That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tensei shitara Slime datta Ken

[Munsu]

Agreed. Unless this is setting something up, it was just wasting the audiences time. Have just one demon show up and then don't have the manufactured tension of there not being enough magicules if it's going to be solved immediately by sacrificing characters we have no attachment to.

Went back to watch the summoning scene, and unless in Japanese there's no distinction in the phrase used between singular and plural, it seems like Rimuru meant to call 1 demon, and 3 showed up... maybe because the sacrifices were enough to bring that amount?

I don't think it's worth discussing much at this point since we have little to go on, but I kinda like the theory of the Primordial having the foresight of bringing some lackey's for sacrifices. He knew there weren't enough magiciules as it was from the get go to do the full resurrection.

Also peculiar that he showed up in the right instant in which Rimuru/Raphael was about to sacrifice himself.

[DarthEnderX]

I don't think it's worth discussing much at this point since we have little to go on, but I kinda like the theory of the Primordial having the foresight of bringing some lackey's for sacrifices. He knew there weren't enough magiciules as it was from the get go to do the full resurrection.

Yeah but...there was only a lack of magicules because the author wrote one in. If he hadn't written in the magicule absense, he wouldn't have had to write in two unnecessary characters.

[Munsu]

Yeah but...there was only a lack of magicules because the author wrote one in. If he hadn't written in the magicule absense, he wouldn't have had to write in two unnecessary characters.

Yep, which is why in the previous post I wrote "...that's pure writer's discretion by that point. I figure in part was to show that Rimuru was willing to sacrifice his lifeline to bring his people back if needed be..."

I guess it could also be used to show that the demons he summoned, for one reason or another, had his complete loyalty, or that the Primordial is able to discard other demons loyal to him (presumably) at will.

But in the grand scheme of things, don't think it matters much... quite an arbitrary event.

[Kraco]

I guess it could also be used to show that the demons he summoned, for one reason or another, had his complete loyalty, or that the Primordial is able to discard other demons loyal to him (presumably) at will.

I'd say that was the exact reason and, in fact, it does matter. The primordial demon has quite a bit of catching up to do, being a new character halfway through the second season. Things like aiding Rimuru to perform a big task like the resurrection is a solid way to make the primordial demon matter at all, not be forgotten immediately.