Ichjinsha has announced that Tomo Nagawa’s Would you like to be a tanuki? (Omae, Tanuki ni Narane–ka?) manga is getting an anime adaptation. The staff unveiled a new trailer and a new key visual on the anime’s newly launched official website.
Check it out below:
To celebrate the announcement, Nagawa drew a celebratory announcement:
Jun Kamiya is directing the anime at Nippon Animation, and Masaki Wachi is supervising and writing the series scripts. Cocoro Takemoto is designing the characters. Minako Seki is composing the music.
The Would you like to be a tanuki? manga follows a mythical tanuki creature called Koganemaru, who seeks out humans with a troubled by life. Koganemaru asks them if they want to try becoming a tanuki in order to help them rediscover what is important in their own lives.
Nagawa first released the manga in Ichijinsha’s Comic Pool digital manga magazine in April 2021. Ichijinsha then published the manga’s ninth compiled book volume in October 2025 and will publish the 10th volume on May 25.
