posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for the television anime of Izumi Ōkido‘s Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naru zo (I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History) light novel series started streaming a character promotional video for Alicia Williams as voiced by Kanna Nakamura, on Tuesday. The video reveals the anime’s October 1 premiere on the Tokyo MX channel.
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The anime stars (some character name romanizations are not confirmed):
- Kanna Nakamura as Alicia Williams
- Kaito Ishikawa as Duke Seeker
- Rie Takahashi as Jill
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Will
- Manaka Iwami as Cather Liz
- Ryota Ohsaka as Albert Williams
- Kōhei Amasaki as Alan Williams
- Haruki Ishiya as Henry Williams
- Kent Itō as Eric Hudson
- Ayumu Murase as Finn Smith
- Shōya Chiba as Gale Evans
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Curtis Kenwood
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Arnold Williams
- Takehito Koyasu as Luke Seeker
The anime’s first episode had its world premiere at the Anime Messe Babelsberg 2024 event in Berlin, Germany on July 20.
Yūji Yanase (By the Grace of the Gods, In the Land of Leadale) is directing the anime at Maho Film, and Sawako Hirabayashi (Delicious Party♡Precure, Wolf Girl & Black Prince) is in charge of the series scripts. Yūko Watabe (Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp) and Eri Kojima (I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss) are the main character designers. Moe Hyūga (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Steins;Gate 0) is composing the music.
The story follows a girl named Alicia who hates “goody-two-shoes” heroines. Her wishes come true when she is reincarnated into a villainess in her favorite otome games. She strives to be the world’s most evil villainess in history. However, the more she tries to be a villainess, the more the prince appears to like her…
Ō̄kido debuted the series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website in December 2018. О̄kido launched the light novel series with illustrator Jyun Hayase in 2020. The series’ sixth volume shipped in Japan on March 15.
Akari Hoshi launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa‘s B’s-LOG COMIC in September 2020. Kadokawa published the manga’s fourth compiled book volume in August 2023.
The series has over 850,000 copies in circulation, including digitally.
Sources: Press release
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