The series tells the story of Azusa Aizawa, a regular Japanese salarywoman who finds herself dying from overwork at age 27. A merciful goddess takes pity on her, and offers her a new life in another world, where she's free to live the simple, carefree, and easy life Azusa has always wanted. She takes the offer, and finds herself an immortal witch in a medieval fantasy world.
Azusa proceeds to enjoy her new life for the next 300 years, laying around and relaxing, becoming an herbalist and medicine woman for the nearby village of Flatta, and making some money on the side by killing the slimes and selling their cores at the guild. Trouble starts when she takes a power assessment on a whim, and she and the receptionist Natalie discover that Azusa has become max level, with the highest stats possible, and access to a repertoire of incredibly powerful spells and abilities beside. In spite of Azusa's efforts to keep it secret, word spreads of the all-powerful "Witch of the Highlands" and all manner of adventurers, dragons, and vengeful spirits come knocking on her door...
Starting life in 2016 as a Web Serial Novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou, the series was picked up by SB Creative in 2017 and distributed as a Light Novel series; beginning with Volume 5 in 2018, some of the novels have had special editions which come with Drama CDs. The same year the light novels began, a manga adaptation was published by Square Enix for their online platform, GanGan Online, illustrated by Yuusuke Shiba (シバユウスケ). Official English translations of the novels and manga (including Beelzebub and Laika's spinoffs) are produced by Yen Press, though the novels don't come with the Drama CDs. An anime adaptation of the novels by Revoroot was announced in 2019, with the cast of the Drama CDs reprising their roles, and began airing in April 2021. You can view the first Japanese anime trailer here
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On January 4th, 2022, it was announced the anime was renewed for a second season. The main cast will be reprising their roles, but the studio in charge is Teddy, and it will begin airing in 2025.
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- Achievements in Ignorance:
- A major part of the story premise is that Azusa was simply going about her new immortal life killing 20-25 slimes a day in exchange for money. She did this for 300 years, completely oblivious to the fact she was Level Grinding by doing so, until one day she randomly decided to check her stats and found out she maxed her level.
- Shortly into the story we learn that in her mindless slaughter of countless slimes over the centuries, Azusa wound up unintentionally "creating" the slime spirits Falfa and Shalsha.
- Actor Allusion: In the anime, Goodly Godly Godness, the Goddess that reincarnated Azusa, who states she will look "17 years old, just the way I like it", is voiced by "eternally 17" Kikuko Inoue.
- An Aesop: The series constantly harps on slowing down and making a work-life balance, leaning in hard against Japan's overwork culture. This moral is central to Azusa's very character and her relationship to the other characters, so it works where a more subtle moral would not.
- All-Natural Snake Oil: Downplayed. Unlike Azusa, who prepares medicine for acute diseases, Halkara mainly prepares what Azusa compares to "nutritional supplements"—things that don't really treat any disease, but do help in maintaining general health.
- All Part of the Show: When Kuku finishes her performance at Flatta, she lies back, and both Azusa and Flatorte think it's part of the choreography. It is after moments of Visible Silence that they realize Kuku fell unconscious.
- And I Must Scream: Falfa is transformed into a slime at one point. After her recovery, it's revealed she was sentient and aware the whole time, but unable to communicate with anyone or anything during this time.
- Animorphism: Downplayed example. While Azusa's attending Pecora's birthday party, Pecora serves her a meat dish with foxform mushrooms, which temporarily turn her into a foxgirl, giving her a craving for aburaage as a result.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Demons and both the Red and Blue Dragon factions all follow a "Might Makes Right" philosophy, their absolute leaders being the most fearsome of them all.
- Back for the Finale: Episode 12 of the first season has all of the major named characters with a connection to the main cast show up to help with the maid cafe, including the demons Beelzebub, Pecora, Vania, and Fatla, Fightie the slime, Eno the witch, and Kuku the almiraj. Meanwhile, several of the more notable secondary characters show up amidst the customers, such as guild receptionist Natalie, the loose-lipped guy who spread the info of Azusa being a max-level witch, the adventuring party who first fought her and truly exposed her incredible power to the world, and the masochistic guy trio. Even the titular slimes get an appearance being killed by Azusa and Laika, after having been sidelined due to so many events taking place far away from their spawning fields.
