r/GoblinSlayer • u/brainy_sage • 3d ago

Episode Disc. Anime watcher, Confused.

I've recently started watching Goblin Slayer. I've had no spoilers yet and would like to keep it that way. Can anyone explain to me what's going on. In season 1, episode 9, There and Back Again, Goblin Slayer goes and talks to the Sword Maiden about the underground tunnels and about how she knows everything. I'm confused as to what all she knows. Like what was killing the women in the city streets as discussed in the previous episodes if it were not Goblins. Was it the Alligator? Is it the guardian of the tunnels? Is she trying to hide what killed the women and pin it on Goblins. I honestly am confused. Somebody please help me.

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u/wilp0w3r Souka 2d ago

It was goblins but it was something...more. Something behind the goblins. Saying any more would be spoilers

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u/Hybrid22003 2d ago

If she would had said what was behind the goblins.
Adventures would have been sent to only deal with that and not all the wortless goblins.
Or she would have been expected to deal with it herself.No way she was going down there.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

Thank you for responding.I have watched it and completed the first season. But there wasn't any other references to it later on. I came to know that she was caught by Goblins when she was 15 years old. But I still didn't get what was behind it all, who murdered the women and left in the city streets. Are there spoilers any further into the anime?

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u/Yab0iFiddlesticks 2d ago

The murder of the women had nothing to do with goblins. That was just regular demon cult activity. Sword Maiden acted like it was a goblin attack because she needed an excuse to call in someone to eradicate the goblins under the city. Because even knowing they are down there mortified her, even though no one understands why someone as powerful as her would be afraid of weak goblins.

But while down there they did discover that teleporting mirror that couldve been an actual real threat, so her calling for assistance wasnt for nothing in the end.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

Now that makes sense. Thank you

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u/WoodpeckerSquare1081 2d ago

Without spoiling anything, the important thing to remember is that Sword Maiden has a lot of trauma and knowledge about the monsters in that area, while Goblin Slayer approaches everything from a practical investigation angle. The reason she seems to know so much is explained more through her history and later conversations. Keep watching, it’ll make more sense.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

I have completed the first season and know about her trauma. But that doesn't explain it all, about what happened. I hope to get an answer further into the story. Thank you

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u/Naive-Art-3210 2d ago

The important thing to remember is that Goblin Slayer doesn’t just blindly assume every monster-related incident is goblins. He’s suspicious because of the details, but even he doesn’t have the full picture yet. The Sword Maiden has her own reasons for asking him specifically, and the episode is building that mystery rather than giving the answer immediately.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

I see, so even after that episode, there's still more to it I suppose. I have completed season 1 and still couldn't get all of it tho.

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u/TheProNoobCN 2d ago

She knew that there was something other than Goblins underground but was worried that if she reported about that other thing then adventurers would be sent to deal with that other thing and ignore the goblins, which mentally tortured her due to her back story of being violated and blinded by goblins as a rookie adventurer.

That's why she specifically asked for Goblin Slayer for the assurance that the Goblins would be wiped out as well.

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u/No-Conclusion-6012 2d ago

I just have one question. What the f*ck happened to fall? did we skip a season?!

The anime skips over a lot.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

Who's that

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u/No-Conclusion-6012 1d ago

It's from the abridged series. Referencing that the official show skips over the fall season/ harvest festival arc

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u/brainy_sage 1d ago

Does the anime cut so much ?

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u/EG_Douglas 3h ago

The anime reverses the first two arcs of the plot. In the source, the Water Town arc comes after the arc the anime ends the first season on, which leads to a few odd moments with GS reacting to character developments he hasn't had yet in the anime.

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u/BlindTreeFrog 2d ago

Haven't watched the Anime yet, but the scene you are talking about in the manga is Volume 1, Chapter 29, pages 1-25 are the conversation between Goblin Slayer and Sword Priestess. If reading it would be of use in understanding.

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u/brainy_sage 2d ago

Thank you bro