Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (Japanese: 来世は他人がいい, Hepburn: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, "An Outsider is Better in the Afterlife") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Asuka Konishi [ja]. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon since August 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Deen is set to premiere in October 2024.
Somei Yoshino is a high school girl who was born and raised in a yakuza family. Although her family environment is unique, she has spent her days quietly and peacefully. This all changes when she finds out that her grandfather has arranged for her to be married to the heir of another yakuza family, Miyama Kirishima.
Written and illustrated by Asuka Konishi [ja], Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii started in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon on August 25, 2017.[6] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on November 22, 2017.[7] As of October 23, 2023, eight volumes have been released.[8]
In February 2022, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America and the first volume was released on November 22, 2022.[1][9][10]
In October 2023, it was announced that the manga would receive an anime television series adaptation.[25] The series is produced by Studio Deen and directed by Toshifumi Kawase [ja], with Rika Takasugi [ja] handling series composition, Itsuko Takeda designing the characters, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi and Masato Suzuki composing the music. It is set to premiere on October 7, 2024, on Tokyo MX and BS11;[2] a special "Kansai Prologue-hen" episode is set to be streamed on Amazon Prime Video in Japan for a limited time on September 28 and 29.[26] The opening theme song, "Under and Over", is performed by The Oral Cigarettes,[5] while the ending theme song, "Nani Wararotonnen" (なに笑ろとんねん), is performed by Yoshino.[3]
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii won the fourth Next Manga Award in the print category in 2018.[29] Along with The Way of the Househusband, it ranked eighth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2019 ranking of Top 20 manga series for male readers.[30] The series ranked eleventh on "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2018" by the Honya Club website.[31] The series ranked 48th on the 2020 "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine.[32] The manga was nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2022.[33]