Happinet has confirmed that the TV anime adaptation of Kuzushiro’s Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu manga will premiere in October 2025. A new promotional video and teaser visual have been revealed, and the English title has been confirmed as A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace.
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Suzuki Kaoro is directing the anime at Voil studio, and the anime will star Natsuyoshi Yuuko as Nana Futami, Amamiya Sora as Kaede Satou, and Itou Miku as Muzuki Hazama.
The manga was first published in February 2019 as a one-shot in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine. Kuzushiro (Amayo no Tsuki, Inu & Neko, Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu) began serializing the manga in May 2019 in Kondansha’s Comic Days app and website, and Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in December 2019 and its 11th volume in November 2024. According to the anime’s official website, the manga’s 12th volume will be released on April 18th, 2025.
The story follows Futami. She is a rookie shojo manga artist and with the help of her cool editor and reliable assistants, she has finally been able to start serializing her long-awaited shogi manga “Subaru e”, but… she has stomach problems from stress, and the deadline has been extended from the first chapter. She can’t make progress on the storyboard, and ends up munching on her desk until late at night. She gains weight from eating late at night, and her bad fantasies just won’t stop…
