King Amusement Creative has revealed that Shinichi Sawaragi and artist Tanku Gasuyama’s A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage (Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu Kon) manga will be getting an anime adaptation.
To celebrate the announcement, Gasuyama released a celebratory illustration:
Sawaragi and Gasuyama first released the A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage manga in Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine in December 2022. Hakusensha published the sixth volume in Japan on October 29 and will publish the seventh volume on April 28, 2026. Yen Press licenses the manga in English.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via publisher Yen Press:
Forty-year-old detective Eiji Kirisame has found maybe the strangest witness of his life: a silent high school girl named Tsugumi Kuchinashi who was at the scene of the crime. Her statements mostly consist of shoddy doodles on a drawing pad, but Eiji is no stranger to piecing together the truth from limited evidence. He’ll take every page seriously if it might help solve the case. But why does the last page say… “Will you marry me?!”