- Bland-Name Product: In the anime, Nutri-spirits' label looks a lot like the Japanese energy drink Lipovitan.
- Casual Kink: To the surprise and discomfort of Azusa and Laika, in a town west of Flatta there's a "public" bar called "A Pig Would Be Far More Useful Than You", which as implied by the name is dedicated entirely to appealing for masochistic customers, with the waitresses being as insulting and demeaning as possible when taking orders and serving food. Everybody there views this as a completely normal thing and the bar otherwise works like normal ones, though the main waitress expresses understanding for how outsiders that don't know the gimmick might find it weird.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Slimes with a pale coloring are evil, while the ones with darker hues are good. The two main factions of dragons are also either exclusively coloured Red or Blue.
- Cooking Duel:
- After Flatorte joins the household, she and Laika get involved in a battle over which of the two dragons makes the better batch of cookies.
- Vania takes part in a culinary showdown, with Azuza assisting her by crushing some phantom rock salt that would be used as an ingredient.
- Corrupt Bureaucrat: Governor Golder of Nascute. Everyone knows he's lazy and useless until someone tries to operate a business without bribing him, or otherwise threatens his cushy position and all the power and money it affords him.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Azusa's search for a cure to the gnome mushroom's effects is one of these on multiple levels. When she asks the demons for information, Pecora points her towards Yggdrasil, which she spends a sizable amount of time (and money) climbing. When she finally makes it to the pharmacy at the top, she discovers that the cure is Eno's Mandragora Pills. The thing is that 1) Azusa is good friends with Eno and could have just asked her, 2) she still has a bottle of the pills at home, 3) it turns out that while dragons can't fly up the tree, smaller sized wyverns can, as proven by Eno showing up to drop off a shipment at the pharmacy, and 4) Eno also ships to Vanzeld Castle and Pecora definitely knew already, all of which means that she wasted all her time climbing a giant tourist trap tree for a solution she already had at home.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In the manga and anime, whenever a perverted image is within eyesight of Falfa and Shalsha, their eyes tend to get shielded by a responsible adult.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Because Azusa is the most powerful an immortal witch can possibly be, almost anyone and anything that tries to challenge her immediately faces crushing defeat.
- Shalsha manages to give Azusa herself one, courtesy of a Kryptonite Factor.
- Laika also gets her moment when she defeats Shalsha with no effort whatsoever.
- Cute Slime Mook: The slimes, which are exported from Dragon Quest, the codifier of that trope, are numerous enough in the fields around Flatta that Azusa can kill 25 of them, every day, without their numbers decreasing. They are the weakest kinds of monsters, providing only 2 EXP each.
- Debut Queue: The main cast is introduced in this fashion in the anime:
- Episode 1: Azusa and Laika
- Episode 2: Falfa and Shalsha
- Episode 3: Haikara and Beelzebub
- Episode 4: Flatorte (although she doesn't become a regular until episode 7)
- Episode 5: Rosalie
- Episode 6: Vania, Fatla (although she's only in her leviathan form when she appears in the episode and her human form doesn't appear until the following episode) and Pecora
- Defeat Means Friendship: With the exception of Halkara, all of Azusa's incredibly powerful allies or adoptive family members were once her sworn enemies, until she soundly beat the crap out of them, or otherwise outsmarted them.
- Didn't Think This Through: After Azusa finally gets the cure for the Gnome-Maker Mushroom which shrunk her, she eats them in Pecora's throne room to proudly grow back to normal in front of the others. And she's not suspicious on why Pecora is also encouraging that. Shalsha realizes that her child-sized clothes won't fit her anymore.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The anime's opening theme is sung by Aoi Yūki (Azusa), while the ending theme is sung by Azumi Waki (Flatorte).
- Dragon Hoard: Laika mentions this is a racial trait among the dragons, which is why she did not need much time to pay Azusa back for destroying the latter's house.
