How many episodes are in My Happy Marriage?

My Happy Marriage has 12 episodes in this listed season.

When does My Happy Marriage premiere?

My Happy Marriage premieres on 2026-10-25.

Is My Happy Marriage a new series?

My Happy Marriage is a new series (Season 1).

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My Happy Marriage(2023)

Also known as Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon • My Blissful Marriage • As Long As We Both Shall Live

Upcoming · Tokyo MX

7.5M12 eps

S01

DramaAnimeFantasyRomance

ON AIR: OCT 25Season 1

What to Expect

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My Happy Marriage moves at the pace of emotional recovery, not courtship. Miyo arrives at Kiyoka Kudou's door expecting rejection and has so little self-regard left that kindness confuses her. The story builds from small, quiet moments: a meal she is allowed to eat in peace, a word of acknowledgment she has never received before. The supernatural world around her, with its Spirit-Sight hierarchies and creature threats, gives the drama real danger and social weight, but the pull is watching someone learn, incrementally, that she is allowed to exist.

Years of deliberate cruelty from her stepmother and half-sister have left Miyo without the basic reflex to ask for anything. Kiyoka's reputation for coldness turns out to be the wrong fear entirely, and the gap between what Miyo has been told to expect and what she actually encounters becomes the engine of the whole season. The period setting, somewhere in early twentieth-century Japan, keeps the social constraints tight and the consequences of her family's rejection concrete: without this marriage, she has nowhere to go.

Best for

tender slow-burn romance, emotional recovery and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Anime

Commitment

Season 1 · 12 episodes

Where

Tokyo MX

Official Premise

Miyo Saimori is the eldest daughter of the noble Saimori family, but as the un-Gifted daughter of her father's despised first wife, she's treated like a servant by her stepmother and half-sister. When escape comes in the form of being offered in marriage to the infamously cold Kiyoka Kudou, Miyo barely has enough left in her to hope, assuming that because she lacks Spirit-Sight she'll be rejected and die on the streets as her parents intended. But contrary to everyone's expectations, Miyo is not universally loathed, and her betrothal offers her the most precious chance of all: to learn to stop hating herself.

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Strongest Match

My Happy Marriage and The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power both make the pleasure of watching an overlooked woman begin to value herself central to the romance. Miyo finds care after years of family cruelty, while the Saint’s warmth and hidden ability gradually change how others see her; this one keeps the mood lighter and more comic.

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Why this pick

My Happy Marriage makes tenderness feel hard-won, and Firefly Wedding brings a darker romance where a heroine has to stay sharp to claim any control over her life. Miyo slowly learns to accept care after family cruelty, while Satoko uses a fabricated marriage to buy time as illness closes in; the affection here comes with sharper danger.

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The quiet romance in My Happy Marriage grows through small acts of care, a quality Sparks of Tomorrow shares in its gradual thaw between two guarded people. Miyo rebuilds her sense of worth after years of mistreatment, while grief keeps the leads in Sparks at a distance; their shared discoveries unfold against early twentieth-century Japan’s new electric wonders.

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