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Akieyla Cross Brown

My Experience With “My Happy Marriage”: The Anime And The Light Novel

My happy Marriage was like my heart's shoujo Demon Slayer. The restoration era with magic and supernaturals but instead of a battle shonen it was a cute battle romance with less battle than romance. My Happy Marriage is an 8-volume Light novel series—of which I have seven of and have read part way into volume five—written by Akumi Agitogi and illustrated by Tsukiho Tsukioka. Since watching My Happy Marriage I was simply frustrated with the lack of a season two, which prompted me to read the novels. Safe to say they were both an experience, an experience I thoroughly enjoyed and would like to explain with the best of my ability while only going over what the anime has covered so far, which is novel volumes one and two.

The series My Happy Marriage was originally a web novel serialized on Shousetsuka ni Narou that then began being published on January 15th, 2019 by Kadokawa's imprint Fujimi L. Bunko. It is licensed in English by Yen Press, which published the first volume on January 18, 2022, under their Yen On imprint, with the most recent volume being set to come out on January 21st, 2025, The Manga began serialization on Gangan Online on December 28, 2018, with the physical release on November 11, 2022, A live-action film adaptation was announced on April 25, 2022, with the anime first airing on July 5th, 2023 along with The season is set to premiere on January 6, 2025 (My Happy Marriage Novel, My Happy Marriage Wiki, Fandom.)

My journey with My Happy Marriage started on a fateful day in 2023. It was sometime during Thanksgiving break I believe. Scrolling through Netflix with the intention of taking out my box braids when I come across an anime that had come out not long ago. I decided, why not give it a watch. It couldn’t hurt and if I’m bored I can turn it off. I sat at my desk on my black rolling chair, breaking my neck to look at the TV that sat on top of my 5 '3 wardrobe as I was somehow too close and too far all at the same time.

The anime was stunning, the animation was beautiful and the story was immaculate. Miyo’s—The protagonist’s—voice had thrown me off a bit as I had previously heard her Japanese voice prior to watching the show. Now this isn’t to say the English voice was bad at all, in reality, it was quite lovely. But as A born and raised inhabitant of America having been born and raised here for almost eighteen years the difference of tone had thrown me off. While the Japanese voice had a much softer and timid voice the English voice came out more melancholic and hurt, which fit Miyo’s character very well. I mostly had no complaints with the anime, after finishing the anime in the span of about two days.

Of course, I could yap about the anime all day but what good would it do if I didn’t tell you what it’s about? My Happy Marriage takes the classic plot of Cinderella and gives it a supernatural twist. The book is about a girl named Miyo Saimori, living in Meiji era Japan. She was born to a noteworthy noble family, Miyo lives with her Father Shinichi Saimori, stepmother Kanoko Saimori, and younger half-sister Kaya Saimori. Miyo is verbally, mentally, and physically abused by her stepmother and younger sister, and while you think her father might protect her, the head of the Saimori family seemed perfectly content with neglecting and ignoring his older daughter’s suffering. When Miyo and her younger sister finally come of marriageable age Miyo has an inkling of hope she might be saved, getting married off to her only childhood friend Kouji Tatsuishi. But to her dismay, the role of being Kouji’s wife is given to her younger sister and Miyo is shipped off to marry the rumored cold-hearted commander Kiyoka Kudo. An interesting premise I’d say.

A part of the reason Miyo is neglected by her father is due to the nature of her birth, which is covered way more quickly in the Novel than in the anime. Within the nobility of this fictional Japan, there are specialty abilities called gifts. People who use them are called gifteds or gift users. These special abilities can be anything from summoning lightning, and healing wounds, to seeing the future, or even mind control—which we will touch on later. These abilities are typically used to fight creatures called grotesqueries, also called fiends or spirits, which are otherworldly unearthly entities that are malevolent. As far as I’m aware they come from the spirits of the dead and superstition, like if a village has a rumor or dark tale people believe a grotesquerie is likely to appear. As the grotesqueries disappear so does the amount of people born with these abilities. Families

