The upcoming A Girl & Her Guard Dog anime has released the preview images for episode 1. The anime is scheduled to air its first episode on September 28 at 25:05 (JST), and the succeeding episodes will air every Thursday at 24:30-25:00 (JST). Crunchyroll and Prime Video will stream the anime.
The first episode will introduce the heroine, Isaku Senagaki, in her attempt to live a normal high school life where people don’t know that she’s the grandchild of a yakuza, and the protective and nosy member of her grandfather’s yakuza syndicate who enrolls in the same school as her, Keiya Utou. Check the preview images here:
A Girl & Her Guard Dog anime adaptation is based on an ongoing manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Hatsuharu. Project No.9 is animating the series with Yoshihiro Takamoto directing. Yoriko Tomita, Aya Satsuki, and Miharu Hirami are penning the script. Masayoshi Ooishi is performing the opening theme “Suki ni Naccha Dame na Hito” Aside from providing the voice for the female lead Isaku Senagaki, Akari Kito is also singing the ending theme “Magie×Magie.” The rest of the voice cast includes:
Kodansha is publishing the manga series in its shoujo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend and digitally in English, and describes the series:
Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan. After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love…until loyal family servant and Isaku’s dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she’s got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What’s a young lady to do?!
Source: Official Website
© Hatsuharu / Kodansha / “A Girl & Her Guard Dog” Production Committee