- Early-Bird Cameo: In the manga, while people are gathered around Eno and Azusa is exposing her as the fake Highland Witch, someone in the crowd keeps saying if Eno could be an undead to the irritation of the others, even getting Azusa's attention for a second. After Eno's story ends in the next chapter, we see a Cat Girl in her room being upset that Eno wasn't an undead and that she is still alone. Her cat ears were also visible on one of the silhouettes of the crowd. Her situation gets followed up in the next story.
- Empty Nest: The final chapters of the Web Novel involve Shalsha spending two weeks apprenticing for a potter who is assigned to create a new Holy Grail after the current one breaks, with Azusa missing her during this time.
- Entertainment Above Their Age: Falfa and Shalsha, two mentally and physically eight-year-old slime spirits who regularly read books that adults would find tedious and/or challenging for fun. For example, during Halkara's introductory chapter, they read a thick nonfiction volume about the military mistakes of an elven general that led to the severe weakening of his kingdom.
- Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: Azusa is often surprised about how similar concepts from her old life are also present in this fantasy world and compares them in her thoughts in the light novel. Including problems ranging from a musician leaving their hometown and struggling to succeed, to corrupt government people or a declining town that can't get tourists.
- Fantastic Aesop: The aesop of the series is that overexertion and working too hard can cause you more harm than good, no matter what your job or superiors desire. However, the way the protagonist overcomes this problem is by being reborn as an immortal witch. Many characters join up with her in order to learn how to be as powerful or successful as she is, and they're all immortal and/or Long-Lived themselves and thus can afford to imitate her methods without the constraints of a normal human lifespan. Likewise, things like Levels that build stats don't exist in Real Life; people cannot gain immense physical power from, say, swatting 25 flies every day. This doesn't necessarily diminish the lesson the story is going for, although its solutions cannot be easily translated into the real world.
- Feather Fall: Azusa's Flight magic triggers automatically while she's unconscious in the air, floating her gently down to the ground — although given her Complete Immortality, it's more for the ground's sake than hers.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: A sufficiently trained magic user is capable of sensing the Mana a person possesses, and thus gauging their magical power. It's for this reason that Azusa's efforts to avoid showing her power and become famous fail, because her first opponents, a group of adventurers looking to test their mettle, have a mage who can sense the massive amount of mana that's gushing from her body.
- Foreshadowing: When Asuza's checking her level again in the anime's first episode, there's a mug on the right table that's drawn like it's animated. Like there's someone there to interact with it and the characters. Sure enough, when the scene's revisited, the shot pans right to reveal Ernst, a loose-lipped adventurer who blabs about how powerful Asuza's become.
- Forgotten First Meeting: The latter half of Beelzebub's spinoff features her first meetings with most of the main cast. None of them remember her come the series proper.
- Fountain of Youth: Azusa's body has regressed to that as a child quite a few times in the light novel (the anime covering the first time it happened, which was the result of her eating a gnome mushroom), with Laika, Flatorte and Beelzebub joining her one time.
- Gale-Force Sound: When Kuku's very loud heavy metal music is first introduced, Rosalie gets blown away into the sky.
- Geometric Magic: Magic circles aren't necessary for spellcasting, but can be drawn on the ground to make long-lasting effects more reliable to cast. Azusa uses a large hexagram-and-rune formation to create a major Protective Charm, while demons sometimes print them on paper to store single-use telecommunication spells.
- Ghibli Hills: We are told how scenic Nanterre and Azusa's highlands are in the light novels and this is shown in the anime adaption. The backdrops and landscapes are sumptuously drawn, detailed, and made to look beautiful and impressive.
- Gratuitous English: In Japan, the series has the English tagline She continued destroy slime for 300 years. Yen Press renders it as She slaughtered slimes for 300 years instead.
- Great Gazoo: Goodly Godly Godness, the very being who reincarnated Azusa. She is later exiled to Azusa's world and causes no end of trouble for Azusa and her family. Even more amusing in that the first couple of volumes of the Manga show Azusa having fond thoughts and memories about the "angel girl" who reincarnated her not knowing the later trouble she would get from the goddess.
