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Production company TMS Entertainment opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Mayo Momoyo’s Nigashita Sakana wa Ookikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ookisugita Ken (Always a Catch!) light novel on Monday, revealing the main cast, staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and teaser promotional video. The anime series will premiere in April 2026.
Cast
Maria Annovazzi: Yuu Serizawa (3D Kanojo: Real Girl)
Renato di Rubini: Atsushi Tamaru (Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru)
Aida Amethis: Saori Hayami (Sakamoto Days)
Placido di Rubini: Shuuichirou Umeda (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu)
Raimondo Cigata: Taku Yashiro (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023))
Staff
Director: Akira Oguro (Ars no Kyojuu)
Series Composition: Michiko Yokote (Kizetsu Yuusha to Ansatsu Hime)
Character Design: Isamu Suzuki (Shinobi no Ittoki)
Studio: TROYCA
Momoyo initially penned the fantasy romance series as a short story on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in October 2020, before launching a sequel series in December 2020. Square Enix began publishing the series with illustrations from Itsuki Mito under their SQEX Novel light novel imprint in August 2021. The fifth volume was released in December 2024, with the sixth volume went on sale on Friday. The series has a cumulative 1 million copies of its volumes in circulation.
Kaki Nagato began drawing a manga adaptation on Square Enix’s Manga Up! service in April 2022. The eighth volume went on sale May 7, with the ninth scheduled to release on November 7.
Square Enix is releasing the manga in English on their Manga Up! website and app. The fourth volume shipped on September 16, with the fifth volume planned for a December 9 release.
Synopsis
From a very young age, people noticed that Maria, the youngest daughter of a duke, was filled with potential. She was raised as the heiress of her house, until the birth of her baby brother relieves her of her duties. She scrambles to find a husband, but all the eligible bachelors in her duchy are taken! At this rate, she’s doomed to the life of a spinster!
Maria decides to study abroad in Rubini in hopes of finding a husband, with the help of her distant relative, Aida. But in a twist of fate, the Crown Prince breaks of his engagement with Maria, even though they’ve never met before!
“Huh?! I don’t remember getting engaged!?” (Source: Square Enix)
Teaser PV
Official site: https://nigetsuri-anime.com/
Official X: @nigetsuri_anime
Source: Moca News
Nigashita Sakana wa Ookikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ookisugita Ken on MAL
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