Gelmud finally walks on stage, the Orc Lord eats his own creator, and Rimuru has to devour a sin that used to be a person named Geld. This is the Orc Disaster episode, and it is one of Season 1’s actual peaks.
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Hook
Gelmud finally walks on stage, the Orc Lord eats his own creator, and Rimuru has to devour a sin that used to be a person named Geld. This is the Orc Disaster episode, and it is one of Season 1’s actual peaks.
This page is the sequential stop after Episode 13 — not a random recap dump. Scores below are for this 24 minutes only.
Quick Information
- Anime: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Season / Episode: Season 1, Episode 14 (overall #14)
- English title: The One Who Devours All
- Japanese episode title: 全てを喰らう者
- Runtime: ~24 minutes
- Studio: 8bit
- Original air date: January 8, 2019
- Kagex score: 9.1 / 10
- Where to watch legally: Crunchyroll (region-dependent)
Should You Watch It?
Watch this. If you have been waiting for Rimuru to use Predator like a judgment instead of a snack button, this is the hour. Skip it and you do not understand the Jura alliance, Geld’s later loyalty, or why Rimuru takes other people’s crimes personally. Heavy spoilers after the warning on any recap; the episode itself is the climax of the orc war.
Beginner-friendly? No as a start point. Watch from Season 1 Episode 1. This installment assumes you already know Tempest’s core cast — Rimuru at minimum.
Bottom line: sequential viewers should not skip “The One Who Devours All.” Fight-only watchers may feel the talkier stretches; nation-building fans will not.
Spoiler Warning
Spoilers for Season 1 Episode 14 (“The One Who Devours All”) follow. Stop above for a clean first watch. This page does not spoil later episodes.
Story Recap
The majin who thought he was the author
Gelmud arrives to collect his experiment. The clown-mask shepherd wants the Orc Lord to finish evolving into an Orc Disaster — a demon-lord-class famine that would own Jura. He talks like a producer on a set. The orcs, the ogres, the lizardmen: gears. Rimuru is the extra who wandered onto the soundstage.
That monologue is the arc’s missing scene. Naming Geld in the desert was not mercy. It was onboarding. Gelmud’s plan needs a crowned disaster, not a successful monster town. Tempest is a bug. He intends to squash it by finishing the product.
Gelmud talking like a producer on a set is the missing scene of the arc. Gears, not people. Tempest is a bug on the soundstage. He wants a crowned disaster, not a successful town.
The experiment eats the scientist
The Orc Lord — Geld — understands enough. He takes action Gelmud did not budget: he eats the majin who named him. Starved does not do loyalty. It does consumption. The creator becomes calories and a power spike. Orc Disaster is born the ugly way, not the ceremonial way. Gelmud’s gears do not just spin out of control. They get chewed.
This is the episode’s thesis in one bite. If you manufacture a hunger god, you are food. Rimuru watching another namer get eaten by his own gift is a dark mirror he cannot joke away. Naming is not automatically virtuous. It is a loaded skill, and Geld just fired it backward.
Starved does not do loyalty. Creator becomes calories and a spike.
Disaster-class, in the marsh
Geld as Orc Disaster is a different weight class than the army. Unique skill plus mass plus the souls of a campaign. Benimaru, Shion, Hakurou, Ranga — all of them can stall, none of them can close it alone. The marsh becomes a boss arena that used to be a home.
Rimuru has to step in as the only stomach big enough. That is not a cute line. Predator versus Starved is two eating skills arguing about who is the ecosystem. The fight is heavy, desperate, and weirdly intimate: two named beings who were both created by someone else’s words.
Disaster-class is a different weight than the army. Named fighters stall; they do not close it alone.
The one who devours all
Rimuru Predates the Orc Disaster. He takes the skill, the sins, the campaign. Geld’s hunger becomes something Rimuru will carry. The title is literal. It is also a moral claim: someone has to eat the crime so the surviving orcs are not only “the army that ate Jura.” Rimuru chooses to be that landfill on purpose.
