The staff of the TV light anime for the webtoon adaptation of Renkinō’s Monster Eater light novel series have revealed the opening theme song “Shōki no Sata (Insane)” by NEE.
The Monster Eater anime will premiere on April 2 at 25:00 JST / April 3 at 1:00 a.m. JST on Tokyo MX. niina will perform the ending theme song “STORY,” and the cast of the Monster Eater light anime includes Makoto Furukawa as Rudd and Yuki Nakashima as Elyssia.
Hikaru Satō will direct the anime adaptation at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio. Kazuya Takahashi oversees the production, and nanogram.inc is collaborating on the production. Onoken is composing the anime’s music, Yūichi Imaizumi will serve as the sound director, while Hiroki Nozaki and Airi Kobayashi are both in charge of sound effects.
Renkinō launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in March 2023, and Earth Star Entertainment began publishing the series with illustrations by Kawaku in August 2023. LINE Manga launched the webtoon adaptation by Kei Ichimatsu, Tanako Tanao, and whomor, in June 2024. TATE’s manga adaptation launched one month later in August 2024 on Square Enix’s Manga UP! service.
Here’s an overview of the series, via the Manga UP! Global service:
Nobody wants “Grubby Forager” Rudd on their adventuring team. His nickname—and his stench—come from his constant treks into the Noxious Labyrinth to gather medicinal herbs, a job he survives only thanks to his status immunity skill. When he’s finally recruited as a party porter, things seem to be looking up… Until a deadly dungeon monster appears and his fake allies use him as bait before abandoning him! Wounded, destitute, and barely surviving the attack, Rudd breaks a forbidden taboo to stay alive: eating monsters. But the more he devours, the more power he gains, kicking off a thrilling, adventurous gourmet fantasy!
