《Mr. Villain's Day Off》 First Trailer Released!!
The previously announced "Bad Guys Don't Take Holidays" animation has released its first trailer and key visual, and announced it will premiere in January 2024. This series is produced by Shin-Ei Animation and SynergySP.
Yoshinori Kogami will serve as the series director, with Madoka Gotō in charge of series composition. Meanwhile, Tomoko Shimazaki is responsible for character design, Nobuaki Nobusawa for music composition, and Hiroshi Yamamoto as sound director. Hisae Ariake and Daiki Matsumoto are listed as art directors. The animation's voice cast includes:
- Shintarō Asanuma as Bad Guy
- Ai Kakuma as Shinonome Pink
- Hibiku Yamamura as Reimei Green
- Hiroto Ishibashi as Akatsuki Red
- Sōma Saitō as Rooney
- Takuya Eguchi as Sōten Blue
- Yūichi Nakamura as Trigger
- Yūichirō Umehara as Yoiyami Black
The "Bad Guy on Holiday" animation is adapted from Yui Morikawa's manga series of the same name. The manga has been serialized on the Pixiv website since December 2018 and is published by Square Enix on its Gangan Comics Pixiv platform. In January 2021, Frontier Works released a drama CD adaptation.
Manga Up! publishes the work in English, with the story as follows: An evil organization from another planet attempts to take over Earth. One alien from this organization, named "General," fights life-or-death battles against Earth's defenders every day! However, today is his day off.