 is the one who understands. Yes, the events of the original party getting wiped may make sense from a tabletop perspective. But this isn't a tabletop game, this is a light novel. And in this light novel, four young people were allowed to casually throw their lives away in an incredibly stupid and pointless fashion. They were failed not only by the adventurer's guild (which in my opinion takes too much blame considering they are essentially a glorified mercenary company) but also by whatever friends and family they had as well as the society they lived in as a whole. And the setting treats this as commonplace. What should be considered a tragic loss that should never be allowed to happen again is instead considered a common occurrence, a hazard of the work environment. After all, there's always more fresh-faced kids ready to sign their lives away and promptly sacrifice themselves for no good reason. And that's without mentioning how said sacrifice literally feeds the enemy that their society willfully ignores.
What's the message here? All things considered, I would say that there isn't one and it was solely to make the first volume/chapters as grabby as possible and it's clearly worked out well. It sums up how worthless and disposable the original party (and all new recruits by association) are. Who cares how many kids throw themselves into the meat grinder when Goblin Slayer is here and I he will kill all the goblins?
>>892670
The thing about Tolkien is basically that he was pretty bummed about how much of actual mythology had been lost to the ages, the Edda in particular, so he pretty much made his own one with some borrowing here and there. Ironic considering he was Christian and they did more than their share of bookburning over the years. Arda may have been artificial but >>892696 it's still pretty sad to see his works stripped bare of their soul, inevitable as it may have been. Even if Christopher had staunchly refused to allow derivatives of his father's work to exist, let alone licensed products like the LOTR movies for example, the decision would have fallen to someone else later down the line and his children don't seem to give a shit about their legacy other than the potential for gibs me dat.
No.892770
>>892768
>You know how hack writers like to make references to things in their shows that they don't necessarily understand or care about, or perhaps in spite of that, because it seems cool or it'll make their show stand out?
Fixed.
No.892776
>>892770
You're right to correct me there but in fairness I was considering how tabletop games aren't big in Japan compared to the west. As presumptuous as it is for me to assume so I would think that tabletop games as we know them would come across as a western novelty. I'm sure there is a tabletop scene over there with its own games we've never even heard of but I don't think it matters much since the GS author would rather reference D&D than anything else. Honestly I can only imagine whatever atrophied husk counts as Japan's /tg/ would make of it, but I doubt it has developed to the point where they would understand what a magical realm is.
No.892780
>>892776
>Tabletop games aren't big in Japan
Opinion discarded.
No.892782
>>892776
So much retardation in one post. How about looking things up instead of "only imagining" them?
No.892804
>>892495
The LNs are original, and then "translated" by copying text from the manga. It's terrible.
No.892832
>>892398
>Uh, hy learning better spells?
Since this is an RPG world, I imagine that requires more EXP points that are acquirable only in real combat.
No.892834
>>892428
I believe it's explicitly spelled with a ク here though.
No.892835
>>892834
How else would you spell it in Japanese, Anon?
オーcウ?
No.893302
>>892768
>There's no respect or care shown for the medium at all, it's just used to try and propel this show to greater heights.
You wanna know how I know you're a retarded secondary or - and God forgive me for saying these words - a tertiary?
No.893370
>>893302
A little anime inclineth man's mind to enjoyment, but depth in anime bringeth men's minds about to shitposting
-t. bacon sandwhich man
No.893514
>>892401
Hmm, good point. Noblebright (fairy tail) is meh, but nobledark is great. This setup and world scale works, hard work saves your kin, but you are only one step from utter despair.
No.893534
>>892768
I've said this before but, the tabletop mechanics and tropes are the problem, even you can explain all of them, they still don't jive well with a serious setting. You can come up with the most detailed and justified explanation in the world for "adventurer guilds" and it will still seem like a game mechanic instead of an actual organisation, because it is from a game.
No.893576
Table top board has a thread about JP games. Call of Cthulu is most popular, then some JP made one I don't remember the name, another, then d&d.
No.894219
>>894214
There's another Goblin Slayer side story manga coming soon that's about exploring an infamous dungeon.
No.894270
>>892716
>And I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, ‘This is not why I became an actor.’ Unfortunately the microphone was on and the whole studio heard.’
Fuck me dead it's actually true.
No.894284
>>894270
He was right to cry. The constant greenscreen and CGI (is one of the things that) killed the Hobbit.
No.894288
>>894284
CGI dragon scene was the only good thing about hobbit and it wasnt even a dragon. Everything else was terrible.
No.894295
>>894219
When Goblin Slayer becomes the Japanese fantasy standard that others derive from I'm going to laugh all the way to the /tg/ thread.
