A new PV trailer has been revealed for the upcoming Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii TV anime series, which will begin airing in Japan on October 7, 2024.
The new trailer previews the two main theme songs, which include the opening theme “UNDER and OVER” by The Oral Cigarettes and the ending theme is “Nani Warotonnen” by Yoshino.
Four new voice cast members were also announced in the trailer, which include:
- • Ryota Takeuchi as Aoi Tachibana
- • Hiroshi Shimozaki as Sota Inamori
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Taketo Hotei
- • Reina Ueda as Tsubaki Akashigata
They join a main cast that stars:
- • Hitomi Ueda as Somei Yoshino
- • Akira Ishida as Miyama Kirishima
- • Koji Yusa as Shoma Toriashi
- • Hiroshi Kamiya as Azami Suou
- • Yoji Ueda as Renji Somei
- • Kazuya Nakai as Gaku Miyama
Toshifumi Kawase is directing the anime series, with Rika Takasugi as screenwriter and scriptwriter, Itsuko Takeda as character designer, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi and Masato Suzuki as music composers. Studio Deen is handling the animation production.
The original romantic drama manga by Asuka Konishi was published on pixiv under a pen name, before being serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine on August 25, 2017. Eight tankobon volumes have been released as of October 2023. The manga was awarded first place in the printed manga category of the 2018 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Award. Seven Seas Entertainment releases the manga in English for North America.
Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide, outside of Japan. It will be streamed in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Crunchyroll describes the main synopsis of Yakuza Fiancé as:
Somei Renji is Somei Yoshino’s grandfather and leader of the “Somei Group”, the Kansai region’s biggest yakuza group. When he arranges for her to be married to Miyama Kirishima, Yoshino has to move to “Miyama Clan” estate, the Kanto region’s biggest yakuza group.
Kirishima warmly welcomes Yoshino and is such a pleasant, personable, and nice young man that nobody would suspect that he comes from a yakuza family. This puts Yoshino at ease even though she was initially feeling insecure in this unfamiliar place.
But then, a certain event leads to Yoshino witnessing the real Kirishima…
Source: Yakuza Fiancé Official Anime Twitter
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