Image source: Destiny Unchain Online anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie — via Anime News Network
A newofficial X/Twitter account opened on Friday to announce that author resn and artist Yachimoto's Destiny Unchain Online: How I Became the Crimson Devil (Destiny Unchain Online: Kyūketsuki Shōjo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maō" to Yobareru Yō ni Narimashita) novels and Yachimoto's manga adaptation are inspiring a television anime. Yachimotodrew a commemorative illustration:
resn began serializing the original storyin the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in May 2020. resn later deleted his profile and subsequently removed the story from the site, but later resumed the story's serialization in Kadokawa's Kakuyomu website in June 2021. Kodansha released the first print volume of the storyin November 2022, some months after Yachimoto launched the manga adaptation. Yachimoto also drew the art for the novels. The third volume shipped on May 29.
Yachimotolaunched the manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app in July 2022, and also launched it in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine R digital magazine beginning in August 2022. After Shōnen Magazine R ceased publication, the manga has only been running on Magazine Pocket. Kodansha released the manga's 13th compiled book volume on Friday.