Always a Catch!

Having poured her entire life into martial arts training because she was supposed to inherit her father's dukedom, Maria Annovazzi now finds herself at a crossroads. Then her parents had a baby boy, and suddenly she's not the heir anymore. Cool, so now she needs to find a husband — except she's spent zero time thinking about romance and all the good prospects back home are taken. Her solution: study abroad in the neighboring kingdom of Rubini, where surely someone is available. What she doesn't expect is the crown prince publicly breaking off an engagement with her that she didn't even know existed. So within roughly five minutes of arriving in a new country, she's already been dumped by a guy she's never met. That's the setup, and it only gets more ridiculous from there. Maria isn't your typical noble heroine — she can probably beat up most of the men she's supposed to be courting, and her total cluelessness about romance makes every interaction land somewhere between endearing and chaotic. TROYCA is handling production for this 2026 TV series adapted from the light novel, and the comedy-romance-fantasy blend feels like it has real potential. If you liked the oblivious protagonist energy of My Next Life as a Villainess or the way The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent handles a woman finding her footing in unfamiliar territory, this hits a similar vibe but with more punching and a heroine who genuinely did not ask for any of this.