The Failure at God School Manga Gets TV Anime Adaptation
The adaptation lands on the same day as the manga's 15th collected volume, giving Hakusensha a release date and a media mix announcement to pair in a single news cycle.
Key Facts
- The Failure at God School, written by Natsu Hyuga and drawn by Modomu Akagawara, is getting a television anime adaptation announced on Friday.
- The manga launched in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine in August 2021, and Hakusensha published its 15th compiled volume on Friday.
- A novel adaptation of The Failure at God School began in January 2022, and Star Seas Company released the novels' fifth volume in Japan on May 27.
- Yen Press publishes The Failure at God School in English.
- The announcement came through a new official website, which posted a teaser visual alongside a commemorative illustration from Akagawara.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
A new official website opened on Friday to announce that The Failure at God School, the manga written by Natsu Hyuga and drawn by Modomu Akagawara, is getting a television anime. The site posted a teaser visual, and Akagawara shared a commemorative illustration through the anime's X account. Yen Press publishes the manga in English. The story is set in a modern Japan where people with supernatural abilities can be licensed to serve as gods at shrines, and it follows Nagi, a high schooler who enrolls at a school that trains future gods after discovering powers of her own. Hyuga and Akagawara launched the manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine in August 2021. Hakusensha published the 15th compiled volume on Friday, the same day as the announcement. A novel adaptation began in January 2022, and Star Seas Company released the novels' fifth volume in Japan on May 27. Both creators issued comments. Hyuga wrote that readers will see Nagi, Takeru, Tsukuyomi and Tota move and speak, and Akagawara said she is looking forward to seeing the characters come to life.
Nagi is a high schooler whose family shrine lost its god after her grandmother died, and her shut-in telepathic twin brother is a licensed Himiko who has not taken up the role. She develops a technique to block his telepathy, then uses it to fight off an attack and learns she has powers of her own. That is what sends her to the school for future gods.
- Natsu Hyuga, story: "We'll get to see and hear Nagi, Takeru, Tsukuyomi and Tota move and speak. What a wonderful thing." She also thanked the editor who told her the series was for Hana to Yume and that Akagawara would draw it.
- Modomu Akagawara, art: "As the manga artist in charge of the comic version, I couldn't be happier." She said she is looking forward to the school's characters speaking as a viewer herself, and thanked Hyuga, the editors, the anime production team, and readers.
Yen Press describes the series as a supernatural shojo manga about a government licensing system for people with mysterious powers. Any miracle can earn the name Himiko, but only full certification allows the title of god.
Hyuga launched The Apothecary Diaries as a light novel series on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in October 2011. Shufunotomo began print publication in August 2014 with illustrations by Touko Shino. The novels have since led to a manga and an anime, with a third anime season, an anime film, a console game, and a live-action series in the works.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.