The official Twitter/X and website for the ongoing The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess TV anime series have announced that Tomokazu Sugita is joining the show’s voice cast. The series premiered in Japan on October 8, 2025 and will consist of 12 episodes.
Sugita will play the vampire lord, who is expected to appear in the show’s 11th episode, which will air in Japan on December 17, 2025.
He joins a main voice cast that includes:
- • Yoshino Aoyama as Iana Magnolia
- • M.A.O as Konoha Magnolia
- • Shohei Komatsu as Sol Nemophila
- • Makoto Furukawa as Ginoford Dandelion
- • Shunichi Toki as Yomi Blacksarana
- • Arthur Lounsbery as Cheneau Clematis
- • Atsushi Tamaru as Mika
- • Tomoaki Maeno as Yamato Hydrangea
Hiroaki Sakurai (The Demon Girl Next Door) is directing the anime series, with Mitsutaka Hirota (Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time) as series composer and Tomoyo Sawada (We Love Rice) as character designer. Studio Deen is handling the animation production.
The isekai romantic comedy manga by Akiharu Touka debuted in Hakusensha’s LaLa magazine on August 24, 2018 and has released 16 tankobon volumes as of May 2025, which includes a short story collection. Yen Press licensed the manga for English release.
Crunchyroll is streaming The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess anime in select countries and territories worldwide. It describes the main premise as:
Konoha Satou’s dark fictional past becomes her reality when she’s reincarnated as Iana Magnolia, the villainess of her own adolescent fantasy. Now as a role she meticulously designed to be despicable, remembering every last detail is a matter of life and death. Will she be able to rewrite her character’s fate into something peaceful?
Sources: The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network