ROLL OVER AND DIE Reveals 2nd Teaser, Main Staff and More Cast

Dark fantasy TV anime ROLL OVER AND DIE has received a new teaser trailer that previews the general premise, which involves unpleasant experiences for main character Flum Apricot and her meeting with the girl Milkit.

Beyond the new teaser, there are new cast announcements and the reveal of the show’s main staff. Included among the latter are:

• Director: Nobuharu Kamanaka (A Certain Scientific Accelerator)
• Series composer: Mariko Kunisawa (The Dinner Table Detective)
• Character designer: Miki Matsumoto (Summer Time Rendering)
• Character designer: Fumio Matsumoto (ORIENT co-chief animation director)
• Character designer: Takashi Fukuyo 
• Character designer: Takafumi Furusawa (Berserk of Gluttony)
• Animation studio: ACGT

Meanwhile, the new cast additions include:

• Miku Ito as Milkit
• Miki Kariya as Cyrill Sweechka
• Makoto Yasumura as Jean Inteige
• Misaki Kuno as Eterna Rinebow
• Takaya Kuroda as Gadhio Lathcutt
• Aya Endo as Maria Afenjuns
• Jin Ogasawara as Linus Radiant

ROLL OVER AND DIE is set to premiere in 2026. It is based on the light novel series written by Kiki, which is published under Micro Magazine’s GC Novels label. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the premise as:

Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite zero stats across the board and a power she can’t even use, she somehow finds herself included in a party of heroes. But Flum’s life hits rock bottom when the party’s renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master’s entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon…and something new awakens within her. A grimdark tale about one woman’s blood-soaked quest to reclaim her life!

The story began as a Shousetsuka ni Narou web novel in January 2018. The light novels, which have inspired a manga adaptation, started in 2018 and have five volumes as of May 2025. kinta illustrated the first four, while Volume 5 has kodamazon as illustrator with kinta credited as original character designer. Both have the original character designer credit for the anime.

Cast

• Ayaka Nanase as Flum

Source: Press release