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[[File:Goblin Slayer.jpeg|right|377px]]'''''Goblin Slayer''''' (Japanese: ゴブリンスレイヤー Hepburn: Goburin Sureiyā) is a Japanese [[Dark Fantasy]] [[Light Novel]] series written by Kumo Kagyu and illustrated by Noboru Kannatuki., which began serialization in 2016. It has two manga series, three Drama CD's, a side-story named ''Year One'' (both in manga and novel format) and a 13-episode TV anime series released in 2018. It started as a sort-of online textboard roleplay combined with ASCII artwork, which was later rewritten into a novel format and sent to some writing contests; it was picked uo by the GA Bunko publishing label, and then one thing led to another...

[[Downer Beginning|The series itself begins in a terrible note, story-wise]]. A rookie party formed by a [[Cute Bruiser|Fighter]], a [[Black Magician Girl|Female Wizard]], a [[Heroes Prefer Swords|Warrior]] and a [[White Magician Girl|Priestess]], all of them [[Naive Newcomer|at quite the low power/experience rank]], decided to go into a nest of goblins to try wiping them out and rescuing their prisoners. However, due to their lack of preparation, [[From Bad to Worse|the group is horrifyingly overwhelmed]]: Warrior is [[Cruel and Unusual Death|literally torn apart]], Fighter is captured [[Rape as Drama|and gangrapedgang raped]], Wizard is fatally wounded, and Priestess is all but  indefensein defense against the goblins themselves. Suddenly, however, a stranger decked in full-body armor [[Big Damn Heroes|shows up]] and saves Priestess, helps her rescue the still-living Fighter, gives Wizard a [[Mercy Kill]] at her request and completely annhilatesannihilates all the Goblins and Hobgoblins there... 

Priestess learns that the man is the Goblin Slayer, an adventurer whose one and only goal in life is to erradicateeradicate all kinds of Goblins. Feeling that she owes him her life and that she still wants to go further in adventures, she becomes Goblin Slayer's partner and keeps travelling with him. Eventually, the two form a more stable party with other travelers (a High-Elf Archer, a Dwarf, and a Lizard Priest) and keep on fighting, exploring the dangerous world, and exterminating Goblins and other menaces...

* [[Human Shield]]: At the climax of Volume 1, a group of goblins uses human hostages as shields, knowing humans aren't likely to kill other humans to reach an enemy. Also, in ''Year One'' a hobgoblin tried to use a girl like a shield. Goblin Slayer noted that the good thing is, goblins have no clue of how to use a shield in the first place, so this doesn't particularly hinders killing the hob.

* [[Revenge]]: Goblin Slayer's initial motivation to kill goblins was to avenge his family. As time goes on,however, it takes the shape of a psychological obsession(he only does that,even knowningknowing there may be more important jobs which may save as many or even more lives as killing goblins do), and he says to Guild Girl in Volume 1 he is beginning to enjoy it.

* [[Skewed Priorities]]: Goblin Slayer dismisses a quest to save the world from an army of demons because goblins attacking villages are somehow more important. However, soon he lets it slips why he does that: there's so many [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlords]] appearing and then being defeated that he feels there's no consequences if he ignores such tasks in favour of hunting goblins, an activity that attracts well less attention from adventurers, downplaying the trope. Also, there are people who specialize in fighting demons, while he is the guy who kills goblins (and is good at this)… though whenever it turned out there's someone else using the goblins as cheap minions, he was resourceful enough to handle that, too.