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, they spend their time devouring all the rare herbs and precious ores they can come across. As they do, they chance an encounter the Storm Dragon Veldora, who was sealed in this cave 300 years ago by a hero's "Infinity Prison" skill. Frightened at first, as they talk, they become fast-friends.

Summary
In a burning village, a girl in yakuta witnesses a rain of bombs dropped from planes. People are fleeing for their lives and the girl and her mother are both running for safety; unfortunately, the mother is crushed by debris. A person's voice rings out girl and the girl is transported to the other world just before the flames can engulf her.

In the present, on a sunny day, Satoru Mikami looks back on his life and what he hasn't accomplished yet. He had given up on trying to get a girlfriend and remarka on his bachelor lifestyle. Later, Satoru hears his name being called by his work Junior, Tamura. Tamura introduces his new fiancé, Miho Sawatari, to Satoru.

While the three have a pleasant talk and are about to head to a nearby restaurant, Satoru is 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, announcing the acquisition of a body that doesn't require blood as well as various abilities like Predator, Great Sage, and various resistances. The voice is only heard by Satoru, while the surrounding people remain oblivious. Satoru, using the last of his strength before death, requests that his PV Data be destroyed.

When Satoru awakens, he discovers that he has been reborn as a slime! With nothing else to do while comeing to terms with their condition, Mikami eats Hipokute Herbs and collects Magic Ore.

Eventually, after three months, Mikami's various abilities completely acclimated to their soul, allowing the prescense inside Great Sage to make itself known for the first time.

Overjoyed by their new companion, Mikami lets their guard down and falls into an underground lake. In an attempt to get out, the Water Current Control and Hydraulic Propulsion Skills are acquired.

Mikami is quick to jet out of the water, only to find their body splattered all over a strange barrier. As it turns out, a mysterious and powerful presence lies within the barrier, and the two quickly take to conversing after Mikami learns the Telepathy Skill.

The stranger teaches the blind slime how to see, through which Mikami finally confirms that they have indeed been turned into a slime, as well as learning the identity of the mysterious stranger, 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 which were summoned against their will and due to various complications die off quickly. Some, like Mikami, die and get reincarnated but usually as the same species and world they were in in their past life: 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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