That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2: Tales - Veldora's Journal 2
転生したらスライムだった件 閑話: ヴェルドラ日記2 (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season: Kanwa - Veldora Nikki 2)
- Action
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Isekai
- Gag Humor
- Reincarnation
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 23 min
- Aired
- Jun 29, 2021
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2: Tales - Veldora's Journal 2* offers a recap of the second season of *Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken*, revisiting its key developments in the world of magic and monsters.
Framed as another entry in Veldora’s journal, it condenses the season’s major moments into a quick refresher with the same blend of action, comedy, and isekai fantasy.
Otaku Consensus
Veldora's Journal 2 is best understood as a utility episode with personality: it benefits from Season 2's stronger 8bit presentation, brighter color work, and more developed character drama while using Veldora's gag-heavy voice to keep the recap from feeling purely administrative. The genuine sticking point remains the same one attached to Season 2 itself: viewers who found the cour slow, over-explanatory, or emotionally overextended will see this as a necessary shortcut rather than an essential installment.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you treat Slime less as a battle show and more as a running campaign log: Veldora's Journal 2 is for viewers who want Season 2's political turns, power shifts, and emotional beats re-indexed before moving on, without sitting through the slower patches again. The Veldora framing gives the recap a rowdier, gag-driven personality than a neutral clip show, while 8bit's bright, clean Season 2 footage keeps the refresher from feeling visually dusty. It scratches the same organizational itch as Log Horizon's world-state check-ins, but with the snackable format of a shonen recap special. If you disliked Season 2's drawn-out pacing, this is the practical version; if you loved it, it is a compact victory lap.
Key Characters
- VVeldora Tempest(VA: Tomoaki Maeno)
Veldora's oversized self-importance makes him an ideal recap host, turning continuity housekeeping into a character bit rather than a neutral narration track.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The special is structured as a single-episode recap, so its main craft choice is compression: it reorganizes Season 2's material into a quick continuity checkpoint instead of adding a separate side adventure.
- 2
Its framing device puts Veldora's journal at the center, making the episode's identity depend on narrator attitude and gag humor rather than on the full ensemble's usual dynamics.
- 3
Studio 8bit's Season 2 footage gives the recap a polished base; contemporary reviews singled out the season's vibrant colors, clear image, and consistent visual detail even when they were cooler on its pacing.
- 4
The episode is tied to Season 2's split-cour broadcast context, airing on June 29, 2021 as a refresher point for viewers tracking the anime across its release break.
- 5
Its reception reflects the recap-special ceiling: a 7.18 MAL score from 33,865 votes suggests fans found it serviceable and franchise-friendly, but not on the same level as the main dramatic episodes.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime is produced by 8bit, the same studio credited with the main That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime TV adaptation.
- Fun fact 2
- The wider anime series adapts Fuse's light novel series illustrated by Mitz Vah, which is why even a recap special is catalogued inside the franchise's larger light-novel-to-TV continuity.
- Fun fact 3
- Veldora Tempest is the only main character listed for this special in the provided cast data, with Tomoaki Maeno credited as his Japanese voice actor.
- Fun fact 4
- The episode finished airing the same day it premiered: June 29, 2021, reflecting its status as a one-off recap rather than a mini-arc.
- Fun fact 5
- On MyAnimeList, it sits at rank #3885 and popularity #3059, numbers that place it well below the mainline seasons in visibility despite its connection to a major isekai franchise.
Studios
- 8bit
