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Oni no Hanayome Light Novels Get TV Anime
posted on by Anita Tai
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Kureha's Oni no Hanayome (Bride of the Ogre) light novels announced a television anime adaptation on Monday.
The manga adaptation artist Jun Togashi drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement.
The illustrator for the light novels, Yū Shiroya, also created an illustration in celebration.
The light novel series and its manga adaptation collectively have over 5.8 million copies in circulation.
The series is set in a Japan where humans and demons co-exist peacefully. Yuzu is an ordinary high school girl, who lives in the shadow of her older sister who is the bride of a demon. One day, she has a life-changing encounter with a beautiful ogre who claims her as his bride.
Togashi launched the manga adaptation in Starts Publishing's Noicomi magazine in December 2021. The manga adaptation won Noicomi's annual comic ranking in the girl comics category in 2022 and 2023. Starts shipped the sixth compiled book volume on November 22 and will ship the seventh compiled book volume on June 13.
Kureha began the light novel series on Starts Publishing's Novema! platform in 2019. The series won the grand prize at the First Novema! Character Short Story Contest. Starts published the sixth volume on January 10.
Sources: Oni no Hanayome's X/Twitter account, Mantan Web
