Nyaight of the Living Cat Unveils New Trailer, Visual, Theme Song Artists, Additional Cast & July 6 Premiere

Posted by By japannihon June 6, 2025No Comments

©HAWKMAN,MECHA-ROOTS/MAG Garden/NOTLC Project

A fresh trailer, visual, theme song artist, and additional cast members have been announced for the forthcoming Nyaight of the Living Cat TV anime series, which is set to premiere in Japan and stream on Crunchyroll starting July 6, 2025. The Japanese glam rock band THE YELLOW MONKEY will perform the series’ main opening theme song “CAT CITY,” which can be heard in the latest trailer. The ending theme song “Matatabi” will be performed by the three-piece Japanese rock band WANIMA.

• • Tomoko Miyadera as Grandma
• • Kazuyuki Okitsu as Keisuke
• • Atsumi Tanezaki as Suoh
• • Satoshi Tsuruoka as Mitsuru
• • Hiroshi Naka as Kouji
• • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Gunslinger
• • Tessho Genda as Cat Language Translating Machine
• • Shigeru Chiba as Narrator

They join a main voice cast that includes:

• • Masaaki Mizunaka as Kunagi 
• • Reina Ueda as Kaoru
• • Reiji Kawashima as Arata 
• • Yu Serizawa as Tsutsumi
• • Subaru Kimura as Ren 
• • Yoshiki Nakajima as Masaki
• • Hiroki Yasumoto as Tanishi 
• • Ryota Takeuchi as Gaku

Additionally, a character known as “Last Samurai” has been introduced, though their voice actor remains unconfirmed.
Nyaight of the Living Cat has also been selected as an official entry for this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, running from July 16, 2025, through August 3, 2025. The third and fourth episodes of the series will premiere at the festival before streaming later on Crunchyroll and airing in Japan.
A special early screening of the first episode will take place at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2025, on the Crunchyroll Stage in the JW Marriott.
Japanese film director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer; Audition; 13 Assassins) is the executive director for the series, with Tomohiro Kamitani (Sing a Bit of Harmony key animator) serving as series director, Shingo Irie (Afterlost) as screenwriter, Takao Maki (Laughing Under the Clouds) as character designer, and Koji Endo (Onimusha) as music composer. OLM is in charge of the animation production.
Endo also composed the title theme song for the anime, while American guitarist Marty Friedman is providing the musical score on guitars. Heidi Shepherd of Butcher Babies has been credited with contributing the “Death Voice.”
This anime adaptation is based on the manga series created by Hawkman and illustrated by Mecha-Roots. It was first published in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Garden magazine on October 5, 2020, with six tankobon volumes released as of February 2025. Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the manga in English under the title Night of the Living Cat.