The Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter anime now has its first full trailer, a confirmed 2027 broadcast, and its two lead voice actors. The anime's official website announced the news alongside a new main visual and dedicated character pages, introducing Kana Hanazawa as Eve, the abandoned girl at the story's heart, and veteran voice actor Kazuhiko Inoue as Nem, the aging dragon who raises her as his own daughter.
The trailer opens on the Forest of Scraps, the strange woodland where discarded things — and discarded people — end up. It follows the dying old dragon Nem as he discovers the abandoned young Eve and takes her in, then jumps forward through their years together in the deep forest to the moment everything breaks: Nem's death, and Eve's grief-fueled decision to summon his soul and revive him as a skull dragon. The footage closes on the pair's resolve to journey to human settlements, where surviving among people will demand connections, cash, and constitution.
The main visual frames the unlikely parent-child duo against the forest that brought them together. Hanazawa, known for leading roles across a decade of beloved anime, voices the determined Eve; Inoue, one of the industry's most recognizable veteran voices, plays the weary dragon who becomes her father.
Behind the scenes, Kuniyasu Nishina — an episode director on Oshi no Ko — directs at Doga Kobo, with Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S) handling series composition and Tomoya Atsumi designing the characters. Background art comes from studio Kusanagi, with Daiki Kuribayashi and Yuki Hatakeyama on art direction.
What is The Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter about?
The Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter began as a manga by Ichi Yukishiro, serialized on MAG Garden's MAGCOMI service and in Monthly Comic Garden since 2020. Six volumes have been released in Japan so far. J-Novel Club publishes the manga digitally in English, while Seven Seas Entertainment handles the print edition, giving international readers two ways to catch up before the anime arrives.
The official synopsis sets the stage:
In a faraway land, there exists a forest where all manner of beings go to dispose of their trash. One day, a young girl named Eve is abandoned along with the usual debris, but she is quickly found by an aging dragon who decides to take her in and raise her as its own. Under this ancient being's watchful eye, Eve grows up happy and healthy, but soon their peaceful life together is interrupted by impending tragedy. Yet months later, Eve does something truly astonishing for the sake of reuniting with her dragon guardian…
That astonishing act — reviving Nem as a skull dragon — flips the story's dynamic. Where the early chapters are about a dragon raising a human child, the tale becomes about a girl carrying her resurrected father-figure into a human world neither of them fully understands. Worried about Eve's future among people, Nem resolves to make the journey with her, and the found-family fantasy takes on the practical stakes of survival: forging bonds, earning money, and staying strong enough to endure.
With the main trailer now out and the 2027 premiere on the calendar, the cross-species tale of family is officially on its way from page to screen.
Sources: The Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter official website, KADOKAWAAnime - YouTube
