The Storm Dragon, Veldora

The Storm Dragon, Veldora (暴風竜ヴェルドラ) is the first episode of the Season 1 anime adaptation That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.

Synopsis
Satoru Mikami, a businessman, is stabbed by a criminal on the street and killed. When he regains consciousness in the darkness, he finds that he's been reincarnated as a Slime! With nothing better to do, he spends his time devouring all the rare herbs and precious ores he comes across. As he does, he encounters the Storm Dragon Veldora, who was sealed in this cave 300 years ago by a hero's "Infinity Prison" skill. He's frightened at first, but as they talk, he becomes friends with the long-isolated Veldora.

Summary
In a burning village, a girl in yakuta witnessed a rain of bombs dropped from fighter planes. People were fleeing for their lives. The girl and her mother were both running for safety; unfortunately, the mother was crushed by debris. A person tries to summon somebody, turns out it was the little girl. The girl was later engulfed in flames while being transported to the other world.

In the present, on a sunny day, Satoru Mikami looks back on his life on what he hadn't accomplished yet. All he hadn't done was try to get a girlfriend. Later, Satoru heard his name was being called by his Junior at work, Tamura. Tamura introduces his new fiancé, Miho Sawatari, to Satoru.

While the three was having a pleasant talk and was about to head to a nearby restaurant, Satoru was stabbed in the street by a random man with a knife. Luckily, Tamura and Miho were safe because Satoru had pushed them to safety. While blood was pouring out from Satoru, a mysterious voice can be heard, granting him a body that doesn't require blood as well as various abilities like Predator, Great Sage, and various resistances. The voice can only be heard by Satoru, while the surrounding people couldn't hear the voice. Satoru Mikami requested his last wish to be fulfilled by Tamura, which was to destroy the contents of his hard drives.

When Satoru awakens, he discovers that he has been turned into a slime.

With nothing else to do while he comes to terms with his condition Mikami eats Hipokute Herbs and collects Magic Ore and eventually, after three months, settles into his Great Sage powers and gains a... odd companion in the form of a voice in his head that explains various things about the things that Mikami comes into contact with. Eventually, Mikami accidentally launches himself into Veldora while learning how to swim.

Veldora teaches the blind slime how to see using magic through which Mikami finally confirms that he indeed has been turned into a slime, as well as learning the identity of his teacher, Veldora the Storm Dragon. Three hundred years ago, Veldora was trapped by the The Hero's Infinity Prison, and now he only expects to live for another hundred years before his dwindling magical power finally kills him.

According to Veldora, Mikami is a unique existence in the world: yes there are other people who have been brought to this world, most of them have been summoned against their will and do to various complications die off quickly. Some like Mikami die and get reincarnated but usually, as the same species they were in their past life: a human and of those only Mikami has been reincarnated as a nonhuman, a slime. After some back and forth the Slime and Dragon agree to become friends.

Adaptation

 * Light Novel
 * Light Novel Volume 1
 * Prologue: Death and Reincarnation
 * Chapter 1: My First Friend


 * Manga
 * Manga Volume 1
 * Chapter 1: Death and Reincarnation

Adaptation Notes

 * Light Novel
 * The Light Novel starts with Satoru Mikami describing himself and his typical life while the Anime starts with war breaking out (presumably World War II) and a little girl (Shizu) getting summoned into another world.
 * In the Light Novel, Satoru was asked by Tamura and Miho Sawatari to see them so they could ask for a piece of marriage advice, whereas, in the Anime, Satoru wasn’t informed about the matter and just discovered that Tamura is getting married.
 * Satoru’s nervousness when talking to the opposite sex was more evident in the Light Novel.
 * In the Anime, Satoru quickly recognized that he wasn’t a human anymore and that he became a blue-bodied slime, whereas, in the Light Novel, it took him longer to confirm his doubt about him being a squishy fantasy monster since he was testing his senses first.
 * In the Light Novel, Unique Skill Great Sage made its debut earlier when it asked Satoru a yes-or-no type of question but he rejected it at first. It took a while for him to hear anything from that skill again while in the anime, Great Sage answered Satoru's questions quickly.
 * The Anime did not mention the fact that Satoru was inside the cave for ninety days ever since he discovered that he was a slime.
 * The Anime disregarded how Great Sage took ninety days to fully fuse with Satoru’s soul.
 * The difference between Great Sage and Voice of the World wasn’t explained in the Anime until a few arcs later but was explained early in the Light Novel series.


 * Manga
 * The Manga starts with Satoru Mikami seeing a dream of himself as a hot girl (or boy?) instead of Shizu's backstory.
 * During the process of Satoru's death and reincarnation, the Anime showed Satoru's acquisition of various resistances, whereas the Manga didn't.
 * After Satoru (as a slime) acquired the Extra Skill Magic Sense, Storm Dragon Veldora immediately shouts to proclaim His name, while in the Anime, Veldora waited to introduce himself formally.
 * In the Manga, Veldora remembers the hero's appearance in complete detail, implying that he was taken back by her beauty thus the reason for his defeat, while on the contrary, the given reason in the Anime as to why Veldora's sealed was simply because his opponent was powerful than him.
 * Satoru's funeral and Tamura destroying his PC to fulfill his dying wish were shown in the anime.

Trivia

 * The opening theme Nameless story features Hinata Sakaguchi, the Ten Great Saints, Guy Crimson and Velzard, all of whom have ZERO role in this season.

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