My Happy Marriage Special Episodes Set for October 25 With New Opening Theme by Riria.
Kadokawa is keeping the special on the same Japanese broadcast and same-day Netflix pattern used for the second season, so the theatrical-length wedding arc reaches the global audience that drove the franchise's streaming growth without a separate overseas window.
Key Facts
- The three-episode My Happy Marriage special premieres on TV Tokyo and other stations on October 25 at 7:00 p.m. JST, with all three episodes airing the same day.
- Netflix and other streaming services begin carrying the My Happy Marriage special on October 25 at 8:30 p.m. JST.
- Riria. performs the opening theme "Shiawase de Namida ga Deru no wa." for the My Happy Marriage special.
- Takehiro Kubota directs the My Happy Marriage special at Kinema Citrus and also handles series composition.
- M.A.O plays the new character Kimio Nagaba in the My Happy Marriage special.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, OtakuKart Anime.
Kadokawa announced on Friday that the three-episode My Happy Marriage special will air on TV Tokyo and other stations starting October 25 at 7:00 p.m. JST, with streaming on Netflix and other services beginning the same day at 8:30 p.m. JST. All three episodes arrive on the same day. A main promotional video reveals the opening theme, "Shiawase de Namida ga Deru no wa." (Crying Tears of Happiness.), performed by Riria. Reina Ueda and Kaito Ishikawa return as Miyo and Kiyoka, and M.A.O plays new character Kimio Nagaba. Takehiro Kubota directs at Kinema Citrus and handles series composition, with Mika Tanaka and Ikuho Negi writing scripts and Evan Call composing music. Kashitaro Ito performs the ending theme. The special continues the story as Miyo and Kiyoka prepare for their wedding.
The returning production team includes Shoko Yasuda as character designer with Hikaru Sato and Kuniyuki Ito, who was previously credited for sub-character design on the second season. Omi Noda moves up from background art on the second season to background art director, while Yoshinori Hishinuma returns for art setting and adds art supervision with Yoshihiro Sono.
- Anna Okamatsu returns as color designer from previous seasons.
- Mikio, Ryo Hirata, and Takeshi Takakura return for prop design.
- Tsunetaka Ema returns as compositing director of photography.
- Yuji Koshida returns as 3D director.
- HALKA returns for kimono design, with hydekick as 2D artist.
- Masayuki Kurosawa returns as editor.
- Takahiro Ikeda returns as music director, with MIRACLE BUS credited for music production.
- Kisuke Koizumi returns as sound director, with Glovision credited for sound production.
Kubota directed the first anime season and the 2024 OVA, and co-directed the second season with Masayuki Kojima. Mika Tanaka, who worked on production advancement for the first season, writes the script with Ikuho Negi. The second season premiered in January 2025 on Tokyo MX, BS11, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and AT-X. The first season ran 12 episodes from July 2023, and the eighth novel volume bundled an original anime, "Shiawase no Katachi," on Blu-ray Disc in March 2024.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.