with stronger ability users have more power, the Saimori’s however are lacking in such power. It’s not known whether Kanoko—Miyo’s stepmother—has an ability but we can assume she does since she at least has spirit sight—the ability to see grotesqueries at all—given that it’s part of the reason she looks down on Miyo in the first place. Even with that, we do know for a fact Miyo’s father does have some sort of supernatural power, as he’s shown to be able to create force fields or physical barriers to stop other abilities, though I believe that’s a spell most gifted can use it’s more proof than we have for Konoko. As for the younger sister—Kaya—it’s stated she doesn’t have a gift but she does possess the power of spirit sight which is shown to us in a flashback. The power of spirit sight is usually the sign that someone has a chance of gaining supernatural abilities and is usually tested when the children are very young which we see in the flashback with Miyo and Kaya both in the novel and the anime. We know that people with spirit sight can at the very least see grotesqueries and send out familiars to see and find out things for them, though the abilities of people with only spirit sight are not expanded on. Miyo however does not have any special power to speak of, she doesn’t even possess spirit sight.

All of that to say Miyo’s birth was the product of an arranged marriage to produce a child with a strong ability and get the Saimori's status back. Miyo’s stepmother had already been her father’s lover but they had to separate so Miyo’s father could marry Miyo’s mother—Sumi Saimori. They married Sumi’s mother for a very specific power that I will not explicitly state here as it’s a bit of a spoiler. When Miyo showed no promise her father had lost any interest in her, marrying Kanoko almost as soon as Miyo’s Mother passed away. This story was portrayed quite early on in both the anime and the light novel, in the anime it’s more of a quiet flashback while in the novel it’s more of an in-depth explanation.

The main story for the first two novels and the first season of the anime is Miyo healing and finding her self-worth, while also learning to allow people to care for her. The story in both the novel and anime portrays Miyo’s trauma very well, not immediately having made all her trauma fixed after she realized that she wanted to be with her fiance—Kiyoka Kudo—and instead allowing herself to gradually heal, accept, move on and, even grieve the self she’s leaving behind, letting her think on what she truly wants for herself.

Kiyoka Kudo—Miyo’s fiance—has definitely not been fleshed out all that much in the anime nor as of the first two volumes of the novel. Well- not fleshed out in terms of his backstory which is slightly covered in volume three which is most likely if not definitely what we’ll be seeing in season two. In the anime, his backstory isn’t touched upon at all for what I remember while in the novel it’s briefly stated that he has a very rocky relation with his mother. Her selfishness, callousness, and materialistic ways is part of what threw off the man's prospects of marriage, making him come off as cold and unwelcoming to his marriage partners. It’s stated in the novel that all of his marriage partner’s before Miyo were affluent noble lady’s who left him because of his cold demeanor or what not. Through Miyo’s perspective it makes him seem hard to please or short tempered but when we get to know him and hear the same events from his own perspective it was simply because he upheld his boundaries and didn’t give in to whatever the ladies wanted from him. We come to learn that Kiyoka Kudo is not as cold and unwelcoming as he’s claimed to be, especially as the novels go on.

The first two novels and the anime pretty much go along the same path when it comes to all the middle content. The intro to volume one and the intro to the anime do slightly differ, as in the anime it’s more like in introspective thought in front of the scene of Miyo’s mother’s favorite tree burning down the prologue to the novel is actually the scene where Miyo and Kiyoka meet for the first time and the beginning of the first chapter is immediately Miyo having tea thrown at her by her younger sister.

One thing the anime does very well is showing and not telling. While the novel simply tells us that Miyo’s stepmother and sister are abusing her, the anime goes out of its way to show us this, like a scene of Kaya mocking Miyo while she’s cleaning or talking about her behind her back.

Her friendship with Koji is also shown more in the anime. it shows us about half a days more events than in the novel, like Kouji and Miyo talking on their lonesome and sharinf snacks. In the anime we see more interactions with Miyo and her family and the dynamics being played at, the character personalities being shown to us rather than told through Miyo’s words. While the novel isn’t bad at this they certainly do spoon feed us a bit.

At the beginning of the first season and sometime towards the beginning of the first volume it's revealed to us that Koji’s father and Miyo’s father had actually made an agreement to have Miyo Marry into the Tatsuishi’s but when they got an offer from the Kudo’s Miyo’s father sent her there instead. It’s not explained why he sent Miyo instead of Kaya. I can only assume it was due to Kiyoka’s bad reputation despite having so much political influence as Shinichi refuses to switch their fiance’s even when Kaya begs. Shinichi’s blatant disregard for his elder daughter is shown even more heavily here as he disowns her and remarks that he expects her to be thrown out. “Correct, I'm her. Whether she lives or dies, I honestly don't care what happens to her.” (My happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 40) telling Kouji’s father—Minoru Tatsuishi—That he can take Miyo in after she’s thrown out of the Kudo’s and she’ll most likely weep with joy.

