The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Amara’s The Cat and the Dragon (Neko to Ryū) novel series confirmed the anime’s early streaming premiere for the d Anime Store and ABEMA services on June 27 in Japan. The anime will make its TV debut on July 4 on Tokyo MX, before heading to other channels.
The following new cast members were also announced:
- Hinata Tadokoro as Greater Daemon
- Yōji Ueda as Monsha-Mosha IV
- Saho Shirasu as Mike-Mike
- Natsuki Hanae as Monaruka (Black)
- Tomohisa Asō as Pomupora
Previously announced cast members include:
- Takehito Koyasu as Nekoryū
- Kikuko Inoue as Mama-nyan
- Fūka Izumi as Shirotae
- Show Hayami as Kurobane
- Noriaki Sugiyama as Haibuchi
- Maki Kawase as Chiikuro
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Kurotama
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Gally
- Chika Anzai as Anne Rossa
- Junya Enoki as Stan
- Yū Serizawa as Haneko
- Makoto Koichi as Prince
- Kazuya Ichijō as King
Jin-Koo Oh is directing the anime adaptation of The Cat and the Dragon at OLM. Mitsutaka Hirota is handling the series composition, and Rie Nishino and Chiaki Kurakazu are designing the characters. Takahiro Obata is composing the music, and Noriyoshi Konuma is the sound director.
suis from yorushika performs the opening theme song “Nekohi (Cat Day),” and shallm performs the ending theme song “Tadaima no Basho (A Place to Call Home).”
Amara launched the web novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in September 2013, and the series is still ongoing. Takarajimasha published the first volume of the light novel series in hardcover with illustrations by Mai Ōkuma in April 2016. The eighth light novel volume launched on April 12, 2025, and more than one million copies have been sold for the series.
Izumi Sasaki launched the manga adaptation on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! web platform in September 2017. The manga would be serialized on Manga Box in April 2020 as wel. The 11th compiled book volume shipped in Japan on May 31, 2025
Here’s an overview of the series, via MangaDex:
Deep in the forest where ferocious beasts and magical creatures dwell, a cat takes in an orphaned baby dragon as one of her own.
