A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage Sets January 2027 Premiere

A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage will premiere in January 2027, with a teaser trailer and visuals revealing the television anime’s main cast and production team. Tomoaki Maeno voices detective Eiji Kirisame, while Inori Minase voices Tsugumi Kuchinashi. Takaaki Ishiyama directs the adaptation at EMT Squared, with Shigeru Murakoshi handling series composition, Miyuki Nakamura designing the characters, and Kana Hachigushi composing the music. The manga by writer Shinichi Sawaragi and artist Tank Gasuyama has been serialized in Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine since December 2022 and has surpassed 400,000 copies in circulation. Its story pairs a forty-year-old detective with a silent high school witness whose rough drawings may contain useful deductions, including one unexpected proposal that complicates their unusual investigative relationship.

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