TOHO Animation has announced that the Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu (Happy Kanako’s Killer Life/幸せカナコの殺し屋生活 ) manga by Wakabayashi Toshiya has been green-lit for a TV anime adaptation, which will debut in April 2027. An announcement/teaser video has also been released.
[https://x.com/TOHOanimation/status/2111109917662708152?s=20]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCsyBN-52k]
Takamatsu Shinji is directing the anime at Drive studio.
Wakabayashi started the manga in 2018, and Seikaisha serialises the manga on its Twi4 service. Seikaisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in May 2019 and the ninth volume in May 2026.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga volumes in English under the name Happy Kanako’s Killer Life, and it released the eighth volume in July 2026. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga story below:
“Nishino Kanako sure hates her job, and is only too happy to snag the first new gig that comes her way. She never expected that her interview would be at an agency for contract killers…or that she’d be really, really good at bumping people off! Kanako doesn’t have a ton of self-confidence, and adjusting to her new life as an assassin isn’t the easiest. Will she ever earn the respect of Sakurai, her prickly but kinda hot new coworker? Find out in this dangerously funny, full-color manga!”
