Update: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Episode 18 is now streaming on Crunchyroll. You can read the previously-written version of the article below.
Following last week's recap episode, the official website of the isekai anime has revealed preview stills and the synopsis for Season 3 Episode 18, which is titled A Throng of Visitors, and it's adapting Chapters 108 and 109 of the source material. The next episode will see Rimuru welcoming some important visitors, such as the leaders of Blumund and King Gazel of Dwargon. Champion Youm and his party willa so be meeting Rimuru for the first time since he became the king of Falmuth, now also called Farmenas.
Rimuru is also expected to interact with Yuuki Kagurazaka, leader of the guild, who has also secretly been plotting against Rimuru behind the scenes. There's also a chance that we'll see Rimuru reunite with his former students at the academy in Engrassia. Of course, The Lightspeed Hero Masayuki is expected to show up in Tempest, and it looks like he will be ready to battle Rimuru, or could this fight be avoided?
Here's the official synopsis for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Episode 18:
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© Fuse, Kodansha / Studio Eight Bit
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© Fuse, Kodansha / Studio Eight Bit
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© Fuse, Kodansha / Studio Eight Bit
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© Fuse, Kodansha / Studio Eight Bit
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© Fuse, Kodansha / Studio Eight Bit
The official synopsis for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Episode 18 reads:
After meeting with the kings of each country, Rimuru heads to Ingrassia to invite his students to the country's opening ceremony. Chloe and the others happily follow him to Tempest. Then the hero Masayuki appears.
Studio Eight Bit is animating the third with director Atsushi Nakayama directing the series. Toshizo Nemoto is in charge of the series composition while Ryoma Ebata is working on character designs, and Takahiro Kishida on creature designs. Jin Iketagawa is the sound director while Hitoshi Fujima is the music composer.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Episode 18 Release Date and Time
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Episode 18, which is Episode 66 overall, was released at 8:30 AM Pacific Time (11:30 AM Eastern) on Friday, August 16. While That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 is streaming on Netflix and Muse Asia in some Asian regions, the isekai anime series is available to stream on Crunchyroll in North America and other regions.
Season 3 is confirmed to have two consecutive cours with 24 episodes total, so we can expect the isekai anime to run until September 2024. With 18 episodes already out for Season 3, we can expect 6 more new episodes to arrive in the Summer 2024 anime season.
Here's the current schedule for the remaining episodes of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3:
Episode 18 | August 16 |
Episode 19 | August 23 |
Episode 20 | August 30 |
Episode 21 | September 6 |
Episode 22 | September 13 |
Episode 23 | September 20 |
Episode 24 | September 27 |
What is That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 about?
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime anime is based on the isekai fantasy light novel series of the same title (Japanese: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) by author Fuse and illustrator Mitz Vah, which begins with a 37-year-old salaryman named Satoru Mikami, who's stabbed by a robber and wakes up in another world. However, the hero is reincarnated as a Slime, one of the weakest Monster classes in this fantasy world.
Season 2 of the anime is based primary on the Volumes 5 and 6 of the light novel series, and the third is covering the events of the next few volumes. In Volume 7, tensions escalate when Hinata Sakaguchi — the captain of the Crusader forces and the chief knight of the nation's Imperial Guard — sets her sights on the heroic Rimuru. Things get complicated when a priest that Rimuru sends to Lubelius is killed, but in Volume 8, which focuses mainly on a festival that's happening in Tempest.
Crunchyroll shared a description for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3:
Rimuru has officially become a Demon Lord after defeating Clayman. Following Walpurgis, the Demon Lords’ banquet, Rimuru’s domain is expanded to include the entire Great Forest of Jura. Anticipating a flood of representatives from all races showing up to pay their respects, Rimuru decides to throw a festival to commemorate the opening of Tempest, using it as an opportunity to gain new citizens and present Demon Lord Rimuru to the world. Meanwhile, in the Holy Empire of Lubelius, home base of the monster-hating cult of Luminism, Holy Knight Captain Hinata receives a message from Rimuru. But the message is actually a fabricated declaration of war sent by some unknown party. Upon learning that Hinata is heading for Tempest, Rimuru makes a decision… Thus begins a new challenge for Rimuru, striving to distinguish friend from foe in a pursuit of the ideal nation where humans and monsters can prosper together.
For more information about the upcoming episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3, visit the official website of the anime.
