Nia Liston Anime Reveals Character Unit Behind Ending Theme

The staff of Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden announced Tuesday that Magic Vision Girls Party will perform its ending theme, “Tokimeki Un・Deux・Trois♪” (Heart Fluttering 1, 2, 3♪). A new visual featuring the unit accompanied the announcement.

The unit, also called Magic Vision Hirome-Tai, brings together three characters and their voice actors:

• Nia Liston, voiced by Honoka Inoue
• Hildetora Altoir, voiced by Rina Honnizumi
• Reliared Silver, voiced by Rina Hidaka

The television anime adapts Umikaze Minamino’s light novels, Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden (Kyōran Reijō Nia Liston: Byōjaku Reijō ni Tenseishita Kami-goroshi no Bujin no Kareinaru Musō Roku).

The series debuts October 6 at 9:25 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX, followed by broadcasts on BS NTV and MBS. It will run for two consecutive cours, or quarters of a year.

ABEMA, d Anime Store, and U-NEXT will stream the anime after its broadcast. HIDIVE will carry it as it airs.

An advance screening of the first three episodes took place Tuesday at the esports TOKYO BAY studio.

The cast includes:

• Honoka Inoue as Nia Liston
• Fūka Izumi as Rinokis Funk
• Rina Honnizumi as Hildetora Altoir
• Rina Hidaka as Reliared Silver
• Taku Yashiro as Anzel
• Yōko Hikasa as Fressa
• Satoshi Hino as Gandolf Rogen
• Kōichi Sakaguchi as Bendelio
• Junichi Suwabe as Hyurence Altoire
• Maaya Uchida as Sharro White
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Asuma
• Tomoyo Takayanagi as Neil Liston
• Yūki Urushiyama as Lynette Blanc

The main production staff are:

• Director: Motoki Nakanishi (Love Is Indivisible by Twins, Summoned to Another World for a Second Time), at KONAMI animation
• Assistant director: Haruta Segi
• Series scripts: Gigaemon Ichikawa (Himitsu no AiPri, all three seasons of PuniRunes)
• Character design: Yūki Itō (Mob Psycho 100 II OAV key animator) and Kana Tosaoka (Kantai Collection -KanColle- film in-between animator)
• Music: Naoki Endō (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Nijiyon Animation)
• Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta (Aikatsu!, Blue Period, Haikyu!!)

VTuber Tsunomaki Watame performs the opening song, “Respawn!!.”

Additional staff credits include:

• Color key artists: Ryōta Katsuta and Maki Yamamoto
• Art setting: Barnstorm Design Labo
• Art director: Hiroshi Gōroku
• Background art: Makaria
• Compositing director of photography: Takashi Ōde
• Editing: Masayuki Kurosawa

J-Novel Club publishes the novels digitally. Its synopsis follows an undefeated hero nearing death who regrets never meeting an opponent capable of defeating her. Having expected to die in battle, she desperately wishes for another fate as her life ends peacefully.

She then awakens in the body of Nia Liston, a frail young girl. Her sickly new body needs considerable work before she can fight. Given another life, she resolves to pursue her desires and devote both her life and death to battle as the Merciless Maiden.

Minamino began the story on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2019 and concluded its run there in 2021. Hobby Japan began publishing the novels in September 2022, with illustrations by Jishaku.

Katana Canata took over the illustrations with volume three in 2023. The anime credits both artists with the original character designs. Hobby Japan will release volume 12 on October 1.

Kabuto Kodai began the manga adaptation on Square Enix’s Manga UP! service in 2022. Square Enix released its first collected volume in May 2023 and will publish volume nine on October 7. Manga UP! Global publishes the manga in English.