She is so cute

What do you mean?

>>280188377 (OP)
Did she get goblined?

>>280188925
She is alive isn't it?
Soft dainty girls like her don't survive being goblined

>>280188377 (OP)
Perfect for rape

>>280188377 (OP)
She's made for gobbin

>>280188377 (OP)
>start with awesome rape
>come along with shitty gary stu protagonist
>the rape eventually stops

>>280189174
you don't know what gary stu means

>>280188377 (OP)
would gob

>>280189210
A guys that never loses. The average shonen mc.

>>280188377 (OP)
She was a sweet young thing. Alas, GS is a terrible influence on our youth.

>>280189288
He gets his shit kicked in pretty regularly. Priestess is the one who has saved them from like five party wipes.

>>280188377 (OP)
Sleepy Priestess is adorable.

>>280189105

>>280188377 (OP)
Guild Girl is better. But Cow Girl is the perfect wife.

>>280190133
I like priestess, but when you're right you're right.

>>280189488
Without her improve skills, they'd have never iced that ogre in the mountains.

>>280190133
>But Cow Girl is the perfect wife
Doesn't get better than this.

>>280189174
>gary stu protagonist
Not even remotely close to using that term correctly.
He's a mind broken autist, who's a platinum ranked adventurer(which is like upper mid, maybe lower high ranked), who is also essentially a one-trick pony. They show that there are tons of people who are far, far better than him but he happens to have specialized knowledge that most feel beneath them.
If anything it's a good counter example of someone who isn't a 'gary stu'. And has a shit ton of character progression and development to do to even get to a semi-normal state.

>>280190133
>Guild Girl is better
t. Spearchucker.

>>280191576
s/platinum/silver and you're spot on, anon.

>>280189055
Priestess is for Grape not rape.

>>280190133
How does he drag himself away from this every morning?

>>280192641
Because he has a horny Guild Girl waiting at the office.

>>280188377 (OP)
And so funny

>>280193220
Someday Priestess' priestesses will rank up, anon. And they're still nice now.

>>280191576
It's bits like this that make you realize just how messed up he is:
"""
“I’ll leave immediately. Pay me what you like.” Goblin Slayer nodded, rolled the map up with a casual motion, and stood forcefully. Stuffing the map away, he made a rapid check of his equipment and then began to stride toward the door.
The elf grew agitated. “W-wait a second!” Her ears flicked, and as before, she kicked her chair and reached out her hand. “You sound like you’re going to go out there alone.”
“I am.”
The elf’s frown said, You’ve got to be kidding.
The lizardman made an intrigued noise. “This is only my humble observation, but that esteemed acolyte of the Earth Mother is a party member of yours, is she not, milord Goblin Slayer?”
“You’re going to take them on alone?” the elf said. “Are you insane?”
Goblin Slayer stopped and exhaled slowly. “Yes.”
And without another word, he walked out of the meeting room.
Which question he had meant to answer, they could not tell.
There was no way they could know.
"""

It's a crime that the anime skipped this arc
They fear Priestess' hebe power

>>280193972
They cheated us out of the Babu bonk and the Babu flash. Not to mention her offering to the Earth Goddess.

>>280194093
>Babu flash

>>280194093
I love how she snuck in a direct plea for GS.

>>280189055
well, she did rape the protagonist

>>280192641
pure autism

>>280191576
you're replying to a jeet who doesn't know what a "gary stu" is

>>280194472
SM got handy with GS; Priestess was just along for the ride.

>>280194553
giwtwm (priestess)

>>280194093
>Babu bonk

>>280192641
Does she really just show him her boobs every morning in the LN?

>>280194704
Looks like she's getting subtly taller

>>280194736
In Vol. 1 she explicitly puts on her underwear before opening the window to great him. Not that that's a huge downgrade.

>>280188377 (OP)
She's a princess by birth and offered up to a temple/orphanage

>>280194775
She's a growing girl, especially now that she can afford decent meals.

>>280194793
So it's just the illustrator being horny, her chest is clearly exposed in >>280192641

>>280194865
CG makes every artist horny, anon.

>>280191576
>who is also essentially a one-trick pony who takes down everything from ogres to dark elves and every non-goblin threat he faces
Having Batman's utility belt and always having a convenient tool for the job doesn't make it better.

>>280191576
Nah, it’s a masturbatory power fantasy for loners. The central concept of this story is that other adventurers look down on the Goblin Slayer for only taking jobs exterminating weak monsters that no one takes seriously, which flies in the face of what the grave danger we're shown that these goblins present. Inexperienced heroes getting caught off-guard by the horrors of trying to face goblins doesn't work when we've already seen how clear it should be to any adventurer worth their salt that there's plenty of danger to the prospect of confronting a goblin horde. It makes the lack of regard that the denizens of this world have for goblins and the Goblin Slayer come off as arbitrary, just to force him into the role of misunderstood loner.

This brings me to my major takeaway from Goblin Slayer so far. So much of it revolves around playing up a misanthropic power fantasy. The hero is looked down upon by society at large, but he gets to be an unstoppable badass in his chosen role of goblin-slaying. The elaborate social revenge angle is hilariously palpable in one scene where he's being mocked by other adventurers, and you can practically hear the story bitterly seething over whatever graphic goblin-based fate should befall anyone who doesn't respect this underappreciated badass. At least he's understood by his cute companion Priestess who helps him slay goblins, his cute childhood friend who loves being protected by him, and the cute Adventurer's Guild clerk who doesn't judge him for taking goblin-slaying jobs. Goblin Slayer isn't subtle about pandering to the fantasies of its target audience.

