Board Thread:Off Topic / Fun and Games/@comment-29602226-20190331220329/@comment-29602226-20190401180223

The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary - SPOILERS:

Actually, goblins play a very, very small part in that manga/light novel; their job is just to show how stupid the harem hero party are. Afterwards, the story is about Lapis (the priestess girl) manipulating Loren (the mercenary) so he gets deeper and deeper into dept and has to do what she says (Lapis is actually a demon girl going through some kind of demonic initation/rite of passage/test of maturity, and she has to gather some stuff hidden in several dungeons...).

The novel quickly becomes crap after we learn Lapis's true identity, but I liked the chapters that show your typical anime fantasy harem party from the point of view of a professional warrior...

As for the goblins in Goblin Slayer and in japanese manga and anime in general... technically speaking, they should be considered human beings suffering some kind of inheritable disease, since their genome should be almost 100% human, being sons, grandsons, great-grandsons, great-great-grandsons...etc., of human women...

I don't think having rape goblins make anime and manga any more mature... it's just an easy way to show how evil they are and justify the heroes going into their homes and killing them to harvest their ears or noses or whatever to sell them to the guild for money... It's the same as when they show aliens breeding and fattening humans as cattle to be eaten in some western comics and novels...