Summary
- A yuri manga, “I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day,” is being adapted into an anime, exciting fans worldwide.
- The yuri story features romance in a dark fantasy setting, appealing to fans of the genre.
- The anime adaptation announced casting details and production team, with a pilot trailer already released.
A new anime has been green-lit to be adapted 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 of I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day was announced via a press release directly from Kadokawa to 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.
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What is I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day?
An Upcoming Dark Fantasy Yuri
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day was created by Nachi Aono in 2018 in Comic Yuri Hime. It is now published in Japanese on the website Ichijan Plus, and is published in English by Kodasha USA. So far, the series is 7 volumes long, with an 8th volume set to publish on March 17th, 2025. Kodansha describes 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.
Because I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is 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 a few more yuri have been announced recently, keeping fans of the genre happy.
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I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, the Anime
What Do We Know?
Because I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day was just announced as an anime over the weekend, we only know a few details regarding it so far. AnimeNewsNetwork reported on the cast and production team, announcing,
The cast members are:
- Rie Takahashi as Sheena Totsuki
- Rina Hidaka as Mimi Kagari
- Asami Seto as Lizzy Seiran
- Yui Ishikawa as Ali Maud
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 official YouTube channel. Both manga creator Nachi Aono and Kyoko Yufu, the anime’s character creator, drew cute artwork of the main characters to 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 for I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is just around the corner.
Read I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day now on Kodansha USA.
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