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The Ayakashi Hunter's Tainted Bride
First tankōbon volume cover
傷モノの花嫁 ～虐げられた私が、皇國の鬼神に見初められた理由～
(Kizumono no Hanayome: Shiitagerareta Watashi ga, Kōkoku no Kijin ni Misomerareta Riyū)
Genre
Manga
Written byMidori Yūma
Illustrated byMamenosuke Fujimaru
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintKCx
MagazinePalcy
DemographicShōjo
Original runMay 28, 2023 – present
Volumes6
Novel series
Written byMidori Yūma
Published byKodansha
ImprintKodansha Taiga
Original runOctober 13, 2023 – present
Volumes2

The Ayakashi Hunter's Tainted Bride (傷モノの花嫁 ～虐げられた私が、皇國の鬼神に見初められた理由～, Kizumono no Hanayome: Shiitagerareta Watashi ga, Kōkoku no Kijin ni Misomerareta Riyū) is a Japanese manga series written by Midori Yūma and illustrated by Mamenosuke Fujimaru. It began serialization on Kodansha's Pixiv-based Palcy manga service in May 2023. A novel version began publication under Kodansha's Kodansha Taiga imprint in October 2023.

The subtitle of the Japanese version in the early stage of the manga serialization was "The Reason Why Abused Me Being Loved at First Sight by the Fierce God of the Empire. " (Japanese: ~虐げられた私が、皇國の鬼神に見初められた理由~), which was no longer used from the third chapter onwards[3][4]. This change was also officially implemented in the sixth volume.

Synopsis

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Nanao Byakurenji is a girl with high spiritual energy. Before her 15th birthday, she was set up by her cousin Akemi, who caused her kidnapping by ayakashi. An unknown ayakashi left a cursed scar called "spiritual seal" on Nanao's forehead, and left her suffering from exclusion and isolation by most people in her hometown. Until Nanao turns 17, Yako Benitsubaki meets and saves Nanao from her people's abuse. Yako then recognized her spiritual energy level and starts a contract marriage with her, then Nanao realizes that Yako has to ingest women's blood with high spiritual energy in order to survive. They meet different people and ayakashi, deal with many trials, as they support and fall in love with each other.