>>280191576
>>280193423
>he's so messed up that he gets a harem and always survives the most lethal hits that would severely harm adventurers with better gear
Goblin Slayer plays be really fucking stupid double standards.

So, like, everything plays by JRPG rules on the surface. Class systems, magic name attacks, enemy types, armor... all of it screams generic JRPG fantasy setting.

And then the author wants us to take him seriously when he pulls stuff like "Ha ha, look at these named characters not wearing helmets so you can see their face. They are so easy to kill! lol, aren't they dumb for wearing such impractical armor?"

Which is only smart if you are fucking shit tier pleb who takes the 'twist' at face value.

What it REALLY does is create the plot hole in the authors own setting of "if this armor is so fucking impractical and shitty, how is there an entire manufacturing economy that mass produces this stuff such that all these adventurers keep getting their hands on it? And how has no one figured out that heads are a vulnerable part of the body before now if all of the enemies do nothing but cheap shot the skull?"

Its like the entire world used to operate by different rules and, as soon as the story starts, suddenly all of the tropes stopped working and everything became gritty and realistic, and none of the characters have learned the new rules yet because last week this wasn't how the world worked.

It just the most garbage, bottom tier of power fantasy: the MC is stronk not because he is anything special, but because the entire rest of the world has been written to be inexplicably and illogically inept.

>>280189488
>He gets his shit kicked in pretty regularly and survives to win through his own plan
>>280194902
Fuck Batwank. Supposedly, Batman with enough prep time and no moral compass is fucking "outversal". Bruce Wayne has reached powerlevels higher than Clark Kent ever has.

>>280188377 (OP)
what kind of society lets a 15 year old girl go out to fight packs of murderous rapists?

>>280195006
the one where im a rapist

>>280195006
It’s a conspiracy you guys. The guild uses it meaningless rankings and promises of adventure to lure young and able bodied people to join them. This leaves their original villages lacking in workforce. Then they send said able bodied youth back to similar, but not the same villages, to do jobs they would have done for free for family or at a cheaper price. They guilds then take a portion of the fees for their own sake even though they’re the reason the villages couldn’t handle those jobs to begin with. Worst yet, the guild deliberately poorly manages everything, providing no training or resources, undoubtedly motivated by laziness and cheapness but also so a simple job a halfway trained team can do will take multiple teams wiping. This is so people think of the threats as way more threatening, ensuring that everyone is too ill-defended by a lack of young manpower to defend themselves and too scared to try themselves, making them reliant on their purposefully poor services, and keeping the population scared enough to go to them, thus keeping them both constantly having a stream of jobs and making sure nobody else can. The guild is a conspiracy. They want to weaken everyone else so they can profit.

They send women to goblins because they want goblins to breed, terrorize, and to send people in their direction with money in their hands. They don’t care about ethical or even efficient business.

>>280195006
One with a surplus of both fifteen-year-olds and goblins.

>>280195026

>>280195026
Based Guild.

>>280194902
It would be a million times better to give him a few super powers he can use intelligently that have limits than to just poop out some new Deus ex Machina from his utility belt. Modern batman is almsot as convenient as Adam West Batman with his gadgets.

Modern Batman's this ridiculously weird writing where he's supposed to be peak human in brains, physique, and more but he's repeatedly always having the right tool at all times or he's performing feats of strength or endurance that superhumans can't do. In practice, he's always got some super powerful gadget much like Iron Man's developing new suits that let him fight well above his weight class.
>oh shit superman actin a fool again, beter get out my Hulkbuster armor that hits him with miniature red suns
Except being a genius inventor is Iron Man's whole thing and even then it pushes boundaries.

>>280195005
Are you talking about the batwank who laughs? Because as much as he's a shitty joker with bruce's plot armor, he came from a universe which is a meta "where bad ideas go to die" and the characters refer to him as "the batman who tries too hard".

>>280194927
Nothing what you said has anything to do with the gary stu archetype. You just projected a bunch of word spaghetti out of nowhere.

Anons, GS is NOT discount Batman; instead, he's Dollar Store Aragon.

>>280195128
Regular Batman's like that too. It's a common theme with characters like GS and Batman where they're not supposed to be the physically strongest character and yet they constantly survive hits which ought to lethal. Not even the tabletop mechanics of GS justify how attacks that are lethal to others don't kill him.

Pic's what I'm talking about and you'll see this all over comics, west and east, where characters who ought to die instantly from getting smashed into concrete by other characters with massive super strength get knocked out or a split lip but don't have skulls smooshed like a horror film.

>>280194902
I think the worst part of this is Goblin Slayer's supposed to be a
>leave nothing to luck
and
>prepared for everything
character. But in practice, he's always got a convenient right tool for the task and the tool he gets next or before would've failed. So it boils down to
>he's lucky
rather than prep alone.

