Over 2 million copies of the series have been sold! The long-awaited anime adaptation of the Japanese-language epic fantasy novel "Karasu wa shimasu wa shimasu nai" (The Raven Will Not Choose His Lord) is scheduled to air in April 2024!

It has been decided that "Karasu ha Shihonoshite" from the "Yatagarasu" series, a Japanese-style epic fantasy novel by Chisato Abe, will be adapted into a TV anime. It was also announced that the work will be broadcast on NHK from April 2024.

The popular fantasy novel series "Yatagarasu" written by Chisato Abe, who made her debut as the youngest ever winner of the Seicho Matsumoto Award at the age of 20, is a Japanese-style epic fantasy series about a family of yatagarasu (crow) that can transform into humans and fly around the other world, Yamauchi.
In the anime adaptation of the series, "Karasu ha Sukenai" depicts Yukiya, a boy who has been chosen to serve the beautiful and eccentric Wakamiya, and gets caught up in a palace intrigue in Yamauchi, which is ruled by the Yatagarasu clan.

The TV anime adaptation of this work has now been decided, and a teaser visual has also been released. The teaser visual depicts Yukiya's attempt to change from a crow to a person with bewitching eyes.

Karasu ha Sukenai" teaser visual

Production Information
TV anime "Karasu wa shihon wo shudanai" (The Crow Doesn't Choose His Own Lord)
＜Broadcast Information
Scheduled to begin airing on NHK in April 2024.

<Staff> Original story: Tomori Abe
Original story: "Yatagarasu Series" by Tomosato Abe (Bungeishunju)

＜WEB
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Original work information
■"The raven does not choose its master.
Yatagarasu is a legendary three-legged crow that appears in Japanese mythology. This "Yatagarasu Series" is an otherworldly fantasy in which their clan, who can transform into human form, fly around in all directions in the otherworldly Yamauchi.
The author, Chisato Abe, made her debut at the age of 20, the youngest person ever to win the Seicho Matsumoto Award. The first part of the series is complete in six volumes, beginning with "Karasu wa Hito wa Hinai" (Karasu wa Shikonai), which is set in the same time period as "Karasu wa Hito wa Hinai," and continuing with "Golden Karasu," "Kuukin no Karasu," "Tamayohime," and "Yaoe no Karasu.
The story is based on the elegant customs of the Heian period (794-1185), the fascinating characters centering on Wakamiya, the prince of Hitsuji, and Yukiya, a boy who serves at his side, the carefully contrived mysteries, and the battles with the great monkey, a natural enemy of the family.
His latest book is "Karasu no Midoribane" (October 2022).

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