The novels are inspiring the anime film Shika no Ō: Yuna to Yakusoku no Tabi (The Deer King: The Promised Journey With Yuna).
The novels won the Japan Booksellers’ Award and won the fourth “Japan Medical Novel Award” in 2015.
The film also screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival in August, where it won the Bronze Audience Award for Best Animated Film.
The first volume of Taro Sekiguchi’s manga adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi’s Shika no Ō (The Deer King) medical fantasy novel series revealed on September 10 that the manga will end with its second volume.