>>280195266
True. The group comes across an enemy too strong to beat. GS has a scroll he has been holding onto that he doesn't talk about, which he pulls out and uses to cast teleport. Except that the teleport spell, despite its name, actually opens a portal (lets assume that was a mistranslation, for the benefit of the doubt) and he targetted the other side of the portal to the bottom of the ocean so that the deep sea pressure will shoot a stream of pressurized water out of the portal and one-shot the enemy standing in front of it, cutting him in half.
This, on the surface, seems clever. But its has 2 big problems that make it bad writing: the first is that there is no setup. GS pulls out and uses the scroll and insta-kills the badguy, and we only even learn that what he cast was 'teleport' after the fact as he explains what happened as he dumps exposition on the event after it is done. So we have no foreshadowing of the tools and even the people who were there with him in the room have no idea what just happened.
The second problem with the plan is that there is no in-universe reason that GS should know this was possible. He is not a wizard, so he knows nothing about portals. This is just a scroll he bummed off of another adventurer. But somehow, this guy that is already established to be such a goblin-killing autist that he is totally unaware of the continent-wide war against the demons because he just doesn't care enough to pay attention to common knowledge of current events, we are expected to know is both aware of the deep sea pressure at the bottom of the ocean, is aware of the concept of a water cutter, and has made the logical leap to use the teleport scroll to create a thing he doesn't know about using knowledge he can't have using a magic he doesn't understand. Its 'clever', but makes absolutely no sense for it to occur in context.

>>280195235
It is funny like that. Both Goblin Champion and Orge had the chance to crush GS's head but just smashed at his body instead, resulting in he surviving. They're nice like that.

>>280195266
GS is a tattered, dog-eared, and water stained copy of the military's "Improvised Weapons and Tactics" manual, anon.

>>280195341
Well he's an NPC in a game... Yeah, that makes it worse. He meant to flood Goblin caves with the scroll but yeah if the scroll didn't shoot everything out like a high-pressure water cutter than the fireball would've gotten to him by the time all the water came out. Like if the water came slow enough that the fireball would've evaporated the water before hitting him still with high heat energy. Or if the Ogre didn't conveniently get its spine damaged in a way his severed upper body couldn't reach and grab him. Or if the scroll wasn't weaponized for flooding but designed to cause a cave-in or the Ogre had spells like electricity which could've flooded the whole room with electrified water and fried everyone that way. Or he gets the scroll one mission late. There's a million ways it could've gone wrong but didn't/

>>280188377 (OP)
The whole premise of the series is that being in dangerous situations ill-prepared is going to you raped or killed. But the main five has plot armor, Priestess gets over the trauma of seeing her all party members being raped and killed in the afternoon.
When GS loses his consciousness during a fight, all his party members are seconds away from being raped or killed. Yet, nothing is lost from this, GS wakes up and saves everybody, nobody is missing any limbs or has new scars, Priestess was almost eaten by a hob, but is normal afterward, the goblins stripped Elven Archer while holding her on the ground preparing to penetrate... and it is never brought up again.

>>280195266
GS usually always manages to pull his plan that he had all along (but didn't share with anybody and the just blindly follow and somehow still manage to fit the roles he wants the to, a bit silly). That feels unnatural.

Elaborate schemes that strictly plan for each step up to the final "just as planned" triumph are exactly the stuff that has biggest chance t get subverted, because deviations/unexpected variables/accidents at start cascade down.

>>280195531
This just boils down to previous points about how in the end he relies on luck or plot to have the right tools for the job for a plan that conveniently works even if it could've messed up in other ways.

>>280189105
>>280189281
I always hoped that they redesign the goblin to something from the other anime Magic Maker. Imagine the rape.

>>280195006
>Helmets are important
>except for the rest of the main character's party members, they don't need helmets (they never memtion that armor messes with magic, and GS used scrolls while in armor)
>The world is dangerous and goblins are a serious threat
>Except for the fact that almost everybody ignores goblins as RPG low-level monsters until the camera is rolling, because we need to have an outsider MC vs the World plot
>The town's adventurer's guild sends out parties and provides quests
>The office-lady is responsible for the rapes and deaths of thousands of people who were just allowed to walk off into death traps

Goblin Slayer is mediocre at best.

>>280189174

don't make me start about the "he never lets anybody roll the die" bullshit versus his macgyver tricks and plans that would probably work right without serious misfires and unpredictable blowbacks in one case out of 1000
>dudes climb a mage tower by driving long nails into its wall BY HAND and stepping on them
>bbbutt he has a ring of strength
cue muh speedreader replies from the denial force autist(s?)

>>280195658
>>dudes climb a mage tower by driving long nails into its wall BY HAND and stepping on them
>>bbbutt he has a ring of strength
That's Heavy Warrior who has the enchanted items, anon.
GS just points out that Gravity has no voice.

why make it a "harem" if cow girl won since chapter -1

>>280194902
Batman's a good comparison. Illusion and Reality both are fond of GS to the point he might have some supernatural in-universe plot protection much like Batman.

>>280195006
well their world are the hostile one and I'm guessing their average lifespan are 20s where only few will reach 50s. It means that the sex must happen frequently to resupply the underpopulation due to goblin threats. So 15 is considered as adult in that world. it happens in WW1 & WW2 of our world too.

>>280195531
Plots where hero makes a plan and then the twists of fate start to happen and hero has to respond and fend of those challenges, that's much better. And also more natural.

>>280195812
CG has the curse of the childhood friend, anon. Plus, even though he's oblivious, GS is surrounded by utter babes.

