Two new voice cast members have been announced for the upcoming Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden TV anime series. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on October 6, 2026 and will have a consecutive two-cour broadcast.
The newest voice cast members include Tomoyo Takayanagi as the heroine Nia’s brother, Neil Liston (left), and Yuki Urushiyama as Lynette Blanc (right), who serves as Neil’s maid. Takayanagi is best known for voicing Oguri Cap in Umamusume: Cinderella Gray.
They join a previously announced voice cast that will star:
- • Honoka Inoue as Nia Liston
- • Fuka Izumi as Rinokis Funk
- • Rina Honizumi as Hildetora Altoir
- • Rina Hidaka as Reliared Silver
- • Taku Yashiro as Anzel
- • Yoko Hikasa as Fressa
- • Satoshi Hino as Gandolf Rogen
- • Junichi Suwabe as Hyurence Altoire
- • Maaya Uchida as Sharro White
- • Kazuyuki Okitsu as Asuma
- • Koichi Sakaguchi as Bendelio
A second “situation visual” has also been released. A previous visual was posted on the anime’s official X/Twitter account earlier last month.
Motoko Nakanishi (Love Is Indivisible by Twins, Summoned to Another World for a Second Time) is directing the anime series, with Haruta Segi as assistant director, Gigaemon Ichikawa (Himitsu no AiPri) as series composer, and Yuki Ito and Kana Tosaoka as character designers. KONAMI animation is in charge of the animation production.
HIDIVE will stream the anime adaptation in select countries and territories as part of its Fall 2026 simulcast lineup.
The action fantasy light novel series is written by Kunon the Sorcerer Can See author Umikaze Minamino, with the initial illustrations being credited to Jishaku for the first two volumes. Katana Canata later took over as illustrator from the third volume onwards (the anime’s original character designer credit has both their names).
The light novels were first published under Hobby Japan’s HJ bunko label on September 30, 2022 and has released 11 volumes in Japan as of June 2026. The series began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel from May 2019 to January 2021, where it was one of the award recipients of the HJ Shosetsu Taisho 2021 Zenki in the Shosetsuka ni Naro category.
The series also inspired a Square Enix-published manga adaptation by Kabuto Kodai in November 2022. It is released in English digitally on the Manga UP! Global service.
J-Novel Club licensed the Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden light novels for English digital release. It describes the synopsis as:
A great hero lies undefeated on her deathbed, regretting that she never found a foe who could take her down. She never intended to meet her fate anywhere other than on the battlefield, and her peaceful demise has her wishing desperately that things could have been different… But when she suddenly comes to in the body of the young, frail Nia Liston, she’s got an all-new fight ahead of her. Nia is a sickly child, meaning she has a long way to go before she’s in fighting form. Now that she’s been given a second shot at life, however, she’s determined to get what she wants. She’s going to live—and die—for battle this time! Make way for the Merciless Maiden!
Sources: Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Official X/Twitter (2) (3), official anime website, Anime News Network
