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Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! TV Anime Debuts in April 2026 (Updated)

The January 2026 issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine announced on Monday that the television anime adaptation of Kumako Hisama's Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! (Living Life to the Fullest in a Tiny One-Tatami-Mat-Sized Room) manga will debut in April 2026.

Toshinori Watanabe (Tokyo Ghoul:re, Mix: Meisei Story) will direct the series at PRA. Fumiya Uehara will design the characters, Yayoi Tateishi (Baby Steps, Happy Sugar Life) will direct the music and MONACA (Tenkai Knights, Love Tyrant) will compose the music.

The other staff include:

• Chief animation directors: Fumiya Uehara, Minefumi Harada, Yūki Yabata, Saori Sakiguchi
• Costume design: Fumiya Uehara, Michiko Ōtani
• Art design: Shino Tanaka
• Art director: Minami Nakazato
• Color design: Hiroko Umazaki
• 2D works: Yumeta Company
• Director of photography: Yasushi Kimura
• Editing: Keisuke Yanagi

Update: Added teaser visual and staff

Source: Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! anime's official website

The "somewhat sexy manga café comedy" follows Meiko Morita, who moves to Tokyo from the countryside to transfer into an elite girls' academy. In exchange for "free tuition if she does volunteer work," she begins living and working at Hedgehog, a manga café that also doubles as a girls' dormitory. She meets idiosyncratic characters such as Rie Amamiya (a wealthy heiress who serves as Hedgehog's dormitory keeper/café manager and who is into yuri and boys-love manga), Marika Suzuki (a popular streamer on "MuTube" under the name "Marica Belltree"), and Neo Nakano (a pro gamer who competes in world championships).

The manga debuted in Manga Time Kirara in December 2018, and its fourth compiled book volume shipped on July 26.

Sources: Manga Time Kirara January issue, Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! anime's official website