>>280191576
There's many brands of Gary Stu and a common kind is they're not special physically and they plan well, but the plans always go in their direction even if there's a million ways it shouldn't. What we see of him is just stupid.
There is no way for him to protect against goblins sneaking up on him from behind, what with his huge helmet.
There is no way for him to verify the quality of a weapon in the bad lighting of a cave, yet he happily trades his weapons for ones he's taken off of goblins inside the cave and then trusts his life to them not breaking in the middle of a fight.
There are many things that can go wrong when you are alone and don't have anyone covering for you.
But they never do go wrong. And the only time he falls for a goblin trap or falls unconscious in a fight is when he happens to have a team with him.
The original selling point of this story is that GS was not the hero of "the story" at large, but rather just some guy running around while the real protagonist defeats the demon lord. Instead he's this incredibly unique figure who survives death even when death should have been a guarantee, and "doesn't let the gods roll the dice" despite relying on luck for decent weapons to use among other things.

>>280195995
>doesn't ro9ll the die = doesn't play with luck
>but primary tactics involve scavenging enemy weapons and relying on situation and surroundings
>repeatedly blindsighted by things he didn't expect and only hulk rages so he survives
MC isn't a smart planner. He's just lucky he never got into a situation he can't anger his way out.

>>280195926
>GS is surrounded by utter babes.
All because he's a nice guy.

>>280195481
>or the Ogre had spells like electricity which could've flooded the whole room with electrified water and fried everyone that way.
This also applies to the Beholder later. Using a Beholder's attack to trigger enough heat for a dust explosion is a stretch because he easily could've fought a Beholder who isn't an Eye of Fire. Meaning most of them. Meaning he was lucky. OR the Beholders of the tabletop universe just coincidentally all are Eyes of Fire which would be a massive contrivance.

>>280195926
Perfectly well balanced female cast.
Something for everyone.

>>280196101
They see the beholder burn shit before GS tries for a dust explosion. He even points out what he'd do if the explosion didn't work.

>>280196154
He didn't know he'd be fighting one before bringing it. He could've fought any other Beholder which would've disintegrated. And it conveniently worked without anyone suffering from collapsed lungs, heat-based inhalation injuries, or any other consequence.

>>280196101
>>280196352
The problem with him being just an anti-goblin expert is he seems to be able to beat everything else by planning too. Even if he needs help from others at times, he's making the plans therefore the peculiarities of the new enemy he's not experienced with could've ruined his plan but don't.

>>280196352
>He didn't know he'd be fighting one before bringing it.
He knew he'd need a big badda-boom eventually, anon.
>And it conveniently worked without anyone suffering from collapsed lungs, heat-based inhalation injuries, or any other consequence.
Because Priestess worked a miracle, one he's seen time after time.

High Elf Archer is cuter.

>>280196477
HEAnvil is a babe, but Priestess is a babe unawares.

>>280196433
>He knew he'd need a big badda-boom eventually, anon.
Which would've not worked here because dust explosions aren't just tossing a bag of flower (that was

>Because Priestess worked a miracle, one he's seen time after time.
Miracle just assumes everything would work and all consequences, no matter how different or even directly necessary to the explosion, just don't happen. That flour is doubtfully very fine and all sorts of environmental factors. Hell, the dust explosion itself would be loud and deafen everybody in point blank range unless barriers are noise canceling.

>The basic requirements for a dust explosion to occur is that combustible dusts are suspended in air and are ignited. In practice, for a dust explosion to occur, a number of conditions must be met including:
>The dust must be combustible and release enough heat when it burns to sustain the fire.
>The dust must be capable of being suspended in air.
>The dust must have a particle size capable of spreading the flame.
>The concentration of the dust suspension must be within the explosible range.
>An ignition source must be in contact with the dust suspension.
>The atmosphere must contain sufficient oxygen to support and sustain combustion.
>There is a form of confinement or enclosure that allows pressure to build.
must've been her miracle too.

Was there a bigger stretching of realism than the flour explosion?

>to tear a large body like the beholder apart, you need some large force, and to get explosive force, it needs chemical energy
>how much chemical energy is there in the small pouch of flour he was carrying, again? he would just get a toy-level flame flash that would not harm the monster at all, just wake it up, if he ever managed to initiate the explosion at all
>because moreover you need to mix the dust with the air well
>but he just runs around the beholder in one or two turns or what. No way
>they do this while the beast is asleep due to a spell that in D&D only downs low-level monsters and that's for a good reason, else it would be way too strong (I guess what to do is give the monster a strong blow by conventional means or set a real, strong explosive around. Or douse it in a lot of medieval gasoline and set it on fire - that might work, but the author also sometimes has lulzy ideas there, like goblins slip on oil on cave floor and instantly die from burns*)
>but no, this all somehow works and huge bang

I think that had to be one of the worst offenders, either I forgot the others or they were more believable.

*cave/ruins floor is not like floor in your home, it's going to to soak the shit into sand/soil and good luck slipping. Let's not talk about whether the volume of the oil GS uses and supposedly carries in his modestly sized pack could be enough.

>>280196605
>>280196628
>placing limits on the gods

>>280196673
>gs doesn't stand for goblin slayer
>it stands for god slayer
>by that a god that is a slayer
deepest lore

>>280195512
I think you are correct but give wrong examples.
The plot armor shows in GS plans and tricks. They are usually quite ridiculous if you think about it more, as in the chance of everything going as he needs is pretty slim but huh, somehow he has a perfect success rate. Not letting gods roll the die, my butt, it's actually like they use a rigged always-20 dice for him all the time.

>creates a huge dust explosion with a small sack of flour just spread around by hand quickly
>around a high level mosnter that was put to sleep by a low level spell and generally does its best to not be a threat in that encounter

I'd mention guys climbing high as fuck wall in heavy armor using nails they drive into the wall with bare hands but that triggers an autistic regular here.

These things makes it look like the fights in that world are all extremely dumb and easily cheated by "exploits".

