A new trailer for the TV anime adaptation of Mayo Momoyo’s Always a Catch! light novel series confirms the anime’s April 1 premiere on Tokyo MX and BS 11 at 24:00 JST, or April 2 at 12:00 a.m. JST. The trailer also reveals the ending theme song “DEAD OR LOVE” by Yoshino.
The new cast members include:
- Natsuki Hanae as Ireneo
- Kaori Maeda as Eleonora Casciari
- Rumi Ōkubo as Rosalia Pinotti
HoneyWorks and Airi Suzuki perform the opening theme song “Chikai wa Kyun to.”
The cast members of the anime:
- 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
Akira Oguro is directing the anime adaptation of Always a Catch! at TROYCA. Michiko Yokote is handling the series scripts, and Isamu Suzuki is designing the characters.
Additional cast members include:
- Action Animation Director: Kanako Ōta
- Art Director: Xiao Miao Li (Studio Tulip)
- Color Key Artist: Mariko Shinohara
- CG Director: Mitsutaka Iguchi
- Compositing Director of Photography: Asami Kawai
- Editing: Shota Migiyama
- Sound Director: Fumihiko Ōtera
- Music: Kana Hashiguchi, Natsuki Hamada
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 English adaptation of the manga. 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…
