Draw This, Then Die!
Japanese manga series
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Draw This, Then Die! (Japanese: これ描いて死ね, Hepburn: Kore Kaite Shine) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minoru Toyoda. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine since November 2021, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes as of October 2025. An anime television series adaptation produced by Shin-Ei Animation is set to premiere in July 2026.
| Draw This, Then Die! | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ai Yasumi | |
| これ描いて死ね (Kore Kaite Shine) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Minoru Toyoda |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics Special |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | November 12, 2021 – present |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroaki Akagi |
| Written by |
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| Music by | Hiroaki Tsutsumi |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Original network | NNS (Nippon TV) |
| Original run | July 3, 2026 – scheduled |
The series was awarded the 16th Manga Taishō in 2023 and the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2025.
Plot
Ai Yasumi is a first-year high school student living on Izu Ōshima, an island that is part of Tokyo prefecture. She loves to read manga, but a certain event triggered her to start thinking about creating manga. The world that awaits her and the pain and joy of creating works of art is spared.
Characters
- Ai Yasumi (安海 相, Yasumi Ai)
- Voiced by: Akira Sekine[2]
- Rei Teshima (手島 零, Teshima Rei)
- Voiced by: Saori Hayami[2]
- Kokoro Fujimori (藤森 心, Fujimori Kokoro)
- Voiced by: Saya Hitomi[2]
- Sachi Akafuku (赤福 幸, Akafuku Sachi)
- Voiced by: Kanon Fujimura[2]
- Hikaru Sekiryū (石龍 光, Sekiryū Hikaru)
- Voiced by: Inori Minase[2]
- Pokota (ポコ太)
- Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka[3]
- Nana Teramura (寺村 七, Teramura Nana)
- Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki[3]
- Hana Kongōji (金剛寺 華, Kongōji Hana)
- Voiced by: Yukana[3]
- Hebichika-sensei (へびちか先生)
- Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue[3]
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Minoru Toyoda, Draw This, Then Die! began serialization in Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine on November 12, 2021.[4][5] The first tankōbon volume was released on May 12, 2022.[6] As of October 2025, eight volumes have been released.[7]
In October 2025, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series for English publication, with the first volume set to release in August 2026.[8]
Volumes
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 12, 2022[9] | 978-4-09-851143-3 | August 11, 2026[10] | 979-8-89765-903-6 |
| 2 | October 12, 2022[11] | 978-4-09-851326-0 | November 3, 2026[12] | 979-8-89765-904-3 |
| 3 | April 12, 2023[13] | 978-4-09-852021-3 | — | — |
| 4 | September 12, 2023[14] | 978-4-09-852816-5 | — | — |
| 5 | February 9, 2024[15] | 978-4-09-853140-0 | — | — |
| 6 | August 8, 2024[16] | 978-4-09-853538-5 | — | — |
| 7 | April 11, 2025[17] | 978-4-09-854061-7 | — | — |
| 8 | October 10, 2025[7] | 978-4-09-854277-2 | — | — |
| 9 | June 12, 2026 | 978-4-09-854646-6 | — | — |
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on March 21, 2025.[18] It will be produced by Shin-Ei Animation and directed by Hiroaki Akagi, with series composition handled by Hiroko Fukuda, who will also write episode screenplays with Aki Itami and Kanichi Katō, characters designed by Takekazu Segawa, and music composed by Hiroaki Tsutsumi.[2] The series is set to premiere on July 3, 2026, on the Friday Anime Night programming block on Nippon TV and its affiliates.[19][20] Tatsuya Kitani will perform the opening theme song "Isho" (遺書).[20]
Reception
In 2022, Draw This, Then Die! was nominated in the eighth Next Manga Awards in the Print Manga category, where it placed sixteenth out of 50 nominees.[21] It ranked sixth in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for male readers.[22] The series won the 16th Manga Taishō in 2023.[23][1] Along with Burning Kabaddi, Natsume Arata no Kekkon, and Puniru Is a Cute Slime, it also won the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2025.[24] It has also been nominated for the 30th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2026.[25]
See also
- Love Roma, another manga series by the same author
- Kongōji-san wa Mendōkusai, another manga series by the same author