Tensei shitara Dragon no Tamago datta • Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling - Episode 3 discussion

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Poor little dude just wants to live a good honest life in human form, not become an evil aligned walking bioweapon lol.

What’s going on with our guy at the end there? He’s all glitchy. Let’s hope that slime is actually weak and not super strong…

I'm going to guess he'll have to eat the slime so that he can get a transformation ability and/or eating Doz who might be zombified as he's not able to enter the village, which will give him the ability to transform into a human.

I thought this episode was the most entertaining yet, there was some nice humor with the spider monster encounter.

I really like the manga. Didn’t realize the anime is out, but hidive? Noooooo

I really like it so far, shows how most humans would react if dragons were real ;)

The Plague Dragon evolultion did have the warning signs. Well, I can't blame him since he feels lonely. I guess Doz is alive somehow.

"An Unexpectedly Pleasant Evolution" is a weird title for the episode. The Japanese isn't much different with "進化したら快適だった." Did I miss something?

The look on that grey wolf was freaking hilarious.

I'm guessing to gain the human transformation skill he has kill a human

That slime seems like it will be a crazy high level. Curious of what's to come - will he eat it, did it zombify Doz, will it go for the village and he needs to save everyone?

after watching three episodes of this, i gotta say, the fight scenes are actually well animated than i expected, even the CGI monsters movement doesn't really look as janky as the usual CGI monsters that you would find in most of these seasonal isekai/fantasy

that Doz guy probably got turned into some kind of undead, isn't he?

also that "puddle of water" is definitely a slime but what kind of crazy stats does that slime has for it to be able to cause MC's eyes to go all glitchy just from looking at it's status screen?

The music that played during the evolution caught me really off guard lol.

"[This would go so hard if I was 12 years old](https://i.imgur.com/awzeWRO.png)." But honestly, I enjoy it now as an adult too.


From what was shown in the OP, I had some concerns regarding the use of CGI for the current evolution, particularly that it would limit the expressiveness of the MC, [but I continue being pleasantly surprised](https://i.imgur.com/Ve5jc2d.png). I really wish the Roll ability had been handled a bit differently than turning him into a bland orb though.

[Poor guy is having a rough day](https://i.imgur.com/411lhAn.gif), picked the "evil evolution" for the skill of turning into a human, then didn't get that skill and instead became a walking biohazard.

[Time to set up a base in a cozy cave](https://i.imgur.com/PicKP3O.png). He may be a monster living out in the wilderness, but he can still try to live a civilized life.

I'm not sure what made him run away. He had already halfway beaten the spider without taking any damage.

Well at least he immediately realized it was a fuck-up, and he didn't even get that human transformation skill. I double checked in episode two and at least in the subs it was "can use the human transformation skill" which doesn't particularly imply he gets it straight up.

He wasted all that time running from the spider too after getting it to half health without really taking any damage, why run at that point. Maybe there're cool downs on those skills that the anime isn't mentioning, or something.

Uhh i have so I’m a spider so what flashbacks, it’s better than expected, looking forward how it goes.

ofc he took the human form path...

I will say i think that the pacing is slow, its not super horrible but they seem to monologue a little more than they should.

obliterates half the spider's HP in moments, even striking it with a paralysis debuff so it couldn't fight back (it only wore off after he ran away)
"Oh no, it's too strong! I need to run!!"

???

Reminds me of im a spider so what and I love it

Losing interest in this fast.

A slime monster so overwhelming he can't read its stats?

*Rimuru Tempest has entered the chat*

I've been watching since episode 1, being sceptical. But I feel good now that this anime is gonna be good, if not at least funny.

Baby Breath?

I already make the Digimon comparisons with his design and evolution routes, now he's even using digimon moves.

Well the utterly predictable choice happened and somehow his chuuni dragon form looks just as generic as every other black coat wearing Isekai protagonist.

Such a waste. I really liked his cute digimon design.

he looks like a mini Zekrom now

Lvl up his Egg Roll Skill

Dude took out half the spiders HP in a couple of seconds and his next move is to run away

[](#facepalm2)

[Holy fuck this guy is inept.](https://imgur.com/G6Ju1Gb) Your flames stunned the spider, maybe try that again..

[Sure is great that we get to know what this says!](https://i.imgur.com/bumz0rj.png) Thank you translator!

MC got baited.

You don't want to fuck with Rimuru. Better just run.

It's *way* to easy for him to level up here. Every time he defeats a low level enemy, like every creature he rolled over while running from the spider, he gains several levels.

Kumoko from *So I'm a Spider, So What?* had to really *work* for that shit. Made it seem epic, not easy.

It feels kinda interesting to compare the depictions of systems here, in Kumoko's world, and in Rimuru's world. Each of them have a system that either has a will on it's own or develops a will overtime. (I'm just theorizing for this one of course since we don't know that much yet but it seems to be moving in that direction) With Kumoko it was specifically the "admins" in charge of the world for 'keep this shit from self-destructing' reasons while with Rimuru there is the "voice of the world" separate from Raphael who depending on WN/LN changes is itself an extension of an actual person's will with it's own meta-goals.

It's nice to see authors trying to avoid just having an omnipotent god voice give the MC's the answer to their questions but I do wish they would step back a little bit. To many video game elements really ruins the shows potential. I just about clicked away and gave up on this episode when we both got a life bar AND an HP counter! Is it really that hard to just *show* damage on something/someone rather than cheat with systems.

I guess that question is really a joke at my own expense because it probably is actually quite time/money saving to not have to bother animating damage even if it would be a million times cooler. Like what does it look like when the giant spider has taken a quarter of it's life in damage?? A lost limb? bite marks? bleeding? I can't even picture it really.

Never look down on primordial ooze

Running away took basically half the episode and for what? Everyone's already said this, but he has a paralysis skill he can spam, and he already had the spider at half health without taking a single hit himself. It's pretty obvious the running away with the roll thing was just a badly written way to get him to level up a bunch without giving him an actual challenge. I'm guessing he's going to have to beat the zombie dude later and the zombie's gonna be a higher level so they had to set up our mc to be a little stronger. Still though, coulda just had mc fight a difficult fight and earn the levels for real.

I can't believe that idiot thought plague dragon was a good choice, what a way to ruin the story

My guess: that slime is either some sort of god or some kind of calamity

I like the story but MC is putting me off with his characterisation. I thought it was obvious the human transformation meant later down the line and not an immediate skill. And he already drained half of the spider's HP so why would he run other than as plot device to level up his other skills? I'll keep watching but hopefully MC tones down his incessant complaints.

The only reason I am continuing this is that they did not brag about the MC having brains or being a gamer before dying.
He could have just been a dumb low IQ person or an uneducated person or a flat earther to begin with.
His choices seem to be making him an extrovert kind person having unutilized brain but can cook.

Unexpected Rie Kugumiya as Marielle

The first episode felt rushed and all over the place. As of episode 3 it looks much better. The cgi did wondwes for the protag, the young Plague dragon looks way better than it did in the key visual.

Im also glad we got an Mc whos a bit of a wimp and a makes mistakes. Feels like a breath of fresh air to the usual isekai tropes with an op mc with no flaws

The soundtrack is fun to listen to.

I might watch the entire anime at this rate, who knows.

This is cool but I cannot stop being bothered by how stupid he is...

Like, I get it... If he was smart, things would progress even faster and maybe less entertaining but omg, it's a pain to watch him

You can't scan Rimuru's stats, bro. 🫠

what did the status of the slime translate to? the sub I watched it in didn't type anything