My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending, the villain-possession fantasy with 1.75 million copies out, gets a TV anime in 2027
Manga Box announced on November 10 that the series about a college student trapped in the body of a doomed game villain is getting a TV anime in 2027. No studio, staff or cast has been named yet.
Kazuki Hirasawa knows how Brave Hearts treats Harold Stokes, because he has sunk countless hours into it. That is exactly his problem: the college student wakes up as Harold, the antagonist the heroes are meant to beat, and every path forward is littered with ways to get killed. All he has to work with is what he remembers from the game and Harold's ridiculously powerful physique, so he sets about sidestepping one death flag after another.
That premise is headed for television. Manga Box announced on November 10 that My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending (Ore no Shibou Flag ga Todomaru Tokoro wo Shiranai) will become a TV anime in 2027, marking the news with an announcement visual and a celebration illustration from manga artist Mitsuya Otosu. No season, studio, staff, cast or broadcaster has been revealed.
The story started life as Izumi's web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou in November 2014. A grand prize at the third Narou-con contest followed in July 2015, and Takarajimasha turned it into a light novel series, with illustrations by Atiki, that August.
Otosu's comic adaptation launched on the Manga Box app in June 2020, and Takarajimasha has released it as printed books from January 2021 onward. Counting print comics, novels and e-books together, the franchise had topped 1.75 million copies by October 2026. The 13th digital volume is due on November 29. In English, One Peace Books publishes the manga, with a fourth volume scheduled for February 23, 2027.
The press release also played up Harold's appeal as a villain who turns out to be a tsundere. Each creator sent a comment: Izumi hopes the adaptation will introduce the story to newcomers, Atiki said it is moving to watch one of their earliest illustration jobs come to life on screen, and Otosu promised the comic will carry on alongside the show.
Updates will come through the series' special site and its official X account, @mb_orefura.