SM is not a good person, by her own admission.

Reading this thread makes me not get into GS
Sounds like a fantasy slop with shock values, but no relevant characters die but side characters get goblined instead

>>280197026
>I need dead protagonists to enjoy the story.

>>280197026
You see it all across media. They do something big and shocking to make it look like there's stakes by killing off initial characters. But then the main cast is established and nobody there can die.

This is common TvTropes has a page for it. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurvivedTheBeginning

>>280188377 (OP)
>reading lewd fic of a SI into GS
>she turned herself into a blue skinned, preggo-obseesed, busty, venus of willendorf tier gremlin shortstack
>SI gremlin rapes goblins to death
>gives birth to litters of all female gremlins who quickly age up and scatter to find more goblins to rape to death
>they get knocked up and give birth to more gremlins
>who seek goblins to rape to death
>this snowballs
>mfw
For self-insert slop... this is pretty kino

>>280197292
The Ballard of Goblins' Layer, eh anon?

Spearchucker is the most easygoing and trustworthy adventurer that GS knows.

>>280188377 (OP)
Needs more

>>280191576
He beat the midget thief so he is pretty good even compared to others.
Being a jack of all trades except magic is a good build and he can do tons of shit, he even has one foot into barbarian.
>>280194956
It's literally dnd 5E, it starts with the damn character sheet.
Not having helmets makes sense especially depending on your classes.

>>280194927
Nobody knows how dangerous goblins really are except GS, the guild, and rape survivors who tend to just quit, except SM

Most rookies don't take goblin quests and those who clear the quests don't know about the cannon fodder who got wiped but helped grind down the goblins, it takes like 2 to 3 noob parties on average to wipe a nest but only the guild and GS know

If you die that early then you're just fodder and scrubs, all the others are high level vets

>>280194956
It's a game world with nobody self-aware
Nobody wears helmets because they want to be famous

GS will make the farm into a zoo in time.

>>280188377 (OP)
But wut if gud goblins tho?

>>280195658
>get fact checked by >>280195727
It has been 2 hours and still no replies as of yet.

When is priestess going to rape him?
Why hasn't she raped him yet?

>>280197026
>no relevant characters die
Wrong again. Next.
This is one of the reason GS still get discussion. Every bait about it were proven wrong every single time.

>>280197069
>Fantasy adventure
>Only mobs die
Thats a bona fide shounen slop

>>280190133
>anon, a gentleman and a scholar.

I don't care about the girls I only care about dead goblins

>>280194956
the setting is dumb, doesn't make him a gary stu

>>280193972
The anime is a failure. It skips everything people want to see and downgrades what little we do get

>>280189174
Retard, if he was a Gary Stu I would actually be excited for more seasons. Goblin Slayer jobs every other episode. It makes you wonder how he ever was okay by himself.

>>280190133
>Guild Girl is better.
Correct.
>But Cow Girl is the perfect wife.
Incorrect.

>>280198520
idiot, she was specifically written to be the token "dies" character

>>280199534
>moving the goalpost

>>280196573
what if babu but lewd

>>280197026
Your loss.

feed well and it bonks

>>280199224
>>But Cow Girl is the perfect wife.
indeed. Nothing close to her

>>280199550
Do you know what that phrase means? Also, I only entered the thread now.

GS has plenty token death characters, and it's always extras. You can almost see the line drawn between the regulars and heaps of cheap redshirts.
Best elf was was a redshirt, that the author didn't throw her away right away as is the usual case and chose to milk for all she was worth.

>>280199726
Do you know how reply works?
You can pretend as some other anon but posters explicitly said no important character ever dies, WRONG.
And then you you're doing a mental gymnastic since you got called out
>B-BUT IT'S A TOKEN DEATH CHARACTER

>>280189210
Mary Sue and related terms are meaningless now

>>280199774
>You can pretend
ok retard

>>280199830
>no argument
eat shit

>>280199836
the argumetn was in the first post, you chose to answer like a retard, so nothing to add, retard.

>>280199855
>argument was in the first post
And you got fact checked, move the goalpost and act like a retard.
Again, eat shit.

>fact checked
let me guess: slander of LN writing is a serious matter to you

Let me guess you're not reply directly because you're scared you got called out again.

I know you are but what am I?

>>280200174
I just don't get you who came to the thread he hated, spout nonsense, got called out and repeat.
How desperate are you for attention?

>>280200163
truly anons must be scared of your autismo level

>>280200280
It's just you, don't kid yourself

>no one posted that panel of the Goblin licking his lips when seeing Priestess

>>280195026
sounds plausible

>>280188377 (OP)
le piss girl

>>280188377 (OP)
Fighter returns, when?

>>280188377 (OP)
shes alright

>>280201347
They cut those scenes out..

>>280203902
Boooo

>>280200703
We're waiting for you to do it.

>>280189806
heh

>>280201932
Never.

It seems my superiority has caused some controversy

>face reveal
for what purpose.

>>280189174
>why is goblin slayer about slaying goblins and not goblin rape

>>280195161
If it's a shonen its a power fantasy, if it's a romcom its wish fulfillment. You are not arguing with somebody who comprehends the idea of reading something because its interesting.

>>280208164
To piss off Spearchucker.

>>280208703
Spearfaggot had a bombshell witch tending him hand and foot begging for his spear down there and ignored her for years. Fuck that guy, he deserves to get cucked eternally.

>>280208741
Spear is just cautious.

