A Girl and Her Guard Dog Episode 1 will be released in the next couple of days. Readers of the manga are very excited to see their favorite manga as an anime adaptation.
A Girl and Her Guard Dog is a shoujo anime that is set to be released this fall 2023 season. The anime is based on the manga of the same name by author Hatsuharu.
The manga has completed nine volumes so far; the latest volume was released on September 13, 2023. A Girl and Her Guard Dog is a production of Project No. 9 Studios, which recently worked on the anime The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten and the ongoing anime My Tiny Senpai.
The manga has sold 2.5 million copies, so it’s evident that this one got picked for an anime adaptation. Readers of the manga have mixed reactions to the anime adaptation.
Mainly following the age gap between the two main protagonists. Many readers seem to enjoy the manga, but the latter part of the lot despises it for all the same reasons.
Since it’s finally getting an anime adaptation, many viewers who are not familiar with the manga or have not heard of it until now will probably give it a watch just to find out what the premise of the story has to offer in this anime.
The original PV for the anime was released on September 3, 2023. The PV gave us a glimpse of what the story of the anime is going to be, according to the PV. Isaku Senagaki, a high school student, aims to have a normal teenage life.
She desires to make normal friends. Isaku struggled to make any friends in the past because everyone was scared of her. Isaku planned to change that once she got enrolled in high school.
However, her plan did not take off like she believed it would. Her guard, Keiya Utou, also decides to enroll in the same high school by fabricating his age.
The overprotective guard does not let her have a normal, romantic high school experience, and Isaku later realizes that she has harbored a crush on her overprotective yakuza guard.
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A Girl & Her Guard Dog Story
Isaku was excited to get into a new high school, just like any other kid her age. But unfortunately, she was living her life far differently than the other kids. When she was five years old, both her parents died in a car accident.
Isaku had no blood relatives besides her grandfather, so he adopted her after her parent’s death. But her grandfather was not an ordinary man; Isaku’s grandfather was the boss of the Sengaki group.
Isaku’s grandfather was a yakuza, and after getting adopted by him, she became the one and only grandchild of the yakuza boss. Keiya Utou was the leader of the yakuza group, and ever since the day Isaku came to live with her grandfather.
She had been living with all those yakuza members under one roof. Isaku chose a school far away from her home deliberately so she could get away from the yakuza grandchild’s life.
She wanted to experience living like a normal teenager, thanks to her yakuza upbringing and the guards all around her. She could never make any friends in middle school. She decided to do all the things she missed out on back in middle school, like doing club activities, making friends, and falling in love.
A Girl & Her Guard Dog Episode 1 Release Date
A Girl & Her Guard Dog Episode 1 will be released on Friday, September 29, 2023, at 11:30 PM JST. The international schedule is as follows:
- US: 10:30 AM EST on Friday, September 29, 2023
- Canada: 10:30 AM NT on Friday, September 29, 2023
- India: 8:00 PM IST on Friday, September 29, 2023
- Australia: 12:30 AM AEST on Saturday, September 30, 2023
- Philippines: 10:30 PM PHT Friday, September 29, 2023
- Japan: 11:30 PM JST on Friday, September 29, 2023
- South Korea: 11:30 PM KST on Friday, September 29, 2023
Where To Read A Girl & Her Guard Dog Episode 1?
Viewers can stream A Girl & Her Guard Dog Episode 1 on Crunchyroll.