- Great Offscreen War: It's been 500 years since the Demon-Human wars in Azusa's world. The last Demon King before Pecora created the truce himself and, although as shown in Beelzebub's backstory, there are still violent factions among the demons, most of the demons of Azusa's world are peaceful now. This is good since the Demons here are shown to be magically and technologically far in advance of the humans (gets turned up to 11 after Pecora gets technology from the remains of Thursa Thursa creating games with battle dolls and phantasm streaming). Because the Demons have remained hidden after the war, most humans have only shadowy and incorrect information about them, not even being able to recognize them as demons when they see them.
- Identical Panel Gag: This happens as Flatorte's clothes and underwear get taken by boars and dropped into the river.
- Improbably Female Cast: All the main characters are female, and a good majority of the secondary cast is female too, despite it being quite clear that there are a decent number of males amidst the minor and background casts.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: At one point, Azusa inadvertently eats some mushrooms that make her shrink to child size, courtesy of Halkara, and everyone around her treats her like a kid.
- Kangaroo Court: Azusa and co. end up being subjected to this by a corrupt official from a neighbouring village, Governor Golder of Nascute. The phony claim is that Halkara has been producing and selling medicine (her Nutri-Spirits) there without a license; she had applied for one, but did not send along an accompanying bribe to the governor to "speed up" the process.
- Kill It Through Its Stomach: Discussed while fighting the giant serpents in the World Tree. Even though Azusa has shrunk, she's confident she can defeat them from the inside even if she gets eaten. But the leviathan sisters throw her to safety. Pointing out that it's going to be a bloody mess. Especially since these are innocent wild animals, not monsters.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- Early on in Beelzebub's spinoff, Pecora mentions Beelzebub's long tenure as a bottom-tier bureaucrat is like "trying to be the strongest by killing nothing but slimes", or, otherwise, what Azusa accidentally did in the main story.
- An omake in Volume 10 of the manga has Goodly Godly Godness talking about fads in reincarnation, like getting reborn as a noble, a monster, or a miserable character with "mega-super-OP" powers. All of these are common premises in Reincarnate in Another World stories.
- Living Toys: A later story involves Azusa and Laika clearing out a temple that has a problem involving possessed stuffed animals.
- Lost in Translation: Azusa's Meaningful Rename would puzzle most English readers as to why that would count as a rename. But to any Japanese it is a rename, with a connotation that she no longer sees herself as Japanesenote . The anime adaptation, which includes spoken dialogue and has at least a little intention of being presentable to English-speaking audiences, eases this a bit by also having her flip the given name-surname order, going from Aizawa Azusa to Azusa Aizawa. The full meaning behind the rename is still lost, but English viewers at least can comprehend there being a change at all. Meanwhile, in the dub this entire translation debacle is thrown completely out the window, with Azusa instead declaring "Goodbye, Azusa Workaholic, and hello, Azusa lazy witch."
- Ma'am Shock: In her spinoff, Beelzebub reacts poorly to being called "ma'am".Vania: "Mornin', ma'am!"
Beelzebub: "Vania, every time you say that to me, the hatred toward you within me grows. I hope you are prepared for the consequences..." - Male Gaze: Halkara's introductory segment in Episode 3 has the camera aiming at the more... curvy parts of her body, firmly establishing her as a Ms. Fanservice. Different points in the episode continue showing off her "assets", solidifying her status.
- Mana: A key element of the story, and how much you can store and use at any given time is a measure of your power as a witch, a demon, or a dragon. Azusa actually tries to pass herself off as much, much weaker than she really is, but a trained mage can easily see the overwhelming aura of power she radiates at all times.
- Meaningful Background Event: During Halkara's story introduction, each scene taking place in Azusa's house has a single random fly periodically buzzing around. Near the end of her introduction, it turns out that said fly was a shapeshifted Beelzebub, the person Halkara was running away from.
- Medieval European Fantasy: The series has all the usual trappings of it, with elves, demons, and dragons, and Azusa's home and Flatta are explicitly stated to have European-esque designs and trappings.
