That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Kaiju No. 8 Top Oricon’s Weekly Chart Series
The list is followed by Sakomoto Days, Blue Box, and The Summer Hikaru Died.
On Saturday, Oricon’s top 10 weekly chart list (06/03-06/09) was revealed, with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Kaiju no. 8 mangas topping the list.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime manga nearly hit 200,000 sales in one week, with Kaiju No. 8 barely crossing 100,000 sales. While the number is huge, the difference is still quite huge.
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The list is followed by Sakomoto Days, Blue Box, and The Summer Hikaru Died.
Season 3 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is slated to premiere on April 5.
The show will air for two continuous cours for a half-year run.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Fuse and illustrated by Mitz Vah.
It was serialized online from 2013 to 2016 on the user-generated novel publishing website, Shōsetsuka ni Narō.
It was later acquired by Micro Magazine, which published the first light novel volume in 2014. Twenty-one volumes have been released as of October 2023.
It received a manga adaptation from Kodansha, as well as five manga spin-offs published, and an anime television series adaptation produced by Eight Bit, which ran from October 2018 to March 2019.
Season 2 ran from January to September 2021, followed by an anime adaptation of the second spin-off manga from April to June 2021.
Season 3 is set to premiere on April 5, 2024.
Crunchyroll described the overall plot of Slime as follows:
Corporate worker Mikami Satoru is stabbed by a random killer, and is reborn to an alternate world. But he turns out to be reborn a slime! Thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a world that’s welcoming to all races.
