Slime ga Nakama ni Natta! - Oneshot

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I'm always a bit confused by this trope, where the author floats the idea of a human/inhuman romance as the central tenet of the work, except the inhuman turns into just a slightly funny human? I don't know. It feels like it's self-defeating cowardice; everything interesting in the premise would be in the unexpected and heterogeneous nature of the relationship, which the trope immediately puts on mute. (The frog turns into a prince and now... he's just a prince, yo!)

It's like when a movie is set entirely in a foreign country except for some reason the viewpoint character has to share a nationality with the audience because the studio is terrified of alienating the viewers even when it being set in a foreign country was the large part of the reason it was interesting and what brought the audience there in the first place!
 
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