Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Veldora Nikki

No real story, this is essentially just a recap of the series discussed by Veldora and Ifrit. The reason I rated this so high is because of the amount of character personality that gets thrown in by both of them. They discuss the events of the first season over shogi.


All of the art is just taken from the series - it is pretty much just the audio which is new. That is a little disappointing but it is what it is.


I am happy they kept the opening and ending themes, but there was basically no background noise other than their voices and slight music, ... so this could have been significantly better just from that.


Rimuru Tempest (Satoru Mikami) - Died and reincarnated as a slime in another world filled with monsters.

Veldora Temptest (Storm Dragon Veldora) - A dragon who becomes best friends with a slime. THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!

It feels like OVA-wise, a lot of people fall short into diving in the hype unless it's about that popular series which Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken definitely is. It was aired along with the parent show and yet got its own entry on Anime tracking websites, it seems, I just have to write down some paragraphs so I can sleep with relief tonight.

All-in-all, let's just say it was a recap, but an interesting one indeed, still somewhat boring to follow on a primitive look though.
Veldora accompanied with Ifrit are having a friendly Shogi game while they are narrative over what has happened since episode ... 1 forward. Aside from Veldora's and Ifrit's meeting moment, there was no new visual content to appreciate, all you get are snapshots from different episodes of the series that emphasizes the progression of the plot as they spat their insight on everything that happened.

We do get some new information regarding Veldora's background, a few hits for what might come afterward, but that's about it. It really felt cheap and kind of daunting to sit through, they could have done a much better job at this.

This is just a series recap episode that tries to be a bit different by telling it from the perspective of Verudora and Ifrit inside of Rimuru. It's really not anything special, because the comedy isn't really that funny in it and there's no investment in watching these two bond, because they were only a part of the story for like 10 minutes each. You only need to watch this if you've dropped Tensura for a while and are coming back to it and need a refresher on what happened. As far as entertainment value beyond that, it's nil. Not unless ... you're into tertiary characters playing shogi and talking about loneliness.