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In the anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, the appearance of new character Chloe — introduced as someone who ‘can time-leap back up to 2000 years’ — became a hot topic on a 5ch live-commentary thread. Posters zeroed in on a scene where holding Rimuru back leads to an altered timeline in which Tempest is destroyed, and another where she describes the nation Luminous rebuilt as being ‘like livestock,’ sparking a wave of questions about why she’d need to go back 2000 years at all when rewinding to a more recent point would do. Comparisons to Homura from Madoka Magica and Rika from Higurashi When They Cry also came up, fueling a lively debate over the internal consistency of the show’s time-rewind setup.
What people said
I love this
LMAO, because of Chloe, 'Koyasu' (fan shorthand for the character voiced by seiyuu Takehito Koyasu) is dead now
'Doing the same thing every time is boring, so let's hold Rimuru back and see Tempest get wiped out'
'Yay, turns out Rimuru became a Demon Lord anyway by coincidence, and as a bonus we took out the Falmuth army and Koyasu too☆'
LMAO she just casually dissed socialism there
She said she wants to save Hinata from the enemy, but couldn't she just bow her head and ask this guy?
No need to time-leap back 2000 years for that
Just go back a little and say 'Pink lady (fan nickname for Milim, after her hair color), please help Hinata'
She's the strongest in Rimuru's faction, so if you just ask, she'd easily agree
No need to go back 2000 years for that
Thing is, Luminous hates Milim's guts…
If Milim showed up in her country it'd turn into a brawl
Even while knowing the future where the Empire wipes everything out?
Wasn't her memory sealed or something?
Something like: Rimuru and Hinata die, she gets sent back 2000 years, and then her memory returns
She's the same type as Rika from Higurashi (the time-loop protagonist)
When Veldora actually got sealed, it was really Hinata inside
Homura only looped one month, 13 times though…
Honestly all I can say is 'what even is that'
In Madoka Magica it triggers when Madoka dies or turns into a witch
In Re:Zero it's when Subaru himself dies
But Rimuru doesn't die though
She can't fine-tune it herself
If she dies, it auto-restarts from 2000 years ago
That mysterious 'Existence Value' power metric strikes again
She was telling Luminous about Rimuru and Hinata — impressive that she remembered all that for 2000 years
Also she's being way too familiar considering Luminous has no memory of her
Just casually calling her by name, no honorific
He was reincarnated as Satoru Mikami, got stabbed and died, then came back to the original world as a slime
The reason he gets along so freakishly well with Veldora is that they're actual brothers
The reason Rimuru feels no lust toward Milim is that she's literally his daughter
The Great Sage is the soul of Veldanava's wife — Milim's mother — merged with Rimuru's skill, regaining her personality. That's why the 'Legit Wife' (fan nickname for Raphael) and Abi are so overpowered
The final boss is basically a remnant born from the husk of Veldanava's body — in other words, a copy of Rimuru himself
Satoru Mikami's grandmother is Shizu
After beating the final boss, Chloe's power sends him back to wartime Japan, where he saves Shizu and her mother from an air raid, and returns the soul of 'Shizu-san' he'd been keeping inside himself to Shizu's body
Generations later, a grandchild is born, and Shizu names him Satoru
Is this for real?
That's actually put together pretty well
If he saves Shizu, wouldn't that change history quite a lot? Is that okay?
She could just explain the situation to Frey, her tutor, and be done with it
Rimuru surviving is the correct outcome, so it's fine to keep everything the same up to that point
Wait, wasn't he dead the whole time though? lol
Huh?
In the previous timeline Rimuru was alive,
so you follow the same route up to that point and only change the ending
Isn't Chronoa the one who was cryogenically frozen?
So if the timeline advances to the present, does that mean that gets erased?
Once she declares her name, the timeline branches
So naturally the cryo-freeze thing doesn't happen either
#1 Rimuru — Final battle power: 3+ trillion
#2 Luberjus (final boss) — Battle power: 1 trillion
#3 Veldanava — Battle power: hundreds of millions
#4 Guy Crimson — Battle power: 40 million+ up to hundreds of millions (his skill can copy anything)
#5 Milim — Battle power: 100 million+
#6 Ferldway — 120 million
#7 Flame Dragon Oni Benimaru — 100 million
#8 Diablo — Battle power: 80-90 million
#9 Veldora — Battle power: 88 million
#10 Velzard — Battle power: 80 million
Wait, doesn't Pink's (Milim's nickname, from her hair color) skill let her battle power rise with no ceiling?
Isn't she on par with 'Ishida' (fan nickname for Guy Crimson, voiced by Akira Ishida)?
Wait, does Benimaru turn into a dragon?
Didn't Guy say something like he can't beat the Dragonoids?
Sounds like he'd be evenly matched with Milim
Background and talking points
Tensura (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) began as a popular web-novel isekai fantasy, and Chloe is known as a key character tied to the story’s endgame. What sparked discussion this time was how inefficient her ‘can rewind up to 2000 years’ time-leap ability looks in practice — thread posters tested the plausibility of the setup by comparing her to loop/rewind characters from other series, like Homura from Madoka Magica and Rika from Higurashi When They Cry. At the same time, the thread often veered off into the relationships between existing characters like Rimuru and Luminous, and into ‘battle power’ ranking debates — a glimpse of the series’ particular brand of fun, where numerically expressed power levels frequently get put on the chopping block. Note that the theories and power rankings covered in this article are unofficial speculation by viewers, not confirmed official settings.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Tensura just introduced a character named Chloe who can time-leap 2000 years back”.
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