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Muse Asia Streams That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Coleus' Dream Anime on Tuesday

Muse Asia announced on Tuesday that its stream of the three-episode That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Coleus' Dream (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Coleus no Yume) anime special will debut at 11:30 p.m. GMT +8 later today.

All three episodes debuted in Japan in November 2022.

Atsushi Nakayama returned as director for the anime at 8-Bit. Toshizo Nemoto (Macross Delta, Super Cub) was in charge of series composition. Ryōma Ebata again designed the characters, and Takahiro Kishida was again in charge of monster design. Kenichiro Tomiyasu drew the concept art. Studio Naya handled the backgrounds. Ayumi Satō returned as art director, and Tomoyasu Fujise and Masahiro Satō similarly returedn for art design. Maki Saitou returned as color key artist. Hiroshi Satō returned as director of photography. Yūji Haibara returned for graphic design. Yumi Jinguji returned for editing. Jin Aketagawa returned as sound director, and Hitoshi Fujima (Elements Garden) returned from the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond movie to compose the music.

Miho Okasaki, the voice of Rimuru, performed the anime's ending theme song.

Coleus 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.

The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna-hen) anime film opened in Japan on November 25 last year. Muse Asia opened the film in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Fuse serialized the 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 in 2014. The novels entered their final arc in the 18th volume in March 2021. Fuse also previously announced that he is considering writing side stories (spinoffs) after the current series is complete. Fuse is planning to end the series by its 22nd volume. Yen Press publishes 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. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

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. Muse Asia streamed both the first and second parts of the anime. The anime will have a third season.

Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page