Hero Bunko, the IMAGICA Infos imprint brand, announced at AnimeJapan 2025 that a new TV anime series for The Ideal Sponger Life light novel series is in the works. A premiere date, along with the staff and cast, were not announced.
Tsunehiko Watanabe launched the original The Ideal Sponger Life novel in June 2011, and Shufunotomo published the first volume with illustrations by Jū Ayakura in 2012. Neko Hinotsuki launched a manga adaptation five years later in Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine in February 2017. Kadokawa published the manga’s 18th book volume in Japan this past September.
Here’s an overview of the series, via J-Novel Club:
Yamai Zenjirou is your everyday office worker in modern Japan. One morning, he suddenly finds himself summoned to a tropical world where dinosaurs roam the land. He is told that this is the kingdom of Capua and the person who summoned him – its monarch, Queen Aura – wants him to marry her and leave his old life behind for a life of carefree extravagance as her prince consort. The reasons for her offer are many and varied, but she needs an heir, and she wants him to be the one to provide it!
If he accepts, he’ll never have to work again, lazing around in luxury with no worries other than securing the kingdom its next monarch. Certainly, sleeping with the buxom beauty is far from a hardship, but is everything really as it seems? He’ll also need to give up everything he knows on Earth. Is he ready to drop it all at a moment’s notice for her sake? And how well will he be able to navigate the politics, people and culture of this new world if he does?
