Frequently asked questions

Firefly Wedding premiered on Friday, October 9, 2026 on Fuji TV's noitaminA block (Fridays, 23:30 JST). New episodes air weekly through the 12-episode finale on December 25, 2026.

Outside Asia the series streams on Crunchyroll, with new episodes on Fridays. Muse Communication holds the license for Southeast Asia, and the original broadcast is on Fuji TV in Japan.

Season 1 is 12 episodes. It runs from October 9 to December 25, 2026, one episode each Friday.

Watch in broadcast order — Episode 1 through Episode 12. There are no OVAs, recap episodes, or split cours to shuffle, so the weekly schedule is the intended order.

Not as of October 2026. Season 1 covers roughly the first act of the manga, so a continuation is possible, but no official announcement has been made.

In the Meiji era, Satoko Kirigaya is an earl's daughter with a terminal heart condition who wants to marry well for her family's sake. When she is targeted by the assassin Shinpei Gotō, she proposes marriage to save her life — beginning a dangerous, obsessive romance.

Yes. Hotaru no Yomeiri (ホタルの嫁入り) is the original Japanese title; "Firefly Wedding" is the official English title.

Both. It is a historical romance-drama with thriller and action elements, and it carries a mature rating for violence, sexual violence, and profanity.

Yes — a manga written and illustrated by Oreco Tachibana, serialized on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday and the MangaONE app from January 2023.

Yes. The main story ended on February 2, 2026, with seven spin-off chapters running through August 3, 2026. The anime is the ongoing adaptation.

Roughly 79 chapters across 12 main tankōbon volumes, plus a special «SS» volume released in October 2026. Our volumes page lists release dates in both Japanese and English.

Yes. Viz Media publishes the print volumes in English and Comikey handles the digital release. English print runs a little behind the Japanese volumes.

The ending is bittersweet and famously divisive: after a private wedding and a separation, Shinpei believes Satoko has died and wanders Japan for decades — until a letter reveals she survived and waited for him, and the two reunite in old age.

Lynn voices Satoko Kirigaya and Kōki Uchiyama voices Shinpei Gotō. Yui Ishikawa had voiced Satoko in the early promotional video before Lynn was cast for the anime.