Studio WHITE FOX has announced that it’s producing a new TV anime adaptation of Daken’s How I Became King by Eating Monsters (Monster no Niku wo Kutteitara Ōi ni Tsuita Ken) light novel series. The How I Became King by Eating Monsters anime will premiere in 2027, and to celebrate the announcement, novel illustrator Shiba and manga artist Karin Suzuragi revealed two new illustrations alongside a key visual from WHITE FOX.
Daken launched the original story of How I Became King by Eating Monsters on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Be Novelists)” website in January 2022. Micro Magazine’s GCN Bunko label began publishing volumes of the story in September 2023 with illustrations by Shiba.
Danganronpa 2: Chiaki Nanami’s Goodbye Despair Quest artist Karin Suzuragi launched the manga adaptation of How I Became King by Eating Monsters in January 2024 in Hakusensha’s Young Animal Zero magazine. Hakusensha also publishes the series in print.
Cross Infinite World releases the novel series in English and describes the story:
The first prince of the kingdom of Farune, Mars, is only twelve years old, yet he lives in fear of assassination. In order to avoid the deadly poison in nearly all of his meals, he slips out of the castle into the nearby monster-infested forest, where, battling monsters and his own hunger, he has to hunt for his meals in order to stave off starvation. Then, one night, as he’s searching for his next bite of monster meat, a red-haired woman shouldering a greatsword appears before him and says to him, “You have promise. Become my apprentice.”
How is he supposed to tell her that this must be some sort of mistake? But there’s a secret that only she knows, and that he’s stumbled upon: eating monsters makes you stronger! With her training and his newfound power, Mars will finally overcome all those pesky assassination attempts. However, that doesn’t end things; no, it’s only the beginning of a nationwide—even continent-spanning—series of wars and plots with him right in the middle!
