The Remarried Empress Anime Announced
An anime adaptation of The Remarried Empress manhwa series is in the works at studio TROYCA and set for a 2027 release date. Information about the new adaptation, such as character art and a special trailer, was revealed, alongside the main production staff and main cast.
Tetsuya Yanagisawa (Berserk of Gluttony) is directing the series, with Akiko Inoue on the series composition. Jun Nakai is doing the character designs. Yuki Fukazawa is composing the music.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime. The cast includes:
- Yoko Hikasa as Navier
- Ryohei Kimura as Heinrey
- Tomoaki Maeno as Sovieshu
- Reina Ueda as Rashta
Navier and Heinrey
The Remarried Empress started out as a web novel series written by Alphatart and serialized on Naver Web Novel from November 2018 to March 2020. A webtoon adaptation with art by Sumpul began serialization on Naver Webtoon in October 2019 and is still ongoing. Line Webtoon licensed the manhwa in English. The series also has an upcoming South Korean live-action adaptation, slated to premiere on Disney+ on November 4.
Sovieshu and Rashta
WEBTOON platform, where The Remarried Empress is available to read in English, describes the plot as:
Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way – intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?
The Remarried Empress anime will be produced by HAYATE (an anime production company established through joint investment between Aniplex and Crunchyroll) in collaboration with Crunchyroll and LINE Digital Frontier, a subsidiary of WEBTOON Entertainment. The partnership was announced during the Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con.
This adaptation is one of three adaptations of webcomics available on the LINE Digital Frontier mobile app. In addition to The Remarried Empress, Teenage Mercenary and The Boxer are also being adapted.
Source: Press Release, Official Website
©Alphatart, SUMPUL, HereLee, MSTORYHUB/LDF, The Remarried Empress Animation Project