Characters

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Nanao Byakurenji (白蓮寺 菜々緒, Byakurenji Nanao) / Nanao Benitsubaki (紅椿 菜々緒, Benitsubaki Nanao)
Nanao is a kind and compassionate girl, who's good at household chores and has high spiritual energy. Her cooking has a powerful effect that can make people fulfill spiritual energy, physical energy and stay well. Due to the unknown ayakashi that left a cursed scar called "spiritual seal" (妖印) in the kidnapping event, she suffered discrimination and abuse due to prejudice and malice, and was even treated as a low-level maid by her people, including her cousin Akemi. After she starts a contract marriage with Yako, she cultivates true grit and gradually starts to fall in love with Yako.
Yako Benitsubaki (紅椿 夜行, Benitsubaki Yako)
Yako is the 1st Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and the present head of the Benitsubaki clan guarding The Five Element Barrier (五行結界). He's a man with courage and a sense of justice. Due to his family's ancestral curse, he has to ingest the blood of women with high spiritual energy in order to survive, yet it gifts him strong combat capability and ability to speed up recovery. He visits Byakurenji's villages to find suitable candidates for marriage and to provide him blood, saves Nanao from Byakurenji's abuse and recognizes her spiritual energy level, that makes him start a contract marriage with her. He falls in love with Nanao and promises to kill the ayakashi which left the "spiritual seal" on her.
Zenki (前鬼, Zenki) & Goki (後鬼, Goki)
They are married couple shikigami that serve Yako. Zenki is the confident husband who mainly responsible for defense and combat, while Goki is the steady wife who acting as both a head maid and a bodyguard. Both of them serve to support Yako and Nanao.
Yaichirou Benitsubaki (紅椿 夜一郎, Benitsubaki Yaichirō)
Yako's father and the Director of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮). Yaichirou has a good relationship with his children and is supportive of the marriage between Yako and Nanao, but he didn't delve into the problem of his wife Tokiko's excessive control over the eldest son Takaya.
Tokiko Benitsubaki (紅椿 朱鷺子, Benitsubaki Tokiko)
Yako's mother and the The Yamoto Empire (大和皇國)'s fomer emperor's niece. After the birth of the second son Yako, who inherited the cursed constitution of the Benitsubaki family, Tokiko began to excessively overprotect and control the eldest son Takaya, while hating Yako to the point of attempting to assassinate him. She also upholds the supremacy of status and descent, that makes her show hostility towards individuals such as Nanao.
Takaya Benitsubaki (紅椿 鷹夜, Benitsubaki Takaya)
Yako's older brother, who's in charge of the Research Center 1 of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮). Takaya treats valued individuals and colleagues with gentleness and friendliness. He also has a rich knowledge and expertise in developing items. Due to Tokiko's excessive control, he was restricted in both his personal life and interpersonal relationships. At first, he disagreed with the marriage between Yako and Nanao,and he speaked to Nanao with impolite attitude, but he changed his mind when Nanao showed tenacity against Tokiko. As the story progresses, he begins to support Nanao and improve his relationship with Yako, while resisting Tokiko's ideas and actions.
Sayoko Benitsubaki (紅椿 小夜子, Benitsubaki Sayoko) / Sayoko Kokujo (黑条 小夜子, Kokujo Sayoko)
Yako's younger sister. Sayoko is talented, virtuous, and skilled in spells, but she sometimes shows a stern side. She has a good relationship with the family except her mother and is supportive of the marriage between Yako and Nanao. She married with the Kokujo clan before Yako meets Nanao.
Yozakura Benitsubaki (紅椿 夜桜, Benitsubaki Yozakura)
Yako's youngest sister. Yozakura has an outgoing personality. She has a good relationship with the family except her mother.
Rentarou Midorikawa (綠川 蓮太郎, Midorikawa Rentarou)
Rentarou is the 2nd Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮). He's calm and judgmental and is skilled at using sniper rifles. He used to be the vice captain of 10th Division, and was the boss of Yako's team at that time.
Tatsuo Kurimiya (栗宮 達雄, Kurimiya Tatsuo)
Tatsuo is the 2nd Division member The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and Hinata's younger brother. He's outgoing but not good at observing social atmosphere, dislikes the domineering attitude of nobles.
Hinata Kurimiya (栗宮 日向, Kurimiya Hinata)
Hinata is Takaya's research institute in the Research Center 1 and Tatsuo's older sister. She interacts well with Takaya and treats Nanao very kindly. She and Takaya assisted Nanao in measuring spiritual energy during the captain's meeting. However, without knowing it, she was included in the investigation report about Takaya's possible contacts by Takei, which made her listed as an excluded target by Tokiko and shocked when she witnessed Takaya being stabbed by Tokiko to protect her, and then severely blames Tokiko for manipulating and hurting Takaya.
Amon Momonoi (桃ノ井 亜門, Momonoi Amon)
Amon is the 4th Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮).After the havoc caused by Shinobu and Takei were calmed down, he served as the host of the captain meeting and discussed with other captains how to capture Takei who was on the run. Without Yako's consent, he dispatched Yukiomi to bring Nanao to the meeting site to assist in the investigation. He openly questioned Nanao's experience of being kidnapped by ayakashi during the captain's meeting, as well as his attempt to explore her spiritual power qualifications in depth after Nanao detected high spiritual energy. The action was interrupted due to Himiko's intervention,and he was also taught a lesson by Sara and Maria for the offensive incident mentioned above.
Hideyo Suitengu (翠天宮 英世, Suitengu Hideyo)
Hideyo is a doctor who works in the hospital of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and belongs to the Suitengu clan guarding The Five Element Barrier (五行結界) . He is upright, kind, and possesses advanced values, which makes him a reliable ally of Yako and hates unjust phenomena such as discrimination and persecution caused by excessively backward cognition and superstition. When Yako asks him to help diagnose Nanao's "spiritual seal" caused by ayakashi, he criticizes the Byakurenji family for abusing Nanao for lack of correct understanding of ayakashi.He and his son Yukiomi are also supportive of the marriage between Yako and Nanao.
Yukiomi Suitengu (翠天宮 幸臣, Suitengu Yukiomi)
Hideyo's son and the 4th Division member of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮). Yukiomi is one of Yako's best friends. He's cheerful and charming, yet rational, possessing shrewd intelligence gathering abilities. Like his father, he hates the distorted social phenomena caused by overly conservative ideas and prejudice discrimination.He was also a key figure in facilitating the encounter between Yako and Nanao.
Sara Suitengu (翠天宮 沙羅, Suitengu Sara)
