Always a Catch! Anime Casts Kana Hanazawa
The staff for the television anime of Mayo Momoyo's Always a Catch! (Nigashita Sakana wa Ōkikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ōkisugita Ken) light novel series announced on Wednesday that it has cast Kana Hanazawa as the mysterious woman Zaira, who seems have a grudge against Maria.
The character appeared in the 10th episode, which aired on Thursday in Japan.
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!The anime stars: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...
- 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
- Tetsu Inada as Maria's father
- Yūko Kaida as Queen Rubini
- Asaki Yuikawa as Teodorico
Akira Oguro (Giant Beasts of Ars, Namu Amida Butsu! -Rendai Utena-) is directing the anime at TROYCA. Michiko Yokote (Ao-chan Can't Study!, Call of the Night) is in charge of series scripts and Isamu Suzuki (Shinobi no Ittoki) is designing the characters.
HoneyWorks feat. Airi Suzuki perform the opening theme song "Chikai wa Kyun to." Singer Yoshino performs the ending theme song "DEAD OR LOVE."
The anime premiered on April 1 on Tokyo MX and BS 11 at 24:00 JST (effectively Thursday at 12 midnight).
Momoyo launched Nigashita Sakana wa Ōkikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ōkisugita Ken as a short story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in 2020. Momoyo started the story's sequel series on the website in 2020. Square Enix started publishing the novels with illustration by Mito in 2021.
Kaki Nagato launched the manga adaptation on Square Enix's Manga UP! service in April 2022.
The novels' seventh volume and the manga's 10th compiled book volume both shipped on April 7.
Square Enix's Manga UP! Global, Kadokawa's BookWalker Global Store, and Comikey publish the manga digitally in English.
Sources: Always a Catch! anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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