Roll Over and Die
「お前ごときが魔王に勝てると思うな」と勇者パーティを追放されたので、王都で気ままに暮らしたい ("Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omouna" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai)
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Girls Love
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 9, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Selected by the Church’s god, Origin, Flum Apricot leaves her quiet rural life to join the hero’s party in the fight against demons. Her only innate skill, Reversal, appears useless, and she’s quickly scorned by the group—especially the sage, Jean Inteige—until she’s ultimately sold to a slave dealer.
Trapped in a dungeon with no way out, Flum learns the truth of her ability: Reversal can convert the malignant energy within cursed weapons into strength. Using that power, she breaks free, killing her captor and escaping alongside another imprisoned girl, Milkit. With survival now in her own hands, Flum takes up life as an adventurer, determined to carve out a peaceful future with Milkit far from the Church’s shadowy schemes.
Otaku Consensus
Roll Over and Die landed as a niche dark-fantasy adaptation rather than a broad crowd-pleaser, reflected in its 6.24 MAL score and 64/100 AniList score. What works is its unusually concentrated identity: female-led swordplay, yuri intimacy, religious menace, gore, slavery, and body horror are not side flavors but the show’s core texture. The common knock is that the adaptation’s execution does not fully match the nastiness and promise of its premise, leaving it more compelling as a cult-curiosity than a top-tier fantasy production.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Roll Over and Die if you want a female-led dark fantasy that treats yuri as the emotional spine rather than a garnish, and you do not need the comfort-food rhythm of a guild comedy. Its appeal is the collision of swordplay, cursed-power mechanics, religious rot, slavery, body horror, and demons; the AniList tag spread is almost a content manifesto, with Female Protagonist, Swordplay, Yuri, Gore, and Religion all above 80%. It scratches the same itch as Claymore’s women-with-blades brutality and The Executioner and Her Way of Life’s suspicious theology, but with a more intimate two-girl survival focus. The 12-episode A.C.G.T. adaptation is best for viewers who prefer sharp, ugly consequences over clean heroic escalation.
Key Characters
- FFlum Apricot(VA: Ayaka Nanase)
Flum Apricot stands out as a dark-fantasy heroine whose appeal comes from turning rejection, bodily danger, and swordplay into a survival identity rather than a conventional chosen-one power fantasy.
- MMilkit(VA: Miku Itou)
Milkit gives the series its emotional counterweight, making the violence feel personal through a quiet, intimate bond that anchors the show’s yuri and recovery elements.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The AniList tag profile is unusually extreme for a TV fantasy: Female Protagonist is listed at 93%, Swordplay at 91%, Yuri at 88%, Gore at 82%, Religion at 82%, Slavery at 81%, and Body Horror at 80%. That combination signals a harsher, more relationship-centered fantasy than the average party-adventure setup.
- 2
A.C.G.T. produced the 12-episode adaptation, with Nobuharu Kamanaka directing and Mariko Kunisawa handling series composition. The dedicated action director credit for Shigeyuki Suga is notable for a show whose identity leans heavily on sword combat and violent encounters.
- 3
The character-design pipeline is crowded: Kinta and kodamazon are credited for the original character designs, while Takaaki Fukuyo, Miki Matsumoto, Fumio Matsumoto, and Takafumi Furusawa are all credited as character designers for the anime. That is a larger design roster than many single-cour fantasy adaptations list.
- 4
Its broadcast run was a clean winter-season cour, airing from January 9, 2026 to March 27, 2026 across 12 episodes. That compact format gives the adaptation a defined survival-action shape rather than the open-ended sprawl common to longer fantasy series.
- 5
The reception metrics show a clear divide between curiosity and acclaim: MAL lists 10,798 votes and popularity rank #3997, but a score of 6.24 and rank #9365. In database terms, it is more watched than it is broadly endorsed.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime is based on kiki’s original story, with Kinta and kodamazon credited for the original character designs. The production credits preserve both design-origin names rather than folding them into a single source-art credit.
- Fun fact 2
- The full Japanese title, "Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omouna" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai, follows the long-title fantasy convention where the premise is embedded directly in the name.
- Fun fact 3
- Flum Apricot and Milkit are voiced by Ayaka Nanase and Miku Itou, respectively, making the central relationship a two-lead vocal pairing rather than an ensemble-first presentation.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList records 343 favourites for the series despite its moderate 64/100 score, which fits its profile as a polarizing niche title with a smaller but more committed audience.
- Fun fact 5
- The show’s listed genres are Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Girls Love, but its tag data pushes it into much harsher territory than those broad labels suggest, especially through Gore, Body Horror, Religion, and Slavery.
Studios
- A.C.G.T.
