Nigashita Sakana wa Ookikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ookisugita Ken

Maria, the daughter of a duke, grew up believing she would one day inherit her father's dukedom. Accordingly, she focused her attentions on honing her martial arts prowess, while thoughts of marriage fell by the wayside. But the arrival of a baby brother in her family means she's losing her role as heir! Now that she's decided it's time to marry after all, she's arrived a little late to the game! Are there even any eligible bachelors left?

Upon going to study abroad in a neighboring country where she might still stand a chance at getting hitched, she's bewildered when the crown prince there declares before all that his engagement to her is null and void! Wait... what engagement?!

Apparently, he's mistaken her for the wrong girl! But once that's all cleared up and he catches sight of her knocking out a whole pack of bandits, it turns out that this prince may have a thing for ass-kicking young ladies after all.

(Source: Square Enix)

Annovazzi, Maria Main

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

di Rubini, Renato Main

Tamaru, Atsushi Japanese

Amethis, Aida Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Pinotti, Rosalia Supporting

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Macchio Supporting

Komada, Wataru Japanese

Annovazzi, Teodorico Supporting

Yuikawa, Asaki Japanese

Queen Dowager Rubini Supporting

Hanawa, Eiko Japanese

Idea Supporting

Yasuno, Kiyono Japanese

Nina Supporting

Nemoto, Miyari Japanese

Bartolomey Supporting

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Kuroda, Kenji Producer

Kanno, Hayato Producer

Ochiai, Tsuyoshi Producer

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Apr 15, 2026

tripleaamin

Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

"Always a Catch" centers around our heroine Maria Annovazzi, or Mimi, as she is referred to most of the time. Her journey is to essentially find a husband. It is a simple premise, but it does well in it.

In the first episode, it does possess the typical cancelled engagement you see in a lot of villainess-adjacent series. However, it takes it in a much more comedic route. This series plays more like a lighthearted comedy where Mimi's character really comes to shine, and she is very eccentric in the best ways. She truly is a scatterbrained tomboy archtype done well.

The Japanese title's literal translation is ... "The Fish I Missed Was Big, But I Caught Another Fish Was Too Big." Obviously the localized title is better, but the main thing for this anime is that she catches a potential husband who is way beyond what she expected. Seeing how the ever-charming Mimi proceeds from landing a big catch makes for quite the fun show.

Production-wise, TROYCA is on it, and it is animated well and with good art direction. The animation really adds a lot of charm to Mimi. Sound direction is done well to enhance the comedic moments.

If you enjoy Shoujo or comedic romance, then "Always a Catch" is more than worth a try. It will draw comparisons to "May I Ask One Last Thing" since both Mimi and Scarlet excel in hand-to-hand combat. Personality-wise these two couldn't be more different, but each has their own charm to it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 30, 2026

Kit_EA

Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Sometimes, you don't want serious anime with dramatic plotlines. You might not even want structured comedy, with comedic situation making sense to occur. You just want to laid back, chill, laugh occasionally, look at cute girl to have fun in a fantasy world.
And this is perfect anime for this.

You would want to hug every character you will see here: most of them so far (5eps in) have cute, quirky personalities - from fan girl mother, to overly obsessed prince. And you will really wonder why everyone there looks like Brad Pitt level of pretty.
You will cheer female MC odd misadventures, clumsiness and absent-mindedness. And ... worry about every soul unlucky enough to meet her fist.

And this is what is good about this anime - it doesn't even pretend to be serious. It just tries to charm you with it's unusual set of characters and simple story throwing all sorts of mad situations at you.

If you want to just have a fun time without thinking about story too much - this is very good anime for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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