The first trailer for the animated TV adaptation of Kureha’s The Ogre’s Bride (Oni no Hanayome) light novel series has been posted on YouTube. Originally announced in June 2025, the series will premiere sometime in 2026.
The story is summarized as such:
In a world where humans and supernatural creatures (ayashiki) live side by side in harmony, some of the ayashiki take human women as brides. These young women supposedly bring prosperity to the ayashiki clans. In return the women receive both absolute devotion from their magical new husbands and admiration from other humans.
Yuzu Shinonome, an ordinary high school student, lives in the shadow of her popular younger sister Karin. The girls’ parents dote on Karin due to her being chosen as the bride of a fox spirit, and in turn neglect Yuzu. Things become even more strained for Yuzu when her boyfriend Yamato unceremoniously dumps her to pursue Karin, despite knowing the younger sister is already engaged. When a squabble between the sisters leads to Karin’s fiancee attacking Yuzu, the older girl flees her home both injured and on the brink of total despair. At her lowest point, Yuzu has a fateful encounter with a beautiful young man at a bridge. This man, Reiya Kiryuuin is a representative of the most powerful clan in the world of the ayashiki. He dramatically declares that Yuzu is his bride, and this seemingly unloved girl finds her life forever changed.
Watch the new trailer here:
Colored Pencil Animation Japan is producing the anime with Kazuhito Ōmiya as director. Yumi Kamakura will handle script composition. Hikari Tanaka is in charge of main character design with Hiroko Shigekuni in charge of overall character design. Masaru Yokoyama is composing the musical score.
As announced previously, Saori Hayama (Yor Forger in Spy x Family, Blizzard from Hell in One Punch Man) and Yūichirō Umehara (Eugene Seven Stark in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Vasily Pavlichenko in Golden Kamuy) will play the leading pair Yuzu and Reiya. Also announced in February was that Momoka Terasawa and Miyu Kobashi are playing the roles of Sou and Ao, Reiya’s familiars.
Newly announced are the following castings:
Manaka Iwami as Karin Shinonome, Yuzu’s younger sister. Ryōta Ōsaka as Yōta Kogetsu, Karin’s fox spirit fiance. Natsuki Hanae will play Tōkichi Nekota, a low-ranking cat spirit. Lastly, Sayaka Senbongi will play Tōko, Yuzu’s supportive best friend and bride to Tōkichi.
Kureha first published The Ogre’s Bride on Starts Publishing’s Novema! platform in 2019. He then launched a light novel adaptation in Oct 2020, with illustrations by Yū Shiroya . It has nine volumes published as of the present date . Kureha has gone on to write a manga adaptation with art by Jun Togashi beginning in December 2021, with eight volumes currently released. A Live-action film is scheduled to be released on March 27th, 2026.