- Medieval Stasis: The world doesn't seem to change in the 300 years after Asuza's arrival. Granted we don't see outside the village until after the Time Skip, and she does live in the highlands. Rural places don't change as quickly as more urban places. However, episode one of the anime does show that the guildhall was redesigned and given a second floor sometime before Azuza arrives to discover she maxed out her level capacity, so there's at least a downplaying through implication of improving construction methods throughout the centuries.
- Mundane Utility:
- After 300 years of accidental level grinding, Azusa discovers she has gained ice magic so powerful it can flash freeze a small spring and the river feeding it. After that, she mostly uses it to preserve her food without modern refrigeration technology.
- Laika uses her fire breath to flash-cook omelettes while shapeshifted into a human. Despite Azusa's own long experience with magic, she's a bit thrown to see it the first time.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: One's stats in the RPG Mechanics 'Verse can be completely unrelated to one's physical body. As a top-level Witch, Azusa has the body of a petite seventeen-year-old girl, but can still swing around a full-grown dragon by the tail.
- Musical Episode: Although adapted faithfully from its source material, Episode 10 is basically an excuse to have the entire cast show their singing skills.
- Must Have Caffeine: When Halkara mentions she makes Nutri-Spirits, a popular energy drink, Azusa finds it eerily similar to the kind of thing she drank a lot in her past life. Beelzebub really likes it, as do many other demons.
- The Necrocracy: The Thursa Thursa Kingdom is a Total Necrocracy, with the queen and subjects all being ghosts, though the queen's animating her own dead body.
- Only I Can Kill Him: Hugely downplayed but present between Beelzebub and Azusa. Beelzebub is the only one who can come anywhere close to matching Azusa in a fight. In their second match, Beelzebub is able to block Azusa's punches (at great painful cost) much to Azusa's surprise and not get one punched from the start. In a later adventure when Azusa goes berserk because of a magically induced food craving, she easily dispatches the entire Demon army but Beelzebub is able to grapple her and hold her in place long enough for Fatla to feed Azusa what she's been craving and calm her down.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Earthbound spirits are usually stuck in the place they died. They can be purified by the Church, or destroyed by demons. Rosalie's permanently intangible, and displays invisibility, possession, and telekinesis.
- Paper-Thin Disguise:
- When Azusa has to infiltrate the Vanzeld castle to help Pecora from their accident, Vania gives her a doctor disguise along with a demon horn headband and a fake tail. Azusa doubts they would work, but it helps that they run through the security checkpoints before they can take a closer look. Unfortunately, they are caught right in front of Pecora's room which had tighter security.
- Flatorte gives Azusa a dragon horn headband when she doesn't want to attract attention on her dungeon adventure. Her family can still recognize her although Laika gets stunned and flustered for some reason. But it works well in the village with the dungeon even after Azusa forgot she's wearing it.
- Poison Mushroom: The gnome-maker mushroom, which is outright nicknamed the "poison mushroom" and causes an Incredible Shrinking Man when eaten just like the Trope Namer from Super Mario Bros., is practically identical to and tastes nearly the same as the completely harmless gnome's hideaway mushrooms, which results in a mix-up at Halkara's "mushroom party" where Azusa obliviously eats one immediately before learning what it is.
- Protective Charm: Azusa improvises a powerful barrier to ward the nearby village against monsters and other hostile forces that might be drawn to her. The spell itself is undetectable, but it traps a would-be thief in magical bindings when he tries to act.
- Releasing from the Promise: Defied. Azusa tries to release Flatorte from serving her by ordering her to be free... only to have Flatorte point out that freedom contradicts the meaning of orders, and subsequently manage the contradiction by identifying herself as both obedient and free.
- RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Azusa's Level Grinding relies on videogame logic to work (even though the world does not appear to be based on a game). The powers of an individual are determined by numerical figures like "levels" and "stats." Human adventurers use special magical tools found at any adventurer's guild branch.