Here it’s revealed that Miyo’s mother was from a family called the Usuba family. “Miyo’s mother comes from the Usuba bloodline. I wanted that gift for my heirs.” (My happy marriage, Vol.1, page 39)

“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in the power to manipulate people's minds! The Kudo family is formidable as it is, and yet you seem intent on making them even stronger. What will become of the likes of us?” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 39)

Here it’s revealed that Miyo might be more important than things seemed. In the anime they are a lot more subtle about it. In the novel it’s a sit down face to face conversation while in the anime it’s a call over the phone. In the Novel the conversation is much more casual, the two men sitting face to face, Shinchi coming off less cold and almost like a friend to the man even though Minoru is still angry. In the anime Shinichi deney’s any kind of agreement and seems much more cold while Minoru is much more visibly angry then the way i took it in the novel. In the novel we get a whole conversation and even get to know what the Usuba power is while the anime just chalks it up to a single sentence, “That girl… will marry into our family. She carries Usuba blood!” (My Happy Marriage, Episode 2 “About My Husband To-Be”)

The anime hides a lot of information the anime just straight up tells us, which does make for a more intriguing story. I have few gripes with My Happy Marriage But telling instead of showing definitely is one of them.

Off that note, like I stated earlier the novels and anime follow all the same plot points and story beats. Miyo’s family life, Miyo and Kiyoka meeting, The breakfast, the first date, and alike. Another thing I want to touch on is Kaya’s jealousy and Kaya as a whole.

Kaya’s character, as unfortunate as this is, was not as carefully handled as Miyo. We get bits and snippets but unfortunately aren’t given the best grasp on her motivations. We’re supposed to hate Kaya, these bit’s and pieces we get of her are not meant to make us like her, don’t get me wrong. But we end up with a sister who simply hate’s Miyo because her mom told her to, which results in the viewers getting a very stale villain. I mean, Kaya isn’t the true villain in the first place, she’s simply naive and is being used by the adult’s around her—being roughly sixteen or seventeen years old.

To be frank I’m a Kaya defender given that she is also a victim of abuse. Of course that fact doesn’t negate what she’s done to Miyo by any means but I do think Kaya deserves redemption in the end. And by redemption I don’t mean Miyo forgiving her, she will never be entitled to that, but I do mean living a happy life.

When it comes to the abuse Kaya suffered it's only briefly mentioned in the anime of little snippets of her mother’s voice telling her never to be like Miyo, on the other hand in the novel we are given slightly more than this. “Kaya's mother had demanded her daughter be superior to her stepdaughter in every way. Kaya had to be a perfect student, because if she made even the most trivial of mistakes, her mother would scold her. Konoko would reel off all the malicious gossip about Kaya’s blunder, insisting that Kaya was going to end up like Miyo because of it. Thus, the notion that she always had to be better than her half sister took root in her mind. Anything Miyo had, Kaya would need, too. In fact, Kaya had to have even more than her sister. When her father-in-law called her to his study and told her what he'd learned, she didn't believe him.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 114) If that’s not straight up manipulation I don’t know what is.

In the anime it’s glossed over but in the novel all the scenes of Kaya’s POV her thought’s draw back to Miyo. The adult’s in her life continue to manipulate her, causing her to believe Miyo is the cause of her unhappiness. “If you fail you’ll end up like Miyo” And in Kaya’s point of view what is Miyo, all she can see is someone everyone around her regards as worthless and unlovable, and if she’s not perfect she too will be worthless and unlovable. Even in the first scene we get through her point of view Kaya is upset with Kouji because he likes Miyo better and won’t even pretend he doesn’t. He likes the person everyone else thinks is worthless and unlovable yet show’s great indifference to her, for Kaya it all draws back to Miyo, Kouji is treating Kaya how she herself perceives Miyo. “Why won't he say something?! Why won't he deny liking Miyo?! If he stroked her hair while whispering sweet nothings, then maybe she would forgive him. What an aggravatingly dense man. Perhaps it would be better to refuse his hand in marriage after all. Kaya carried on vilifying him in her head until he made a noise of surprise.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 85)

Even people she seems to trust like her father-in-law to be are simply manipulating her, “Finding sympathy from neither her father nor her fiancé, Kaya felt bitter disappointment. But wait—Kouji’s father will definitely side with me!

