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Roll Over and Die TV Anime's Main Promo Video Reveals More Cast, January 2026 Debut

The staff of the television anime based on writer kiki and illustrator Kinta's ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (“Omae Gotoki ga Maō ni Kateru to Omou na” to Yūsha Party o Tsuihō Sareta node, Ōto de Kimama ni Kurashitai) light novel series revealed the show's main promotional video on Sunday. The staff also revealed the show's theme song artists, additional cast, more staff, and the January 2026 premiere.

The staff also revealed a new visual.

PassCode performs the opening theme song "Liberator." Hirachi Koji composed and arranged the song, and ucio and Konnie Aoki wrote the lyrics. Yuki Tanaka performs the ending theme song "I Need." Tomoya Kinoshita composed and arranged the song, and Masami Okui wrote the lyrics.

The newly announced cast includes:

Machico as Sara Anvilen, a nun of the Origin Church who has a strong sense of justice. She is also straightforward and innocent.

Masakazu Morita as Dein Phineas, an A-rank adventurer in the West District who is a cold and cunning man willing to eliminate anyone who stands in his way.

Honoka Inoue as Y'lla Jelicin, a receptionist at the West District Adventurers' Guild who is cynical and foul-mouthed, but has yet to fully become a villain.

Additionally, Kikuko Inoue joins the cast as the narrator.

Newly announced staff members include:

• Action Director: Shigeyuki Suga
• Prop Design: Hidefumi Kimura
• Color Design: Mika Funahashi
• Art Setting: Toshiko Kaizu
• Art Director: Maika Hosoda
• Director of Photography: Daisuke Horino
• Editor: Maki Sendo (REAL-T)
• Sound Director: Satoshi Yano
• Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
• Sound Production: Rakuonsha
• Music Production: Lantis

The anime will premiere under the international title Roll Over and Die. Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs worldwide excluding Asia, but including India and the Indian Subcontinent.

The anime stars:

• Ayaka Nanase as Flum Apricot
• Miku Itō as Milkit
• Miki Kariya as Cyrill Sweechka
• Makoto Yasumura as Jean Inteige
• Misaki Kuno as Eterna Rinebow
• Takaya Kuroda as Gadhio Lathcutt
• Aya Endō as Maria Afenjuns
• Jin Ogasawara as Linus Radiants

Nobuharu Kamanaka (Detective Conan) is directing the anime at ACGT. Mariko Kunisawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm) is handling the series composition. Character designers are Miki Matsumoto (Summer Time Rendering), Fumio Matsumoto (Orient), Takaaki Fukuyo (Dies irae), and Takafumi Furusawa (Berserk of Gluttony). Ryō Takahashi (Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest) is composing the music.

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the light novel series in English, and it describes the story:

Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite stats that were zeroes across the board and a power she can't even use, she somehow finds herself a member of a party of heroes. But Flum's life hits rock bottom when the party's renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master's entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon…and something new awakens within her. A grimdark tale about one woman's blood-soaked quest to reclaim her life!

Seven Seas is also releasing the novel series in audiobook format featuring narrator Emily Bauer.

kiki launched the novel series with illustrations by Kinta in 2018, and Micro Magazine published the sixth volume in Japan on August 29. The novel series changed artists with the fifth volume, with kodamazon drawing the illustrations. The manga and light novels have a combined 415,000 copies in circulation (including digital copies sold).

Additionally, Seven Seas is also releasing Sunao Minakata's manga adaptation. The manga adaptation debuted in 2018, and Micro Magazine published the seventh volume on April 28.

Seven Seas previously released Minakata's Akuma no Riddle: Riddle Story of Devil manga.

Source: Press release