The Cuckoo's Fiancee (カッコウの許嫁, Kakkou no Iinazuke) is a manga written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa. The manga starts serialization on 29 January 2020 and published in Weekly Shounen Magazine.
Overview[]
The color page from the Oneshot shows the series' official English title as The Cuckoo's Fiancee. Miki Yoshikawa name the series "Cuckoo's Fiance(e)" in one of her tweets.[1]
The Cuckoo's Fiancee is one of the three Oneshots drawn by Miki Yoshikawa to commemorate Weekly Shounen Magazine's 60th Anniversary Project. The Cuckoo's Fiancee won the poll against the other 2 Oneshots and starts serializing on January 29, 2020.
Plot[]
The Cuckoo's Fiancee revolves around 2 teenagers who got switched soon after their birth. Hoping to keep both of their biological and adopted children, their parents decided to engage the boy and the girl.
Official Synopsis[]
Nagi Umino was mistakenly switched at birth, and now attends a prestigious private high school. One day, he has a chance meeting with Erika Amano, an incredibly high society highschool girl who claims she's on the way to meet her fiancee. Erika then forces Nagi to be her fake boyfriend. Neither of them, at the time, understood the significance of their meeting for Erika was the girl Nagi was switched at birth with, and Nagi was Erika's soon-to-be fiancee! The curtain raises on a romantic comedy of intertwined fates that begins with being switched at birth!
Chapters and Volumes[]
See Also: List of Volumes
Miki Yoshikawa draws a smartphone in the first page of every chapter and put the content and illustration inside it. The illustrations is made to resemble a social media post (named Insta in-universe). She also stylizes her chapter's title under the name "Fowl x" instead of "Chapter x".
List of Characters[]
- Nagi Umino
- Sachi Umino
- Erika Amano
- Hiro Segawa
- Yohei Umino
- Namie Umino
- Souichirou Amano
- Ritsuko Amano
Related Links[]
Trivia[]
- Author's previous work, Yamada and The Seven Witches, was replaced by 5Toubun no Hanayome in Weekly Shounen Magazine. Author's current work, The Cuckoo's Fiancee, is replacing 5Toubun no Hanayome's slot in the magazine.
- To better sum up the story, because the parents who raised the wrong kid don't want the child to be out of their lives once they finally go back to their biological family, they arranged the marriage between their children just to keep them around. It works out, but to Western fans it's a ridiculous premise.
References[]
- ↑ Yoshikawa, Miki [@YoshikawaMiki] (1 January 2020). "Happy New Year!" (Tweet in Japanese) – via Twitter.