Yamashita Tomoko’s Ikoku Nikki (Diary of a Stranger Land) manga will receive a TV anime adaptation. Pony Canyon confirmed the news and revealed a teaser visual and trailer for the anime.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz2ULgHFMlo]
Oshiro Miyuki is directing the anime at Shuka Studio.
Yamashita (Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru, Hibari no Asa, Butter!!!) serialized the manga from June 2017 to June 2023 in Shodensha’s Feel Young magazine. The manga’s first tankoubon volume was released in November 2017, and its 11th and final volume in August 2023.
In 2020, Ikoku Nikki was nominated for the 13th Manga Taisho Awards; in 2024, it was nominated for the 28th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The manga was ranked fifth on the women’s list of the 2024 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! and first on Kadokawa’s Da Vinci magazine’s 23rd annual Book of the Year list for manga in December 2023.
The manga has also inspired a live-action film adaptation that will premiere in Japan on June 7th, 2024.
Makio Kodai, a novelist, cannot bear to see her niece Asa being passed around by relatives at her sister’s funeral and decides to take her in on the spur of the moment. However, although she took her niece home, she came to her senses the next day, and her natural shyness kicked in. Makio had forgotten how unsuitable she was to live with someone. Asa, on the other hand, is not shy and agrees to live with Makio, an adult who is not like an adult, in an unusual but honest way. This is the story of two polar opposite worlds awkwardly trying to interact.
