Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures has revealed four new cast members for the upcoming Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat (Kaketa Tsuki no Mercedes: Kyūketsuki no Kizoku ni Tensei Shita kedo Suteraresō nanode Dungeon wo Seiha suru) anime. The series will premiere in January 2027.
The new cast members include Kenta Miyake as Benkei, Ryūnosuke Watanuki as Kuro, Junichi Suwabe as Florian, and Ai Kayano as Ryudia. They join Anna Nagase, who plays the protagonist, Mercedes Grunewald. Check out the new trailer revealing the new cast members for Mercedes and the Waning Moon below:
Kunihisa Sugishima, known for his work on Strike Witches, is directing the anime at Teddy. Jun Kumagai is handling the series composition, while Nami Shōyama is designing the characters. R.O.N and Shūhei Mutsuki are composing the music.
Fire Head released the Mercedes and the Waning Moon novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2018. TO Books started publishing the novels with illustrations by KeG in 2021. The fourth novel volume will be available digitally on August 15.
Meanwhile, Pochi Edoya launched the novel series’ manga adaptation on TO Books’ Comic Corona (now Corona EX) website in 2021. TO Books will publish the manga’s fifth compiled book volume also on August 15. J-Novel Club publishes the novel in English and describes the story as follows:
Reincarnated as a vampire to a noble father and his shunned concubine, Mercedes Grunewald has always known that one day, her father will choose an heir that isn’t her. But what will become of her family when that time comes?
Her mother has no skills, their maid is old, and Mercedes is but a small child. How will they survive in the world on their own? Luckily, dungeon crawling is a job that anyone can do—even a child. To provide for her family.
Mercedes begins training at the age of a kindergartener, and because she’s from a nation of vampires, she fortunately has the potential to become strong. In her past life, she died unfulfilled, but that won’t be her fate this time. In the dungeons, she’s determined to find something that will make her moon full.
