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'A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage' TV Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, January 2027 Debut in Video
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King Amusement Creative revealed a teaser promotional video on Friday for the television anime of storywriter Shinichi Sawaragi and artist Tanku Gasuyama's A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage (Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu Kon) manga. The company also revealed the main cast and staff, a teaser visual, and the show's January 2027 debut.
The anime will star Tomoaki Maeno as Eiji Kirisame and Inori Minase as Tsugumi Kuchinashi.
Takaaki Ishiyama (Chaos;HEAd, Fairy Musketeers) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Shigeru Murakoshi (Snowball Earth, Zombie Land Saga) is overseeing the series scripts, and Miyuki Nakamura (The Unaware Atelier Master) is designing the characters. Hiroto Morishita (The Faraway Paladin, Wistoria: Wand and Sword) is the sound director and Kana Hashiguchi (Classroom of the Elite (TV 3), Black Fox) is composing the music.
Yen Press announced in August 2025 it had licensed the manga, and it released the first volume in English on March 24. The publisher describes the story:
Forty-year-old detective Eiji Kirisame has found maybe the strangest witness of his life: a silent high school girl named Tsugumi Kuchinashi who was at the scene of the crime. Her statements mostly consist of shoddy doodles on a drawing pad, but Eiji is no stranger to piecing together the truth from limited evidence. He'll take every page seriously if it might help solve the case. But why does the last page say... “Will you marry me?!”
Sawaragi and Gasuyama launched the manga in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine in December 2022. Hakusensha published the seventh volume on April 28. The manga has 400,000 copies in circulation.
Sources: A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage anime's website, Comic Natalie