Inside the skill space, Geld is not only a raid icon. He is a starving leader who accepted a name because his people were dying. That conversation is why this climax is Tensura instead of a generic overlord fight. Rimuru kills the Disaster and keeps the person. That distinction will matter the moment the war meeting starts.
Taking the skill and the sins is a moral claim: someone has to eat the crime so leftover orcs are not only “the army that ate Jura.
A forest full of leftover mouths
When the Disaster falls, thousands of orcs are still there: guilty, starving, leaderless. Lizardmen and ogres have every right to finish them. Rimuru has already decided the story will not end in a second genocide if he can swallow the blame. The episode leaves that argument on the table for next week’s alliance.
Gelmud is gone. The manufactured calamity is gone. The famine population remains. Nation-building is about to mean refugee policy. If you thought the slime was only going to collect cute lieutenants, watch him stand between revenge and a race that just tried to eat the map.
Thousands of leftover mouths are the smart cliffhanger, not a hidden second boss. Lizardmen and ogres have every right to finish them.
Story Analysis
Episode 14 is Season 1’s first true “this is why the show is bigger than cozy isekai” climax. Gelmud as middle-manager villain is perfect: not a demon lord, a contractor trying to promote himself with a home-made disaster. Geld eating him is poetic and thematically on-model. Predator versus Starved is a skill-system payoff that also works as character: Rimuru’s whole kit has been eating, and now eating is justice, mercy, and contamination at once.
Pacing is climax-correct: reveal, betrayal-by-appetite, boss, aftertaste. Emotional peak is Rimuru taking Geld’s sin. World-building: demon-lord-class evolution can be forced, and it can fail sideways. Comedy is off-duty. The animation finally has a reason to go loud. If the Shizu arc was personal tragedy, this is political tragedy with a named victim inside the monster.
The leftover orc population is the smartest story choice. A clean boss kill would be cheaper. Leaving thousands of mouths makes next week’s alliance a moral document, not a victory lap.
Middle-manager villain as contractor trying to mint a calamity is perfect Gelmud. Geld eating him is poetic and on-model. Predator versus Starved is systems payoff that also works as character: Rimuru’s kit has always been a mouth, and now the mouth is justice, mercy, and contamination. Leaving the orc population standing is the bravest choice; a clean boss kill would be cheaper. If Shizu was personal tragedy, this is political tragedy with a named victim inside the monster. The leftover army makes next week a moral document, not a victory lap.
Character Analysis
Geld is the secret protagonist of the hour: starving chief, named tool, Disaster, then a will inside Rimuru’s stomach. Gelmud is a superb disposable author — arrogant, useful, eaten. Rimuru becomes the one who devours all in the ethical sense, not only the skill sense.
Benimaru’s revenge gets stolen by mercy, which is a hard gift. Shion and Hakurou prove they can hang in a disaster-class fight. Ranga is cavalry and heart. Gabiru is a broken heir in the stands. Souka’s people are the rescued. Nobody is a prop. The orc rank-and-file, still standing at the end, are the hardest “character” to look at.
Geld is the secret protagonist: starving chief, named tool, Disaster, will in a stomach. Gelmud is superb disposable author. Benimaru’s revenge getting stolen by mercy is a hard gift. Shion and Hakurou proving they can hang at disaster-class is the kit check. Gabiru in the stands is a broken heir. Souka’s people are the rescued. Rank-and-file orcs still standing are the hardest character to look at. Nobody is a prop. The sins Rimuru carries have a census.
World Building
Orc Disaster is a demon-lord seed: forced evolution via souls, names, and unique skills. Starved and Predator are competing metabolisms for the setting. Majin middle-management trying to mint a calamity tells you the demon-lord ecosystem has contractors, not only kings. A named monster can kill its namer. That rule will matter forever.
Post-battle orcs as a people rather than a faction is the new political fact. Jura’s races must decide whether crime is collective. Rimuru swallowing sins is a legal theory with magic attached. The forest’s next government will be built on that theory.
Orc Disaster as a forced demon-lord seed via souls, names, unique skills. Starved and Predator as competing metabolisms. Majin contractors in the demon-lord ecosystem, not only kings. A named monster can kill its namer — a rule that will matter forever. Post-battle orcs as a people is the new political fact.
