Rimuru then turns convention on its head by running around befriending and allying almost everyone te meets, including goblins, dire wolves, dwarves, ogres and lizard people. As the title immediately shows, te is also a slime (a standard normally low-level fantasy monster). 'Slime' goes all in on this concept only in so far as 'Rimuru' is spectacularly power in the world te is reborn into. This is an 'isekai' (other world) manga/anime (tremendously popular at the moment), and it follows one of the standard conventions of the sub-genre - 'regular' person goes to/is trapped in/is reborn in another world, where he (almost always he) is spectacularly powerful.
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Eight volumes are available in translation, and there's also an anime series (which is where I started). 'Slime' goes all in on this concept only in so far as 'Rimuru' is spectacularly pow My favourite manga series of the moment. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero….
So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he’s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he’s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he’s a little disappointed to find he’s become a blind, boneless slime monster. Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters.