Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister (Japanese title: Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi, literally meaning "Matchmaking of the Amagami Household") is an ongoing supernatural romantic comedy manga series by Naito Marcey, which was originally published as a one-shot in December 2020 before officially starting serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in April 2021.
Uryuu Kamihate is a stiff, yet studious high school student with one goal in mind – to pass the entrance exams to Kyoto University’s medical school and fulfill his dream in becoming a doctor. After spending most of his life being raised in an orphanage, Uryuu is given the invitation to move and live at a local Shinto shrine where he meets three shrine maiden sisters also living there: Yae, Yuna, and Asahi Amagami. The head priest and the Amagami sisters grandfather reveals that he took Uryuu into the shrine as a potential heir where it’s expected that the young man will marry one of his precious granddaughters in the future.
A tale of love and miracles unfolds with Uryuu later receiving strange prophetic dreams about his destined future and the girl that he will be ending up with.
An anime adaptation was announced
on April 21, 2023.
Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi provides examples of:
- 1000 Origami Cranes: Uryuu and the sisters help fold some paper cranes at Uryuu's orphanage in Chapter 2.
- Accidental Pervert: Uryuu occasionally stumbles upon this due to the sudden unexpectedness and/or his own clumsiness of the situation.
- Call-Back: While visiting the Inari Fushimi shrine in Chapter 7, Uryuu loses his balance over a height with Yae trying to prevent him from falling. In Chapter 37, something similar happens at the exact same location with Asahi falling over a cliff this time and Yae trying to save her.
- Central Theme: Dreaming of who you want to become and how to get there.
- Continuity Nod: While walking together in Chapter 4, Uryuu and Yuna briefly encounter a strange looking stray kitten. In Chapter 37 while walking together again, the same kitten briefly appears to the two once again.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: An important and recurring part of the story is the mysterious and prophetic dreams that Uryuu receives as the events of those dreams do become a reality at some point in the narrative.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: The most significant supernatural phenomena that occurs so far is the time loop that Uryuu and Asahi get trapped in during the "The Balance of Wishes" arc. The loop starts from June 28 till July 7 and the arc's main conflict was trying to find a way out of the loop.
- Happily Adopted: In Chapter 51, It turns out that the Amagami sisters were all adopted at a young age and were well taken care of and raised by their adoptive family.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: If a situation seems strange, sometimes a character will compare it to something that would only happen in a manga.
- Magic Realism: For the most part, the story is fairly grounded in reality despite its religious and spiritual influences. However, mysterious and explicitly supernatural phenomena does indeed exist and occur, something that Uryuu can't deny after beginning to experience the weirdness itself.
- Mental Time Travel: While searching for Yae during "The True Colors of the Night" arc, Uryuu suddenly finds himself in the mind and body of his younger self that serves to revisit his encounter with "Reiko Ichijoji" and to remember and be updated of the details about that encounter.
- Miko: The Amagami sisters all live and work at a Shinto shrine as shrine maidens.
- One-Gender School: Subverted with Yuna's high school, which used to be an all-girls school but has recently switched to co-ed, resulting in Uryuu being the only boy in her classroom once he transfers there.
- Story Arc: The story runs on this with the occasional closely linked mini arcs and self contained chapter.
- Wham Episode:
- Chapter 32: Yae's bears the same name as Reiko Ichijoji and is someone that Uryuu met in the past.
- Chapter 40: Yae real name is Reiko Ichijoji and is actually adopted by the Amagamis.
- Chapter 49: Asahi kisses Uryuu and confesses her feelings to him.
- Chapter 51: Like Yae, Yuna and Asahi are actually adopted by the Amagamis and also had different names and families as well prior to their adoption.
- Wham Shot:
- Chapter 31: At the end of the chapter, it wasn't Yae that showed up in Uryuu's room to tease him, it was a spirit.
- Chapter 49: The spirit that showed up in Chapter 31 is actually the late Chiharu Amagami.
