#How to Love Your Elf Bride Reveals 2nd Main Trailer, Premiere Date

The An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride anime has gotten its second main trailer. Also revealed were an April 4 (effectively April 5 at 12:30 AM JST) premiere date and the news that Ayaka Yamamoto is performing the ending song “Blue Star.”

An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride is an adaptation of the HJ Bunko light novels written by Fuminori Teshima and illustrated by COMTA. J Novel Club, which licenses both the light novels and Hako Itagaki‘s manga adaptation, describes the former as:

Zagan is feared by the masses as an evil sorcerer. Both socially awkward and foulmouthed, he spends his days studying sorcery while beating down any trespassers within his domain. One day he’s invited to a dark auction, and what he finds there is an elven slave girl of peerless beauty, Nephy. Having fallen in love at first sight, Zagan uses up his entire fortune to purchase her, but being a poor conversationalist, he has no idea how to properly interact with her. Thus, the awkward cohabitation of a sorcerer who has no idea how to convey his love and his slave who yearns for her master but has no idea how to appeal to him begins.

The light novel series began in 2017 and has 17 volumes as of August 2023. Aside from the manga adaptation, it has inspired a side story drawn by Momo Futaba.

• Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori (Kiss Him, Not Me; Duel Masters) 
• Animation supervisor: Keiji Gotou (In/Spectre director) as animation supervisor
• Series composer:, Aya Yoshinaga (Kurau: Phantom Memory) 
• Character designer: Mina Oosawa (Given)
• Music composer: yuma yamaguchi (Undead Girl Murder Farce) 
• Animation production: Brain’s Base

Cast

• Yuusuke Kobayashi as Zagan
• Kana Ichinose as Nephelia