title: "Slime Manga Volume 32 Is Not the Final Volume After All, Dengeki Online Corrects" Listing excerpt: "Tensura fans can relax. A mistaken "final volume" label for manga volume" 32 has been corrected, and the release is now listed as the latest volume instead. category: anime date: '2026-04-15T20:02:17+08:00' author: Aimirul tags:
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Tensura
- manga
- anime
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If you saw chatter about That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ending with manga volume 32, good news, that was a mistake.
Kadokawa's Dengeki Online has updated its earlier report on Taiki Kawakami's manga adaptation and clarified that volume 32 is not the final volume. The site said its original article accidentally used the Japanese term for "final volume" instead of "latest volume," and apologised for the confusion.
So for Tensura fans, especially those who immediately went into panic mode, this means the manga is still continuing.
Volume 32 is scheduled to ship on June 9. It will also get a special edition that includes a pamphlet featuring a full-colour version of chapter 133, titled "The Daemon's Whispers." That chapter was already collected in volume 31 before this, so the extra here is the colour presentation.
Kawakami's manga adaptation first launched in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius back in March 2015, and volume 31 was published in Japan on February 9 this year. On the English side, Kodansha USA is releasing the manga and most recently published volume 29 on March 31.
That gap is worth noting for readers in Malaysia and the wider SEA region. A lot of local fans follow Tensura through the anime first, then pick up the manga through English releases, imported volumes, or digital storefronts. So even a small wording mistake like "final volume" can spread fast and make people think the series is wrapping up globally when it actually isn't.
This matters even more right now because the anime is still in a big active run. Season 4 premiered on April 3 on NTV's "Friday Anime Night" block, with BS11 and streaming releases following after. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs, which is the key point for many viewers in this region who are keeping up weekly. The fourth season is planned for five cours in total, with the first two airing continuously, so Slime is clearly still a major ongoing franchise and not exactly in shutdown mode.
Another interesting bit here is that the manga is especially important in the franchise because it has served as the basis for the long-running anime adaptation, rather than the TV series following the light novels directly.
The wider Tensura universe is still moving too. Fuse originally serialized the story on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website from 2013 to 2016, where it reportedly pulled in more than 400 million page views. The print light novels, illustrated by Mitz Vah, started in 2014 and officially ended with volume 23 in November 2025. A spinoff side-story volume, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: How to Spend a Certain Vacation, shipped alongside that final novel volume, and another side-story series is already planned to begin in 2026. Yen Press publishes the novels in English.
For Malaysian anime and manga fans, the takeaway is simple: the novels have ended, but the manga has not. If you're following Rimuru's story through the manga, volume 32 is just the next stop, not the end of the road.
Source: Anime News Network