Sara is the 5th Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and belongs to the Suitengu clan.She is skilled in swordsmanship and using spells to summon souls for combat, as well as communicating with souls.She has a crush on Rentarou.She's unhappy that Amon openly exposes Nanao's heavy experience of being left with "spiritual seal" by ayakashi at the meeting site, and she’s shocked by Nanao's powerful energy during the testing of spiritual energy.After Takaya clarifies the misunderstanding regarding Nanao's spiritual energy qualifications and Himiko intervens in mediation, she and Maria teach Amon a lesson and became one of the captains who made friends with Nanao.
Shiro Daidaiin (橙院 士郎, Daidaiin Shiro)
Shiro is the 5th Division member of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and belongs to the Daidaiin clan guarding The Five Element Barrier (五行結界).During the captain's meeting, he reveals intelligence about Takei's past with the support of Sara.
Issei Kikuoji (菊大路一成, Kikuoji Issei)
Issei is the 6th Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and the next head of the Kikuoji clan.He's outgoing and full of human touch, skilled in using two knives. He holds a competitive mindset towards Yako.He stops Yako from interrupting Amon's investigation on Nanao at the captain's meeting. In essence, he’s very unhappy that Amon openly exposes Nanao's experience of being left with "spiritual seal" by ayakashi, and he‘s even more shocked by Nanao's powerful energy when testing spiritual energy.After Takaya clarifies the misunderstanding regarding Nanao's spiritual energy qualifications and Himiko intervens in mediation,,he apologizes to Nanao for Amon's impolite behavior.
Sosuke Byakurenji (白蓮寺 宗佑, Byakurenji Sosuke)
Sosuke is the 6th Division member of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and Nanao's friends in hometown.He left his annoying hometown five years before the story began and became a subordinate of Issei. Taking the captain's meeting as an opportunity, he reunited with Nanao.With Issei's assistance in clarifying to Yako that he did not participate in the persecution of Nanao, Yako's hostility towards him was eliminated.
Maria Fujidou (藤堂 マリア, Fujidou Maria)
Maria is the 8th Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) , Yukiomi's aunt and the present head of the Fujidou clan. She's also a divorced mother with two children, skilled in swordsmanship and possessing supernatural powers on par with men. After the Byakurenji clan is severely degraded, the Fujidou clan is promoted and becomes one of a clan responsible for guardingThe Five Element Barrier (五行結界). She's unhappy that Amon openly exposes Nanao's heavy Nanao's heavy experience of being left with "spiritual seal" by ayakashi at the meeting site, and is even more shocked by Nanao's powerful energy during the testing of spiritual energy.After Takaya clarifies the misunderstanding regarding Nanao's spiritual energy qualifications and Himiko intervens in mediation, she and Sara teach Amon a lesson and became one of the captains who made friends with Nanao.
Masumi Ayanokōji (綾小路真澄, Ayanokōji Masumi)、Kayo Ayanokōji (綾小路香代, Ayanokōji Kayo)
The noble family Ayanokōji's members,Since Kayo's mother comes from the Byakurenji clan, they're also distant relatives of Nanao. Masumi is a soilder belongs to military,Shinobu Saionji's older cousin and Kayo's grandson, while Kayo is the countess and the grandmother of both Masumi and Shinobu. Masumi didn't get along well with Yako at first, but he was impressed by Nanao at the first meeting.As Kayo is attacked by ayakashi during the party and suffered a cursed injury to her leg, she had to be hospitalized for treatment. Nanao accidentally helped Kayo in the hospital, Masumi and Kayo Starting to befriend Nanao, while feeling angry about that Shinobu had offended the Benitsubaki clan many times in order to become Yako'wife.They publicly condemn Shinobu's actions at the tea party to defend Yako and Nanao, and they’re shocked learning of Nanao's experience of being left with a "spiritual seal" by akakashi.
Reito Byakurenji (白蓮寺 麗人, Byakurenji Reito)
The next head of the Byakurenji clan.He is skilled at using spells to create barriers and influence others' consciousness, yet a paranoid cleanliness addict and superstitious person. He was once engaged with Nanao, but he abandoned her due to the "spiritual seal" on Nanao and his father forced Nanao to wear the enchanted mask with spells which lead to her being ostracized. When the ayakashi attacked the family mansion, he was misled by Akemi and mistook Nanao for desiring to harm his daughter Kotomi (琴美), he slapped Nanao which caused the mask to fall off unexpectedly, making the spell ineffective, his old love for Nanao rekindled. He desired to take Nanao back and even planned the kidnapping incident, but his plan failed, and in the end he became crazy due to the rebound spell. He was also implicated in the Byakurenji clan's long-term crimes. The Byakurenji clan was severely punished and lost its original status and financial resources , and was monitored by the 8th Division of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) which was stationed in the clan territory to guard The Five Element Barrier (五行結界). His daughter is the only family menber who gets good care by Maria Fujidou, the 8th Division Captain of The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮).
Akemi Byakurenji (白蓮寺 曉美, Byakurenji Akemi)
Nanao's older cousin. She's the culprit that set Nanao up and caused ayakashi event because she envied Nanao for her engagement with Reito. Akemi later married Reito and abused the maids who serve the Byakurenji's, especially Nanao, while she shrank the responsibility of taking care of her daughter Kotomi (琴美). As Nanao starts a contract marriage with Yako, Akemi finds out that Reito pays more attention to Nanao and abandons the marriage with her. After Yako induced her to reveal her crime, she was the first to be imprisoned by The Imperial Chamber of the Onmyo (皇國陰陽寮) and then expelled from the village by her tribe as the person responsible for the main incident.
Shinobu Saionji (斎園寺 しのぶ, Saionji Shinobu)
Shinobu is Yako's ex-fiancée and the daughter of Duke Saionji, who was pampered by her father due to her mother's early death since childhood, which led to her selfish and arrogant personality. She couldn't accept the genetic curse constitution of Yako, which led to the breakdown of their political engagement. After that, she was once arranged by Tokiko to enter into a political engagement with Takaya, but after being rescued by Yako, she dissolved the engagement on her own, made a series of interferences in order to prevent Nanao from being Yako's wife, and even did not hesitate to summon ayakashi in the Imperial Capital with Takei to wreak havoc. Finally, the havoc caused by her and Takei were calmed down, she was arrested for interrogation, and with Takei leaving behind the illegal evidence of Shinobu's father before fleeing, which led to the decline of her family.
Takei (武井) / Takeru Daidaiin (橙院 武流, Daidaiin Takeru)
A cunning and skilled assassin and human trafficker, he is the illegitimate son and fifth son of the former head of the Daidaiin clan. After leaving his hometown, he was hired by Duke Saionji to serve Shinobu and carry out assassinations. In order to seize Nanao, he used Shinobu's jealousy to trigger a dangerous event, but with the failure of the plan, he deliberately left the evidence of Duke Saionji to escape, and colluded with Tokiko to prepare against Nanao and Yako.

