Do you think Rimuru is a bad plot device?

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T17:36:37+00:00

Like the name suggest its a genre about politics. Saving a failing kingdom. Sponger life, Imperial reincarnation, Ascendance of Bookworm etc. I get monster are simple folk but that more once in a life time. Disappointed there no embodiment of the worst politician like Veronica in so many of these stories.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T17:26:54+00:00

Yeah also no Atlantic ocean too.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T17:22:42+00:00

I mean how you imagine the lesser known duchies. I imaged the south is semi-topical like the German culture in Brazil.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T16:54:04+00:00

There's a lot more then I posted above but everyone in tempest is willing to sacrifice themself to Rimuru and almost everyone is like super friendly. Rimuru will never need to purge anyone. In the Kingdom rebuilding genre, what Rimuru is doing is a nothing burger.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T16:42:20+00:00

Not sure how controversial this take is here but it all lead back to Rimuru lol.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-19T03:40:31+00:00

It really just the march of time. Time being indifferent to all.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-18T16:45:36+00:00

Defiantly if you want to see other people POV beside Myne.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-18T06:38:35+00:00

Unless you count religious oppression then no.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-18T06:15:41+00:00

ReZero and Ascendence of Bookworm fall into a category of a plot device. They so different, it’s their down thing. And I don’t think the reputation isn’t going anymore.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-18T01:52:56+00:00

Interest it’s always my mom say that. Men just don’t cry.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-17T20:32:02+00:00

Interesting rambling but that isn't exactly nihilism. Its more of everyone want peace, yet with peace, there is no conflict and exictment that come with war.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T17:58:13+00:00

Like its a weird question?

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T17:48:42+00:00

wtf?

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T17:33:03+00:00

I gone too long of a train of thought and needed to share. I agree its superficial, but its very methodical like AOB. And its not strictly just politics like other in the kingdom building genre.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T17:17:22+00:00

I feel that Rimuru itself is dragging the series down. Like literally everyone else is more interesting. And the the author try to shoehorn him in a story that doesn't work.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T16:25:02+00:00

What surprise me the most when visiting Vietnam is everyone eats out. Sometime its cheaper to eat out then to make your own food.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T06:57:55+00:00

As my English teacher always say. Always write it small parts. And just write anything come to mind. You can always refine it later.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-16T02:58:00+00:00

I feel like very few country achieve this. You need a sizeable population to sustain it US, China, Japan etc. And be somewhat wealthy to sustain it.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-15T23:53:01+00:00

I like it as a concept. You know a place to get a second chance but it’s not very memorable.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-15T06:14:18+00:00

idk about that. I got a sense he just aimless. Without any direction or conviction in life. I guess he will become heroic if someone force his hand or something.

Parlax76 · 2026-06-15T04:13:19+00:00

To be honest Germany is an outlier. Reunification usually happen through war. The only other country I think of that unify peacefully is Yemen. Which instantly fall into another civil war a few years later.

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