The previously announced Nina the Starry Bride anime adaptation revealed a new trailer along with staff information on Friday. Signal.MD (Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop) is animating the series with Kenichiro Komaya (Kizuna no Allele) as director. Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid) is supervising the series composition and script while Kyoko Taketani (Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) is designing the characters and Natsumi Tabuchi (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) is composing the music. Nina the Starry Bride anime is scheduled to premiere in October 2024.
The cast was announced last year and consists of:
The manga series began its serialization in Kodansha’s Be Love in October 2019 and it currently has eleven volumes in circulation. It won the Best Shojo Manga category at the 46th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards. Kodansha US is publishing the series in English and describes the plot as:
Nina had a rough start to life, orphaned and stealing to survive, only to be abducted for her unusual lapis lazuli eyes. But to her surprise, her captor, Prince Azure, ordained that she would live the life of a princess…specifically, that of the recently deceased princess-priestess, Alisha, who had her same eyes. Despite her changing fortune, Nina won’t give up her old life without a fight. Azure might just be the one to finally match her wits, but how much can she trust him? And can she stop the feelings budding in her heart, knowing she must eventually marry another…?
Source: Official Website
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