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GreyZone

So any idea's what Rimuru's "real identity" is from the pen-ultimate chapter of the main story?



Possibility 1: Lucia

It's a theory almost entirely based on these sentences:


The most common theory but I hate it and would be disappointed if it were true. It seems more likely that Ciel got affected a bit by Lucia's soulfragments because perhaps Shizue had part of Lucia's soul, which manifested itself in her "Degenerate" Skill, which makes more sense because Great Sage couldn't evolve to Raphael no matter what it tried, until fusing Degenerate itself into the process.

But Ultimately I don't think Rimuru or Ciel are Lucia or Old!Raphael. Proof for that is the fact that new!Raphael had a new name to itself. The old one is called "Knoweldge Lord Raphael" while Rimuru's is called "Wisdom Lord Raphael" they are seperate entities though as I said, Wisdom Lord Raphael might have become slightly influence from the old one due to using the same framework and "Skill Title" of "Raphael". And it wouldn't really be "groundbreaking" either.


Possibility 2: Manifestation of Turn Null

Based on this statement:


So, why did Veldanava lose it and where "was it" all this time? If we interpret Ciel's statement about needing a space that "cannot be filled up" to use it properly, then that means something bad happens if it fills up. In Veldanava's case the Skill just "disappeard", but where to? And how?

It's quite possible that filling the nuclear dimension beyond capacity caused it to absorb the excess energy into itself, causing the Skill to evolve to a Manas - and then from its own effects of primordial creation, unlike other Manas, created its own soul - and was then swept away into the cycle of reincarnation of the new world that Veldanava just created. And so Turn Null reincarnated itself countless times throughout Veldanava's Multiverse without even being aware of its own identity until it one day ended up as Satoru and then as Rimuru, where it finally became able to reproduce its own ability (or perhaps was the sole reason why Rimuru could do so in the first place).

This might be the reason why Rimuru manifested something like Great Sage as a Unique Skill despite it not really seeming like something that's a trait of Rimuru, since he never showed any signs of desiring for knowledge, intelligence, or wisdom. So this might have been some sort of subconscious reaction to wanting to find out about his "original existence", so he'd be like a Velda, a Skill of his who gained sentience, who didn't cling to the identity of "creator god", but instead went his own way, but ironically ended up surpassing the creator god anyway.


Possibility 3: "True Outsider"

Noticed how the Ultimate Skills usually correctly reflect their owner's scale? Demon Lords and the strongest Underworld Daemons are quite comparable to the Mythological Demons of (Seven) Deadly Sins, likewise there are angels around and comparisons to Archangels like Michael and Raphael also seem fine and not "overblown". Then "Storm Lord" for Veldora seems good too considering he gets called "the manifstation of a storm". The ones from celthic/nordic myth are on the same level, though Yuuki's Akhashik records Skill seems a step above most others' Ultimate Skill names, that was actually reflected by the fact that Yuuki could take on all Slime characters minus Rimuru himself combined, and considering he could use most abilities in the world, it can be considered accurate as well.

So what about Rimuru? For some reason his/Ciel's Ultimate Skills are named after the Cthulu Mythos, which seems to be far above the level of mere mythological beings or gods. Even Chloe who gained a Cthulu Ultimate Skill before Rimuru, was influenced strongly by Rimuru, even wearing an armament that has been created by him all the time and we don't know what "previous timeline" Rimuru did since despite his supposed death Chloe was convinced that he was alive (which AFAIK gets outright confirmed in the LN version). So what if the Cthulu Mythos names are actually accurate representation as well? Imagine a bored Outer God reincarnating itself as a moral of some random world and just so happens to do it as a Japanese male human called Satoru Mikami. It would certainly explain the strangely arrogant attitude Rimuru has toward Yuuki near the end of the story:


And the fact that the name is left blank supports this. You'd go mad just from reading his true name!


But what do you think?

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Ultragunner

That Time I Got Reincarnated as an Idol
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Jap: https://event.amnibus.com/tensura-0101/

They are going all out, aren't they?
I can't wait to see how much money this franchise made by the end of the year while Slime was already on top in term of franchise revenue for the first half of 2019

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mickbis

At this point, I'm very positive that season 2 budget gonna be good.

as for Grayzone "Rimuru Identity", I support "Turn Null" theory.
now that I think about it no mere Slime could be able to store EVERYTHING in its imaginary space and the fact that person soul need to be exceptionally strong to be able to reincarnated with full memory and gain a lot of strong unique skill does point into the theory that
Rimuru is indeed have a part of Veldanava soul similar to Masayuki have half part of Rudra

tsunade666

i support the joke theory of Rimuru as veldenava and ciel as Lucia.

remember, he didn't get those skills without mixing with the skills/souls of others.

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Richocet

Well I hope it's not like One punch man season 2

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mickbis

I doubt it, that one got lower budget and studio change treatment

GreyZone

Didn't the anime actually exceed expectations? I remember reading something about the second season only being decided on while the anime was still running and this time supposedly the committee taking less of a meddling in the production and instead leave the producers to do their job or something.

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GreyZone

Not sure if anyone even cares, but Rimuru seems to have won the "Pendant" for the Aquamarine round in ISML.

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tsunade666

which made me more worried.

if the producers gone wild and rushed it or gone original adaptation or just animated it with less quality.

its good to have freedom in production but current anime thats being produced are lackluster to me.

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GreyZone

But it's the opposite. For the first season, the Producers actually only wanted to cover LN vol. 1+2, i.e. one Light Novel per cour.
It's the Production Committee that wanted to rush through all the way to LN vol. 6, or at least vol. 5 to introduce Diablo for merchandise.
...Or so I heard.

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mickbis

I remember they said the committee is actually a bunch of Tensura fan so they intend to go for Harvest Festival at first but got stop by either Fuse, Producer or Kodansha.

LROlsson

Going by Fuse's blog post.
At first it was planned that the anime would cover to volume 6, and if that was impossible at least to volume 5.
The committee wanted Diablo to appear in the anime no matter what.
Fuse came up with the idea of an anime original episode. And he said that while Demon Lord Rimuru would be impossible be feature in it, it could feature Diablo. And the committee agreed to that proposal.

Ultragunner

is this the cover for vol 15?

https://twitter.com/yakko_slime/stat...24693736435713

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mickbis

Rimuru is still a Dragon Slime alright...
seem like Empire will get trash soon

LROlsson

Most likely. It's from an flyer that is included with the novels in the GCNOVELS label that was released in August.

Alfha Robby

here's another Illustration of Volume 15.

https://imgur.com/a/9LK4SC1

mickbis

I really need to know what going on with the last picture

Alfha Robby

its first mentioned by Honjou Masayuki during Prologue at Volume 9 of Light Novel that after he got distracted by Foreign Beauty (Russian) he suddenly get transported to Ingracia.

later at Volume 13 of Light Novel it was revealed that two of three masayuki's party comrade were Single Digit Royal Knight under order of Damrada to protect Masayuki since there's a hint of relationship between Masayuki and Rudra, but for some reason Kondo override his order and order them to launch sneak attack on Labyrinth which blew their cover.

and this Volume finally expand about the relationship bwetween Masayuki and Rudra since it seems Masayuki didn't even know about Rudra let alone their relationship thus it kinda get clusterfuck-ed up.

i still didn't read this volume yet since don't have time to read it.

mickbis

Russian beauty huh... Rimuru current form might be able to pass as one too I think I can't think of anyone that look like that

tsunade666

black numbers are moving around.

Who is that black dragon?

Velgrynd is an eastern dragon? I thought they would all look like western dragon.

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