{"id":475336,"date":"2026-06-04T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:16:10","slug":"always-a-catch-anime-casts-kana-hanazawa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475336\/","title":{"rendered":"Always a Catch! Anime Casts Kana Hanazawa – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The staff for the television anime<\/a> of Mayo Momoyo<\/a>‘s Always a Catch!<\/a> (Nigashita Sakana wa \u014ckikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga \u014ckisugita Ken<\/a>) light novel series announced on Wednesday\u00a0that it has cast\u00a0Kana Hanazawa<\/a> as the mysterious woman Zaira, who seems have a grudge against Maria.<\/p>\n

\"ScreenshotImage via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 \u3082\u3082\u3088\u4e07\u8449\u30fb\u4e09\u767b\u3044\u3064\u304d\u30fb\u306a\u304c\u3068\u7261\u8823\uff0fSQUARE ENIX\u30fb\u9003\u3052\u91e3\u308a\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n

The character appeared in the 10th episode, which aired on Thursday in Japan.<\/p>\n

\"catch\"Image via Always a Catch anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9\u3082\u3082\u3088\u4e07\u8449\u30fb\u4e09\u767b\u3044\u3064\u304d\u30fb\u306a\u304c\u3068\u7261\u8823\uff0fSQUARE ENIX\u30fb\u9003\u3052\u91e3\u308a\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n

Square Enix Manga & Books<\/a> publishes<\/a> the manga adaptation in English and describes the story:<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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?!<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

The anime stars:<\/p>\n

Akira Oguro<\/a> (Giant Beasts of Ars<\/a>, Namu Amida Butsu! -Rendai Utena-<\/a>) is directing the anime at\u00a0TROYCA<\/a>.\u00a0Michiko Yokote<\/a>\u00a0(Ao-chan Can’t Study!<\/a>, Call of the Night<\/a>) is in charge of series scripts and\u00a0Isamu Suzuki<\/a>\u00a0(Shinobi no Ittoki<\/a>) is designing the characters. <\/p>\n

HoneyWorks<\/a> feat. Airi Suzuki<\/a> perform the opening<\/a> theme song “Chikai wa Kyun to.” Singer Yoshino<\/a> performs<\/a> the ending theme song “DEAD OR LOVE.”<\/p>\n

The anime premiered on April 1
\non Tokyo MX<\/a> and BS 11 at 24:00 JST (effectively Thursday
\nat 12 midnight).<\/p>\n

Momoyo launched<\/a> Nigashita Sakana wa \u014ckikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga \u014ckisugita Ken as a short story on the “Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d” (Let’s Become Novelists) website in 2020. Momoyo started<\/a> the story’s sequel series on the website in 2020. Square Enix<\/a> started publishing the novels with illustration by Mito in 2021.<\/p>\n

Kaki Nagato<\/a>\u00a0launched the manga adaptation on\u00a0Square Enix’s\u00a0Manga UP!<\/a>\u00a0service in April 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The novels’ seventh volume and the manga’s 10th compiled book volume both shipped on April 7.<\/p>\n

Square Enix’s Manga UP! Global<\/a>, Kadokawa<\/a>‘s BookWalker Global Store<\/a>, and\u00a0Comikey<\/a>\u00a0publish the manga digitally in English.<\/p>\n

Sources:\u00a0Always a Catch! anime’s X\/Twitter account<\/a>,\u00a0Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The staff for the television anime of Mayo Momoyo‘s Always a Catch! (Nigashita Sakana wa \u014ckikatta ga Tsuriageta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-475336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}