That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond 2022

The power of bonds will be put to the test!

7.3 / 10   366 vote(s)
PG-13
Animation Fantasy Adventure

A long-running conspiracy is swirling over a mysterious power wielded by the Queen in Raja, a small country west of Tempest. When a slime who evolved into a Demon Lord named Rimuru Tempest crosses paths with Hiiro, a survivor of the Ogre race, an incredible adventure packed with new characters begins. The power of bonds will be put to the test!

Release Date 2022-11-25
Runtime 1h 48m
Directors Yasuhito Kikuchi, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Satou, Jin Aketagawa, Jimmy Stone, Kousaku Taniguchi, Atsushi Nakayama, Satoshi Osedo, Naokatsu Tsuda, Munenori Nawa, Shintaro Inokawa, Takaaki Wada, Naoki Kusumoto, Tomoko Ito, Keiya Nakano, Masayori Komine, Atsushi Irie, Hideki Sakai, Tomoyuki Kameda, Hideki Yamazaki, Junichi Takaoka, Takaaki Wada, Yukiko Watabe, Tetsuro Moronuki, Takashi Tomioka, Masaru Yonezawa, Kana Ishida, Ayu Tanaka, Teruyo Kato, Yasuhito Kikuchi, Momoko Nagakawa, Takatsugu Umeda
Producers Satoshi Kawano, Kouhei Furukawa, Kimiko Koyasu, Mitsuhiro Sakakibara, Yoshitaka Tao, Keiichi Sawa, Kazuya Tasaki, Mamoru Mita, Hirokazu Suyama, Nao Udagawa, Kaori Ono, Bungo Kondo, Yohei Takami, Yukio Haruyama, Tomoyuki Ohwada, Nobuyuki Iinuma, Yuka Sakurai, Naoko Ito, Osa Kudo, Kimihito Sekido, Yoshiyuki Shiotani, Nobuaki Sugimoto
Writers Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, Fuse, Junichiro Okumura, Otoe Yoka

I was really quite disappointed with this rather dryly animated fantasy adventure. It all starts when poor old "Mikami" gets himself murdered and is reincarnated in another world where he is thrust into a maelstrom of adventures centring around the beautiful, but mysterious, Queen "Towa" of the small kingdom of "Raja". She has been served loyally for many years by the ogre warrior "Hiro" who now has his work cut out for him when she falls ill and their water supply appears to have become distinctly malignant! His travels for an answer unite him with our recently arrived "Rimuru" who has already attained the status of demon lord and now they must strive to get to source of this malevolent curse in time. I suppose my biggest problem with this, is that the characterisations are drawn entirely from the preceding series'. If you don't know about them (I didn't) then much of this takes quite a while to get straight in your mind; who's who, etc. That's a shame, because as a well produced stand-alone movie, it ought to have acknowledged that new viewers, less familiar viewers, might want to join in. Yasuhito Kikuchi makes no such effort and so, largely devoid of character development, I felt rather out in the cold watching with little sense of involvement. It's still quite a passable adventure story, and there is plenty of action - but I felt a little as if I was watching through the (closed) shop window.

CinemaSerf