Anna Nagase is an active voice actor with three announced roles in 2026 and 2027: Loups Garous in Draw This, Then Die!, Akane Osaki in Akane-banashi, and the titular Mercedes Grunewald in Mercedes and the Waning Moon.
Anna Nagase has three roles in current or upcoming anime. In Draw This, Then Die!, she voices Loups Garous, a pen name for a manga creator that protagonist Ai Yasumi meets at the Comitia event. The character appears in the sixth episode, which airs this week. The series premiered July 3 on NTV's Friday Anime Night block and streams on Crunchyroll.
Nagase also stars as Akane Osaki in the Akane-banashi anime. At Anime Expo 2026, she spoke with Anime Herald about her preparation for the role. She described over a year of rakugo practice, the influence of co-star Akio Otsuka, and the challenge of balancing the character's bright and dark sides.
Her most prominent upcoming role is Mercedes Grunewald in Mercedes and the Waning Moon, an anime adaptation of Fire head's light novel series. Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures revealed the television format, first promotional video, teaser visual, main cast and staff, and the January 2027 debut. Kunihisa Sugishima directs at studio Teddy, with Jun Kumagai on series composition, Nami Shoyama on character design, and R.O.N and Shuhei Mutsuki composing the music. The story follows Mercedes, a reincarnated vampire child who takes up dungeon crawling to support her family after being disowned.
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Twin Engine announced on August 19 that stage greetings for the revival screenings of Super Kaguya-hime! will take place on September 20 at three theaters. Yuko Natsuyoshi, Anna Nagase, Saori Hayami, and director Seigo Yamashita will reunite for five shows, their first gathering since February.
Anna Nagase joins the Draw This, Then Die! anime as Loups Garous, a pen name for a manga creator that protagonist Ai Yasumi meets at the Comitia event. The character appears in the sixth episode, which airs this week. The series premiered July 3 on NTV's Friday Anime Night block and streams on Crunchyroll.
Anna Nagase, the voice of Akane Osaki in the Akane-banashi anime, spoke with Anime Herald at Anime Expo 2026 about her preparation for the role. She described over a year of rakugo practice, the influence of co-star Akio Otsuka, and the challenge of balancing the character's bright and dark sides.
Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures revealed the television format, first promotional video, teaser visual, main cast and staff, and the January 2027 debut for the anime adaptation of Fire head's Mercedes and the Waning Moon light novel series on Wednesday. Anna Nagase stars as the titular Mercedes Grunewald. Kunihisa Sugishima directs the anime at studio Teddy. Jun Kumagai handles series composition, Nami Shoyama designs the characters, and R.O.N and Shuhei Mutsuki compose the music. The story follows Mercedes, a reincarnated vampire child who takes up dungeon crawling to support her family after being disowned. J-Novel Club publishes the novel series in English digitally. Fire head launched the series on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in 2018. TO Books began publishing the novels with illustrations by KeG in 2021. A manga adaptation by Pochi Edoya launched in 2021 on TO Books' Corona EX website.