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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Light Novel #16
転生したらスライムだった件 16 [Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 16]
帝国との戦いに勝利を収めたリムルだったが、
ルドラの身体を乗っ取ったミカエル、妖魔王フェルドウェイの暗躍と、
やっかいな問題はまだ残ったままであった。
リムルが戦っていたその裏で起きていた、地下迷宮のラミリス防衛戦もまた不安を煽る。
とはいえ一先ず窮地は脱したことで、リムルはこの機に部下たちの面談を行うことに……。
ルドラの身体を乗っ取ったミカエル、妖魔王フェルドウェイの暗躍と、
やっかいな問題はまだ残ったままであった。
リムルが戦っていたその裏で起きていた、地下迷宮のラミリス防衛戦もまた不安を煽る。
とはいえ一先ず窮地は脱したことで、リムルはこの機に部下たちの面談を行うことに……。
476 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 27, 2020
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September 10, 2023
The end for me
Got about 30 minutes into the book and realized that I'm just done with this series. Too many side characters that I don't care about. Too many new enemy characters getting introduced that I can barely keep names straight anymore. Forcing in a numerical scaling system for power levels when the main characters are already insanely strong compared to the general populace, it was unnecessary and annoying to read. A prologue that is the Genesis of the world and some of the bigger characters, setting it up that this is essentially a battle between God like beings which is making things seem convoluted and confusing. I would have been fine just learning everything from Rimurus perspective and it would have been more entertaining that way.
It was a good series and I enjoyed following Rimurus story and the development of Tempest, but this will be where I stop in the series.
Got about 30 minutes into the book and realized that I'm just done with this series. Too many side characters that I don't care about. Too many new enemy characters getting introduced that I can barely keep names straight anymore. Forcing in a numerical scaling system for power levels when the main characters are already insanely strong compared to the general populace, it was unnecessary and annoying to read. A prologue that is the Genesis of the world and some of the bigger characters, setting it up that this is essentially a battle between God like beings which is making things seem convoluted and confusing. I would have been fine just learning everything from Rimurus perspective and it would have been more entertaining that way.
It was a good series and I enjoyed following Rimurus story and the development of Tempest, but this will be where I stop in the series.
March 27, 2021
Quite a cute and fun slice-of-life cooldown to the Empire Arc (with some surprise action, too).
May 6, 2021
Maybe going against the overall "medium" rating of this volume, but I personally enjoyed the past interactions/fleshed out backstory of Guy. He's always been an enigma, and considering we still don't have much of a grasp on his powers as of yet (other than it may be similar to Ciel's), I feel he still brings an interesting/amusing element to any seen he shows up in (whether with or without Rimuru).
Finally caught up with my backlog of Tensura I've not yet uploaded to here, so apologies for the large amount of reviews that may be popping up on peoples feeds.
Finally caught up with my backlog of Tensura I've not yet uploaded to here, so apologies for the large amount of reviews that may be popping up on peoples feeds.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 12, 2023
Conclusion of the Empire Ark
For wrap up book it was fine, we get a look at a missing battle from the previous book and introduced to what the next major conflict is going to be.
Then it goes through a frankly unnecessary scaling system that they're now going to use for all of the characters. I think there was other ways the author could have gone about this, such as having built a better scaling power ranking system earlier on. Personally though, I think the author should have just stopped using Clayman as a benchmark and just compared characters to each other. An arbitrary number especially one that they keep emphasizing does not actually reflect all of the battle strength isn't necessary. We know how Tempest forces rank over each other in general even without any of them fighting each other. Saying that they have a Diablo level strength versus a Gobta level strength gives the reader a pretty good idea of the power of the character without having to assign them a number. However I did get a kick out of the fact that Diablo gave himself the number 6,666,666. That is so in character.
I feel like a better use of this book would have been covering the fallout in the world as new spreads of the empire's defeat and new emperor being crowned along with how the town is faring especially with the large amount of adventurers and merchants that are now part of tempest that don't necessarily worship Rimuru like his citizens do.
For wrap up book it was fine, we get a look at a missing battle from the previous book and introduced to what the next major conflict is going to be.
Then it goes through a frankly unnecessary scaling system that they're now going to use for all of the characters. I think there was other ways the author could have gone about this, such as having built a better scaling power ranking system earlier on. Personally though, I think the author should have just stopped using Clayman as a benchmark and just compared characters to each other. An arbitrary number especially one that they keep emphasizing does not actually reflect all of the battle strength isn't necessary. We know how Tempest forces rank over each other in general even without any of them fighting each other. Saying that they have a Diablo level strength versus a Gobta level strength gives the reader a pretty good idea of the power of the character without having to assign them a number. However I did get a kick out of the fact that Diablo gave himself the number 6,666,666. That is so in character.
