That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Japanese: 転生したらスライムだった件, Hepburn: Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken) is also known as TenSura (転スラ)[4] or Slime Isekai.[4] It is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Fuse. The pictures in the light novel are drawn by Mitz Vah. It was published online between 2013 and 2016 on website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Micro Magazine published the first light novel volume in 2014. Twenty-one volumes have been released as of October 2023. The light novel has been licensed in North America by Yen Press. It published the first volume in December 2017.
There is a manga based on the light novel published by Kodansha. It also has a manga spin-off published by Micro Magazine. There is an anime television series based on the light novel by Eight Bit.
Reception
The light novel series has over 4.5 million volumes in print.[1] It was the fifth best-selling title of 2018 with 539,277 copies[5] Its manga adaptation was the ninth best-selling title of 2018 with 3,460,066 copies.[6]
