If there’s a singer who has perfected the sound of beautiful ruin, it’s ReoNa. Her voice doesn’t just convey emotion β it maps the architecture of a breaking heart. That’s why her attachment to the opening theme of I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day (Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai) feels less like a casting choice and more like a diagnosis.
The series’ second trailer has locked in a premiere, confirming ReoNa’s song “Love” will score this dark fantasy yuri, with sajou no hana‘s “Eternel” closing each episode. Both artists carry a solid track record in series with an emotional and dark tone. The video also presents a new key visual and the complete cast of a dark fantasy yuri that promises not to leave anyone indifferent. This isn’t just marketing β it’s a tonal promise.
What the Trailer Reveals
The trailer operates on a level of sophisticated visual shorthand. It deepens the contradiction between Sheena β the orphan raised in a mysterious orphanage where residents are trained as weapons of war, who longs for a world without conflict β and Mimi, the young woman with an immortal appearance who embraces the idea of death with a disturbing naturalness. We see quiet, desperate hope crashing against serene, almost bored acceptance of mortality. The new key visual crystallises this tension, placing them in an embrace that looks both like salvation and a suicide pact.
Love and death coexist from the first meeting β this isn’t a romance with dark elements. It’s a dark fantasy where love is the most dangerous element of all. What begins as a forced coexistence between two people who are radically opposite in their relationship with life becomes something much more complicated and difficult to name.
Voice Cast
The voice cast assembled here is a strategic masterstroke in emotional resonance. Each performer brings weight that will amplify the series’ darkest truths.
- Rie Takahashi as Sheena Totsuki β Megumin in KonoSuba and Emilia in Re:Zero. Her familiar, earnest warmth will make Sheena’s harsher realities all the more jarring.
- Rina Hidaka as Mimi Kagari β Edge in The Rising of the Shield Hero and Milim Nava in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. She can channel that same unnerving, cheerful dissonance she’s honed in fantasy roles.
- Asami Seto as Lizzy Seiran β Raphtalia in The Rising of the Shield Hero and Mai Sakurajima in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.
- Yui Ishikawa as Ali Maud β the iconic Mikasa Ackerman in Shingeki no Kyojin and Violet Evergarden in Violet Evergarden. Her presence signals the production is investing in serious, layered performance.
Production Team
- Director β Yasushi Tomoda at studio ROLL2
- Creative Advisor β Takudai Kakuchi
- Script Supervision and Writing β Jukki Hanada, known for Steins;Gate and Love Live!, suggesting a narrative that will trust its audience with complexity
- Character Design β Kyoko Yufu
- Music β Yukari Hashimoto and MICHIRU
- Executive Production β Infinite
The studio is clearly leveraging a visual language where light is fragile and shadows feel viscous. Under Tomoda’s direction, mood is built in the silence between words.
About the Manga
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is a manga by Nachi Aono, published in the magazine Comic Yuri Hime from Ichijinsha since 2018, currently continued on the Ichijinsha Plus platform. The ninth collected volume is scheduled for , and a volume of side stories was released in January 2026. The story has built its following on a premise that’s unflinching, giving the anime a robust foundation to build upon.
The Heart of the Story
The relationship between Sheena and Mimi isn’t a slow-burn β it’s a slow-motion collision between the absolute will to live and the absolute peace of dying. It’s a nakige β a story designed to make you cry β but wrapped in the gore and intrigue of a war-torn fantasy. The manga has been confidently expanding its world with recent volumes, assuring the adaptation has deep material to draw from.
This isn’t asking if you’ll watch. It assumes you’re already complicit in its beautiful, tragic logic.
Questions Worth Your Consideration
- In anime, the immortal-mortal love story is a trope often used for grand tragedy. What specific storytelling shifts could this series make to feel genuinely unsettling rather than romantically familiar?
- With its July release, this series enters a crowded summer season. Does its distinctive, melancholic pitch give it a clearer path to audience retention than more straightforwardly upbeat or action-driven shows?
- How crucial is it for a series with this title and premise to deliver a truly resonant emotional conclusion versus simply maintaining its dark atmosphere throughout?
Has ReoNa’s opening already convinced you this will be one of the most emotionally heavy series of the summer, or do you prefer to wait for the first episode before preparing?
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