After six weeks in the Netflix Global Top 10, there’s no room to argue: the new anime My Happy Marriage is one of the summer’s biggest sleeper hits.
This isn’t the first time the title’s seen runaway success across different mediums, either.
Based on an ongoing series of popular light novels by author Akumi Agitogi, My Happy Marriage was already adapted into a bestselling 2019 manga and a 2023 live-action film that debuted at #1 at the Japanese box office.
In these money-making circumstances, an anime adaptation’s usually the next step.
Said anime coming from Kinema Citrus, the studio with street cred as impressive as .hack//Quantum, Barakamon, and the Star Wars: Visions episode “The Village Bride,” is even more of a goldmine.
Thus, the inevitable question arises: what’s the appeal?…
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