The Tales of Wedding Rings Team Reassembles
Takashi Naoya serves as chief director, his first time in the role, and he is not treating it as a supervisory title. According to the announcement carried by Yahoo! News Japan, Naoya is handling series composition, scripts, and storyboards himself, and he says the script meetings focused on one question: how to capture the manga's appeal within a single season of television. He also thanked series creator Yoshimurakana for sitting in on those meetings and offering feedback. His recent credits include Am I Actually the Strongest? and the Tales of Wedding Rings series.
Matsuo Asami directs, with episode-direction credits on a string of recent TV anime, according to the announcement. On the studio side, Satelight (Macross Delta, Symphogear) is co-producing with Staple Entertainment, the studio behind Tales of Wedding Rings. In other words, several of these names have already shipped a show together.
A Death-Row Killer With a Government License
Murciélago has been running in Square Enix's seinen magazine Young Gangan since 2013, and the announcement describes it as an unconventional, dangerously addictive buddy-action series. Kuroko Koumori is a former mass murderer pulled off death row and put to work as a state-sanctioned executioner. The government grants her extralegal permission to take down the violent criminals the law can't touch. Her partner, Hinako Tozakura, handles the driving, and she is very, very good at it. Together the two go after the darkest corners of society in the most extreme way possible.
The teaser visual shows both leads along with the tools of their trade, their weapons and their car. Kuroko half-dissolves into the darkness with an unsettling grin while Hinako beams innocently beside her, and the mismatch does most of the talking. The teaser PV introduces the two characters and shows glimpses of the pair on the job and in their off hours. It's up now on NBCUniversal Anime/Music's official YouTube channel.
Yoshimurakana also contributed a commemorative illustration and a comment, writing that an anime adaptation had been a major dream of hers ever since she chose manga as a career, and that she can't wait to see Kuroko and company in motion.
Recording Has Started, and They're Testing the Broadcast Code
The most surprising detail in the staff comments: voice recording is already underway. Asami says the performances for Kuroko and Hinako keep exceeding the footage, and the team has been feeding that energy back into the visuals. No cast has been announced yet, which means someone is already in the booth voicing Kuroko, and we don't know who.
Asami's comments set the tone for the adaptation itself. The team is aiming for the stylish crime action of the original while pushing its erotic-grotesque content as close to the limits of Japanese broadcast standards as it can get. Car action is a stated priority too, produced in 3DCG with the cooperation of Satelight's CG department. Given that Hinako's driving is half the premise, that's where a lot of the show will live or die.
Looking Ahead
The anime premieres in 2027, with no specific season or date announced yet. International fans are already covered: HIDIVE confirmed at Anime Expo 2026 that it holds exclusive streaming rights, with service planned for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The manga is easy to catch up on in English. Yen Press has been publishing Murciélago since 2017, with 27 volumes out so far. The next things to watch for are a cast reveal, which can't be far off given that recording has already started, and a broadcast window narrower than "2027."