Sins as transferable magical-legal objects is the constitution Rimuru is about to write with his stomach, and leftover orcs as a people is the new political fact the marsh cannot un-count.
Nothing here is later-arc homework. If a name or rule is only teased, it stays a tease.
Animation
This is 8bit’s best action of the cour: Gelmud’s arrival, Geld’s grotesque evolution, Predator/Starved clash, Rimuru going full devourer. Still TV, but the key animation on the Disaster and the eat-the-sin finish is the season’s action peak so far. Marsh destruction reads. The quiet on Geld’s inner will after the noise is directed on purpose. Worth it for spectacle and for the face acting after.
Best action of the cour: Gelmud’s arrival, Geld’s grotesque evolution, the devourer clash, Rimuru going full stomach.
Kagex animation score for this episode: 8.8 / 10 — peaks vs average cuts, not a sakuga clip ranking.
Music and Voice Acting
Score 8.6. 8bit’s TV mix leans on Elements Garden sting + silence. Japanese track is the reference for Rimuru’s dual register (cute slime vs office-brain). Dub timing varies by season; don’t wait on it to judge the episode.
Hidden Details
- Geld eating Gelmud is Starved’s ethics in one move: creators are meat.
- Rimuru taking the sins is a political technology, not only a finishing move.
- The surviving orc army is the real cliffhanger, not a hidden second boss.
Best Moments
- Gelmud realizing his product has a mouth.
- Predator versus Starved as two ecosystems colliding.
- Rimuru choosing to carry Geld’s crime so the leftover orcs are not only targets.
Pros & Cons
Pros: Specific to “The One Who Devours All” — Season 1’s first great war climax: ugly, moral, and specific. If this hour works for you, the Jura alliance will mean something.
Cons: Requires earlier episodes. Viewers who only want climax fights may call the political / logistics scenes slow even when they are load-bearing.
Final Verdict
Kagex overall: 9.1 / 10 — Season 1’s first great war climax: ugly, moral, and specific. If this hour works for you, the Jura alliance will mean something.
- Story: 9.2
- Characters: 9.1
- Animation: 8.8
- Music: 8.6
- Enjoyment: 9.2
Geld eating Gelmud is chef’s-kiss villain death. Rimuru taking the sins is the moment I trusted this show with a nation, not just a party. Heavy, fair, still Tensura.
What to Expect Next
Next week is the peace conference, and it is more dangerous than the boss fight because everyone still wants blood.
Next: Season 1 Episode 15 — The Jura Forest Alliance. Watch legally on Crunchyroll.
FAQ
Do I need to watch Season 1 Episode 14?
Yes if you are watching the TV series in order. Skipping “The One Who Devours All” leaves a hole later episodes assume you have.
What is the Japanese title?
全てを喰らう者 — Crunchyroll English title is “The One Who Devours All.”
When did it air?
January 8, 2019 in Japan. ~24 minutes. Studio 8bit.
Is this Season 1 filler?
No. Tensura’s “quiet” hours are usually nation, diplomacy, or setup — not recap filler.
Where does this sit in the overall count?
Overall TV episode 14 of the main series (S1–S3 are 72; Season 4 continues from 73).
Should I watch Slime Diaries first?
No. Diaries is optional comedy. This review is the main TV track.
Where are character guides?
Tensura characters — Rimuru, Veldora, Milim, and the Tempest officers.
Where are facts / spoilers for the franchise?
Fact and Spoilers on the hub. This episode page stays inside Episode 14.
Keep exploring
- Tensura anime hub
- Season 1 review
- Overall review
- Previous: Season 1 Episode 13 — The Great Clash
- Next: Season 1 Episode 15 — The Jura Forest Alliance
- Characters
- Fact and Spoilers
Your turn
Was “The One Who Devours All” a continue episode or a skip-risk for you? Favorite beat? Who should get the next character page?
Sources: Crunchyroll episode titles; Wikipedia list of Tensura episodes; official Tensura anime site.
