{"id":661703,"date":"2026-10-30T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661703\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:22:13","slug":"mercedes-and-the-waning-moon-tv-anime-reveals-4-more-cast-members-in-2nd-promo-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661703\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes and the Waning Moon TV Anime Reveals 4 More Cast Members in 2nd Promo Video – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures<\/a> revealed four more cast members and a second promotinal video on Friday for the television<\/a> anime<\/a> adaptation of Firehead<\/a>‘s Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat<\/a> (Kaketa Tsuki no Mercedes: Ky\u016bketsuki no Kizoku ni Tensei Shita kedo Suterares\u014d nanode Dungeon wo Seiha suru<\/a>) light novel series.<\/p>\n

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The new cast includes:<\/p>\n

Kenta Miyake<\/a> as Benkei<\/p>\n

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Ry\u016bnosuke Watanuki<\/a> as Kuro<\/p>\n

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Junichi Suwabe<\/a> as Florian<\/p>\n

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Ai Kayano<\/a> as Ryudia<\/p>\n

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The anime’s staff had revealed a new main visual in September.<\/p>\n

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The anime debut in 2027 and will star Anna Nagase<\/a> as the titular Mercedes Grunewald.<\/p>\n

Kunihisa Sugishima<\/a> (Strike Witches<\/a>, Yu-Gi-Oh!<\/a>, Beyblade: Metal Fury<\/a>) is directing the anime at Teddy<\/a>. Jun Kumagai<\/a> (Persona 4 the Golden Animation<\/a>, Aquarion Logos<\/a>) is in charge of series scripts, Nami Sh\u014dyama<\/a> (animation director for Buddy Daddies<\/a>, Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!<\/a>, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens<\/a>) is designing the characters, and R.O.N<\/a> (The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch<\/a>, Kuroko’s Basketball<\/a>) and Sh\u016bhei Mutsuki<\/a> (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You<\/a>; Lycoris Recoil<\/a>) are composing the music.<\/p>\n

J-Novel Club<\/a> publishes<\/a> the novel series in English digitally and describes the story:\n<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

Luckily, dungeon crawling is a job that anyone can do\u2014even 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.<\/p>\n

Firehead launched<\/a> the series on the Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d website in 2018. TO Books<\/a> started publishing the novels with illustrations by KeG<\/a> in 2021. TO Books released the fifth novel volume digitally on July 15.<\/p>\n

Pochi Edoya<\/a>\u00a0launched<\/a> the novel series’ manga adaptation on TO Books’ Comic Corona<\/a> (now\u00a0Corona EX) website in 2021. TO Books published the manga’s sixth compiled book volume also on July 15.<\/p>\n

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