Someone posted it earlier, but Lmao @ Slime now at 6 consecutive episodes of....recaps/meetings that are, in theory, 'setup' for the action piece(s).
But while we're 'occasionally' getting new bits of important information thrown in there piecemeal, over half the episodes are just re-confirming stuff we already know as the audience, just from the various factions.
Meanwhile, we're introducing 7+ new characters, 3 new-to-us 'factions' among the humans, and it's...way too much, too fast.
....I can't tell if the studio is just taking the piss, or just threw their hands up and decided not to bother with the 'show, not tell' aspect due to the source material.
Makes for good exercise-watch material, at least.
Really wonder if this would have been better as a coalesced/shortened between-season project/setup/refresher (I think they already had one episode in that vein before the season actually started?), or pushed past it and condensed it into maybe 3 episodes, not 6.