>>894284
The main thing that killed the Hobbit was making it into three movies. It is not a terribly long book like Lord of the Rings.
No.894330
Did anyone make a Goblin Slayer netorare doujinshi yet?
No.894344
>>894330
>GS in shackles
>fat bald bastard Super GS waltzes in and kills all the goblins
>GS cries
I'd read/watch it.
No.894345
>>894344
>Wha-- who are you?
>I am you, I am Goblin Slayer, from the future I exterminated all Goblin's so now I came back in time to exterminate more.
>NO NO STOP THOSE ARE MY GOBLINS THEY'RE MY REWARD TO KILL
>Future GS stabs multiple Goblins
>Present GS starts flailing like an autist while tears start flying out of his helmet.
>Priestess is just sitting there eating food slowly, watching, she does nothing to help and no one notices her.
No.894352
>>894345
>Priestess is just sitting there sipping tea slowly, watching, she does nothing to help and no one notices her.
I can't help but think of her as a blond Akarin now.
No.894363
>>894295
>The main thing that killed the Hobbit was making it into three movies
Pretty much. I've watched the extended editions of all three Hobbit films and then a fanedit that took it down to a single movie and the edit was a much better adaptation of the book. There are some plot points that it cut, but there's just too much extra nonsense that they added by making it a trilogy for the story it's trying to tell that it ends up feeling like a tiring slog.
No.894391
>>892835
>Captain Obvious comes to the rescue
I was ridiculing those two fags who were sperging out over which English spelling GS (supposedly) uses, while both are an equally good transliteration of the moonrune source and the author probably doesn't care either way.
No.894397
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>>894288
True. The only good thing about the hobbit are some of the visuals, which can be used for amazing fan creations.
No.894411
>>894363
Basically the same issue as the Star Wars prequels to much fluff and poor decisions that should have been fixed with editing coupled with an over saturation of CGI that ruins a ton of shit.
>CGI and overly choreographed fighting ruined Battle of the 5 armies
>to many fucking plots going on at once trying to turn a simple adventure into an epic
>to much Legolas and the diversity hire
No.894439
Goblin Slayer turned out better than I thought it'd be. The ending, anyway, was great.
Episodes 11 and 12, specifically. The Farm arc.
I was going to drop it, but I pressed on and I'm glad I did. How they portray the fantasy world they live in is really fun. I want to see more of this world.
Glad I took that break from watching it, too. I needed to get my head out of the underwhelming Water Town stuff so I could better appreciate Farm.
Yuusha looks like Chou Yuusha Haruhi-sama.
No.894482
No.894544
>>894482
>tabletop games aren't big
Oh they're big in Japan, games night, big in Japan, that's right, big in Japan.
Ooh, the Eastern GM's so cruel.
No.894766
>>894482
How do they have time to set up tabletop campaigns and get the gang together in the 2 hours of free time they have per day, after returning from their 14 hour slave labor office job on their tightly packed train?
No.894771
>>894766
Same way 14 hour slave labor office job American programmers do it.
No.894801
>>894439
>How they portray the fantasy world they live in is really fun
Of all the things you could have said and you choose the single most unequivocally wrong one.
No.894802
>>892776
>tabletop games aren't big in japan
Then why are there so many animes based on them?
No.894841
>>885762
They're brutally cunning guys, christ, do we need to go over this again
No.894857
>>894801
Why do you say that? The guild party and SoL episodes are the best part of the series because we get to see Elf/Dwarf rivalry, GS's autism, and the how the adventurers work. Yuusha's party gets to go to the festival, which is much better than seeing her slay a lich or whatever. When the story focuses on the everyday and not extraordinary and it's all the better for it.
No.895862
BEST CHARACTER COMING THROUGH!
No.895870
>>894841
Except for the times the writer forgets they are.
No.897316
Goblin Slayer is what happens when you focus on the job part of D&D instead of the hollywood action adventure part.
No.897347
>>897316
>Goblin Slayer cosplay
>the armor is clean and shiny
No.897352
>>897347
You know Goblin Slayer cleans/oils his armor regularly because that's a part of basic maintenance, right? His armor is just shabby/full of dents.
No.897369
>>897352
He maintains it, but he doesn't clean it. Smell of metal gets covered up by the smell of blood.
No.897394
>>897347
To be fair, that's what he looks like in the anime and any colored illustrations of the LN and manga.
No.897448
>>897316
A catastrophic failure filled with plot holes?
No.897480
New translated volume soon.
No.897482
>>897480
Novel? Main manga? Gaiden? Brand New Day?
No.897494
>>895870
The problem is with the other heroes, not goblins.
Like Batman, the Slayer works better if he's the only professional around: a man squeezing his brain to beat the enemy through tricks and tecnique, without actual superpowers.
