The production team behind the television anime adaptation of Kureha’s light novel series The Ogre’s Bride (Oni no Hanayome) released the full promotional video and a new key visual on Sunday, officially confirming a July 4 premiere date.
Theme Songs
Pop trio ClariS perform the opening theme song “Hitokoto” (A Word). The track will be available on digital music platforms on July 5 at midnight in Japan (July 4 at 11:00 a.m. EDT). ClariS will also add a special concert leg subtitled “Musubi-yo” (Final Night) to their ongoing “ClariS 15th Thanks Tour ~Ichige Tōsai~” tour, scheduled for Tokyo on September 18.
Actor and singer Ikusaburō Yamazaki performs the ending theme song “Shinboshi.”
Additional Staff
The production has revealed the following additional crew members:
- Art Director / Art Setting: MAI MAI
- Color Key Artist: Akiko Shibata
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tomoyoshi Ishizuka
- Editing: Junichi Itou
- Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
- Sound Production: Rakuonsha
Kazuhito Ōmiya directs the anime at Colored Pencil Animation Japan. Yumi Kamakura handles series scripts, Hikari Tanaka and Hiroko Shigekuni are credited for character designs, and Masaru Yokoyama composes the score.
Cast
- Saori Hayami as Yuzu Shinonome
- Yūichirō Umehara as Reiya Kiryuin
- Manaka Iwami as Karin Shinonome
- Ryōta Ōsaka as Yōta Kogetsu
- Sayaka Senbongi as Tōko
- Natsuki Hanae as Tōkichi Nekota
- Taito Ban as Takamichi Araki
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Ouga Kiyama
- Aya Endō as Sakurako Kiyama
- Momoka Terasawa as Sou
- Miyu Kobashi as Ao
Story and Source Material
The series is set in a Japan where humans and demons coexist peacefully. Yuzu is an ordinary high school girl living in the shadow of her older sister, who is already the bride of a demon. Her life is upended when she has a fateful encounter with a strikingly beautiful ogre who claims her as his own bride.
Kureha launched the light novel series on Starts Publishing’s Novema! platform in 2019, where it won the grand prize at the First Novema! Character Short Story Contest. The ninth volume was published in May 2024, with illustrations by Yū Shiroya.
Jun Togashi‘s manga adaptation has been running in Starts Publishing’s Noicomi magazine since December 2021, topping Noicomi’s annual girls’ comics ranking in both 2022 and 2023. The ninth compiled volume shipped on March 27, and MangaPlaza is publishing the manga in English.
Combined circulation for the light novel and manga adaptation has surpassed 5.8 million copies. A live-action film adaptation also opened on March 27, selling 146,000 tickets and grossing approximately 202,395,960 yen (about US$1.27 million) in its opening three days.
Broadcast and Streaming
The anime premieres in Japan on July 4 at 24:30 (effectively July 5 at 12:30 a.m.) on Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV, with simulcast streaming on d Anime Store, ABEMA, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai. Nine additional broadcast channels across Japan and further streaming platforms will follow.
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