Esu Omori’s Shiba Inu Rooms is getting a TV anime, and it lands in summer 2027. Wright Film announced the adaptation on Sunday, and the date was not picked at random. November 1 reads as 1-1-1, which the announcement calls “Wan Wan Wan Day” after wan, the Japanese sound for a dog barking. Omori drew an illustration to mark the news.
Osamu Yamasaki is directing at TMS Entertainment. Rio is designing the characters, coming off trapezium and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen -Chaos in Urbanrama-. Yamasaki has been in the director’s chair for Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles and, further back, Toward the Terra.
That is the full staff list so far. No trailer, no key visual, no cast. The announcement came with Omori’s commemorative illustration and nothing else.
What Shiba Inu Rooms is about
The manga runs on Shonen Jump+ under the Japanese title Shibatsuki Bukken, which works out to “a property with a shiba attached.” The joke is that the dog comes with the apartment, not the other way around. Kori Momose needs a place near her new high school and finds a one-bedroom unit with rent low enough to be suspicious. The catch is on the lease in spirit if not in writing: the apartment comes with Mu, the earthbound ghost of a Shiba Inu. Kori is icy, awkward and not much of a people person. Mu is neither. The comedy is a dog who never stops talking and a girl who would rather not.
Jump+ readers have warmed to it. The series holds a 7.49 user score on MyAnimeList from roughly 820 ratings, which for a puppy-ghost sitcom with no fighting in it is respectable company. The whole thing rides on the Kori and Mu double act, and that is exactly what an anime can sharpen or ruin.
From one-shot to anime
Shiba Inu Rooms did not start as a serial. Omori published it as a one-shot on Jump+ on July 22, 2023, and the platform picked it up for serialization on June 27, 2024. Shueisha ships the ninth compiled volume on November 4, three days after the anime announcement, which is the kind of scheduling publishers like.
English readers are already covered. Viz Media licensed the series for digital release in January 2025, announced a print edition in February 2026, and shipped the first print volume on September 1. It is also available digitally in English through the MANGA Plus app.
Why the adaptation is a risk worth taking
An anime was the obvious next step, and not only because Jump+ titles keep getting adaptations. Shiba Inu Rooms is cheap to animate by design: one apartment, two leads, and a dog who can be drawn as a soft blob. The risk sits with the dog. Mu’s whole appeal is comic timing, and a bad adaptation would flatten him into a mascot. Yamasaki’s record is mostly on drama and fantasy, so the comedy is the part to watch.
Summer 2027 is far enough out that the announcement is really just a name and a studio. No cast, no episode count, no streaming partner. Viz’s print run and the English listing on MANGA Plus suggest an English release will follow without much delay, but nothing has been confirmed.
For now the facts are short: a studio, a director, a designer, a season, and one very good reason to announce on the first of November.
Sources
Anime News Network — Shiba Inu Rooms Manga Gets TV Anime in Summer 2027
Featured image: Announcement illustration by Esu Omori for the Shiba Inu Rooms TV anime, via Anime News Network.