- Running Gag: In the manga, one of the end of volume omakes will be about someone drawing a silly representation of how they perceive Azusa's magic power. It gets sillier with each iteration, going from depicting the energy streaming out of Azusa to depicting food as somehow representing her power leakage.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: While not directly spoken by the characters, any time a situation calls for a notable sound effect in the anime (like heart-beating or wing-flapping), rather than proper sounds, the voice actors provide echoing readings of the scripted noises. This also includes the occasional Unsound Effect like "flail" for whirling one's arms around wildy.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Azusa clan spend most of their time in the Demon Capital worrying so much about offending the demons, with them especially making frantic efforts to prevent Halkara from getting herself executed out of her idiotic clumsiness, that when they have an audience with the Demon King their nervousness ends up with Halkara accidentally knocking the king unconscious, resulting in her being slated for execution due to harming royalty out of idiotic clumsiness.
- Shapeshifter Baggage: Dragons and leviathans can both use magic to take on smaller human forms. Azusa lampshades this when she finds out about the latter.
- She Is the King: The King of Demons is a traditional title, and does not change for the gender of the one currently holding it. As of volume 2, it is held by Provato Pecora Ariés.
- Shout-Out:
- When demonstrating the weak point of evil slimes, Falfa does so while saying "Omae wa mo shindeiru".
- During the visit to Yggdrasil in the anime, a brief sequence portrays an area in a manner similar to Minecraft.
- In the afterword of volume 10 of the manga, Yuusuke Shiba remarks he's always liked it when a character reappears later in the story when they didn't seem like they'd show up again after the beginning and gives the following examples:
- "A random background character turning out to be very important," like the gas station attendant in Persona 4.
- "The childhood friend being the last boss," like in Paladin's Quest with "Duke".
- "The stranger asking to see a precious stone actually being your future self," which happens in Dragon Quest V.
- Slice of Life: In spite of all the conflicts and fights Azusa gets into, the majority of them end up being Curb-Stomp Battles to make more time for cute antics with her ever-growing number of students and adoptive family members. This is even noted by the publisher; the poster above has the headline "The Slow Life in Isekai Now Begins!"
- Slow Life Fantasy: Azusa, a salarywoman who dies from overwork in her mid-20s, is offered a chance to be reborn in a new world by a goddess. She takes up the offer on the condition that she is allowed to be immortal. After settling into her new life, she spends the next 300 years living a modest life and getting no more exercise than killing 25 slimes per day. However, it turns out that doing so accidentally maxed out her level, making her the strongest being in the world, and causing all sorts of problems as other warriors come to challenge her or people come to ask her for help. Azusa, in the meantime, simply wants to continue to live her nice, cushy life.
- Spinoff: Four as of January 2022, all of which are backstories of Azusa's family members:
- I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, and the Demon King Made Me a Minister: A web novel about Beelzebub's backstory, with manga and light novel adaptations.
- Food for an Elf: A web novel about Halkara's backstory.
- The Red Dragon Academy for Girls: A web novel about Laika's backstory, with a manga adaptation.
- The White Journey of Margrave: A web novel about Shirona, a third slime daughter of Azusa, being trained in magic by Magie.
- Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting: This trope is baked right into the DNA of the premise; the protagonist maxed out her level over the course of 300 years by killing Cute Slime Mooks. Her Family of Choice is comprised of a number of Cute Monster Girls ranging from slime spirits to a dragoness to a cute poltergeist to an elf, and a demoness as a Cool Big Sis. She finds out that she's reached max level via a nearby Adventure Guild, and mazoku (translated as "demons" in English) have their own society filled with a diverse assortment including ogres, trolls, animal-themed Beast Men, and so on. There are also gods and other deities, such as the one who reincarnated the protagonist and made her immortal in the first place.
- Starving Artist: According to Flatorte, this is a chronic problem among minstrels, as their income usually cannot cover basic living costs and requires doing odd jobs to survive.
- Stock Sound Effects: After messing up and unintentionally transforming Azusa into a child, Halkara speeds off to find a cure, to the sound of the classic Hanna-Barbera dash noise.
