The Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival Online 2026 announced a television anime adaptation of Toshimichi Uzou‘s Soshiki no Shukuteki to Kekkon shitara Mecha Amai (My Sweet Marriage to My Ex-Nemesis) light novel on Saturday and revealed the main staff. An illustration (pictured) drawn by the light novel illustrator, Kewi Hayashi, was also shown to commemorate the announcement.

Staff

Director: Atsushi Nigorikawa (Aru Majo ga Shinu Made)

Series Composition: Keiichirou Oochi (Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta)

Character Design: Yuki Nakano (Yuusha, Yamemasu)

Studio: EMT Squared

Uzou began writing the supernatural romcom light novel under Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko imprint in October 2023, with illustration by Kewi Hayashi. The fourth volume was published in August 2025, with the sixth volume scheduled to be released on November 10.

A manga adaptation drawn by Shiime began its serialization on the Dengeki Maoh magazine in November 2024. Kadokawa released the second volume on July 27.

One Peace Books licensed the manga adaptation in English and will publish the first volume on March 16, 2027.

Synopsis

“…I hate you!”

“What a coincidence. So do I.”

The two once belonged to opposing organizations of supernatural power users, and fought for their own opposing goals. Roushi Saikawa, also known as the “Feather Hunter,” and Ritsuka Yanagi, the strongest supernatural power user known as the “White Demon.” The two spent their days battling each other and had no normal social experience, but…

“I love you, Rou-kun.”

“Me too, Ritsuka.”

After their organization was disbanded, they somehow started dating and then got married! Is their hatred 100 times more adorable? Now, they are the epitome of a lovey-dovey couple, kissing each other at the door every morning when they go to work. But the husband had just one problem. That is, he had never shared a bed with his wife… In other words, even though he was married, he was still a virgin! This is the story of the hardships faced by such a husband, who gets caught up in numerous troubles but continues to make desperate attempts to deepen his love with his strict wife. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Announcement

Source: Dengeki Online

Soshiki no Shukuteki to Kekkon shitara Mecha Amai on MAL

Oh dear. I’ve been around the block to know a, “Whelp, that’s all we’ve got, now go and read the manga!” ending when I see one, and that’s exactly the message we’re getting from the finale of The Elusive Samurai‘s second season. I have long imagined the horrifying and soul-crushing disappointment that might come with an utterly botched finale for an otherwise excellent series, like a hypothetical second season for The Promised Neverland, by way of example. This conclusion is not quite as bad as that completely fabricated scenario, and thank God for that, and I recognize that anime studios don’t exactly get to choose when and how their runs will end. That power belongs to the people with their fingers on the purse strings, after all. Still, I am duty-bound to give you my honest feelings about the media that I cover. If this really is the last we’ll see of The Elusive Samurai, then it is a shockingly disappointing and cynical ending.

What if we just take this episode as the conclusion to the season, though, and not the televised story of Tokiyuki Hojo in its entirety? Well, it would still be pretty bad, since it isn’t a proper conclusion whatsoever. Last week, we got the first real inkling of a thrilling rematch in the making, with Shokan returning to the stage as the next rival that Tokiyuki will have to take down. Despite the plot’s lack of shape and direction, Tokiyuki has clearly matured a good deal since the series began. It makes a lot of sense to pit him against an equally evolved foe from the first season so we can see our hero put all of his lessons to good use. What do we get after this episode spends its whole runtime building up the armies and setting the Hojo Clan Warriors loose onto the battlefield? A shameless cliffhanger that freezes right as the season’s climax is about to begin. If that wasn’t bad enough, the anime literally waves the pages of the manga in front of our faces to taunt us before rolling credits.

I’ve made no secret of the fact that this whole season’s lack of narrative focus and momentum has made it much less satisfying than the first, at least for me. I absolutely understand the need for the story to both conform to the more-or-less real contours of history while also giving its characters room to fail and grow. The problem is that this season has felt like nothing but a series of false starts and stalling tactics while Tokiyuki and his companions try to figure out what the hell they’re even doing. Battles have been lost; assassinations have been attempted and subsequently failed; enemies have been confronted only to slip away from our heroes’ grasp as quickly as they arrived. It would be one thing if the characters had been allowed to truly evolve in compelling ways or simply find more creative methods by which to advance their long-term goals, but we haven’t gotten much of that either. Instead, The Elusive Samurai‘s second season has mostly been content to give us some fun individual episodes and a bunch of wacky antics that have done well enough to pass the time, but not much else.

With how much I loved the first season, I’m feeling pretty bitter that The Elusive Samurai ended with such a wet fart of a finale. Even if a third season was on the way in the near future, I’m so much less inclined to give it a chance than I would have been just a handful of weeks ago, because I no longer trust that this anime respects my time or my intelligence. What a waste.

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