Anime & Manga
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Franchise Gets 3-Episode Original Anime, 10th Anniversary Story With Manga
The “grand finale” screening of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen), the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime franchise‘s anime film, announced a new three-episode original anime on Sunday. Koriusu no Yume (Coleus’s Dream) will debut this fall.
Koriusu no Yume was a text story included in a bonus extra booklet with the Blu-ray Disc release of the second That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime season. It became a major story inspiration for the Scarlet Bond film. The “epic spectacle story” is set between the first two television seasons when Rimuru faces intrigue swirling around the Coleus Kingdom. Takuma Terashima (Satoru Mikami) is performing the opening theme song.
Koriusu no Yume is actually the second initiative in the “Tensura 10th Project” commemorating the 10th anniversary of Fuse‘s original light novel series. The first initiative, “Toaru Kyūka no Sigoshi-kata” (How to Spend a Certain Holiday), is Fuse‘s special story set between the ninth and 10th light novel volumes. The story will begin serializing on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) site on Monday, February 20 — the same day that Fuse launched the original novel on the same website exactly 10 years ago. 3×3 Eyes manga creator Yuzo Takada will launch a manga adaptation in Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, as previewed below:
The third initiative is an upcoming campaign to celebrate the franchise topping 40 million copies in circulation. That includes 35 million copies of the various books within Japan and 5 million overseas. The fourth initiative is the franchise‘s first in-person “major event.” Finally, the fifth initiative is the franchise‘s first stage play in August.
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.
Fuse drafted the Scarlet Bond film’s brand-new original story. The story centers on a new country named Raja, located to the west of Tempest. Rimuru and his companions get involved in a long-running conspiracy that swirls around a woman with a mysterious power. Rimuru and his commander Benimaru also encounter another ogre survivor named Hiiro, who used to hold Benimaru in high regard.
The film opened in Japan on November 25, and ranked at #2 and sold 225,000 tickets for 297 million yen (about US$2.14 million) in its opening weekend. It sold 313,000 tickets for 416 million yen (about US$3.19 million) in its first three days.
The film opened in the U.S. and Canada n January 20, and earned US$1,588,491 in three days. Crunchyroll premiered the film in the U.K. and Ireland on January 18, in Australia on January 19, and in Mexico on January 26. The film will also screen in the Middle East and in additional territories in 2023, and Crunchyroll will announce the dates in the future.
The television anime is getting a third season.
Sources: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime franchise‘s website, Comic Natalie
The official website for the 3D CG anime of Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi‘s Ultraman manga unveiled a new cast member, the May 11 worldwide Netflix debut, and a new visual for the anime on Friday.
Hideaki Tezuka voices the character Daisuke Arashi (seen above), a former colleague of Hayata in the Science Special Search Party (SSSP).
M.A.O and Kōji Ishii join the cast as the characters Balkyua and Mephisto, respectively.
Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East, Napping Princess) and Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed, Harlock: Space Pirate, Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars) are returning to direct the final anime season. Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East, Napping Princess) and Sola Digital Arts (Appleseed Alpha, Starship Troopers: Invasion, Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars) are again producing the anime in 3D CG. Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi are returning to compose the music.
Netflix describes the anime’s story:
Several years have passed since the events of Ultraman, with the legendary “Giant of Light” (光の巨人 Hikari no Kyojin) now a memory, as it is believed he returned home after fighting the many giant aliens that invaded the Earth. Shin Hayata’s son Shinjiro seems to possess a strange ability, and it is this ability, along with his father’s revelation that he was Ultraman, that leads Shinjiro to battle the new aliens invading the Earth as the new Ultraman.
Kamiyama, Aramaki, Production I.G, and Sola Digital Arts returned from the first season for the second one.
Tatsuhisa Suzuki was slated to play the new Ultraman character Kōtarō Higashi/Ultraman Taro in the second season, but he offered to step down from the role, due to his hiatus from “all entertainment industry activities” last year. Tomoaki Maeno is voicing the character instead. Suzuki performed the opening theme songs for the first season as a member of OLDCODEX.
Sources: Ultraman CG anime’s website, Tsuburaya Productions, Comic Natalie
Manga starts online serialization on April 6
The 17th issue of Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine announced on Thursday that Yu Muraoka‘s “Ippon” Again! (Mō Ippon!) manga will move its serialization online to Akita Shoten‘s Manga Cross website, starting on April 6. The manga will publish new chapters every Thursday.
Muraoka launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in October 2018. Akita Shoten published the manga’s 22nd compiled book volume on February 8, and it will publish the 23rd volume on April 7.
The manga follows Michi Sonoda, who had planned to quit judo after her final tournament in junior high. However, her best friend Sanae Takigawa invites her to continue judo in high school.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation, which premiered on January 8. HIDIVE streams the anime as it airs in Japan.
Source: Weekly Shōnen Champion issue 17
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