A press release listed that the manga written and illustrated by Yayu Murata“If My Wife Became an Elementary School Student (Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru)”, will have an anime adaptation that will premiere sometime this year in Japan. The statement listed production details, but did not reveal the voice cast in charge.
Yayu Murata The publication of the manga began through the magazine Weekly Manga Times from the publisher Houbunsha in July 2018, and ended it in December 2022. Therefore, this is one of those rare cases where a finished manga gets an anime adaptation. The above is possibly because the work was quite popular at the time due to its curious theme.
Production team
- Noriyuki Abe (BLEACH, Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho, Gakkou no Kaidan) is in charge of directing the anime in Studio Signpostformerly known as Pierrot Plus.
- Sawako Hirabayashi (Horimiya, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Shiki) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Narihito Sekikawa (Tokyo Ghoul, THE LAST: NARUTO THE MOVIE, Inu-ou) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
Synopsis of If My Wife Became an Elementary School Student
Keisuke Niijima lost his beloved wife, Takae, 10 years ago. Since then, he does not feel alive and is seen as a gloomy man. The only family Keisuke has left is his only daughter, Mai. Keisuke wants Mai to be happy, but he has done nothing for her daughter other than providing for her. Father-daughter time stopped 10 years ago. They live in the same house but lead very separate lives and do not communicate well. One day, an elementary school girl appears in front of Niijima’s house and claims that she is the reincarnation of Takae.
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