“Before the Demon King destroys the world, the goblins will destroy the villages. The appearance of a powerful enemy is no excuse to neglect the weakest ” - [Goblin Slayer]

✪---HISTORY---✪ (7)
The plot of the story is not complex, it is simple, but even so it is well managed and I found it very enjoyable and good (the author knows its limits well).

The first arc is decent, it introduces you well to the protagonist, who already shows that he has a cold attitude and that he goes about his business (killing goblins). Then the story introduces you to things like the adventurer's guild, the rank system, and the priestess (who after being saved, she wants to return the favor to the Goblin Slayer). The good thing about this story is to see how the perspectives of characters like the priestess or the High Elf change, who previously did not understand the Goblin Slayer, but now they do.

Then the story introduces you to the dwarf, the high elf, and the naga who ask him for help to stop an army or something like that (this is when they introduce the demonic realm of the burned "Demon King"). The goblin slayer refuses and makes it clear to us that his only target is goblins, and that's what the story is about. The group of the dwarf and the high elf ask permission to go with him on one of his missions to see how he unfolds, and the Slayer accepts. At the end, the story shows you the cruelty of the Goblins, while the characters change their points of view. Then the story takes an interesting turn, since they put a theme of "gods and a chess-like board", which opens the doors for the manga to become somewhat complex.

In short, the goblin slayer story consists of a protagonist who is immersed in revenge and focuses on a single objective, to kill goblins. But he is in a society where the missions of Goblins are underrated and there is a lot of discrimination and capitalism, that's why the society of the Goblin Slayer world sucks, and that is what makes the Goblin Slayer unique.

✪---BEST--MOMENTS---✪
One of the highlights is the arc of the goblins attack on the farm, in which goblin asks for help to stop them. In the final chapter or there, when the goblin slayer is about to kill the goblin leader, they tell us how he became strong after a character forgave her, so at the moment in which the protagonist He says:
"You should never forgive a goblin" makes the scene B R U T A L.


Another would be the paladin arc, in which the "princess fighter" is rescued after the accident, and Goblin Slayer looks at her and she wakes up and looks at him and simply says; "Goblins" (with incredible art). For these reasons and others, the paladin arc seems to me the best of Goblin Slayer, apart from introducing you to the god of wisdom and how the Goblin Slayer group deal with problems is "" exciting "" and incredible.

(There are more good moments like the dialogue between the sword maiden with illustrative art and language or the epic rage / "" power up "" that Goblin Slayer has in the Goblin Champion arc).

✪---PROTAGONIST---✪ (7,8)
The development of the protagonist (Goblin Slayer) is good, and in the spin off manga "Goblin Slayer Year One" it is even better (very good I would say).

The "Goblin Slayer" is presented to you as cold, witty, strategist, serious, spiteful and vindictive. His attitude and his motives for being a "Goblin Slayer" are justified by his very tragic and painful past. He is a character who is not really OP, but someone who is strong thanks to his intelligence after coming up with good decisions or strategies when fighting!

He is not silver rank for being very strong like other adventurers, but for knowing how to use weapons well, knowing what equipment to use, knowing the enemy's weak or critical point, ways to defeat or retain the enemy etc. and all this he has after his long experience of being an adventurer (exactly 5 years of experience) ... also influences the fact that he was trained by a "" master "" who saved him in the past from the Goblins in his childhood, and possibly because of this is that Goblin Slayer is so "powerful" (to put it in some way).

The "" Power Ups "" (PU) that he has, is only one. Even so, more than PU, it is simply that he was full of determination, since a loved one was about to be killed, and he gave everything or nothing to save her (you don't have to look for much logic either).

The interesting thing about this is his past and background, to see how he manages to fight the goblins and is learning from his mistakes, and most importantly. He, like him, is leaving aside his cold attitude, and is relating to the other adventurers.

✪---CHARACTERS---✪ (7)
As for the other characters, because the manga focuses on the Goblin Slayer group more than everything, since the manga is about that, the adventures of the Goblin Slayer and his group.

"Priestess"

The priestess was reckless and in need of some "reality". It was thought that being an adventurer was a children's game with the group he was with, after the incident he realizes that it is not ... that he has to take this being an "adventurer" seriously and as the story progresses with Goblin he matures and gets used to the murky things that happen in the world of Goblin Slayer, while he is sympathizing and understanding "Goblin Slayer". She is an important character, since it is mainly thanks to her that Goblin Slayer stops being so cold .. put aside killing goblins a bit and start having fun or experiencing things in life instead of killing goblins, like trying ice cream , socialize more etc. Besides that she is not a useless character at all, she is in fact the most useful of the Goblin Slayer group.

"High Elf"

The elf something similar happens to her, she made fun of the "Goblin Slayer" for doing Goblin missions and worst of all, she underestimated goblins more than the same priestess in her "beginnings". She also needed a bit of "reality" in that world, and so it was. She had it and understood the "Goblin Slayer" better and stopped underestimating the Goblins. She is an important character due to the fact that she helps the protagonist to be more open, and not only focus on the goblins ... what I like the most about her is how she complements the Dwarf, they make a very good duo.


Postdate: (The dwarf and the lizard have practically no development and neither do they need it, they simply gain more experience in battle and contribute to making "Goblin Slayer" more friendly .. even so I don't dislike them and the dwarf is very charismatic. It would be necessary to talk about the "Sword Maiden" or the "fighting princess" of the "Goblin Paladin" arc and its developments, but I don't feel like it xd)

✪---ART---✪ (8)
The art of Goblin Slayer is rare and unique, what I mean is that the author, despite having a "generic" style of drawing characters, in action scenes or key moments, draws like a BEAST. Also that he is very good at drawing goblins, the amount of detail that he puts into some panels is scary.

Finally there is the factor of what I nickname as "illustrative language", which in summary would be that through a drawing you can transmit a message, emotion or even suffering of such a situation or character through images. Unlike the anime, the author does it very well, as for example in the Goblin Paladin arc when the "fighting princess" is caught by the goblins and then rescued, and after sleeping and later getting up, she is traumatized and simply says ... "Goblins ..." (on the other hand, in the anime, the attitude she has is that of someone relieved, that is, it doesn't make any sense after what she suffered).

✪---SCORE---✪
7,2|10 (GOOD)