Production company King Records opened an official website for the television anime adaptation of Shinichi Sawaragi’s Pen to Wappa to Jijitsukon (A Pen, Handcuffs, and a Common-Law Marriage) manga on Friday, revealing an announcement visual (pictured above), celebratory illustration (pictured right) by Tank Gasuyama, and an announcement promotional video.
Sawaragi began serializing the mystery romance series in Young Animal in December 2022, illustrated by Tank Gasuyama. Hakusensha published the sixth volume in October 2025, with the seventh volume scheduled for release on April 28. Pen to Wappa to Jijitsukon has a cumulative 4 million copies in circulation.
Yen press licensed the manga in English in August 2025. The first volume went on sale on March 24, and the second volume is scheduled for release on September 22.
Synopsis
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?!” (Source: Yen Press)
Announcement
Official site: https://pentowappa-anime.com/
Official X: @pentowappa_PR
Source: Comic Natalie
Pen to Wappa to Jijitsukon on MAL
