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Muse Asia Licenses Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! Anime

Muse Asia announced on Tuesday that it has licensed the television anime of Nozomi Ginyoku's Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! (S Rank Monster no “Behemoth” dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet Toshite Kurashitemasu, also known as I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet) light novel series. Muse Asia will reveal distribution details at a later date.

The anime will premiere in January.

Yen Press is releasing both the light novel series and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight found himself reincarnated as one of the most powerful monsters in the world: a behemoth! Problem is, he has to grow up before he can really strut his stuff, and a baby behemoth looks an awful lot like…a housecat?! And when an elf adventurer decides to take him in, she may need his help as much as he needs hers!

The anime stars:

• Tasuku Hatanaka as Tama
• Riho Sugiyama as Tama in cat form
• Hinaki Yano as Aria
• Tomori Kusunoki as Vulcan
• Hitomi Ueda as Stella
• Nonoka Ōbuchi as Lily
• Yū Wakui as Feri

Tetsuo Hirakawa (Shine on! Bakumatsu Bad Boys, Grimoire of Zero) is directing the anime at Zero-G and Saber Works, Kanichi Katō (The Eminence in Shadow, Those Snow White Notes) is in charge of series scripts, and Tomoyuki Abe (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira, animation director for The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague) is designing the characters.

Source: Muse Asia Facebook page