
Kureha's Bride of the Barrier Master Light Novels Get TV Anime
Tōru Kitahata helms anime adaptation at TROYCA
Kadokawa announced on Tuesday that Kureha's Bride of the Barrier Master (Kekkaishi no Ichirinka) light novel series will get a television anime adaptation, and revealed a teaser visual and the anime's main staff.The light novels' original character designer Bodax, and manga adaptation artist Odayaka both drew illustrations to celebrate the anime announcement:Tōru Kitahata (Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, Hinako Note) is directing the anime at TROYCA. Minami Murayama (ATRI: My Dear Moments six episodes, IDOLiSH7 Third Beat! three episodes animation director) is designing the characters, and Yūko Kakihara (Blue Box, Cells at Work!, 2022 & 2024 Urusei Yatsura) is in charge of series scripts.Yen Press' Yen On imprint publishes the light novels in English and describes the story:
Kadokawa published the novels' first volume in December 2021, and the sixth volume will publish on August 25. The novels has over 2 million copies in circulation.Odayaka's manga adaptation launched on Kadokawa's B's-LOG COMIC digital manga magazine in March 2022. Kadokawa published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on July 1. Yen Press also publishes the manga adaptation in English.Source: Press release