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Muse Asia Licenses That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 4th Season Anime
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The fourth anime season of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime will premiere in Japan on April 3. The anime's fourth season will air for a total run of five cours (quarters of a year), with the first two cours airing continuously.
8-Bit is returning once again to animate the fourth season, and Miho Okasaki returns to voice protagonist Rimuru Tempest.
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. The novel series ended with its 23rd and final volume on November 29. A spinoff side story volume titled Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Toaru Kyūka no Sugoshi-kata (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: How to Spend a Certain Vacation) shipped alongside the final volume. The novels will get a side-story series, with the first part slated for release in 2026.
The anime's third season premiered in April 2024. The anime's 48.5 episode aired a week earlier than the season's premiere on March 30. The show aired for two continuous cours for a half-year run. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and also provided its stream of the show to Crunchyroll users in Southeast Asia in August 2024.
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.
The second television anime season premiered its first cours 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: Visions of Coleus anime debuted in Japan in November 2023 with all three episodes. Muse Asia streamed the anime.
Muse Asia has licensed the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (Gekijō-ban Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Sōkai no Namida-hen), the second anime film for Southeast Asia. The film opened in Japan on February 27.
The second season of The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen will premiere in Japan on April 7.
Previously announced new cast members include Shinnosuke Tachibana as Leon and Hikaru Midorikawa as Cedric.Norio Nitta (Kami-sama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama) returns from the first season to direct the new season at OLM Team Yoshioka. Deko Akao (Pokémon: Journeys, Noragami) is still in charge of the series scripts. Hitomi Kōno is also back to design the characters. Hanae Nakamura, Tatsuhiko Saiki, Kanade Sakuma, and Junko Nakajima are still credited for composing the music, but this time with Misaki Tsuchida, Tsugumi Tanaka and Kaho Sawada. Retroriron performs the second season's opening theme song "Ego," and Garakuta is performing the ending theme song "Tarareba."
The first season premiered in July 2023. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing both the original light novels and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she's been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She's got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit, boss-tier powers, and influence over the kingdom as crown princess. Determined to sow despair and destruction across the land, she... Wait, what kind of a rotten future is that?! Princess Pride decides to drop the maniacal villainess plan and protect the male love interests instead, cheating her way to saving everyone she can! Will this final boss end up earning the adoration of her kingdom?