- Take That!: Azusa is a victim of Karoshi (Death by Overwork). In Japan, this is an especially serious problem, since Japan’s corporate work culture emphasizes loyalty to one’s employer, encouraging a willingness to give up time at home with family, and work insane hours, leading to a large number of people dying or committing suicide due to the incredible pressure such a lifestyle brings with it. Because of this, after reincarnating, Azusa has absolutely no love for that lifestyle, and will not hesitate to shut down her family members if they ever say or imply that they might start overexerting themselves.
- Tempting Fate: Happens regularly. Most of the main characters are introduced through this.
- In the slower-paced LN, after Azusa defeated the adventurers she spends time studying monsters to give people advice on how to combat strong creatures like Dragons, instead of fighting them herself. While also hoping her rumors would stop spreading among people. It’s at this point Laika the dragon knocks on her door.
- With Laika's suggestion, Azusa creates a magic barrier to protect the village. But they can't actually verify it's working until someone with ill intent comes. Azusa is optimistic that nothing will happen. They capture a minor criminal that night.
- Azusa is teaching Laika that slimes are a good source of steady experience and income. Especially since they could never take revenge. Cue the introduction of Shalsha the slime spirit coming to kill her.
- Azusa says it's great to have a dragon as a disciple as it discourages adventurers from visiting her for a challenge. While mid-sentence of hoping the peace continues, there's a knock on the door: Falfa arriving to warn her about her sister Shalsha.
- After the slime sisters became a part of the family too, Laika wonders who could join them next: An elf? A demon? The next visitor is the elven alchemist Halkara being chased by Beelzebub, a demon.
- During the party before Laika's sister's wedding, her father is optimistic that the blue dragons won't disturb them like they always do. They, including Flatorte, of course, arrive very soon.
- Halkara found a place to build a new workshop bigger than ever. Meanwhile, people living at that area think it also won't be lasting long. Later Azusa warns her about overworking and she agrees that it'd be bad to become a ghost while working. Next panel, she's terrified about the encounter she had with the ghost Rosalie.
- This Is Gonna Suck: As most threats to Azusa can't actually harm her, overpowered as she is, most of her worrying is about not delivering too dramatic of a Curb-Stomp Battle, and having yet more powerful threats literally knocking on her front door.
- Trail of Bread Crumbs: In the anime, Beezlebub attempts to do this to avoid getting lost when the gang heads to the Demon King's Castle to find the Intelligent Slime. Unfortunately, slime-form Falfa ends up eating all the crumbs that are dropped.
- Twinkle in the Sky: In the anime, Azusa spins Halkura around rapidly then tosses her in an attempt to get Rosalie out of her body. When Azusa throws her, Halkura quickly becomes a twinkle in the sky. It doesn't get Rosalie out, by the way.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Demons and dragons have the capability to switch between their more monstrous (and oftentimes, much more massive) forms, and humanoid shapes with clothes included.
- Weredragon: Thanks to their high natural mana, dragons can transform at will into a set human form, albeit one with horns and sometimes a tail. They use this for convenience when traveling among humans and also for events like formal banquets.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In the first volume there is a long and in-depth description of Falfa and Shalsha's hair. Their hair is actually slime tentacles that they can freely control, something like Squid Girl. However, after this discussion, this talent is never used, mentioned, or brought up again. None of the other intelligent slimes that Azusa and the gang encounter are shown to have or use slime tentacles.
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Exaggerated. Eno and the witches are dead-set on capturing a mandragora and grinding it up for medicine, uncaring that it's an intelligent Plant Person, but they give up the moment they see that the mandragora is a Cute Monster Girl.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- Azusa, Flatorte, Laika, Beelzebub are exploring a dungeon and encounter a Giant Worm. Then they realize they have no weapons and nobody wants to fight the slimy creature barehanded. So they run away. The dungeon is full of worms, slugs and bugs, so they run through the entire dungeon.
- They later meet up with Pecora, Fatla, Vania and Fightie who are also disgusted by them. At least they found some sticks they could calmly poke them with.
- Wizards Live Longer: Past-Natalie noted that some powerful witches can fine-tune their mana circulation to prolong their lives, but is shocked to see from her stats that Azusa has immortality right from level 1.
- Work Com: Beelzehub's spinoff is partly this as it involves her daily life as the minister.