Not only did he always listen to her, but he'd also told her about Miyo in the first place. He would help. That reassured Kaya—She would always have people she could count on. She was convinced of her superiority to Miyo and certain any man would choose her over her half sister.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 118) Kaya takes her relationship with Minoru as him genuinely wanting to help her and being invested in her issues, but we know in both the novel and anime that he’s just using her. “Minoru couldn't verify the veracity of Kaya's claims. Perhaps he could use this spoiled brat to his advantage, though. Since her engagement to Kouji, Kaya would often gossip with her father-in-law-to-be, and some of the information she gleaned was actually valuable.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.1, page 100) Even in the anime his plot to use her is obvious as he thinks, “Foolish little girl. She’s saving me all the trouble by doing it herself.” (My Happy Marriage, Episode 5 “Ripples”)

Miyo’s trauma is handled so well but they diminish Kaya so much in both the anime and novel when her character really had so much potential. Not as an ally for Miyo but as a character telling her own story. So Kaya is my other gripe with My Happy Marriage as a story. The one brownie point I can give the anime for Kaya is that they added her conversation with Kouji. A conversation where he tells her that they’re lives aren’t over and they will rebuild the Saimori house together. Initially she lashes out at him, which I think is good. It’s showing that her character hasn’t exactly changed yet. Her lashing out makes sense for the kind of character Kaya is. But after she throws Kouji out she sorrowfully looks at her family picture and you can see the sorrow in her face. For my research we see Kaya again sometime in another volume and though I doubt she’ll be completely redeemed I feel that she really will get better and I hope she can come to an understanding with Kouji and they really can rebuild the Saimori’s

Now that my rant about Kaya is over we can move onto my other likes and dislikes about the story. Like the handling of Kouji. As far as the beginning of Chapter five, we haven’t seen any more of Kouji since the end of volume one, and though I spent a fraction of a second villainizing him through Kaya’s perspective he’s truly not all if not one of the most well handled character’s so far.

Kouji is Miyo’s childhood friend who has always had a crush on her and wanted to protect her. When he’s first introduced in both the anime and novel he comes off as a mild mannered well behaved young man who truly cares for Miyo’s well being. Though he’s timid and doesn’t have the courage to stand up for what he believes in, it's very clear Kouji is pure at heart and really wants what is best for Miyo.

His characterization is actually quite good as a foil to Kiyoka, the last good part of Miyo’s life before Kudo, and also the evidence of what happens if you sit by and let yourself be dragged around by those with more power than you.

The only thing on Kouji’s mind is protecting Miyo, when he’s nice to Kaya it’s so he can shield Miyo from further suffering. He lets his feelings of helplessness and weakness consume him, resulting in nothing. Even in the instance in which he finally steps up Kouji is too weak because he didn’t have the skill or drive to accomplish what he so desperately wanted, which was to save Miyo.

I’m honestly a bit upset that Koji disappears after volume 1, though we do see his brother again. It's truly a shame that Kouji is never brought up. Despite all the hope he gave her, Miyo doesn’t seem to think about him ever again. All in leaving her old life behind she leaves behind the false hope that was Kouji. Because in the end that’s what he was, he sat back and never stood up for what he thought was right until the very end but he’d done so little that he didn’t have the strength for it, all Kouji is, is a hopeless dream. Unreachable and unimaginable. Though I’m sure Miyo could have been happy with Kouji, ultimately false hope wasn’t what she needed.

The second volume covers episodes seven through twelve and the OVA covers the final chapter 5. We’re introduced to Kiyouka’s sister and are given a brand new question. If Miyo’s question in the first volume was ‘Do I deserve happiness’ then the question of the second volume is ‘What is family?’ as we’re also introduced to the Usuba’s once again.

Miyo and Kiyoka’s relationship really faces trouble here as they’re in that odd boundary space where they want to be closer to each other but aren’t exactly sure where to place their pieces. Miyo is only concerned with bettering herself and really figuring out what it means to be by Kiyoka’s side while Kiyouka simply wants Miyo to take care of herself and open up about her feelings. This is where communication truly becomes important and where I felt the character of Arata Usuba was very lackluster.

