Manga: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Vol 2
Rating: 3/5
Buy or Borrow: Buy
Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher! 

As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he's a little disappointed to find he's become a blind, boneless slime monster.

Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero...

Rimuru continues to crack me up and be spot on with his assessment of characters and situations. This volume we meet Gaval, Eren and Gido, a familiar trio of adventures! As well as Shizu who's also familiar from the first volume....and happens to be a legendary hero! It's nice to meet some new characters this volume, as they added something extra to the volume, as well as the story! We also briefly meet Leon Cromwell, a demon lord who summoned Shizu from Japan and I'm assuming is going to be one of the bad guys we'll go up against eventually! "Hot guy sounding name" fully cracked me up and had me in stitches, can't lie! 

There's some action this volume, as we fight Ifrit after making a speedy exit from the Dwarven kingdom and the trial. We continue at a fast pace, but other than Rimuru gaining a human body which should prove to be interesting in coming volumes....not that much happens in this volume. We do appear to have a bad guy to facedown and a quest which should mean the next volume picks up some. Oh and Veldora's slime observation journal continues to be hilarious! I'm still not entirely sure which way this series is going to go, I usually have some idea by the second volume but this one has me a bit torn!