It was confirmed that Hatsuharu’s romantic comedy A Girl & Her Guard Dog will be receiving a TV anime adaptation in 2023. The announcement comes with a teaser visual and video highlighting the heroine, the daughter of a yakuza boss, and her pistol-wielding “knight”.
Written and illustrated by Hatsuharu, A Girl & Her Guard Dog began serialization in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend magazine on December 13, 2018. The first tankōbon volume was released on April 12, 2019. Kodansha will publish the manga’s eighth volume in Japan on October 13. Kodansha USA Publishing has released the manga in English digitally since November 2020.
The series centers on Isaku, who become the daughter of a yakuza boss, when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan.
After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love…until loyal family servant and Isaku’s dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she’s got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What’s a young lady to do?!