Does the story go into detail on how his friend reacted to her family being killed? How traumatic it must have been for her, how awful having her life taken away from her must have been, how much she suffered and how much it took for her to get back to normalcy? Or does she exist, essentially, as an accessory to Goblin Slayer?
Does the story go into detail on how the concept of genocide is fucked up, and how advocating it is fucked up too? I can answer this, because it's asked in the first episode and explored further: genocide is, in fact, justifiable, and not committing genocide makes things worse for everyone. The author wrote a story in which genocide is not only the only viable option, it's presented as the only moral option too.
Does the story go into detail on how it's uncomfortable how women fall for Goblin Slayer because he happens to protect them all the time, on how a powerful adventurer is rendered helpless in front of goblins without any hint of having recovered in the slightest from her own trauma, on how she tries to use her own rape as a way to seduce the man, and declares that she's even more in love with him now that he's promised to slaughter goblins more for her?
I would like a story where things are treated with gravitas and tact, where the rape isn't sexualised, where it's not gratuitous, where there's no uncomfortable implications of genocide being a-okay. I would like a story where the way to help someone who suffered that much trauma isn't to help him continue his genocide and fall in love with him, where the implication is that if he gets a waifu he'll settle down on his crusade. I would like a story where goblins aren't a mishmash of racial stereotypes, where their design wasn't originally just a ripoff of an insanely racist manga, and failing all this, where they actually acted like magical parasites created by a dark god and didn't exclusively target young, attractive women.
I'm not going to get that story with Goblin Slayer, and in my own personal view, the negatives surrounding it are far, far too much for me to give a single shit about the positives. If I got served a dinner where the meat is raw, the vegetables are rotten, the wine is swill and the dessert has gone off, I'm not going to say "well at least the breadsticks were good", I'm going to say "that's a shitty dinner".
On the first, yes it is brought up how she and her uncle are in a very awkward situation and the fact he is her only family, currently in story. This happened when she was young and she did not have to directly see it so she has moved past it in part. It is also brought up how she would like to not rely on him but he is her only family left and does not know what she would do.
Second Goblin Slayer himself admits to being the Goblin to the Goblins and the self destructive nature of his whole crusade in he fights until he is dead. On Farm Girl not being as affected by the loss of her family, she still has her Uncle and this happened when she was very young. In the Manga she does ask Goblin Slayer I believe about what happened but again she did not directly experience this and so while dealing with the loss does not suffer the overwhelming trauma of Goblin Slayer.
On the second it is brought up in the first couple chapters that Goblin Slayer is very willing to kill even Goblin children and that he does not allow any chance for them to change and the self acknowledgement of the vicious cycle he creates by inspiring hatred in any goblin survivors. Though Goblins are to be noted more a exploration of what happens when you take some D&D flavor text and run it straight, the results are heinous.
On the third, the girls in the series and it should be noted we got multiple reasons and relationships to look at
Priestess is more his first friend in forever/daughter/sister with some romantic hints? Its weird and she likes Goblin Slayer not soley for defending her though that is a factor, its more Goblin Slayer is nice, kind, thoughtful in his own thoughtless way and acts as a source of support after watching her party die and she herself stays with him as part of her empathy and compassion. Priestess was the start of dealing with his Trauma in some fashion and in many ways is his anchor.
On Sword Maiden she beat the Demon Lord and yet is terrified of Goblins, this shows the emotional scarring like with Goblin Slayer runs deep, her love of Goblin Slayer in the narrative is treated as if I were to describe it a coping mechanism that lets her express these feelings and fears with someone who gets them, who understands what the horror of the Goblins is as most see them as just pests and not worthy of having so much power over someone. She is not rendered helpless by them, that is never implied or shown that she could not if pushed come to shove fight them.
What she does feel is a bottomless abyss of fear that has her terrified of the Goblins as an idea, the thought of them around her, the concept of them under the sewers drives her mad. Goblins, not demons, or all the others horrors of this world but Goblins for their sheer cruelty. On her attraction to Goblin Slayer, she sees this person who gets what she went through and devotes himself to slaying them. Goblin Slayer for his part rejects her advances seeing himself as not the hero she needs but just another damaged soul who kills Goblins but assures her that even in her dreams he would come to be by her side and provide support.
The two main romantic leads Farm Girl and Guild Girl. Farm Girl acts as a connection to the boy he used to be and there is still his childhood attachment to the last living friend from his days before Goblin Slaying.
She still feels feelings for him based on the boy he used to be and sees how he still holds in some part though it is corrupted and tainted by his rage against the Goblins, his dream of being a hero as often besides killing Goblins his first concern in his emotionally dead way of his is the safety and well being of others. She is one of the few people that knows Goblin Slayer as more then Goblin Slayer and has a previous connection that lets her in some ways be able to interact with him in a way that somewhat understands his past.
Guild Girl likes Goblin Slayer because he cares about the issue of Goblins she sees kills so many adventures, citizens and in general terrorize the local communities while the Capital does nothing. Goblin Slayer is in comparison to many adventures far more rational and well thought out in his actions. Which is a relief to Guild Girl who knows she is sending many of the people that come to her to their death or worse at times. Goblin Slayer is again when not butchering Goblins is nice, not in that he is beaming with joy or making others laugh but that he helps others. If Guild Girl needs a Goblin nest taken care of or anything else he will help.
On the Waifu thing in part it would help but only as an aspect of the larger adopted family and friends social structure he is building with his party.
On Goblins currently in the manga they look like D&D Goblins and others such things with more a focus on their ability to bring pain and suffering, on the racist bit they are not drawing on any racist sterotypes in particular more a general idea that can be connected to those concepts but does not mean that is the primary objective of the story.
Horrible monsters in the dark, the gibbering hordes that live in the deep and such is more of their thing which yes can be linked to racist musings but at this point we are at it can be seen that way but is the authors work really aiming for that with intent?
There are no specific sterotypes for them beyond the whole raping thing which I would tie into japanesse henatai and I will agree with it being a part of the artwork at times that could be removed and not affect the story much. Other times the graphic nature of it is to the benefit of the story like in Goblin Slayer Year One first chapter to establish how fucked up it is but then we are going case by case basis and still there can be trimming done.
There be any other points brought up by you I did not properly reply to and if so point them out so I can go over them and give a proper response to you.
Sorry this took so long to type up.
