Is the 'that time I was reincarnated as a slime' manga coming to an end? Section 32 Rumors Explained

On Tuesday, it was announced on Kadokawa's Dengeki online website that Taiki Kawakami's Fusion and Mitz Wah's manga adaptation. At that time I was reborn as Slim It will end in its 32nd edition, set to ship on June 9. Dengeki Online has since confirmed the error, issuing a brief apology and explanation as to how the platform made such an error.

The manga's upcoming 32nd volume will contain bonus content, including a pamphlet for the 133rd chapter, “The Demon's Whispers”. For reference, the anime's third season adapted up to around chapter 110, the currently airing fourth season is likely to depict the events of chapter 133, which was part of the previously compiled episode 31 of I Got Reincarnated As a Slime when it hit shelves in February.

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That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime is a fantasy isekai about a Japanese man who is killed during a robbery and is reincarnated as a slime monster in a world of magic and dragons. With the gift of gab as well as the ability to absorb all that the slime consumes, “Rimuru Tempest” makes a host of unlikely allies, including the mighty Storm Dragon and Tempest, ruler of the realm known as Veldora. A manga adaptation of that time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime has been published in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Serious magazine since March 2015, and has since spawned seven spin-off manga.

Kawakami's manga is also the basis for a TV anime produced by studio 8bit that premiered in October 2018 and is currently airing its fourth season. The series also includes two feature films, the first of which was released in November 2022, with the most recent film, Tears of the Azure Sea, premiering in February. At that time I was reborn as Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea It is set to hit theaters in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland on May 1, and will be available with English subtitles or English dub.

The critical reception at the time was I was reincarnated as a slime

In 2018, both the original light novel and the manga adaptation won a Bookwalker Award, was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category in 2021, and went on to win the same category the following year. That's when I Got Reincarnated as a Slime was first published by original creator Fuse on the Japanese self-publishing website, Shosetsuka ni Naro (Let's Become Novelists) from 2013 to 2016, garnering over 400 million page views.

A print version of the light novel was published by Micro Magazine in 2014 with illustrations by Mitz Wah. The original The Time I Got Reincarnated as Slime Light novel ended with the release of its 23rd edition in November 2025; However, a new series of side-stories is set to be released sometime this year. Yen Press licenses By the time I got reincarnated as Slime for publication in English, the 29th edition had shipped at the end of March.

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The 32nd, and final volume of The Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime manga is set for release in Japan on June 9.

At the time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime is available to read on Kodansha's KManga website, while the anime series is available on Crunchyroll.

Source: ANN

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