I feel like a better use of this book would have been covering the fallout in the world as new spreads of the empire's defeat and new emperor being crowned along with how the town is faring especially with the large amount of adventurers and merchants that are now part of tempest that don't necessarily worship Rimuru like his citizens do.
October 4, 2023
3 stars for the main story, 1 star for the prologue and epilogue.
I feel like being a Slime fan has turned into incredible anticipation being thrown on a brick wall called frustration.
I enjoyed this volume a lot, but if not for Guy and Ludora’s backstory bookending this I think it would have been a disappointment.
My biggest complaint about recent volumes have been too much action. It’s fun to read, but Fuse is juggling SO many characters and trying to give each of them adequate ‘screen’ time it can be exhausting.
The first third of this volume is going back to the Empire invasion and as soon as I realized that I groaned. Because I wanted to move on. Did it give me good insight? Sure. Did it give me a hyped up scene with one of my favorite characters in the whole series? Absolutely, but this volume is frustrating in the sense that it backtracks to include more of this overstuffed war, then it becomes a stat list for the next 100 pages (which I don’t like that we can now quantify power levels when it mentioned multiple times that numbers don’t mean anything), before setting up the final saga. Again, I liked what I read, but this is not what I wanted from the series at this point.
Thankfully I got a taste of what I wanted in the Prologue and Epilogue.
I feel like being a Slime fan has turned into incredible anticipation being thrown on a brick wall called frustration.
I enjoyed this volume a lot, but if not for Guy and Ludora’s backstory bookending this I think it would have been a disappointment.
My biggest complaint about recent volumes have been too much action. It’s fun to read, but Fuse is juggling SO many characters and trying to give each of them adequate ‘screen’ time it can be exhausting.
The first third of this volume is going back to the Empire invasion and as soon as I realized that I groaned. Because I wanted to move on. Did it give me good insight? Sure. Did it give me a hyped up scene with one of my favorite characters in the whole series? Absolutely, but this volume is frustrating in the sense that it backtracks to include more of this overstuffed war, then it becomes a stat list for the next 100 pages (which I don’t like that we can now quantify power levels when it mentioned multiple times that numbers don’t mean anything), before setting up the final saga. Again, I liked what I read, but this is not what I wanted from the series at this point.
Thankfully I got a taste of what I wanted in the Prologue and Epilogue.
July 11, 2024
3/5 Even more wrap up to the Eastern Empire Arc. I really enjoy this series but damn sometimes it just needs to get on with it. After defeating Ludora and revealing Michael and Feldway to be the big bads behind the war you’d think it was done but nope. The first chapter goes back to tell what happened back at the city of Rimiru and in the dungeon. We get the details on the battles that were fought there. Some of them were fun and there were a couple of big reveals.
The 2nd chapter is Rimiru debriefing and interviewing all of his group. This takes quite awhile. After that we move on to chapter 3 which covers the after war summit with all of the nations involved.
The best parts of this novel are the prolog and epilogue which provide much needed information on Veldanava (pretty much god and creator of the world) and how everything started with the different races and creation of the world. The prolog tells Guy Crimson’s origin story, the creation of the demon lords, and Ludora’s ambitions and eventual fall to his own Skill turned Manas Michael.
Sadly volumes 17 is a story collection and I’m not nearly as excited to read that. But we’re coming into the final arc of this series and I want to see where it goes.
The 2nd chapter is Rimiru debriefing and interviewing all of his group. This takes quite awhile. After that we move on to chapter 3 which covers the after war summit with all of the nations involved.
The best parts of this novel are the prolog and epilogue which provide much needed information on Veldanava (pretty much god and creator of the world) and how everything started with the different races and creation of the world. The prolog tells Guy Crimson’s origin story, the creation of the demon lords, and Ludora’s ambitions and eventual fall to his own Skill turned Manas Michael.
Sadly volumes 17 is a story collection and I’m not nearly as excited to read that. But we’re coming into the final arc of this series and I want to see where it goes.
August 28, 2023
A lot of this book is taken up with the debrief of the previous battle, and how everyone's evolution went. However we do get some action at the begining, as we find out what was happening in the Labyrinth while Rimiru and everyone else was fighting on the surface, from Veldora taking off, to when Rimiru defeated Velgrynd.
There is also some background on Guy, which gives us some insight on his motivations.
This is definitely a volume that is more set up for the next arc than anything else, but even so a lot actually happens in it.
There is also some background on Guy, which gives us some insight on his motivations.
This is definitely a volume that is more set up for the next arc than anything else, but even so a lot actually happens in it.
