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Sugiyama plays Crimson Lord Flöte Mascarail
The official website for the television anime of Kotei Kobayashi‘s The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess (Hikikomari Kyūketsuki no Monmon) light novel series announced a new cast member on Saturday. Riho Sugiyama plays Flöte Mascarail, one of the seven Crimson Lords who heads the third unit. Flöte Mascarail appears in the fifth episode, “Sakuna Memoir and the Seven Crimson Lords,” which premieres on Saturday.
©Kotei Kobayashi – SB Creative Corp. / Shut-In Vampire Princess Committee
Previously announced cast members include:
- Tomori Kusunoki as Terakomari Gandesblood
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Villhaze
- Yōko Hikasa as Karen Helvetius
- Fairouz Ai as Nelia Cunningham
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Karla Amatsu
- Manaka Iwami as Sakuna Memoir
- Sora Amamiya as Millicent Bluenight
- Reina Ueda as Melca Tiano
- Saku Mizuno as Tio Flat
- Rina Hidaka as Gertrude
- Hina Kino as Koharu Minenaga
- Natsuki Hanae as Chaostel Conte
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Belius Innu Cerberus
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Melakonsi
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Johan Helders
- Jun Fukushima as Arman Gandesblood
©Kotei Kobayashi – SB Creative Corp. / Shut-In Vampire Princess Committee
The anime premiered on October 7 on Tokyo MX and BS-NTV. HIDIVE is streaming the anime for the fall 2023 season.
Tatsuma Minamikawa (Wave, Listen to Me!, Fire Force) is directing the series at project No.9. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Demon Girl Next Door) is overseeing the series scripts. Tomoyuki Shimoya (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) is designing the characters. Gō Shiina (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) is composing the music.
The unit fripSide performs the anime’s opening theme song “Red Liberation,” and the group MIMiNARI performs the ending theme song “Nemurenai feat. Kusunoki Tomori.”
Yen Press licensed the novels, and it describes the story:
Shut-in vampire Terakomari, or Komari for short, awakens from her slumber to find she’s been promoted to a commander of the army! The thing is, though, her new squad has a reputation for being violently insubordinate. And although Komari was born to a prestigious vampire family, her hatred of blood has made her the picture of mediocrity-scrawny, uncoordinated, and inept at magic. With the odds stacked against her, will the help of her trusty maid be enough for this recluse to blunder her way to success?
SB Creative Corp. began publishing the novels with illustrations by riichu in January 2020. riichu launched a manga adaptation in Square Enix‘s Big Gangan magazine in December 2021.
Sources: The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess anime’s website, Mainichi Shimbun’s Comic Natalie
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