>>280195235
Did Diana just fucking kill him?

>>280195341
Why would he be ignorant of water pressure when anyone swimming can find out about it? Besides he set it all up with the witch

>>280189174
That's dungeons and dragons slop for you. It's charming in how childish it is.

>>280198017
>>280198061
This sounds like lack of awareness of visors, hope-face helmets, and DnD mechanics where they describe
>armor
in general. Also, a barbarian half naked gets skewered by a gob when Unarmored Defense exists. Should've bounced off his skin given his defense would be better than if he was armored.

>>280188925
Nope

>>280199160
>Goblin Slayer jobs every other episode
Every fight pic gets into ends this way and he still wins.

>>280208218
Because GS raping goblins would put this in a different genre and demographic.

>>280189806
He's so autistic
Jesus

>>280208901
For real. Dungeon exploring fantasy is the most boring kind.
I already dropped Surviving the Game as a Barbarian.
No overarching plots, killing mobs, and low stakes are what kills this sub genre for me

>>280209479
"It was... not bad."

>>280198520
That character's like when The Walking Dead has a filler arc and introduces new characters just to die because they can't kill off main characters.

>>280209479
He just has his own way of looking at things.

>>280209286
That's the strange part. If we 5e, then he ought to have massive hit points and defense. He should've be able to continue the fight.

>>280209863
>Year One is a filler arc.

>>280189174
He literally gets saved by the white mage a couple of times. Pretty sure the story tries to reach him to rely on others a bit more.

>>280190133
It's like Zelda, the main girl is always outclassed by at least two girls. Who btw, LIKE the mc

>>280194294
I need an entire volume of Priestess showing off her belly.

>>280195341
>GS has a scroll he has been holding onto that he doesn't talk about, which he pulls out and uses to cast teleport.
Except it's not a teleport scroll, it's a gate scroll and they say as much. See picrel. And he doesn't talk about it with the group because he is incredibly stubborn and is paranoid a party member might leak the information to goblins if they were captured (see ch 6).
>the first [problem] is that there is no setup
Witch mentions in chapter 5 that she'd helped Goblin Slayer with an odd scroll request, and in chapter 6 when HEA is poking at the scroll he tells her it's a dangerous item and to not touch it. Dwarf Shaman and Lizard Priest then mention how magical scrolls are rare and often contain ancient magic, so by all means there's setup that the scroll will have an important use. The scroll's exact purpose was kept secret because it's supposed to be a surprise to the party and the reader at the extreme methods Goblin Slayer will use to kill goblins.

>>280195341
>>280210818
>The second problem with the plan is that there is no in-universe reason that GS should know this was possible.
You are right that on his own, Goblin Slayer would likely not come across this knowledge. But he is familiar with Witch and she is happy to help him and give him knowledge for the right price. As for the deep sea pressure and water cutter ideas, I do agree that the main series doesn't address how the knowledge came to be, simply that it exists. Perhaps a curious wizard tried this in the past and made a mess of things and that's how the information was spread, but that's just a theory. There is also Year One, the prequel series, does address this and reframes the idea from high water pressure and cutting to a more simple "If you would drown at the bottom of the ocean, then bringing the bottom of the ocean to the surface could be an offensive weapon." We see his first use of a Gate scroll here, and from the aftermath we understand why Goblin Slayer was confident it would work on the Ogre. You can dismiss the Year One moments since they came in a prequel, but I figured I may at least mention them.
>This is just a scroll he bummed off of another adventurer.
One last minor thing, but he gets the scrolls from either finding them in dungeons or paying the Smith to collect any he comes across. He then gets Witch to assess them.

I do like this series a lot, so reading and participating in the discussions about it is fun.

>>280209612
I prefer the wake up scene from the manga: Priestess is a snuggle-er.

>>280197292
N-name?

>>280195006
Modern England?

>>280195210
He certainly looks foul while feeling fair.

>>280198119
Didn't CG put her foot down about live souvenirs after the camel?

>>280210471
I need an OVA already

>>280194927
>>280194956
>>280194902
truth
>>280195266
>>280195658
100%. Damn, that's like literally my comment. Yeah, that chapter was atrociously bad.
Also highlights those double standards by showing other adventurers mercilessly killed in the same tower "quest".

>>280196605
>>280196628
yeah, that was another high impact shameful display

>>280188925
wouldn't you want to know

>>280216260
kek what the hell, that IS my post from three years ago.

>>280216502
Thank you for feeding the bot.

>>280216586
failed to copypaste the improtant part in the spoiler
girls are cute SM, NF, erufu, Harefolk and Rhea best

>>280216644
>Rhea
So tasty.

>>280216181
I really want a Year One anime, myself.

>>280188377 (OP)
Protect the precious smile of priestess

>>280188377 (OP)
Is it rape if they want it?

>>280210818
>>the first [problem] is that there is no setup
>Witch mentions in chapter 5 that she'd helped Goblin Slayer with an odd scroll request, and in chapter 6 when HEA is poking at the scroll he tells her it's a dangerous item and to not touch it. Dwarf Shaman and Lizard Priest then mention how magical scrolls are rare and often contain ancient magic, so by all means there's setup that the scroll will have an important use. The scroll's exact purpose was kept secret because it's supposed to be a surprise to the party and the reader at the extreme methods Goblin Slayer will use to kill goblins.
Other posts are. This isn't setup. This is narrative setup but in-universe just another convenient toolbelt item. He lucked out on coincidentally getting a tool that coincidentally defeats this specific enemy and as a previous replier said about the Ogre hypothetically casting a lightning or electric attack which might've filled the whole room with electrified water and shocked everyone to death, there're many ways this could've gone wrong or backfired but very conveniently his tool happens to be a perfect fit for an enemy he never predicted. Unless narrative causality is a force of nature like meta-fiction, he got lucky.

