A Girl & Her Guard Dog: New Yakuza Age-Gap Romance Anime Releases Third Key Visual

Project No. 9's A Girl & Her Guard Dog (Ojo to Banken-kun) drops a third visual for the upcoming series.

Project No. 9 has revealed a third key visual before the debut of its new anime series, A Girl & Her Guard Dog (Ojo to Banken-kun).

The studio released the visual through the series' official website. Yoshihiro Takamoto will direct the A Girl & Her Guard Dog series, which features a voice cast that includes Akari Kito as Isaku Sengaki and Yuchihiro Umehara as Keiya Uto. Mai Nakahara and Junya Enoki will voice the characters Kaori Sekiya and Mikio Tanuki. Aya Satsuki is in charge of the series composition, Yukiko Ban is the character designer, and Tsubasa Ito will compose the series' music.

A description of the A Girl & Her Guard Dog story reads, "Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan. After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love until loyal family servant and Isaku's dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she's got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What's a young lady to do?"

What to Expect From A Girl & Her Guard Dog

A Girl & Her Guard Dog adapts the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Hatusharu. The series already has eight manga volumes, which have also been released in English digitally. The show's plot will center around a girl named Isaku, who becomes the daughter of a yakuza boss.

A Girl & Her Guard Dog began in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine on December 13, 2018. The manga went on hiatus in March 2023 due to Hatsuharu's health. Its first tankōbon volume was released on April 12, 2019. A Girl & Her Guard Dog's manga series has nine volumes thus far.

A Girl & Her Guard Dog premieres September 28, 2023.