As well as the ongoing communication issue, Arata Usuba is another wedge in Kiyoka and Miyo’s relationship. In the Anime due to the nature of its medium we end up learning less about Arata as a whole but in the novel he was honestly a bit of a nuisance. Arata is Miyo’s cousin, an Usuba possessing the gift of the Usuba family. What makes the Usuba’s so different is that their family is the only one that wields the ability to affect the mind. They have no need to have spirit sight because their abilities are not for defeating grotesqueries but instead other gift users.

The reason he’s driving a wedge between Miyo and Kiyoka is because Miyo actually has the ability of dream sight. Dream sight is a special ability of which the Usuba will do anything and everything to protect. Arata’s goal is to bring her home to the Usuba’s so he can protect her himself.

Arata Usuba is introduced in the prologue of the second volume and episode six of the anime. In the Prologue he’s honestly strange, he’s apathetic and quite honestly cold hearted. His entire character comes off as creepy as he observes Miyo from a distance. Just like in volume one this scene happens later on in again in the book but this time unlike volume one being in Miyo’s perspective the prologue in volume two is in Arata’s perspective. “There wasn't much sense in scoping her out, as no matter what sort of person she have been, it didn't change their plans whatsoever. This was a simple act of curiosity, nothing more.

After all that anticipation. But as long as I have my mission, that's enough for me.

What was important was the human who possessed the gift herself. That and the duty given to him and his family, their fervent wish.

Instead of considering what sort of person this Miyo Saimori was, he hoped her personality wouldn't prove to be a nuisance, and he was simply coming to confirm this for himself.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.2, page 1) These few paragraphs already make it easy to dislike Arata as it makes him come off as creepy and strange. He’s constantly obnoxious throughout the rest of the book and anime which makes it honestly hard to like him later on. Especially when he throws out lines like, “As he observed her, he felt both faintly sympathetic, and I'll be satisfied that he would be protecting this woman going forward. Given her frailty, she definitely needed protection.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.2, page 2) He’s clearly an antagonist but he’s supposed to be rather important and on Miyo’s side later on and in the next few books. But Arata’s character, though he had potential, ultimately came out as annoying and uninteresting. Even when we learn about his motivations it’s hard to feel bad or like him.

In the anime he’s introduced talking to the emperor which makes him seem rather responsible and since we don’t know the emperor’s intentions it’s easier not to be put off by him.

But it’s made clear in the beginning of the novel and when reading from his perspective that he has no qualms about Miyo being miserable, he seems to blatantly dislike her and as he continued to slightly harass her and Kudo through the book by making slight jabs and trying to break them apart he becomes more and more dislikable.

His past is not presented to us in any interesting way but a monologue in his head after talking to Miyo. Arata is important enough that a flashback fleshing him out truly wouldn’t have been too much to ask for, especially given that his past is directly affected by Miyo. He had a lot of potential and I think giving us more to work with before immediately making him annoying would have done him some good.

But not to say Arata is all bad, he certainly has room to grow as ultimately he ends up being jealous of Miyo. He’d been hollow before, without purpose and with Miyo’s continued fight to want to be at Kiyouka’s side Arata truly realized what he’d been missing all his life. Wanting to keep going, he thought the job of protecting the dream sight user was his sole purpose but in the end not even that made him satisfied. When he realized Miyo would do anything to stay by Kiyoka’s side and would do anything to stay by him Arata realized he had nothing he treasured so closely. “Do I have anything that I would become so desperate to protect?

The moment he thought it over, he quickly and easily arrived at no. A hollow person like him possibly have anything he wanted or needed to safeguard.

But what about Miyo, then?

According according to his investigation, she should also have been as empty as he was since she'd grown up without anyone to validate her—A lonely girl who had endured her disavowing her very existence.

However, she was empty no more. Arata’s notion that they were similar had been a gross misunderstanding.

The realization produced a twinge of jealousy deep down inside him.

I want it. I want it so badly… The desire to keep hold of her is blazing inside me.

The thing that would fulfill him. A duty, and the person who would let him fulfill it.

Now he was a bit thankful this person ended up being Miyo. Being free from her emptiness, he could imagine a future where he felt fulfilled, instead of them both licking each other's emotional wounds.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.2, page 112)

If Kouji was hopeless dreams then Arata is a Hollow fantasy. Both he and Miyo struggle to understand themselves and figure out what they want in life. Unable to understand what their true purpose is. What makes them different is that while Miyo continues to move forwards Arata’s stands in place. He continues to be the hollow and unhappy version of himself instead of figuring out what he truly wants.

