A fiery elf will arrive in Beheneko

On the official site for the anime adaptation of Nozomi Ginyoku's light novels, "Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! (S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu)," the project's second promotional video was revealed. The video confirms that the premiere is scheduled for December 28, 2024 in Japan, and shows a fragment of the closing theme titled "Rimi" and performed by Poka Poka Ion.

As already reported in a previous leak, the series will have two versions, a "Regular Version" censored for television, and the "Refreshing Steam Version", which will be removed from the censorship and will premiere on the same date.

For its part, Nozomi Ginyoku began publishing the story through the Shousetsuka ni Narou service in 2017, and subsequently the publisher Micro Magazine began its publication on paper with illustrations by Mitsuki Yano in March 2018, only for the work to go on hold after its second volume in October of the same year. A manga adaptation by Tarou Shinonome has been published through Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine since March 2018, where it is still in serialization.

Voice cast

Tasuku Hatanaka as Tama
Riho Sugiyama as Tama (in the form of a cat)
Hinaki Yano as Aria
Tomori Kusunoki as Vulcan
Hitomi Ueda as Stella

Production Equipment

Tetsuo Hirakawa (Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho, Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO) is in charge of the project management at ZERO-G studios in collaboration with Saber Works.
Kanichi Katou (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!, Mashiro no Oto, Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san Movie) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
Tomoyuki Abe (Bakegyamon, Higurashi no Naku Koro and Kira) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
Yusuke Shirato (Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi, Lost Song, Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo) is in charge of the composition of the soundtrack.

Synopsis of Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster!

After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight is shocked to discover that instead of being reborn as a hero of humanity, he begins his new life as a behemoth: one of the most powerful monsters in the world! The only problem is that a baby behemoth looks a lot like... an adorable house cat?! Things get even more confusing when a beautiful elf adventurer rescues him from the brink of death instead of finishing him off. The puzzling journey of this domestic-gentleman cat has only just begun...

Source: Comic Natalie

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