The isekai genre continues to
squeeze out the strangest possible combinations, and this time it brings us a
protagonist who has literally everything against her. The production
committee behind the light novel Kaketa Tsuki no Mercedes (known
in English as Mercedes and the Waning Moon) officially confirmed
that this unusual story will make the big leap to television with its own animated
adaptation. To warm up, they released a first trailer and beautiful visual
art, also revealing that the series will land on Japanese screens during
the January 2027 season.
The premise of this franchise turns
out to be a pretty interesting gem. It puts us in the shoes of Mercedes
Grunewald, a girl reincarnated as a vampire within an extremely dysfunctional
noble family. Discovering that her aristocratic father will end up disowning
her mother (a simple concubine) to literally leave them on the street, our
protagonist is forced to make a drastic decision. Taking advantage of the
immense physical potential of her lethal lineage and the mental maturity of her
past life, the girl decides to become a bloodthirsty dungeon explorer to keep
her small family afloat, all this despite barely being the age of a
kindergarten girl.
The team behind the project
To bring this tense underground survival
journey to life, the project fell into the hands of Studio Teddy,
who gave the director's chair to the experienced Kunihisa Sugishima.
The scripts and adaptation of the story will be under the care of Jun
Kumagai, while Nami Shoyama will be in charge of adapting
the charming character designs. This wave of news fit the original
author Fire Head and illustrator KeG like a
glove, as the announcement of the cast strategically coincided with the release
of the fifth volume of their novels and the sixth volume of their respective
manga adaptation.
Voice cast
- Anna Nagase como Mercedes Grunewald.
Seeing that the trend of putting characters
looking like small children to fight to the death in dungeons is still an
incredibly profitable formula in Japan
