Manga 'Romantic Killer' Gets Anime Adaptation

by DatRandomDude
Aug 22, 2022 7:38 PM | 30 Comments

Netflix Japan announced an anime adaptation of Wataru Momose's Romantic Killer manga on Tuesday, revealing the main cast, staff, opening theme artist, and a teaser promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere worldwide on Netflix on October 27.

Rie Takahashi (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) and Mikako Komatsu (Edens Zero) are starring as Anzu Hoshino and Lili, respectively.

Staff
Director: Kazuya Ichikawa (Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation)
Series Composition: Sayuri Ooba (Oniichan no Koto nanka Zenzen Suki ja Nai n da kara ne!!)
Script: Sayuri Ooba, Hiroko Fukuda (Taishou Otome Otogibanashi)
Character Design: Arisa Matsuura (Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun)
Music: Ryou Kawasaki (Fumetsu no Anata e), Tomoyuki Kono (Thermae Romae Novae)
Studio: domerica
Planning, Production: Netflix

Anisong singer YURiKA (Hanebado!) is performing the opening theme "ROMA☆KiRA," which is previewed in the promotional video below.

Momose began the romantic comedy manga on the Shounen Jump+ website in July 2019 and ended it with the 39th chapter in June 2020. Shueisha shipped the fourth and final volume digitally in September 2020. All four volumes are planned for a physical release on October 4. VIZ Media licensed the manga in English this February and will publish the first volume on October 4.

Synopsis
When gamer Anzu gets transported to a world of hot guys, it’s like she’s in a dream…someone else’s dream!

High schooler Anzu Hoshino has a great life. Every day she plays video games, pigs out on snacks, and pets her beloved cat. But this blissful existence is turned into a confusing mess when a magical creature transports her to an altered reality bereft of her favorite things. Now she’s stuck with hot guys instead! How can she possibly survive in such an awful world?!

Anzu must play along in this altered reality before she can return to her normal life, so she begrudgingly makes friends with Tsukasa Kazuki. He unfortunately happens to be one of the hottest and most popular guys at school, and what’s worse, she realizes that he might not even be that bad of a person! (Source: VIZ Media)

Teaser PV

Official manga page: https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/10834108156672159758

Source: Comic Natalie

Romantic Killer on MAL

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Haaruukaa said:
Oh, I just watched the trailer for this the other day. It seems alright, I might give it a try. Harems just tend to give me anxiety because I invest so much time for the possibility of the ship I like not going through in the end, lol. Maybe I'll just wait until it's over first. Either way, the main girl's design is awesome, so that's a win.

CQLLIST said:
I mean sure the visuals look average at best but what I'm most curious about is who will this girl end up being with :P

I am also interested who she will choose in the end.

Sep 30, 2022 7:17 AM by Memore

I mean sure the visuals look average at best but what I'm most curious about is who will this girl end up being with :P

Sep 30, 2022 7:15 AM by CQLLIST

Oh, I just watched the trailer for this the other day. It seems alright, I might give it a try. Harems just tend to give me anxiety because I invest so much time for the possibility of the ship I like not going through in the end, lol. Maybe I'll just wait until it's over first. Either way, the main girl's design is awesome, so that's a win.

Sep 30, 2022 3:59 AM by Haaruukaa

Fario-P said:

Director: Kazuya Ichikawa (Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation)
Studio: domerica

...huh... more from TWEWY's anime director and studio............ ooh boy... *sigh*

What disturbs me far more than that though is that Viz Media is licensing the original Romantic Killer manga in America under their Shojo Beat line... when this manga was actually from Shounen Jump+...
Okay, sure, they did make other weird decisions like putting Arina Tanemura's latest manga Idol Dreams under Shoujo Beat when its source magazine is a shoujo/josei hybrid target demographic, putting the shoujo series Children of the Whales under their Viz Signature imprint, which is usually reserved for seinen titles like Monster, printing stuff like Honey and Clover and Socrates in Love under Shojo Beat when they're both josei, but... marketing a shounen manga as a shoujo manga is something else... this is just straight-up false advertising......

edit: forgot to mention HachiKuro and SekaChu

IIRC it was meant to be Shoujo, but was marketed by Shueisha under Shounen.

Sep 26, 2022 10:11 AM by RealNath

i already love this

Sep 6, 2022 5:16 AM by Stacias

Fario-P said:

Director: Kazuya Ichikawa (Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation)
Studio: domerica

So this is the manga that was placed under grounds for lawsuit for false advertising and also of all fucking people of fucking course. I already know this is going to turn out to be pretty fucking mid as soon as it airs.

Aug 30, 2022 5:05 AM by Disapeared_Ghost

ohhh romance reverse harem otome isekai? but its shounen? bit surprised since these are usually hardcore shoujo/josei but aight! ill tune in for a bit

Aug 27, 2022 7:18 PM by lizzziziz

Looks good so I'll check it out

Aug 26, 2022 3:59 AM by Yui_Suzumiya69

Another one of those otome game type of anime, prolly not gonna watch.

Aug 25, 2022 12:22 AM by MegamiRem

Feels pretty last second, but I'm always up for ore Jump+ adaptions.

Aug 23, 2022 8:50 PM by malvarez1

Director: Kazuya Ichikawa (Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation)
Studio: domerica

Aug 23, 2022 6:12 PM by Fario-P

PrimeTime25 said:
More Rie Takahashi anime :D
It's a reverse harem anime D:

Well as much as I like Rieri, this already went out of my radar.

what's the problem? were you expecting a straight harem or another romcom?

Aug 23, 2022 5:22 PM by G0ldStark

It will be ONA series.

Aug 23, 2022 9:05 AM by Memore

Another anime produced by Netflix, they haven't actually produced that much stuff by themselves in the past, so I'm curious to see how this will turn out.
The studio doesn't seem to be anything special either.

Aug 23, 2022 8:57 AM by MadanielFL

The animation didn't look that good, but maybe it'll still pan out to be a decent watch regardless of the visuals

Aug 23, 2022 6:10 AM by Tokoya

I like the design of main girl. Gonna watch.

Aug 23, 2022 4:34 AM by Piromysl

nwssx said:

ZXEAN said:
Animation doesn't look good.

not sure what's your definition of animation but this PV looks quite fine in terms of that

U like it. That's great 😃.

Aug 23, 2022 3:22 AM by ZXEAN

ZXEAN said:
Animation doesn't look good.

not sure what's your definition of animation but this PV looks quite fine in terms of that

Aug 23, 2022 3:09 AM by nwssx

More Rie Takahashi anime :D
It's a reverse harem anime D:

Well as much as I like Rieri, this already went out of my radar.

Aug 23, 2022 2:57 AM by KoiTao

This looks decent enough. I just saw the PV and thought I'd like it maybe.

ZXEAN said:

DatRandomDude said:

eh, it looks aight. It's a rom-com it doesn't need to be a sakuga fest. As long as it's directed well enough and the comedy is good it should be fine.

Director's track record isn't that good either. Let's see although I have 0 expectation for this show.

Well damn, it's going down the drain then lol.

Aug 23, 2022 2:29 AM by NextUniverse

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