Media

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Manga

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Written by Midori Yūma and illustrated by Mamenosuke Fujimaru, The Ayakashi Hunter's Tainted Bride serialization on Kodansha's Pixiv-based Palcy manga service on May 28, 2023.[5] The manga's chapters have been compiled into six tankōbon volumes as of January 2025.[6]

During their panel at Anime Expo 2024, Kodansha USA announced that they had licensed the series for English publication beginning in Q2 2025.[7]

No. Original release date Original ISBN North American release date North American ISBN
1 October 30, 2023[8]978-4-06-533234-4March 25, 2025[9]979-8-88-877347-5
2 January 30, 2024[10]978-4-06-534232-9May 27, 2025[11]979-8-88-877348-2
3 April 30, 2024[12]978-4-06-535208-3July 29, 2025[13]979-8-88-877392-5
4 July 30, 2024[14][15]978-4-06-536033-0
978-4-06-536034-7 (SE)		September 30, 2025[16]979-8-88-877434-2
5 October 30, 2024[17][18]978-4-06-537023-0
978-4-06-537016-2 (SE)		November 11, 2025[19]979-8-88-877531-8
6 January 30, 2025[6][20]978-4-06-538075-8
978-4-06-538114-4 (SE)		——
7 April 30, 2025[21][22]978-4-06-539085-6
978-4-06-539014-6 (SE)		——

Novel

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A novel version began publication under Kodansha's Kodansha Taiga novel imprint on October 13, 2023.[23] Two volumes have been released as of August 9, 2024.[24] Starting from the original manga's concept, the novel version was later created by adapting the manga's script into a full manuscript.[25]

No. Release date ISBN
1 October 13, 2023[23]978-4-06-533519-2
2 August 9, 2024[24]978-4-06-536487-1

Other

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In commemoration of the release of the manga's second volume on January 30, 2024, a promotional video with narration by Yūichirō Umehara was released that same day.[26]

Reception

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By January 2025, the series had over 3 million copies in circulation.[20]

The series, alongside I'm Going to Show Them With A Gorgeous Divorce!, won the Isekai Comic Prize at the 2025 Digital Comic Awards.[27]

See also

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References

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  25. ^ 友麻碧 [@kappadoumei] (December 14, 2023). 🌺発売中🌺『傷モノの花嫁』シリーズ コミックス①、小説版①発売中🙊🌺小説原作と思われがちですが、実は原作はコミックス‼️漫画原作の企画からスタートしてまして、小説版は漫画用テキストを後から小説原稿に落とし込んで作ったのです( 'Θ' )🥒 (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved April 2, 2025 – via Twitter.
  26. ^ 大ヒット御礼！『傷モノの花嫁』PV公開＆著者コメントも！　待望のコミックス第２巻は本日発売！. PR Times (in Japanese). January 30, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  27. ^ 「電子コミック大賞2025」大賞は「拝啓見知らぬ旦那様、離婚していただきます」. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 23, 2025. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
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