# Goblin Slayer (2018)

> A stoic adventurer who has made a career of slaying goblins rescues a fledgling party and becomes their grim protector in a medieval fantasy world.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/70548

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, fantasy, action
- Network: AT-X
- Cast: Yuuichirou Umehara, Yui Ogura, Nao Toyama, Yuka Iguchi, Maaya Uchida, Yuichi Nakamura, Tomokazu Sugita, Yoko Hikasa
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8690728/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: grim, brutal, tense, darkly comic, gritty

## What critics say

Viewers rate the series positively for its dark fantasy take on the adventurer genre, with its grim tone and uncompromising violence drawing both praise and criticism.

## Synopsis

Goblin Slayer (2018-2023) is a Japanese seinen dark fantasy anime series adapted from a light novel, produced by White Fox and airing on AT-X. Its protagonist, a silver-ranked adventurer known only as the Goblin Slayer (voiced by Yuuichirou Umehara), has devoted himself entirely to hunting goblins after a childhood trauma. When a newly minted priestess (voiced by Yui Ogura) forms her first party at a remote guild and runs into trouble, he rescues them and gradually becomes their grim protector. Each episode is built from concrete adventuring work in a medieval world full of elves, dwarves, witches and demons, with the party facing dungeons, ambushes and monstrous enemies. The show spans two seasons and twenty-four episodes, following a single continuing storyline across its run. Its tone is harsh and unsparing, with brutal combat and disturbing imagery treated as routine guild business, yet it is also darkly tense and character driven. Fans of Berserk and Record of Lodoss War will find resonance in its grim fantasy register and monster-hunting grit, and viewers of Made in Abyss will recognize its seinen sensibility.

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