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A new anime has been green-lit to beadapted from manga for the screen. This new project stands apart from others that have been recently announced, because it is a yuri manga.I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, created by Nachi Aono, is a dark fantasy yuri story that has been a successful manga, and is now set to become an anime. Because yuri anime are less common than other genres, this is very exciting news for yuri fans around the world.
The news of the upcoming adaptation ofI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Daywas announced via a press releasedirectly from Kadokawato news site AnimeNewsNetwork over the weekend. Along with the announcement of the upcoming anime, a short pilot trailer was already dropped. Additionally, two special pieces of art by the creator and the anime’s character designer were also released to celebrate the exciting news.
What isI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day?
An Upcoming Dark Fantasy Yuri
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Daywas created by Nachi Aono in 2018 inComic Yuri Hime. It is now published in Japanese on the website Ichijan Plus, and ispublished in English by KodashaUSA. So far, the series is 7 volumes long, with an 8th volume set to publish on March 17th, 2025.Kodanshadescribes the plot as,
An orphanage for girls is actually a boot camp, turning out magical child soldiers for a gruesome war. Yet love finds a way to blossom amid bloodshed, in this dramatic, much-anticipated yuri manga that is spiritual kin to the likes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Otherside Picnic, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.
BecauseI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Dayis a yuri story, you can expect romance amidst the fantasy and action. Specifically, “yuri” is the term used for what is commonly called “girls' love,” meaning that it focuses on an intimate relationship between two females. It is a less common genre in the anime and manga world, especially in English adaptations, but afew more yuri have been announcedrecently, keeping fans of the genre happy.
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, the Anime
What Do We Know?
BecauseI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Daywas just announced as an anime over the weekend, we only know a few details regarding it so far.AnimeNewsNetworkreported on the cast and production team, announcing,
The cast members are:
Takudai Kakuchi (In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki, Tokyo Autumn Session) is directing the anime at ROLL2 with assistant director Yasushi Tomoda, and Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Sound! Euphonium) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Kyoko Yufu (Delicious Party♡Precure, Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles) designs the characters. Yukari Hashimoto (March comes in like a lion, Sarazanmai) composes the music. Infinite is producing with EVOLROAR on product support.
In addition to announcing these cast and production details, a pilot trailer for the anime was also published on Kadokawa’s officialYouTubechannel. Both manga creator Nachi Aono and Kyoko Yufu, the anime’s character creator, drewcute artwork of the main charactersto celebrate the announcement. At this time, there is no news regarding the anime’s production schedule or air date. With a trailer already released, though, it is clear that they have already begun to work. Hopefully an announcement regarding the air date forI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Dayis just around the corner.
ReadI Want to Love You Till Your Dying Daynow onKodansha USA.
