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Newest That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Spinoff Manga Ends in Next Chapter on May 26
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The spinoff story follows the main novels' story timeline from the end of the ninth volume to the start of volume 10, after the Tempest Founder's Festival ended successfully. Veldora suddenly decides that he wants to develop beast magic. Rimuru, who starts being enthusiastic about developing magic and even Hinata Sakaguchi join Veldora, and they all set out to the Magic Tower, the holy land of magic.
Takada launched the manga in Monthly Shonen Sirius in July 2023. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in January 2024, and the third volume will release on June 9.
Fuse published the spinoff story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2023, to celebrate the original light novels' 10th anniversary.
Fuse serialized the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website from 2013 to 2016, and the series has since garnered over 400 million page views. Micro Magazine began publishing the series in print with illustration by Mitz Vah in 2014. Yen Press releases the novel series.
Fuse stated in the light novels' 22nd volume in January that he would like to end the novel series sometime this year.
The first television anime of Taiki Kawakami's manga, itself an adaptation of Fuse and Mitz Vah's light novel series, premiered in October 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the anime, and FUNimation Entertainment streamed an English dub.
The second television anime season premiered its first cours (quarter of a year) in January 2021. The television anime of Shiba's spinoff manga The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensura Nikki Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) then premiered on Tokyo MX in April 2021. After The Slime Diaries ended, the second cours of the second season began in July 2021 — for nine straight months of television anime from the franchise in 2021.
The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond film opened in Japan in November 2022.
The three-episode That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Coleus' Dream anime debuted in Japan in November 2023 with all three episodes. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with subtitles and an English dub.
The anime's third season premiered in April 2024. The show aired for two continuous cours for a half-year run. The anime has a fourth season planned, and the second anime film Gekijō-ban Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Sōkai no Namida-hen (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Blue Sea Arc) will open in Japan in February 2026.
Sources: Monthly Shonen Sirius June issue
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