A new yuri anime series is coming!
A report on ComicNatalie has confirmed that the dark fantasy yuri light novel series "ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!" is getting an anime series. The news was also confirmed by the series’s imprint GC Novels on X (formerly Twitter), and included a celebratory illustration by the original illustrator, kinta.
No further details about the anime adaptation have been revealed yet, but we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.
ROLL OVER AND DIE plot and other details
ROLL OVER AND DIE is a Japanese light novel series written by kiki and illustrated by kinta, and began serialisation as a web novel through Shosetsuka ni Naro in January 2018. Micro Magazine acquired the series, and released it in print through their GC Novels Imprint in July 2018. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the series for an English release.
The series also got a manga adaptation in December 2018, with art by Sunao Minakata. The manga has been serialised online through Micro Magazine’s Comic Ride Website, with Seven Seas Entertainment licensing for an English release. There are currently seven volumes for the manga.
The plot of ROLL OVER AND DIE is described by Seven Seas Entertainment 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!
To celebrate the anime adaptation, the original series author kiki released a statement, which can also be read in the ComicNatalie article. Via a machine-translation, it reads:
We've come this far thanks to all the readers who have supported the web version, the print version, and the comic. Thank you so much!
It's like a dream that a novel filled with so much of my hobby has been published as a book with illustrations by kinta-sensei and kodamazon-sensei, turned into a manga by Minakata-sensei, and even made into an anime.
As readers will probably guess, this work has many very intense developments, and there were many scenes that I thought would be difficult to turn into an anime.
However, the staff worked to the limit, and it has turned into a wonderful work filled with yuri, battles, and all sorts of other things.
I hope that both existing readers and those who will be coming into contact with the work in the future will enjoy the anime version of "Omagoto"!
