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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Film Screens in U.S., Canada on January 20
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Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will screen the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen) anime film in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub in the U.S. and Canada on January 20. The company will premiere the film in the U.K. and Ireland on January 18, Australia on January 19, and Mexico on January 26. The film will also screen in the Middle East and in additional territorites in 2023, and Crunchyroll will announce the dates in the future. Crunchyroll streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
Crunchyroll will screen the film in all major global territories (excluding Asia) in early 2023. The film's rollout overseas will include the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South and Central America.
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 earned 120,417,800 yen (about US$873,600) from December 9 to 11, and stayed at #4 in its third weekend at the Japanese box office. The film has sold over 730,000 tickets for over 960 million yen (about US$6.95 million) as of Thursday.
Fuse, the author of the original light novel series, drafted the 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 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.
The franchise recently announced that the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) television anime is getting a third season.
Source: Press release
