The official website for the television anime adaptation of Ichi Yukishiro‘s Hone Dragon no Mana Musume (The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter) web manga revealed the main cast, a key visual (pictured), and the first promotional video on Thursday. The anime series will premiere in 2027.

Voice actors Kana Hanazawa (Angel Beats!) and Kazuhiko Inoue (Natsume Yuujinchou) are starring as Eve and Nemu, respectively.

Kuniyasu Nishina (Isekai Ojisan episode director) is helming the anime at Doga Kobo, with Yuka Yamada (Hoshifuru Oukoku no Nina) handling the series composition. Tomoya Atsumi (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san animation director) is designing the characters. Daiki Kuribayashi (Shoukoku no Altair) and Yuuki Hatakeyama (Summertime Render) are in charge of background art.

Yukishiro originally began serializing the slice of life fantasy series on the MAGCOMI web service in September 2020, it was later being transferred to Comic Garden in January 2022. Mag Garden published the sixth volume in August 2025.

J-Novel Club licensed the series in English digitally in May 2022. Media Do licensed the series in print in October 2022. The sixth digital volume went on sale on April 29, with the physical edition scheduled for a December 1 release.

Hone Dragon no Mana Musume was nominated in the web category at the 2021 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards.

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Source: animate Times

Anime’s 1st part premieres on Saturday

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Kadokawa revealed the first main promotional video, main visual, main cast members, and 2027 debut for the television anime of Ichi Yukishiro‘s Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter (Hone Dragon no Manamusume) manga, on Thursday.

The anime will star:

Kana Hanazawa as Eve, a girl abandoned in the Forest of Scraps

Kazuhiko Inoue as Nemu, the Skull Dragon who raised Eve

J-Novel Club releases the manga digitally, and Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in print. J-Novel Club describes the story:

In the Forest of Scraps, a place where all manner of things are discarded, an old dragon sleeps away his final days—that is, until an abandoned child suddenly appears before him. The tiny human is Eve, and despite being only five years of age, she has somehow endured the many dangers that surround them. In an act of pity, the dragon decides to raise her as his own…but his time is still running out.

After five years together, he takes his last breath, leaving his precious daughter on her own. Little does the dragon know, Eve is capable of more than he realizes, and their reunion may be sooner than he thinks…

Hoping to improve Eve’s control over her magical abilities before his resurrected body gives out, the skull dragon sets out on an adventure with his reckless human daughter—but who knows what kind of trouble awaits them?

Kuniyasu Nishina (Oshi no Ko, Blue Period, 86 episode director) is directing the anime at Dōga Kōbō. Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S, Nina the Starry Bride, Tokyo Mew Mew New) is in charge of the series scripts, and Tomoya Atsumi (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, The Quintessential Quintuplets episode key animator) is designing the characters. Kusanagi‘s Daiki Kuribayashi (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, Dragon Ball Super: Broly film) and Yūki Hatakeyama (Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, One Piece Film Gold) are in charge of background art.

Yukishiro launched the manga on Mag Garden‘s Mag Comi website in 2020. Mag Garden published the manga’s sixth compiled book volume in August 2025. Seven Seas will publish the sixth volume in English on December 1. The manga went on hiatus in July and will return in spring next year. 

Source: Press release 

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