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Momentary Lily, Beheneko Anime to Release in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Muse India licenses both anime premiering on Japanese TV in January 2025
Muse India's Instagram account announced on Thursday that it has licensed GoHands' original anime Momentary Lily for distribution. It announced on Tuesday that it also 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 for India.
Momentary Lily will premiere on television in January 2025.
The main staff members (some of whom were revealed by Anime Expo) are:
- Chief Director/Character Design: Shingo Suzuki
- Concept Designer: Takahiro Kishida
- Directors: Susumu Kudo, Katsumasa Yokomine (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today)
- Scripts: Tamazō Yanagi
- Mecha Design: Hiroshi Okubo
- Chief Animation Directors: Keiji Tani, Makoto Furuta
- Main Animators: Takayuki Uchida, Hiroshi Okubo
- Sound Production: Glovision
- Sound Directors: Enji Nakajima, Hisashi Muramatsu
- Music Production: FABTONE
- Music: Ryosuke Kojima
- Music Producer: Tomoyuki Jufuku
- Opening Theme Song: "Oishii Survivor" (Tasty Survivor) by Hanabie.
- Original Concept, Original Story, Animation Production: GoHands
- Presented by Momentary Lily Production Committee
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!
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.