This is the second Manga volume of the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime series.
Synopsis[]
TRIAL BY FIRE
While looking for craftsmen in the Dwarven Kingdom, Rimuru and friends find themselves stuck in a mess with a powerful minister. Now they're caught in a trial where they aren't even allowed to defend themselves in the face of the Dwarven King's judgment! How will they get out unscathed with the odds stacked against them? The group's adventure also leads them to Shizu, a mysterious and demure woman with a strange connection to Rimuru. But this seemingly sweet girl is hiding immense and dangerous power within her, and helping her may mean big changes for Rimuru...[1]
Chapters[]
- Chapter 7: The Hero-King's Judgement
- Chapter 8: A Familiar Scent
- Chapter 9: Majin of Flames
- Chapter 10: Inherited Will
- Chapter 11: The Upheaval Begins
- Bonus Short Story: Veldora's Slime Observation Journal: Stunning Developments
Extra Pages[]
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Afterword[]
Well, well, we've made it to the second volume of the manga adaptation of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime! I was afraid of the reaction for Volume 1, given that it had no heroine, but I'm glad to see that most people accepted it. It seems like some folks read the manga, then were interested enough to check out the online and print versions of my original novels, which is just wonderful! As those who have read both can tell you, there are actually significant differences between the online and print editions. If those can be different despite being written by the same person (that would be me), then naturally the manga will also be different. There are alterations here and there to the sequence of events and other fine details. Don't think of them as a major issue, though. Just laugh off anything that seems odd.
"The online version is just a rough plot!!"
That's the excuse I often tell myself. Sure, the major movements should be the same, but it's fine for the little details to change! At our very first planning meeting, I told Kawakami-sensei that it's perfectly fine to draw things as you see fit, up to a point. We do have significant meetings before every chapter, however! The print version is the fundamental base we start with, but my hope as the creator is for the manga and novel to be distinctly different things. My role in the manga adaptation, as the story creator, is simply to ensure that there aren't jarring discrepancies. Not so that the stories are exactly the same, but perhaps to preserve the feel of the novel in a different medium. As long as you readers don't react like, "This is all wrong!" then I consider it a success. There will be enjoyable features of the manga version that aren't in the novels, so I just hope that I don't get in the way of that.
So that's my afterword for this volume. I really had a lot of fun rereading this book and spotting all of Kawakami-sensei's little original touches. It's too bad that I can't go overboard in gushing about the end result, or else it'll sound like I'm singing my own praises! Now that Rimuru has a human form at last, the story's about to get into the real meat of things. Please do check out the next volume of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime!!Fuse