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Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Anime Reveals VTuber Tsunomaki Watame as Opening Song Artist
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for the television anime of Umikaze Minamino's Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden (Kyōran Reijō Nia Liston: Byōjaku Reijō ni Tenseishita Kami-goroshi no Bujin no Kareinaru Musō Roku) light novel series revealed on Tuesday that VTuber Tsunomaki Watame will perform the anime's opening theme song "Respawn!!" The anime's staff also revealed a new "situation visual."
The anime will debut on October 6 on Tokyo MX at 9:25 p.m. JST, then on the BS NTV, and MBS channels. HIDIVE will stream the anime as it airs.
The anime stars:
- Honoka Inoue as Nia Liston
- Fūka Izumi as Rinokis Funk
- Rina Honnizumi as Hildetora Altoir
- Rina Hidaka as Reliared Silver
Motoki Nakanishi (Love Is Indivisible by Twins, Summoned to Another World for a Second Time) is directing the anime at KONAMI animation with Haruta Segi as the assistant director. Gigaemon Ichikawa (Himitsu no AiPri, PuniRunes three seasons) is in charge of series scripts, Yūki Itō (Mob Psycho 100 II OAV key animator) and Kana Tosaoka (Kantai Collection -KanColle- film in-between animator) are designing the characters. Naoki Endō (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Nijiyon Animation) is composing the music, and Hiromi Kikuta (Aikatsu!, Blue Period, Haikyu!!) is directing the sound.
Minamino launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2019, and ended its run there in 2021. Hobby Japan started publishing the novels with illustration by Jishaku in September 2022. Katana Canata started drawing the novels' illustration from its third volume in 2023. (The anime credits both illustrators for the original character designs.) Hobby Japan published the 11th volume on June 1.
Kabuto Kodai launched the novels' manga adaptation on Square Enix's Manga UP! service in 2022. Square Enix published the manga's first compiled book volume in May 2023, and the eighth volume on February 6. Square Enix's Manga UP! Global service publishes the manga in English.
Sources: Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden anime's website, Comic Natalie
