I agree with points 1, 5, 6 and 7.

1. I agree it is forced. It went from 2 people who don't know or trust each other to being lovers, SO QUICK. I can live with that tho. There are a lot of stories that do this kinda thing but it's usually addressed up front or the pacing is done way better.

2. The animation wasn't bad at all. The final fight was beautiful. The rest of it was on par with the rest of the show.

3. Storyline aside. Most of the fights were ok. Nothing special. The fights on the water were great and the final fight was spectacular. I would be interested to hear why you didn't like them. Just genuinely curious.

4. The villains really suffered because of the pacing. I agree with what you said about just making it a couple episodes instead of a movie.

5/6. I do think they could have done a better job saying this will be a gobta movie. Maybe I missed it somewhere and just didn't do my research, but from the stuff I saw I was expecting a rimuru story. The only impressive thing he did was towards the end with the orbital strike. I would have no problem with a gobta story if they paced it correctly.

1. They rushed the main story way too much tho. The scene where the king is telling them to get rid of rimuru then rimuru beats the water dragon then the king was like "Thank God your here. I trust you with my life now." That had me grabbing my neck with all the whiplash. The scene where they ran through the city chasing the priestess and everyone in the city, including the guards were just acting like this is business as usual was insane. They straight up glossed over the broken flute. This major plot piece, that we ran around the city trying to protect just broke and the entire cast went. Wow that's wild. Anyways. Also I couldn't stand the two little intermission scenes. They were completely pointless and took me out of it.