Mayo Momoyo’s Always a Catch! light novel series gets its first anime adaptation, telling the tale of a very unlikely and opportune love story. Final Weapon has everything you need to know about the new anime, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about Always a Catch!.
The story of Always a Catch! focuses on Maria “Mimi” Annovazzi, a martial prodigy who loses her claim as the heir of a legendary ducal family. When ordered to marry into prestige, she transfers to a neighboring kingdom, only to find herself publicly dumped at graduation by a prince she never met with an engagement she never knew about. Maria’s life is in shambles at first glance, but there’s more to this story.
Always a Catch! Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of Always a Catch! will release on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs, and Always a Catch! is expected to air for at least 12 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Always a Catch! (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – April 1 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 8 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 15 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – April 22 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – April 29 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 6 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 13 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – May 20 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – May 27 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 3 – OUT NOW
- Episode 11 – June 10
- Episode 12 – June 17
New episodes of Always a Catch! will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 10:00 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 11:00 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 12:00 p.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 4:00 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
HoneyWorks and Airi Suzuki perform the opening theme song “Chikai wa Kyun to,” and Yoshino performs ending theme song “DEAD OR LOVE.”
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
- Natsuki Hanae as Ireneo
- Kaori Maeda as Eleonora Casciari
- Rumi Ōkubo as Rosalia Pinotti
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
Where Can I Watch Always a Catch!?
Crunchyroll is streaming the Always a Catch! anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, India and Southeast Asia. In Japan, the anime is airing on Tokyo MX and BS 11 channels, along with other channels and various streaming services.
What is Always a Catch! About?
Momoyo launched the series as a short story on the Let’s Become Novelists website in 2020. Square Enix Manga & Books publishes the English adaptation of the manga.
Here’s what the story of Always a Catch! is about, via Square Enix Manga & Books:
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…