>>280216644
>Harefolk
Mine was in the gutter.

>>280217937
If it was lightning or something faster, it might've reached them before the water cutter hit the ogre or it would've been a double ko.

https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/ogre-mage/

Lightning bolt spell would've reached at the speed of lightning and the rushing water wouldn't have come fast enough.

Marriage and gentle love with Priestess

Baby making sex, mate pressing, tongue kissing, and impregnation with High Elf Archer

>>280189488
Her purify miracle alone has save him 4 times: Cleaning the river, stopping the goblin shaman, creating quicksands, and interrupting a blood ritual.

>>280188377 (OP)
why does she wear that dumb hat?

>>280218729
>creating quicksands
When was that?

>>280198848
lying hag

>>280218945

>>280218740
Vestments don't have to make sense, anon.

>>280218841
In Vol. 11, she makes new quicksand with purify to snare some gobs who are rushing to attack the party as GS and Co. are escaping from a quicksand trap.
I tell you, her mind's been poisoned.

>>280188377 (OP)

>>280220456
11 had some steamy scenes.

>>280192641
He watched his sister having sex and didn't liked.

>>280220742
HEA has a healthy bum in the light novels, eh?

>>280216644
>NF
She's FM now, but she's still got it.

>>280221818
And in the anime.

>>280221919
Even the manga.

>>280218740
Even gobs know the hat is important, anon.

>>280218194
>Oh gosh! The humiliation!
Cute. Novice Cleric’s cuter, though.

>>280222669
They're both driving Club Fighter nuts.

>>280222811
I’m still mad he didn’t see her in that. What a fucking waste.

>>280195926
The curse of the childhood friend isn't a real thing

Next chapter when

>>280222849
The two of them were terrified that Priestess or GS would see them in those outfits. If CF had seen them, they'd have exploded.

>>280223028
I know. That’s why it’s a waste.

>>280218194
>>280222811
Nice bun's buns.

Posting best girl. She wa also the best fit for GS party last member: a frontliner who could also use miracles. Absolute waste.

>>280224086
Of course. You wouldn't care about their deaths if they weren't great.

>>280224086
Fucking Trolls.

>>280194704
Priestess looked like Asuna in bottom panel.

>>280194704
>Yah!
Really cute.

>>280189174
retard

>Show baits you in with Goblin rape and lewd stuff
The rest of the series has no lewd stuff. Biggest bait and switch in the history of anime.

>>280224674
>>280189174
Too bad for you.

>>280199160
>Goblin Slayer jobs every other episode.
Because he started getting outrages jobs once elf, dwarf and lizard joined retardo.
His standard thing till then was clearing out smaller nests/caves by suffocating or drowning the goblins.
Now hes fighting against demon lord generals, multi dimensional wizards and small-army-sized groups of buffed super goblins.

>still no new gobrape

it's fucking over gobbobros...

What happened to the LN? When was the last time there was a new volume?

>>280225155
It's been ~3 years since a new LN came out, which is also about as long as Kumo Kagyu has been writing "Blade and Bastard" instead. He may be tapped out of GS stories to tell.

>>280217937
Luck is always present, it's luck that keeps someone from dying randomly both in the setting and in real life, people die of aneurysms all the time
GS is defying bad luck dice rolls to stay alive

>>280221853
>FM
I'm not buying the "no static at all" claim.

>>280213338
kek

>>280225641
From the very beginning, we see him ticking off Truth:

"""
When all your adventurers are dead, though, there is nothing left to do.
It is unfortunate, but this adventure is over.
Ready some new adventurers and try again.
It’ll be fine this time. Surely these new ones will—
At that moment, the two deities notice a new adventurer has appeared upon the board.
Truth gives a disgusted grunt.
Illusion gives a delicate start.
He has come.
"""

>>280188377 (OP)
yeh

>>280225301
Well that's awful. Isn't he still writing Year One?

>>280224981
They cut it, anon...

>>280228281
They both went on hiatus in 2022, but a new Y1 volume suddenly came out last year. It's just seems to be on the backburner for now; I don't think Goblin Slayer is over for good until it gets a proper conclusion. 22 volumes in 7 years is already exceptional, anyone could use a break to meditate at that point.

purebred aryan goddess that deserves warmth and safety

>>280219329
unlike the other harlots she at least understands the right approach.

>>280219930
That is a fuckhuge alligator are we sure its not a dinosaur?

>>280188377 (OP)
The amount of sperm I have unloaded to priestess over the years is enough to fill an olypmic pool 3 times over. How can 1 character be so good

>>280230743
What pic did you use?

>>280230272
HEA called it a swamp dragon.

>>280221853
>NF nipples visible under wet shirt when she plays the knife game
the series will never provide on the lesbo baiting though, it's a ways

>>280222567
based

>>280231683
*waste ffs

>>280222567
silly that the robe got wrecked but priestess still got an identical replacement
just like in my games

>>280231754
I'm sure the capital has an Earth Goddess' temple, which would have vestments on hand.
Getting her chain-mail back was all Priestess really wanted.

