The Cat and the Dragon Anime Adds Three Cast Members and a New Trailer
The second trailer arrives roughly two months before the July premiere and fills out the supporting cast with three actors who have led major fantasy series, signaling a production scale that matches the source material's million-copy sales figure.
Reporting from 4 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner, Anime Trending, Niche Gamer (Anime).
The television adaptation of Amara and Mai Okuma's light novel series The Cat and the Dragon revealed a second promotional video, a key visual, and three additional voice actors on May 14. Atsumi Tanezaki will play Gali, Chika Anzai will play Annerossa, and Junya Enoki will play Stan. The characters appear in the new trailer alongside the previously announced cast, which includes Takehito Koyasu as the cat-raised dragon Nekoryu and Kikuko Inoue as Mamanyan. The series is scheduled to premiere in July 2026. Studio OLM is handling animation production, with Jin-Koo Oh directing and Mitsutaka Hirota writing the series composition. Rie Nishino and Chiaki Kurakazu are the character designers, and Takahiro Obata is composing the music. The story began as a short story on the web platform Shosetsuka ni Naro in 2013. Takarajimasha later picked it up for a print release under its Bunko label. The light novels have sold over one million copies across nine volumes. A manga adaptation by Izumi Sasaki runs on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web platform.
The second promotional video runs 90 seconds and opens with the dragon Nekoryu curled beside his adoptive cat mother Mamanyan before cutting to the three new characters in quick succession. Gali appears in a forest clearing, Annerossa stands in a stone hall with a sword, and Stan is shown mid-leap with a staff. The key visual places all eight announced cast members in a circular composition around the central pair.
Niche Gamer identifies the new actors by their best-known roles: Atsumi Tanezaki voiced Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Chika Anzai played Chisato in Lycoris Recoil, and Junya Enoki is the voice of Senjuro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Anime Corner and Anime Trending both list the full previously announced cast, which includes Fuka Izumi as Shirotae, Sho Hayami as Kurobane, Noriaki Sugiyama as Haibuchi, Maki Kawase as Chikuro, and Shinnosuke Tokudome as Kurotama.
Anime Corner notes that the web novel ran on Shosetsuka ni Naro from September 2013 to June 2014, and that Takarajimasha picked it up for print in April 2016. The manga adaptation by Izumi Sasaki began serialization on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web platform in September 2017 and reached its 12th compiled volume in November 2025. Anime Trending adds that a spin-off manga also exists.
Jin-Koo Oh previously directed Oi! Tonbo. Mitsutaka Hirota's series composition credits include Rent-A-Girlfriend and This Monster Wants to Eat Me, according to Anime Trending. The production committee is credited as ©Amara Takarajimasha/Cat and Dragon Production Committee across all promotional materials.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network The Cat and the Dragon Anime Reveals New Promo Video, More Cast Members
- Anime Corner The Cat and the Dragon Anime Reveals New Trailer, Additional Cast
- Anime Trending the cat and the dragon reveals new trailer and visual
- Niche Gamer (Anime) The Cat and the Dragon anime reveals more cast and new trailer