September 3, 2023
Post war with the Empire is what I expected when picking up this book but it takes you back to the war from the Tempest/Labyrinth perspective as Veldora heads out to defend the people of Tempest against his sister.
After settling in for that ride back to the present you get to get a perspective of everyone’s growth post war. I was really hyped to see the detail put into each characters skills and powers.
The last part of the book takes us way back to the beginnings of Guy and Ludora which sheds some light on the game they play, along with the relationships this was built upon.
After settling in for that ride back to the present you get to get a perspective of everyone’s growth post war. I was really hyped to see the detail put into each characters skills and powers.
The last part of the book takes us way back to the beginnings of Guy and Ludora which sheds some light on the game they play, along with the relationships this was built upon.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 15, 2025
10/10 Joder que revelaciones nos dio este libro, muchas preguntas fueron respondidas y lo que me sorprendió fue que Milim tiene un familiar muy importante y no lo vi venir, tener el único tío que te queda que se encarna tantas veces y poco a poco su habilidad lo hace volverse loco, eso fue sorprendente y mi nariz de sabueso me dice que Rimuru es reencarnación del primer dragón verdadero 🫣🫣😱😱🤯🤯🤨🤔🤔🤔
August 26, 2023
Wrapping up and moving on
This volume is basically a continuation of the last, so read vol 15 before hitting this one. It's been so long since 15 came out I didn't remember half the stuff that was happening so bewarned. No new characters come out, but we mostly get about half backstory and half action. Overall it held my interest though 6 months between books is too long.
This volume is basically a continuation of the last, so read vol 15 before hitting this one. It's been so long since 15 came out I didn't remember half the stuff that was happening so bewarned. No new characters come out, but we mostly get about half backstory and half action. Overall it held my interest though 6 months between books is too long.
January 12, 2024
Mmmm es difícil de calificar, creo que se podría dividir en dos partes, la parte frenetica, cargada de acción al principio de la novela y la segunda parte, aburrida, pesada, llena de información, con niveles de poder que se sienten como un sobresaliente grano.
No es mala, pero tampoco se siente del todo bien encajada.
No es mala, pero tampoco se siente del todo bien encajada.
June 25, 2024
A must read
I really enjoyed reading this volume. It has some great information and some great fights. I understand more and more how this conflict started and it's direction. I feel like Rimuru was reincarnate to stop the game between Guy and Ludora. Great extra chapter about Guy.
I really enjoyed reading this volume. It has some great information and some great fights. I understand more and more how this conflict started and it's direction. I feel like Rimuru was reincarnate to stop the game between Guy and Ludora. Great extra chapter about Guy.
August 24, 2023
This is a case of the cover being more exciting than the contents. While I enjoyed all the details, this volume consisted of expanding on and wrapping up the story from volume 15. It was fine but it’s really just the reset before starting next arc.
April 20, 2025
This is when I know I love a series. This book basically is the "clean-up" from the war with the Empire and I even love this. I've grown quite attached to the lovely characters over 16 volumes and expect that the next (however many) volumes will be the same. Just give me more Rimaru and friends!
April 6, 2020
Getting quite repetitive, predictable, and verbose.
August 23, 2023
Clean up and some useful references.
A tidy clean up to the war arc and also provides finally some power scaling. Can't wait for the next arc.
A tidy clean up to the war arc and also provides finally some power scaling. Can't wait for the next arc.
January 20, 2024
4.5 Stars
May 4, 2024
Took me forever to get into the groove with this one. Not shade to the book, just hit a slump.
This for me was a clean up and assess book. A lot of information and sharing/making of plans.
This for me was a clean up and assess book. A lot of information and sharing/making of plans.
October 14, 2024
Un descanso, una mirada al pasado que sirve para comprender muchas cosas.
March 15, 2025
Sunk cost fallacy
June 8, 2025
OMG! So Good
This volume was so good. Looks like Rimuru has more trouble coming and its closer to home. I can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.
This volume was so good. Looks like Rimuru has more trouble coming and its closer to home. I can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.
September 12, 2025
A lot of power scaling in this one. I appreciate the series giving a breather from all the action every now and then. Lastly the epilogue was hands down the best part.
August 26, 2023
the whole volume it felt like we were playing catch up on vol 15. honestly, instead of this being vol 16, it should have been called vol 15.5 or something. but i guess this is the lull before shit hits the fan; vol 18, after all, is going to be called the quickening.
March 1, 2022
Alurnya mulai berubah dari plot web novel. Dan aku merasa ... senang? Kayaknya villain utama juga bakalan berubah nggak sih? Epilognya bikin sedih :(
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