>>280231754
It is a game world after all

i watched both seasons and the movie.
this animeme BLOWS

>>280188377 (OP)
Can GS make goblins extinct if Goblin Queens could exist?

>>280230088
Guild reps need advanced tard-wrangling skills, after all.

>>280231683
>NF nipples visible under wet shirt
I missed that. Which chapter, anon?

>>280233181
>Goblin Queens
do explain?

>>280233474
>do explain?
Truth is light in the loafers.

>>280189288
in case you didn't realize... if he lost he'd literally be killed. Not much of a show if there is no goblin slayer anymore. people act like plot armor is a shit contrivance, but it's literally necessary for the plot to work.

>>280233474
It's just a theory. But what if there's a girl that could understand the language of goblins and command them at her will? The girl becomes the goblin queen by providing goblin kids to the army while the army provides nourishment and fortune for the queen? They had dark sorcerers and necromancers, all of them male villains, who could control goblins, but what about female villains? Can GS kill a female villain as cute and pretty as Priestess if she works with the goblins directly?

>>280233592
We're shown time and again that Gobs make lousy minions, anon. Putting your female OC in charge of them won't change that.

>>280230272
>not a dinosaur
LP didn't think so; and he's the domain expert.

>>280188377 (OP)
Runs in the family.

>>280230272
According to the LN's English version that's "A beautiful woman, accompanied by a white alligator, a holy beast."
Maybe holy beasts just keep growing.

>>280235992
Alligators are badass but I wouldnt consider them Holy
Unless we're referring to those Egyptian fuckers considering Crocodiles Holy because of Sobek and shit

>>280235992
>Maybe holy beasts just keep growing.
Holy breasts certainly do,

>>280236370
>I wouldnt consider them Holy
I'm sure the Supreme God will give that opinion all due attention, anon.

>>280236991
This was only 10-15 years ago, after all.

Love the hat.

>>280188377 (OP)
Worst girl, I hate fake pseudlolis so much

>>280196121
>Something for everyone.

>>280240139
Needs best girl.

>>280192976
CG's and GG's faces make this sequence.

>>280226150
>"no static at all"
You're OLD; me too.

>>280236991
Goblins secretly impregnanted those bewbs when she was in the rape cave and they are slowly incubating twin Goblin demi-gods who will be the final boss of the series. They are going to simultaneously erupt out of her in a shower of gore just as she is about the win the Goblin Slayer bowl and die in his arms.

>>280192976

>>280242676
Why is Babbu angry in that comic?

>>280210349
What? Zelda has always been best girl.

I tossed S1 on in the background; and just now I noticed something in episode 2.
Early in the episode, when CG knows that GS is outside working, she pops the window open in her underwear. At the end, when she's unaware that he's back, she's fully dressed when she opens the window.

>>280240458
WB never had a chance of escaping.

>>280247145
I swear they change sizes from scene to scene.

>>280248218
Most of the smaller girls have that problem.
RF has a tiny frame, which can make boobs look bigger than they are.

>>280248218
We're looking through WB's eyes in that scene; fifteen-year-old guys are not reliable w̵̵̶titnesses.

>>280248480
HEA is clearly not an anvil in the bottom pic

>>280248737
Like anons have said, the smaller girls have a lot of variation.

>>280248815
Even Priestess, to stay almost on topic.

>>280249030
GS has had a huge ration of shit dumped on him over the years, so it's hard to bitch about the occasional bit of fortune, but waking up with a naked Priestess wrapped around your arm and reluctant to let go is hard to forgive.

>>280224086
i'm still salty that the anime skipped them
fuck the adaptation

>>280250093
The anime is bad. No, not “just okay,” bad.

>>280250160
I forgive a lot because they gave good lip service.

My country refuses to release any of the side manga.

>>280250391
>lip service

>>280251143
When in trouble, when in doubt, steal their shit, then dance about.

>>280196099
GS is not even that nice as long as protagonists go, he is pretty tactless and a bit rude, also girls stuck to him for diferent reasons
Priestess because he saved her and is kinda her mentor/senpai
Cow girl because childhood friends
Elf girl firstly because the stories about him and lately because she wants to change him into enjoying normal adventures
Guild girl because he was one of her first adventurers that she rooted for, and over years she developed a crush
Sword maiden because her goblin trauma and thus what GS represents

>>280251302
But I want to support the author and put then in my shelf so only me, alone look at it and see how cool it is.

>>280251594
>GS is not even that nice as long as protagonists go
He's the Kindest in the West, anon.

>>280247145
>WB
That lucky son-of-a-bitch.

This was the same girl who freaked out at using Protection to trap gobs in a burning fortress.

>>280252894
Character development. Also goofy 4koma antics.

>>280198653
Stories shouldn't have such predictable plots that you can simply tell that one of the main characters is going to die from the demographic alone.
It should happen sometimes, but it loses its punch it's necessary and considered some sort of requirement to not be 'shounen slop'.

>>280253164
Even in the main series she used Protection to drive a sword fragment into that gobs chest.

>>280253204
>Character development.

>>280253328
>Character development.
Nah, she's just been poisoned by hanging out with GS.

>>280253402
We call that an improvement, actually.

>>280188377 (OP)
Made for goblins.

>>280253473
Wrong.

>>280253454
HEA disagrees, vehemently.

>>280253569
HEA wants to be raped by goblins. It's the only explanation for how she acts all the time.

>>280253678
Nah, she really wasn't into it under Water Town.

>>280253678

>>280252015
I really want to put together a "wit and wisdom of GS" collection.

>>280253792