The official website for the Nyaight of the Living Cat (Night of the Living Cat) TV anime has revealed a new promotional video and confirmed that the show will premiere on TV in July 2025 on the TV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo channels and other networks. It will also be streamed on the ABEMA service and Crunchyroll.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtM132TfBMI]
Kamitani Tomohiro (Toji no Miko: Kizamishi Issen no Tomoshibi) will direct the anime at OLM studio, and Miike Takashi (Onimusha) will act as chief director. Other staff members include Irie Shingo, who is in charge of series composition; Maki Takao, who is the character designer; and Endou Kouji, who is in charge of music composition. The anime will star:
- Mizunaka Masaaki as Kunagi
- Ueda Reina as Kaoru
- Kawashima Reiji as Arata
- Serizawa Yuu as Tsutsumi
- Kimura Subaru as Ren
- Nakajima Yishiki as Masaki
- Yasumoto Hiroki as Tanishi
- Takeuchi Ryouta as Gaku
The anime is based on the Nyaight of the Living Cat (Night of the Living Cat) manga by Hawkman and Mecha-Roots. Hawkman started the manga with illustrations by Mecha-Roots in October 2019 in Mag Garden’s Comic Garden. The manga’s first tankoubon volume was released in May 2021, and the sixth volume was published in Japan on February 21st, 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment published the manga in English and released its fifth volume in October 2024. It describes the manga below:
A virus spreads across the world, transforming all humankind into wild, slavering, furry beasts: cats, to be precise. Those few survivors who remain human take refuge in the dark corners of the earth as they fight back against the feline horde. Kunagi, a man with no memory of his past yet a deep knowledge of cats, struggles to hold on with only his wits and a will to survive. Yet the virus transmits merely through cuddles, and Kunagi finds kitties so hard to resist! Is his willpower strong enough to withstand this hair-raising cat-tastrophe?
