A new website was opened for an upcoming anime adaptation of Umikaze Minamino’s Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden (Kyōran Reijō Nia Liston: Byōjaku Reijō ni Tenseishita Kami-goroshi no Bujin no Kareinaru Musō Roku) light novel series, which will premiere in October. The website also revealed the anime’s promotional video and teaser visual, along with information on the cast and staff.
Check out the video below:
Honoka Inoue will star as the protagonist Nia Liston. Motoki Nakanishi, who served as director of the Love Is Indivisible by Twins anime, is directing the anime at KONAMI animation, with Haruta Segi as assistant director. Gigaemon Ichikawa is in charge of series scripts, Yūki Itō and Kana Tosaoka are designing the characters. Naoki Endō is composing the music, and Hiromi Kikuta is directing the sound.
Katana Canata, who handed the novels illustrations, and Kabuto Kodai, illustrator of the manga adaptation, drew illustrations to commemorate the anime announcement:
Umikaze Minamino first released the novels on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2019, and ended its run there in 2021. Hobby Japan then began publishing the novels illustrated by Jishaku in September 2022. Katana Canata started drawing the novels’ illustrations from the third volume in 2023. Hobby Japan will publish the 10th volume on January 30.
J-Novel Club publishes the novels in English and describes it as follows:
A great hero lies undefeated on her deathbed, regretting that she never found a foe who could take her down. She never intended to meet her fate anywhere other than on the battlefield, and her peaceful demise has her wishing desperately that things could have been different… But when she suddenly comes to in the body of the young, frail Nia Liston, she’s got an all-new fight ahead of her.
Nia is a sickly child, meaning she has a long way to go before she’s in fighting form. Now that she’s been given a second shot at life, however, she’s determined to get what she wants. She’s going to live—and die—for battle this time! Make way for the Merciless Maiden!
