I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
きみが死ぬまで恋をしたい (Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai)
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Girls Love
- School
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jul 7, 2026 to Sep 29, 2026
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Sheena Totsuki has known little beyond war. Raised in an orphanage that trains its children as soldiers, she and her classmates are pushed through relentless drills and sent into a conflict where death is routine. When tragedy strikes close to home, Sheena’s already-fragile sense of normalcy is shaken even further.
Later that night, Sheena meets an unfamiliar girl—soaked in blood, yet smiling as if nothing is wrong. By morning, the same girl appears in class as Mimi Kagari, and whispers spread that she may be the orphanage’s hidden “secret weapon.” Assigned as Sheena’s new roommate, Mimi clings to her with disarming warmth, while Sheena—caught between unease and sympathy—ends up guiding her through the basics of school life Mimi seems not to understand. As their bond deepens in a place built for survival, Sheena is forced to confront the truth behind Mimi’s extraordinary power—and what it means for everything Sheena thought she knew.
Otaku Consensus
Early reception is strong for a niche, high-friction title: a 7.81 MAL score from 2,707 votes and a 75/100 AniList score suggest viewers are responding to its yuri-war-tragedy fusion rather than treating it as a routine school fantasy. Yasushi Tomoda’s direction and Jukki Hanada’s series composition give the adaptation a disciplined emotional throughline, with the Sheena–Mimi contrast carrying the show more than spectacle. The main reservation is equally clear from the audience tagging profile: the gore, tragedy, and noticeable CGI component make it a harsher, less frictionless watch than its soft character designs might imply.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want girls-love anime with teeth: intimacy framed by militarization, grief, and institutional cruelty rather than a safe clubroom romance. It scratches a related itch to Bloom Into You in its attention to emotional distance, but pushes closer to the wartime fatalism of 86 or the child-soldier unease of Gunslinger Girl. The appeal is not escapist sweetness; it is watching two female leads become meaningful to each other inside a system designed to make attachment impractical. With Jukki Hanada handling series composition and Rie Takahashi opposite Rina Hidaka, the draw is controlled melodrama: small gestures, classroom rituals, and voice performance tension carrying as much weight as the fantasy combat premise.
Key Characters
- MMimi Kagari(VA: Rina Hidaka)
Mimi is the show’s destabilizing presence: a cheerful, blood-soaked transfer student whose rumored immortality turns her into both a weapon and a test of everyone else’s emotional numbness.
- SSheena Totsuki(VA: Rie Takahashi)
Sheena stands out because she refuses to let routine death become emotionally normal, making her the series’ moral pressure point rather than a conventional battlefield heroine.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The adaptation is built around a female-led creative and performance focus on intimacy under pressure, with AniList tagging it at 97% Yuri, 92% Primarily Female Cast, and 79% LGBTQ+ Themes.
- 2
ROLL2’s production uses a fantasy-school frame but leans into war iconography: AniList tags War at 96%, Military at 80%, Gore at 76%, and Dystopian at 56%, signaling a harsher tonal blend than the school theme alone suggests.
- 3
Jukki Hanada’s series composition is a major selling point for genre fans, given his established track record with emotionally precise ensemble and romance-adjacent anime writing.
- 4
The character pipeline is unusually detailed in the credits: Kyouko Yufu handles character design, Nana Nakayama handles prop design, and costume design is split among Momoka Youmoto, Momoka Izumi, and Minami Gotou.
- 5
The series is planned for 13 episodes, a slightly roomier single-cour structure that gives the adaptation more breathing space than the common 12-episode TV format.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime credits Nachi Aono as Original Creator, marking the adaptation’s identity around Aono’s existing concept rather than an anime-original premise.
- Fun fact 2
- This is a notable genre handoff for Jukki Hanada, whose name is strongly associated with high-profile character-driven series including Bloom Into You, Sound! Euphonium, and A Place Further Than the Universe.
- Fun fact 3
- The two leads are voiced by major contemporary seiyuu: Rie Takahashi plays Sheena Totsuki, while Rina Hidaka plays Mimi Kagari.
- Fun fact 4
- Despite being a currently airing Summer 2026 title with only 2,707 MAL votes recorded, it already has 563 AniList favourites, indicating a concentrated early fandom rather than broad mainstream penetration.
Studios
- ROLL2
