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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Anime Film Reveals Bonus Manga Prologue, Guest Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bonds) anime film announced on Friday that filmgoers will receive Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen 0-kan (Volume 0), a prequel manga to the film, from November 25 to December 3. Taiki Kawakami, the artist for the manga adaptation of the novels, draws the manga, which is limited to 800,000 copies. The film's staff describe the prologue as the "first" of the bonus gifts for audience members at the film's screenings.
The website also revealed new guest cast members for the film:
Tom Brown comedy duo as miners from the Razha microstate
The film will open on November 25. Crunchyroll will screen the film in all major global territories (excluding Asia) in early 2023.
The film will feature new characters original to the film, and include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official.):
Riko Fukumoto as Towa, a queen with mysterious powers
Subaru Kimura as Lacua, a peddler that frequently goes through the realm of Razha
Fuse, the author of the original light novel series, drafted the film's brand-new original story. The story will center on a new country named Razha (Note: Name romanizations are not official), 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.
MindaRyn will perform the film's theme song "Make Me Feel Better." TRUE and STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION will perform the insert songs "Jōka" (Purifying Song) and "SPARKLES," respectively. All three artists have previously performed theme songs for the franchise's television anime.
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 last year.
Both Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the second part. Funimation also streamed an English dub.
Sources: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen anime film's website (link 2), Comic Natalie, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
