That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tensei shitara Slime datta Ken

[DarthEnderX]

I'm kinda curious what Raphael keeps wanting to say about Gobta, but doesn't.

Hard to say when I last time saw as unexciting tournament episode of any show. The script actually purposefully made it as lousy as possible. I'd go as far as to say even the endless meetings were better than this: They at least did world building, in their own way, but this showed us absolutely nothing new. The fights weren't even cool.

Kinda hard to have an exciting tournament when the special ability of one guy is to win without trying, and also Rimuru banned all his strongest people from it.

I'm interested to see what Rimuru can do about him.

L: Why don't you use your abilities?
G: Because you haven't used yours.
L: Oh, okay. That's noble. Well here's a Lion Punch.
G: *Took the punch without using an ability*

Geld, this is the time to use an ability.

Geld said he wouldn't use his abilities because Lion Mask wouldn't reveal himself.

He still didn't reveal himself, so Geld still didn't use any abilities.

[Kraco]

I'm kinda curious what Raphael keeps wanting to say about Gobta, but doesn't.

That the author is too much in love with the joke character. But Raphael is also the author's creation, so it can't say it.

Kinda hard to have an exciting tournament when the special ability of one guy is to win without trying, and also Rimuru banned all his strongest people from it.

Yes, like I said, the script forced it to be unexciting. Though to be fair, purely from the point of view of the in-series audience crowding the colosseum, it should have been good enough. At least for those falling victim to the hero's charm ability.

I'm interested to see what Rimuru can do about him.

Considering how much the author is worshipping the pixels forming Gobuta, I expect the hero to lose and never face Rimuru. Even if he does, Rimuru is probably the character least affected by the hero's special skills. While Rimuru typically doesn't care about fame and winning or losing for the sake of fame alone, I doubt he could afford to lose in the grand spectacle of his own festival, with invited guests, as witnesses, from all over the continent. He would need to make Masayuki lose while allowing the popular hero to maintain his face.