That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Anime Returns for 3rd Part in July 2027, Clayman's Revenge Spinoff Anime Debuts in April
The staff for the fourth That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) anime season revealed on Friday that the anime will return for its third cours (quarter of a year) in July 2027. In addition, the staff revealed that Wataru Kajika's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Clayman's Revenge (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Clayman Revenge) spinoff manga will get a television anime that will debut in April 2027.
Takehito Koyasu is returning to the franchise to voice Clayman.
Kentarō Sugimoto (episode director for Blue Lock, Laid-Back Camp TV 3) is directing the spinoff anime at 8-Bit. Yūji Haibara, who handled graphic design for previous entries in the franchise, is overseeing the series scripts. Asumi Hashimoto (sub-character design for The irregular at magic high school TV 3) and Hideki Sakai (chief animation director for previous entries in the franchise) are designing the characters.
Kajika launched the spinoff manga in April 2022. Kodansha's K MANGA service is releasing the manga in English digitally, and it describes the story:
After that final scream rang out during the Walpurgis Festival, the dreams of the Marionette Master were thought to be done for good. But either through the vagaries of fate or the decision of the world at large, Clayman's theater has opened up for one more act. It's a new Slime spinoff created by Fuse, the mastermind behind the whole series!
Kodansha published the manga's ninth compiled volume on August 7.
The anime's fourth season will air for a total run of five cours, 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.
Yen Press releases the novel series in English.
The first television anime of Taiki Kawakami's manga, itself an adaptation of the 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 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 debuted in April 2024. The show aired for two continuous cours for a half-year run.
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 Azure Sea) opened in Japan on February 27. Crunchyroll screened the film in theaters in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland on May 1. The film screened in both Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub.
The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond film opened in Japan in November 2022.
Source: Press release
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