TOHO animation has announced that Toshiya Wakabayashi’s Happy Kanako’s Killer Life manga series is getting a TV anime adaptation in April 2027. The main cast and staff members of the anime were also revealed alongside a new trailer and key visual.
Shinji Takamatsu directs the Happy Kanako’s Killer Life anime at studio Drive and, and he also oversees the series scripts. Yoshiyuki Ōkubo is the character designer and chief animation director.
The main cast includes Hana Tamegai as Kanako Nishino, Ryōta Suzuki as Sakurai, and Junichi Suwabe as President.
Wakabayashi launched the four-panel web manga on Twitter and his pixivFANBOX account. Seikaisha serializes the manga on its Twi4 service and publishes it in print in Japan.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and describes the story:
Nishino Kanako sure hates her job, and is only too happy to snag the first new gig that comes her way. She never expected that her interview would be at an agency for contract killers…or that she’d be really, really good at bumping people off! Kanako doesn’t have a ton of self-confidence, and adjusting to her new life as an assassin isn’t the easiest. Will she ever earn the respect of Sakurai, her prickly but kinda hot new coworker? Find out in this dangerously funny, full-color manga!
