Saved by the Ice Cold Prince's Embrace Manga Gets Light Anime in July
The Nippan Group's digital publisher Funguild announced on Wednesday that Hokuhoku Yakiimo and Kusabi Kurokawa's Saved by the Ice Cold Prince's Embrace (Migawari Reijō o Sukutta no wa Reikoku Mujihi na Kōri no Ōji no Ai Deshita or literally, What Saved the Stand-In for the Aristocratic Daughter Was the Cold-Hearted, Cruel Ice Prince's Love) manga is inspiring a "light anime." The anime will premiere on the TV Kanagawa channel this July.Kurokawa drew an illustration to celebrate the light anime news: The MangaPlaza service releases the manga in English, and it describes the romantic fantasy story:Yakiimo first posted the story on the Shōsetsu ni Narō service in July 2023. Kurokawa began adapting the story into manga under Funguild's isekai fantasy label Comic Spira in January 2025. (Funguild describes the light anime as an adaptation of the manga version, as opposed to Yakiimo's original text story on Shōsetsu ni Narō.) Funguild published the manga's second compiled volume on January 19. The story has garnered over 1.5 million downloads.Dai Nippon Printing coined the term "light anime" in 2022 to describe its process of producing an adaptation in less time with fewer costs than in traditional animation.Sources: PR Times, Comic Natalie
