My Happy Marriage Special Sets October 25 Broadcast and Streaming Debut

Kadokawa announced Monday that all three episodes of the My Happy Marriage (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon) television anime special will air and stream on October 25. The anime adapts Akumi Agitogi and Tsukiho Tsukioka’s light novels.

TV Tokyo and other stations will begin airing the special at 7:00 p.m. JST. Netflix and other services will start streaming it that day at 8:30 p.m. JST.

Kadokawa also released a teaser previewing Kashitarō Itō’s ending theme, “Prelude no Temae ni: for me&you” (“Right Before the Prelude: for me&you”). An English-subtitled version was subsequently added.

M.A.O joins the cast as new character Kimio Nagaba. Reina Ueda and Kaito Ishikawa reprise their roles as Miyo and Kudo, respectively, from the earlier seasons.

Takehiro Kubota returns to direct the three-episode special at Kinema Citrus and handle series composition. He directed the first season and 2024 OVA, then co-directed season two with Masayuki Kojima.

The special’s staff also includes:

• Script: Mika Tanaka, who handled production advancement on season one, alongside Ikuho Negi.
• Character design: returning designer Shōko Yasuda, alongside Hikaru Sato and Kuniyuki Itō, previously credited for season two’s sub-character design.
• Music: returning composer Evan Call.
• Color design: Anna Okamatsu, returning from earlier seasons.
• Background art director: Omi Noda, who previously worked on season two’s background art.
• Art setting: returning staff member Yoshinori Hishinuma, who also handles art supervision alongside Yoshihiro Sono.
• Prop design: returning staff members Mikio, Ryō Hirata, and Takeshi Takakura.
• Compositing director of photography: returning staff member Tsunetaka Ema.
• 3D director: returning staff member Yūji Koshida.
• Kimono design: returning staff member HALKA.
• 2D artist: returning staff member hydekick.
• Editing: returning editor Masayuki Kurosawa.
• Music director: returning staff member Takahiro Ikeda.
• Music production: MIRACLE BUS.
• Sound director: returning staff member Kisuke Koizumi.
• Sound production: Glovision.

The second season debuted in January 2025 on Tokyo MX, BS11, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and AT-X. Netflix and other services began streaming it alongside its television premiere.

The first season launched in July 2023 and ran for 12 episodes. Netflix began streaming it worldwide that same month.

The eighth novel volume shipped in March 2024 with a Blu-ray Disc containing the original anime “Shiawase no Katachi” (“The Shape of Happiness”). The OVA also streamed simultaneously worldwide through Netflix and other services in November 2024, on Japan’s “Good Couples Day.”

Agitogi and Tsukioka began the novel series in January 2019. Yen Press licenses the light novels.

Yen Press describes Miyo as a noblewoman raised by an abusive stepmother and married off to Kiyoka, a soldier considered heartless. His previous fiancées all fled within three days of their engagements.

With nowhere to return, Miyo gradually opens her heart to her cold, pale husband-to-be despite their difficult first meeting. Their relationship could offer her a chance at true love and happiness.

Rito Kohsaka’s manga adaptation launched on Square Enix’s Gangan Online website in December 2018. Square Enix Manga & Books publishes it in English in print and digitally.

A live-action film adapting the novels opened in Japan in March 2023 and topped its opening weekend. During its first three days, it sold 479,700 tickets and earned 654 million yen, approximately US$4.97 million.