Lots of new Netflix anime announcements, with the next one being an absolute favorite of ours: Kousuke Oono’s comedy manga series Way of the Househusband is getting its own anime series next year! The happy news was announced during the Netflix Anime Festival 2020, which also revealed that the anime series will star Kenjiro Tsuda. Tsuda directed and starred as Tatsu in a live-action promo video for the manga last December.
Check out the first official visual for the anime below!
The anime series will be directed by Chiaki Kon (Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 and Sailor Moon Eternal films), with Susumu Yamakawa (Back Street Girls: Gokudols) writing the scripts. JC Staff is animating the series.
Way of the Househusband recently received a live-action TV series, which premiered in Japan last October 11. Hiroshi Tamaki plays main character Tatsu, who decided to retire from the yakuza life to support his career woman wife Miku (played by Haruna Kawaguchi). Jun Shison plays Masa, one of Tatsu’s underlings in his former yakuza gang. The series is directed by Toichirou Rutou, among other yet-unnamed directors. Uda Manabu is the first scriptwriter to be named for the TV series.
Anime News Network describes Way of the House Husband’s story as such:
“The Way of the Househusband follows a retired yakuza member known as “Immortal Tatsu” who is living out his post-crime career as a househusband. He still manages to find his way into trouble from time to time, except it’s in the grocery aisle instead of some back alley.”
The manga series was launched on Shinchosha’s Kurage Bunch website on February 2018, with the same company publishing the manga’s compiled volumes. So far, five volumes have been released for the series. Viz Media holds the English license rights to the manga, with the 4th volume already out this Tuesday.
The Way of the Househusband is a huge success in Japan, with over 1.2 million copies in print as of December 2019. It also enjoys critical acclaim abroad, having won the Best Humor Publication category at this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Source: Anime News Network