A newly launched website announced a new TV anime adaptation of Mayo Momoyo’s Always a Catch! (Nigashita Sakana wa Ōkikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ōkisugita Ken) light novel series. The new Always a Catch! anime will premiere in spring 2026, and the anime’s main cast, staff, teaser visual, and teaser trailer were also revealed.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Yū Serizawa as Maria Annovazzi
- Atsushi Tamaru as Renato di Rubini
- Saori Hayami as Aida Amethis
- Shūichirō Umeda as Placido di Rubini
- Taku Yashiro as Raimondo Cigata
What’s more, Akira Oguro directs the new anime at TROYCA. Michiko Yokote is in charge of series scripts and Isamu Suzuki is the character designer.
Momoyo launched the series as a short story on the Let’s Become Novelists website in 2020. Momoyo started the story’s sequel series on the website in 2020.
Lastly, Square Enix Manga & Books publishes the manga adaptation in English. Here’s a synopsis of the story:
A zany romantic comedy starring a duke’s daughter, who’s more of a fighter than a lady, and a prince who happens to be into that!
Maria, the daughter of a duke, grew up believing she would one day inherit her father’s dukedom. Accordingly, she focused her attentions on honing her martial arts prowess, while thoughts of marriage fell by the wayside. But the arrival of a baby brother in her family means she’s losing her role as heir! Now that she’s decided it’s time to marry after all, she’s arrived a little late to the game! Are there even any eligible bachelors left?
Upon going to study abroad in a neighboring country where she might still stand a chance at getting hitched, she’s bewildered when the crown prince there declares before all that his engagement to her is null and void! Wait…what engagement?!
Apparently, he’s mistaken her for the wrong girl! But once that’s all cleared up and he catches sight of her knocking out a whole pack of bandits, it turns out that this prince may have a thing for ass-kicking young ladies after all…
