Upcoming anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) has revealed additional cast and characters. It has also been announced that the series willget a web radio programme in Japan, hosted by Rimuru’s VA Miho Okazaki and Rigurdo’s VA Kanehira Yamamoto. The anime will start airing at midnight on 2 October (JST) 2018.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is based on the web novel of the same name, which has received over 400 million views on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website. The paperback publications have sold over 5.5 million copies. It tells the story of a salaryman who is stabbed to death in a mugging and is reborn into another world as a slime. He starts his new life as Rimuru in a world occupied by many different races, hoping to build a country that accepts people whatever race they are.

The new characters announced this time are from various different races. Kanehira Yamamoto has been cast as Rigurdo, the head of the Goblin village. Cast as his son Rigur is Haruki Ishiya and the village’s life of the party Gobuta will be Asuna Tomari.

The dwarf Kaijin, who was a blacksmith of the Kingdom of Dwargon, will be played by Atsushi Ono. The tree fairy Trainee will be played by Rie Tanaka.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Fall 2018 | Anime Info

source: https://animeanime.jp/article/2018/08/27/39728.html