If you add Guts and Superman to the story, they do his job far better with less effort, which kinda defeats the whole purpose.
No.897497
>>897369
It doesn't appear visually, though: even after the party is smeared with goblin guts, they don't look like the part. And consider that if you don't clean up metal from blood and carrion, it becomes deadly infective.
No.898173
>>894344
>>894345
Oddly this intrigues me, if only because it's a silly take on the genre.
No.904055
Has an English translation of the 7th volume of the light novel come out yet?
No.904062
>this thread is still alive
Good. There's something I wanted to ask those who've read the LNs. Is there ever any romance between Priestess and GS? At least in the manga she doesn't seem to care about the whole harem deal and doesn't seem to get jealous like Cowgirl, Elf or Guildgirl. I hope they continue to have more of a master/student relationship.
No.904111
>>904062
I've read up to volume 6 and there is no romance between them. I don't think there is any romance between elf and goblin slayer either in the light novel. Elf in the light novel, to my understanding just want to show goblin slayer an adventure and get him out of his unhealthy state of mind. She seems to just be a good friend to him. When they are in the water town she does it make is sound like shes interested in him, but that was only because people were making fun of him, and she didn't like it. As of the 6th volume I would say elf is interested in goblin slayer. I hope it stays this way.
No.904114
>>897494
Only professional? He's the only one with any degree of competency. And this is exactly the problem with goblin slayer. Everyone else is made worse to make the main character look better.
No.904139
>>894802
>>tabletop games aren't big in japan
>Then why are there so many animes based on them?
They're based on videogames. Gamers often make up stories about IRL interests which are really their vidya, i.e. switching RPGs with tabletop.
No.904166
>>904062
The whole point of the team mates is that GS gets to have friends for the first time. There is no romance subplot in it.
No.904220
>>904114
But for the same reason. You won't bother to get street goblin cave smart if you have fucking magic. In fact, you won't bother with goblins at all unless you have a good reason, like GS.
No.904225
>>904220
That's what the original post was saying. GS survives thanks to his years of preparation, not his powerlevel: everything that happens is a clear chain of cause and effect. When a hero appears who's basically Haruhi, wiping out dragons while chewing on toast, then we're back to powerlevels and GS himself becomes a chump.
I'm afraid the LN is always two steps forwards and one back, when it comes to deconstructing the gaming element of isekai.
No.904230
>>904225
GOBLIN SLAYER
IS
NOT AN ISEKAI
No.904247
>>904225
>it comes to deconstructing the gaming element of isekai.
I can't imagine someone walking into a field of roses and wondering why it doesn't smell what you're used to, the smell of shit.
No.904268
>>904220
That's the other thing, every other monster and foe is less competent than goblins, so the goblins can be more of a threat.
No.904282
>>904268
>Rock eaters are less competent than goblins
>Slimes are less competent than goblins
>Beholders are less competent than goblins
The only incompetent beast so far was the ogre boss.
No.904283
>>904282
And despite having to fight such monsters, most adventurers are still morons.
No.904284
>>897497
>And consider that if you don't clean up metal from blood and carrion, it becomes deadly infective.
Not really true in this case.
The reason for the modern perception that chain mail will disintegrate into rust flakes if you forget to oil it for longer than 4 hours is because of modern low-carbon steel reproductions, which are very rust-prone. Actual armour from the period would have been wrought iron, which is much more rust resistant. We still dig up nails that were buried it the 12th century, but go take a modern nail, burn off the galvanizing coating in a fire, and see if the nail is still around in a year.
The reason for needing to take autistic care of your armour in history was because most armour and weapons would be passed down for generations, or until they got stolen in battle and became someone else family heirloom. Goblin slayer's equipment has nowhere near the lifespan for that to be a factor.
That said, blood and viscera, especially bile, will cause leather to rot pretty quickly if he's not oiling/waxing it, and he's probably not since that leaves a smell even stronger than iron. Though I'm not sure if even that would be quicker than his armour getting destroyed
No.904285
>>904282
>The only incompetent beast so far was the ogre boss.
Everyone would have died or be forced to flee, facing the Ogre under normal circumstances. GS does not normally have scrolls of marysueing.
To me, the series just isn't the same without a 'before' part like in the first issue where everyone gets killed. Now that rockeater part, that was cool: but you can very well argue that it wasn't actually a GS story. Which is quite nonsensical if you think about it, because they could have just lured him with the rest of the troops, due to priority guild orders.
No.904286
>>904230
Funny thing is, I can imagine someone who doesn't know better thinking it is one.
No.904397
>>904285
But isn't that the point that GS is being autistic with goblins, while everyone else is having a grand battle of fame somewhere else?