The staff for the second television anime season based on Akumi Agitogi and Tsukiho Tsukioka‘s My Happy Marriage (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon) light novel series revealed on Sunday that Kashitar? It? will perform the ending theme song “Tsukikage Okuri” (Moonlight Sending), and Riria. will perform the opening theme song “Shiawase no Yakusoku” (A Happy Promise). Ito’s single will be released digitally on January 14.

The staff also revealed the season will premiere on January 6 on TV in Japan, along with a new poster, new video, and one more cast member.

The series will debut on January 6 on Tokyo MX, BS11, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and TV Aichi. The series will air on AT-X on January 7. As previously announced, the series will stream on Netflix in January, but Sunday’s announcement did not provide a debut date for the Netflix stream.

The new cast member is Haruka Tomatsu as Kaoruko Jinnouchi.

The anime stars:

Masayuki Kojima, previously a storyboarder and episode director for the first season, joins returning director Takehiro Kubota in directing the second season at Kinema Citrus. Ami Sat? now has the sole credit for overseeing the series scripts (a credit she shared with Momoka Toyoda and Takahito ?nishi for the first season), and she also co-writes the scripts alongside Misato Hashiba, F?ka Ishii, and Momoka Toyoda. Sh?ko Yasuda is again designing the characters, while Kuniyuki It? is the sub-character designer. Emi Katanosaka is back as art director, while Osamu Masuyama returns as art advisor.

Masayuki Kurosawa returns for editing. Takahiro Ikeda is supervising the music, and MIRACLE BUS is producing the music in collaboration with Kinema Citrus and Kadokawa. K?ji Morimoto is back to collaborate on script development.

The first season premiered in July 2023. Netflix also began streaming the anime worldwide in July 2023. The anime’s first season had 12 episodes. The eighth novel volume bundled an original anime titled “Shiawase no Katachi” (The Shape of Happiness) on Blu-ray Disc when it shipped on March 15, 2024. The OVA also streamed simultaneously worldwide on Netflix and other streaming services on November 22, “Good Couple Day” in Japan.

Agitogi and Tsukioka launched the novel series in January 2019. Yen Press licensed the light novels, and it describes the story:

Born to a noble family, Miyo is raised by her abusive stepmother and married off to Kiyoka, a soldier so heartless his prior fiancées fled within three days into their engagement. With no home to return to, Miyo slowly starts to open her heart to her cold and pale husband-to-be, despite their rocky introduction… This might just be her chance at finding true love and happiness.

Rito Kohsaka‘s manga adaptation debuted on Square Enix‘s Gangan Online website in December 2018. Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing the manga physically and digitally in English.

A live-action film adaptation of the novels opened in Japan in March 2023. The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, and sold 479,700 tickets to earn 654 million yen (about US$4.97 million) in its first three days.

Update: Added more cast, opening theme song, and new video.

Sources: Press release, My Happy Marriage anime’s X/Twitter account

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