Five years after Season 1 ended, Season 2 has just begun.
Adapted from the Light Novel of the same name, Goblin Slayer did something never before done in the Fantasy genre: It gives you a raw, visceral and brutally realistic portayal of a fantasy world. In the very first episode you see what actually WOULD happen if a party of rookie adventurers walked into a den of monsters.
See for yourself:
The Female Mage from that first episode is relevant to Season 2 as her younger brother–also a rookie Mage–seeks revenge against Goblins over what happened to his sister. He damn-near gets himself killed in the second episode of Season 2 on that note. As of this writing, he doesn’t know the Priestess was the sole survivor of his sister’s party (see the above episode). After being rescued by Goblin Slayer, the Priestess decides to join him on his seemingly obsessive and endless extermination crusade against all Goblins. They’re joined over time by an Elf, Dwarf and Dragonkin during the first season.
At first glance, the Goblin Slayer comes off as a genocidal sociopath obsessed with killing Goblins in the opening episode. After all, in the above episode you see he does not hesitate to slaughter goblin kids despite the Priestess trying to talk him out of doing it. The more you learn about him in the first season, the more you realize he’s not only sane but there are reasons behind why he’s chosen to only accept quests that involve killing Goblins. The biggest one being his older sister was dragged away, tortured and killed by Goblins. Same as the Mage’s sister. As you saw above, the only thing he was able to do for the Female Mage was put her out of her misery.
Before I forget. When Season 1 Episode 1 first dropped, it came with no warning at the top. THAT bothered people who usually don’t mind seeing blood and gore in their anime which I found very odd personally. No wait it wasn’t that. Many thought seeing Goblins gang rape a human girl and Goblin Slayer killing baby Goblins was”too much” yet they don’t bat an eye whenever there’s a news headline involving Rape, Infanticide or both. As an aside. The reason Season 1 Episode 1 is the way it is…that’s specifically to make you hate Goblins and see that universe’s Goblins have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The only good Goblin in this wotld is a dead one prettymuch. These aren’t your wisecracking money-hungry Goblins from World of Warcraft.
From what I’ve heard and seen online, many people were so traumatized by Season 1 Episode 1 they didn’t bother watching Season 1 Episode 2. I do remember some people made a lot of noise online at the time saying every episode remotely like that should at least have a warning label. I don’t see a reason or need for that given it’s already rated TV-MA and it’s obviously not going to end up on Toonami. Honestly, The Rumbling in Attack on Titan is easily MUCH worse in comparison. After all, in Goblin Slayer we are talking about literal monsters. In AoT we’re talking about a sociopathic human who decides to use an army of titans to exterminate most of mankind just because he can. I’ll get to that in a separate post though.
All that said. Goblin Slayer Season 2 is sure to be real interesting. I know I was on hiatus for quite a while–over a year–but I am working to write again. More so now that the blog I invested so much time into–this one–is on hiatus until Spring 2024 minimum.
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