PVR and Muse India announced that the latest film of That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, titled That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Movie: Scarlet Bond, will be hitting the Indian theatres.

The film will release in India on May 26, 2023.

Further information regarding booking of tickets and others will be announced soon.

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime film was released in Japan on Nov 25, 2022. Studio 8 Bit was in charge of animating the movie.

The cast of the movie includes Miho Okasaki, Yuuma Uchida, Riko Fukumoto, Makoto Furukawa, Miyu Tomita, Subaru Kimura, and Megumi Toyoguchi.

Streaming giant Crunchyroll had previously announced that it will screen That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime: Scarlet Bond (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Guren no Kizuna) movie in “all major global territories” (except Asia) in early 2023.

The movie is based on an original story scripted by the author of the light novels, Fuse. The plot centres on events after Rimuru Tempest, a slime, became a demon lord to save those close to him.

The plot of That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime: Scarlet Bond can be summarized as follows:

Rimuru and his companions get entangled in a conspiracy revolving around the mysterious powers of the queen of Raja, a country to the west of Demon Kingdom of Tempest. At the same time, Rimuru and Benimaru encounter Hiiro, a survivor of the ogre tribe, who used to consider Benimaru as his brother.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime light novels, also known as TenSura, are written by Fuse, and illustrated by Mitz Vah. The story is about a salaryman who is murdered and reincarnates in a sword and sorcery world as a slime with unique powers and gathers allies to build his own nation of monsters.

Twenty volumes of the light novel have been released as of September 2022. The light novel has been licensed in North America by Yen Press, who published the first volume in December 2017.

An anime adaptation by by Eight Bit aired from October 2018 to March 2019. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 aired from January to September 2021.

Source: Press Release