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Nyaight of the Living Cat Anime's New Video Reveals More Cast, Theme Songs, July 6 Debut
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The staff for the television anime of Hawkman and Mecha-Roots' Night of the Living Cat (also written as Nyaight of the Living Cat) manga posted the anime's main promotional video and main visual on Friday. The video announces more cast members and premiere information for the anime, and it also announces and previews the theme songs.
The newly announced cast members
- Tomoko Miyadera as Grandma
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Keisuke
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Suō
- Satoshi Tsuruoka as Mitsuru
- Hiroshi Naka as Kōji
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Gunslinger
- Tesshō Genda as the Cat Language Translating Machine (as seen at the end of the video above)
- Shigeru Chiba as Narrator
The staff has not yet revealed the cast member for the Last Samurai.
THE YELLOW MONKEY rock band is contributing the new song "Cat City" as the opening theme, and the punk rock band WANIMA is contributing the new song "Matatabi" as the ending theme. Heidi Shepherd (Butcher Babies) is offering the "Death Voice" for the “Nyaight of the Living Cat Theme Song,” with lyrics by Ayuko Saito, composition by Kōji Endō, and guitar work by Marty Friedman.
The anime will premiere on the Abema Premium streaming service on July 6 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m.). It will then air on the TV Tokyo channel on July 7 (which can be read in Japanese as "Nyanya-gatsu Nya no Nichi") at 26:00 (effectively, July 8 at 2:00 a.m.), and it will also run on BS TV Tokyo, TV Hokkaido, and Animax, as well as on various streaming services.
Crunchyroll will begin steaming the anime on July 6 in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau. Sony Pictures Entertainment will be distributing in Asia and Japan.
Anime Expo will screen the first episode early on July 3 on the Crunchyroll Stage in the JW Marriott. The Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will hold the world premiere of episodes 3 and 4 as an official selection.
Each anime episode will end with an original segment that provides information about living with cats, and the anime's Japanese website will have a dedicated page accompanying this segment with regular updates as the anime airs.
The anime stars (pictured above from left to right, starting with top row):
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Kunagi
- Reina Ueda as Kaoru
- Reiji Kawashima as Arata
- Yū Serizawa as Tsutsumi
- Subaru Kimura as Ren
- Yoshiki Nakajima as Masaki
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Tanishi
- Ryōta Takeuchi as Gaku
Famed film director Takashi Miike (live-action Blade of the Immortal, As the Gods Will, Ichi the Killer, Crows Zero) is the chief director for the anime. Tomohiro Kamitani (Katana Maidens – Tomoshibi, MIX Season 2) is directing the anime at OLM. Shingo Irie (Log Horizon, Golden Kamuy) is overseeing the series scripts, Takao Maki (Blue Period, Laughing Under the Clouds) is designing the characters, and Kōji Endō (live-action Ace Attorney, As the Gods Will, Blade of the Immortal) is composing the music. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Slow Curve are credited with planning and production.
A virus spreads across the world, transforming all humankind into wild, slavering, furry beasts: cats, to be precise. Those few survivors who remain human take refuge in the dark corners of the earth as they fight back against the feline horde. Kunagi, a man with no memory of his past yet a deep knowledge of cats, struggles to hold on with only his wits and a will to survive. Yet the virus transmits merely through cuddles, and Kunagi finds kitties so hard to resist! Is his willpower strong enough to withstand this hair-raising cat-tastrophe?
The manga debuted in Mag Garden's Comic Garden in October 2020. The manga's sixth compiled book volume shipped in Japan on February 21. Seven Seas Entertainment shipped the manga's fifth volume on October 22.
Sources: Press release, Night of the Living Cat anime's website, Comic Natalie
