A Risk Consultant Who Settles Disputes With Geopolitics (and Wrestling Holds)
Funso Deshitara Hatta Made, which roughly translates to "If It's a Conflict, Leave It to Hatta," is not your typical anime pickup. Its heroine, Yuri Hatta (八田百合), is a freelance geopolitical risk consultant. Clients around the world call her in when a border dispute, an ethnic or religious flashpoint, a terror threat, a poverty trap or a criminal cartel is about to blow up in their faces, according to the Japanese entertainment news site Comic Natalie's report on the adaptation.
Hatta's toolkit is the manga's whole hook. She reads the terrain, the history and the power balance of wherever she lands, then uses that knowledge to talk parties down. When talking fails, she resorts to what the series calls arawaza (literally "rough techniques"), which in practice means pro-wrestling moves. The Japanese tagline plays on the fact that "intelligence" (知性) and "geopolitics" (地政) are both read chisei, so "chisei and arawaza" doubles as "brains and brawn."
Kodansha has been marketing the series as "the geopolitics manga that best explains the current state of the world," and the announcement coverage repeats that line. The TV anime itself is still a blank slate. The Natalie piece says the broadcast window, network, staff and cast have not been disclosed, and Anime News Network confirms the same: no studio, no director, no episode count yet.
The Announcement Came Through Nikkatsu's Anime Arm
The press release for the adaptation ran under the name of NK Animation, per gamebiz's write-up. NK Animation is the wholly owned animation subsidiary that film company Nikkatsu spun out in March 2025 to handle its anime planning, production and promotion business. That suggests the Nikkatsu group is involved on the production side, though the release doesn't spell out its exact role, and no animation studio has been named.
From Morning Magazine to a 1.2 Million-Copy Hit
Motohiro Den (田素弘) launched the series in Kodansha's Morning magazine in November 2019, and it moved to the digital edition D Morning in October 2021, where it is still running. It is also available on Kodansha's Comic Days manga app. Volumes 1 through 19 are on sale, volume 20 arrives September 18, 2026, and cumulative circulation has passed 1.2 million copies.
Den's background is unusual for a Morning serial. Born in Tokyo in 1976, he worked in apparel, advertising and web design before quitting salaried life in his late 30s. His one-shot Teiji Taisha de Rifle Shoot won the first THE GATE Makoto Isshiki Award, and Funso Deshitara Hatta Made, which started when he was 43, is his first serialization.
To mark the anime news, Comic Days is making the first 30 chapters (the contents of volumes 1 through 3, plus a little extra) free to read through September 24. The campaign is on the Japanese-language app, so it's aimed at domestic readers.
Looking Ahead
Right now the only firm date attached to the franchise is the September 18 release of volume 20 in Japan. Everything anime-related is pending: the studio, director, cast, network and premiere window are all listed as undisclosed in Comic Natalie's coverage, and no announcement trailer has surfaced.
International fans have a longer wait than usual, because the manga has never been licensed in English. Anime News Network and AniList list no English edition, and it is not on Kodansha's K Manga app or Manga Plus. An anime pickup often changes that calculus, so a print or digital license announcement would be the next thing to watch for. No streaming partner has been named for the anime either.