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'Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta' Light Novels Get TV Anime
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Kadokawa announced in a video on Tuesday that Hiro Oda's Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta (Even Though She's a Timid Young Lady to the Max, She Agreed to Her Shrewd Fiancé's Bet) light novel series will receive a television anime. Kadokawa also revealed a teaser visual and the anime's main cast.
Miku Itō is voicing the protagonist Pia Rockwell, and Ryōta Ōsaka is voicing Rufus Stan. Both are reprising these same roles from the novels' voice drama and the manga adaptation's voice comic episodes.
The novels' illustrator Tsubasa.v and the manga adaptation's artist Aji Murata each drew illustrations to celebrate the anime announcement:
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The romantic comedy centers on Pia, an ordinary grad student who gets reincarnated as a 10-year-old background villainess in an otome game. She remembers the game ends with her engagement with the prime minister's son Rufus Stan called off and her banishment from the land, so she asks Rufus to already break the engagement while they are young. But her request only piqued Rufus' interest to her more, and he makes a bet with her to see if he will really call of their engagement in seven years.
Oda launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in January 2020. That early version has nine chapters and ended with two epilogue chapters. Kadokawa started publishing the novels with illustration by Tsubasa.v in August 2020, and the seventh volume shipped in April 2024. (Oda has since posted more tie-in short stories and spinoffs on Shōsetsuka ni Narō.)
Murata launched the manga adaptation on Comic Walker as part of Kadokawa's Flos Comic website in 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's fourth compiled book volume in January 2024. The overall project has 1.2 million copies in circulation.
J-Novel Club released Oda's three-volume Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to be an Adventurer light novels in English, and also its manga adaptation by Tasuke Sakura.
Source: Press release
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