Speaking of the Usuba’s there’s no one else to talk about but Miyo’s maternal grandfather, Yoshiro Usuba. I think Yoshiro's character is more memorable in the anime. Though we get more specifics in the novel the anime honestly does a very good job with making us feel things for the characters.

Yoshiro has definitely made some mistakes and you wouldn’t be wrong to say Miyo has a right to be angry with him or to have no contact with him. After his daughter Sumi married into the Saimori family against his wishes he stopped talking to her completely and even after Sumi died made no attempts to connect with Miyo. And you would think this makes him selfish for only coming to Miyo now that they know she has this ability. And in a way, you would be right. But we have to remember that the Usuba’s didn’t know how Miyo was being treated and it’s not like people usually take their grandkids away when only one of their parents die. I’m sure had Yoshiro known about Miyo’s suffering he would have come to get her as it’s very obvious in the anime and novel that he cares for her wellbeing.

Yoshiro in the end is also the one who answers Miyo’s question of what is family. “That's basically what I mean. Depending on others doesn't mean you throwing all Your problems on their shoulders. I think that it's shifting some of the baggage that's too heavy to bear onto others. That way you can both appreciate the difficulty of the load, and once you're finished carrying it, you can share the joy of overcoming it together. Being able to do that without any restraint or hesitation, that's family, isn't it? Making them exaggerate, exasperated, making them angry, it's all OK. The bonds aren't so easily broken.” (My Happy Marriage, Vol.2, page 117) He clearly cares for his family as he was unable to accept the fact his daughter he cared for so deeply was going to a family like the Saimori’s. After this conversation with Miyo he extended his gratitude at being able to meet her and for the first time he was truly able to be Miyo’s grandfather.

With the anime the scene is much more tender. With Yoshiro saying, “That said Miyo… As much as I loved Sumi with my whole heart, I hold you just as dear.” (My Happy Marriage, Episode 11 “My Mother’s Legacy”) The anime has a way of making the scene's flow smoother and making the dialogue tell us what a character is feeling without saying outright. You can feel the genuine affection Yoshiro feels for both Sumi and Miyo at this moment. While it was nice in the novel the anime definitely did this scene better.

By the final episodes we learn Kiyoka has fallen in battle and is in a cure-induced coma that no one can seem to wake him from. Miyo rushed to his aid, Arata agreeing to help her do it as being there to protect Miyo is a part of his duty. They rush back and the scene where Miyo saves Kudo is portrayed very differently between the two mediums.

In the anime Miyo has to fight her past self, getting past the old feelings of self hatred and the unwillingness to let herself be happy, first setting what she wants in stone and coming to terms that she can and will be happy and stay at Kiyouka’s side if he would have her. Their meeting is much less realistic though, when she floats down from the sky he doesn’t think she’s an allusion or anything. But they did have the emperor there, fighting them hard and threatening their way out.

The novel on the other hand handles it less gracefully, Miyo finds Kudo almost immediately, defeats the monster and then they begin to walk home. Of course it is better than how I just described, but there’s a lot less struggle to it, there’s no satisfying step she had to overcome, she just… did it.

But alas, the final scene is still nice. They walk together, apologize and make up, vowing to stay together once again. Before waking up and going back to their normal lives.

There’s still a lot to cover but those were the primary points I wanted to address thus far. The OVA would be a different essay entirely as I didn’t watch it.

My Happy Marriage is a terrific anime and Light Novel series. The novel is more fast paced with detailed story telling and the anime does a better job of subtly telling the story with beautiful art and wonderful dialogue. Either way the story is amazing to enjoy and no matter which the consumer picks I’m sure they’ll be satisfied.

WORKS CITED

"My Happy Marriage Novel." My Happy Marriage Wiki, Fandom, https://my-happy-marriage.fandom.com/wiki/Novel#:~:text=It%20was%20originally%20a%20web,under%20their%20Yen%20On%20imprint. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

Agitogi, Akumi. My Happy Marriage. Vol. 1. Yen Press, 2015.

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Agitogi, Akumi. My Happy Marriage. Vol. 2. Yen Press, 2015.

My Happy Marriage. Directed by Takehiro Kubota, animated by Kinema Citrus, 2023.

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