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I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day(2026)

Also known as Kimi ga shinu made koi o shitai • Kimishinu • 只愿深入爱河直至你逝去

Archived · AT-X

7.4TV-MA13 eps
S01
DramaAnimeFantasyAnimation
ON AIR: JUL 7Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Set inside an academy that treats its orphaned girls as instruments rather than people, this animated drama keeps violence close but never glamorous. Death recurs as an institutional fact, and mourning it is itself a kind of transgression. The story moves deliberately, letting emotional weight build through small, quiet acts rather than dramatic rupture.

A bond forms between a teenager who has started asking questions and a girl whose refusal to be broken makes her dangerous in that environment. Their connection is the one thing the system cannot fully account for, and the cost of protecting it accumulates steadily across the season. Interior life, the right to feel grief, to hold onto another person, becomes the thing worth fighting for, and the show treats that fight as genuinely difficult.

Best for

forbidden grief, death as routine and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Anime

Commitment

Season 1 · 13 episodes

Where

AT-X

Official Premise

At a secret academy, orphaned girls are raised as weapons, where death is routine and grief is forbidden. A questioning teenager forms a bond with a mysterious girl who refuses to break, and together they struggle to preserve hope and their humanity in a violent world.

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Why this pick

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