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Oni no Hanayome Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, Teaser Video, Key Visual
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Aniplex revealed during the Aniplex Online Fest event on Saturday the cast, staff, teaser video, and key visual of the television anime adaptation of Kureha's Oni no Hanayome (Bride of the Ogre) light novels. The video states that the anime will premiere in 2026.
Saori Hayami is playing the protagonist Yuzu Shinonome. Yūichirō Umehara is playing Reiya Kiryuin.
Kazuhito Ōmiya is directing the anime at Colored Pencil Animation Japan. Yumi Kamakura is in charge of series composition. Hikari Tanaka is designing the characters. Masaru Yokoyama is composing the music.
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.
Jun 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 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. Yū Shiroya illustrates the series.
The light novel series and its manga adaptation collectively have over 5.8 million copies in circulation.
Source: Aniplex Online Fest livestream
