Line #18 Manga/SlimeLife


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slime_can_carry_stuff.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Slime, characteristically doing his best. Right: Darul, uncharacteristically not blushing.]]
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4	->'''Slime:''' I'm Slime! I'll do my best!
5	->'''Darul:''' ''[blushing]'' …It's cute.
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7	''Slime Life'' is a fantasy slice-of-life manga by Megasawara, which was serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Shonen Jump +]]'' from 2017 to 2020 and compiled into 11 volumes. The manga begins with magic shop proprietor Darul perusing the catalogue of the "Monster Dispatch Company" in search of a new assistant. Disenchanted with the high price of golems and gargoyles, Darul muses that she'll have to settle for something cheaper, like a goblin or an imp.
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9	What they send her is [[ADogNamedDog a slime named Slime]]. Thus begins the adventures of Slime trying his best to be useful, and Darul trying her best to find any excuse to hug his soft, squishy form.
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12	!!This manga provides examples of:
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14	* ADogNamedDog: As seen in the page quote, Slime introduces himself as such. There is no indication given that he has any other name.
15	%% * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Inverted. Darul's annoyed by her older brother Vlad.
16	* CuddleBug: Despite frequently despairing for her "dignity as a black mage," the most common plot in the series is Darul trying to come up with some excuse to hug Slime.
17	* CuteCrittersActChildlike: Slime is naïve and trusting, never cottoning on to the fact that Darul is constantly trying to manipulate him into situations where she can hug him.
18	* CuteMonster: Slime as low-level starter monster? Meh. Slime as low-level starter employee, looking to impress his boss? ''Adorable!''
19	%% * CutenessOverload: Darul, at pretty much anything Slime does. There are probably more panels of her blushing than there are panels where she is not.
20	* DarkIsNotEvil: Darul is a black mage, has an appearance that strongly involves dark colors, especially black, and often puts up a front as a domineering jerk. However, underneath it all she's a girl that greatly enjoys adorable things, and genuinely likes having Slime as her companion, even if she'd never admit it.
21	* MistressAndServantBoy: ''Slime Life'' plays with this trope. The setup is fairly straight: young (or at least, behaves young) servant comes to work for a black mage. The pay-off is unusual though; Darul manipulates Slime not because she enjoys watching him squirm, but because she finds pretty much everything he does unbearably cute. And her stated desire to "touch him" is in a completely non-erotic way, too.
22	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Pocona the pixie, who's a child-sized WingedHumanoid [[HornedHumanoid with a horn]] on top of her forehead.
23	* TheRival:
24	** Pocona to Slime, as she wants to replace him as Darul's full-time assistant. Trouble is, Pocona's not all that much smarter than Slime.
25	** Yorul the demon to Darul, as they are black mages that dislike each other. However, whereas Darul is a competent dark mage with a strong liking for cute things, Yorul adheres to the image of a serious dark mage while being completely incompetent at magic.
26	* SickEpisode: Chapter 7, which has Darul fall sick and Slime take care of her.

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