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Manga Monday Ep 109: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Manga Review / Weird Science Manga & Anime

March 20, 2023·53 min·5 clips

The slime joke hits first. Jim and Luke open by calling themselves slimy, then admit this review took the scenic route because they kept saying they would cover the series and kept failing to do it. Very Manga Monday. Someone says it should not take long, which is usually the sign that the conversation has already lost control. They know that too. Jim even nods at listeners taking shots at the length of the reviews, and the defense is pretty simple: he and Luke start talking, then keep finding more stuff to chew on. Once the manga mechanics kick in, the excerpt gets livelier. The computerized voice, the less than one percent capacity line, and the old riff about people only using 20 percent of their brains all give them something to mess with. Great Sage works as an actual skill explanation, but it also lets them poke at game logic, stats, stabilization, and why the voice feels oddly familiar to the character. Then the question gets weirder. If the slime eats something and that somehow reaches back to the old human body, Jim and Luke are not letting that detail slide. They want rules. Is the dead body filling up somewhere? Is there a portal thing happening? Did reincarnation save him in some sideways way? Or did the manga drop a strange implication and move on before anyone could stare at it too long? That little snag is where the episode gets fun. They do not act like they have the whole mythology solved, and they admit regular readers may already know the answer. Still, the detail bothers them in the best way. By the end, the review slips into housekeeping. Patreon, early access, reading clubs, the Wednesday review show, and a stray question about whether Crazy Food Truck counts as the genre all crowd the exit. It is not elegant. That is why it works: loose recap, instant suspicion, goofy mechanics talk, and two hosts turning one slime premise into a problem they cannot stop poking.

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A loose, funny Slime discussion that keeps poking at the logic.

Weird Science Manga & Anime uses That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime as a springboard for the reincarnation setup, the Great Sage skill, and the odd thread tying the slime to the dead human body.

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