is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fushiashikumo. It began serialization on the Comic Marche section of the Pixiv Comic website in February 2021.
Synopsis
Miyo, a village girl with a scar on her forehead, is offered as a wedding offering to a giant snake. At first, she is frightened of the snake due to her initial belief that it would eat her, but she soon opens up to it as she is touched by its kindness.
Characters
Daija is a giant white snake roughly 500 years old. He is revered as the god of the mountain by the local village. Despite his age, size, and immortality, he claims he is not a god as he cannot cannot control the weather nor crop yields. He absolutely despises monks and would have killed any that enter his mountain if not for the intervention of Miyo.
Prior to the events of the story, Daija reincarnated multiple times as different species of snakes. In his most previous incarnation, he was a giant black snake also revered as a god. However he was eventually betrayed by his village when he failed to stop a drought, causing them to send a priest to try to kill him. Many years past in seclusion, Daija slowly reopened his heart to humanity when he befriended a prostitute named Kinu. Kinu, who initially stayed with the same priest, was betrayed when he fell in love her and raped her. Honoring her wish for suicide, Daija ate Kinu. Despite the old priest's efforts to curse Daija into vomiting her, he managed to digest Kinu days later. Daija tells the priest that Kinu chose death by a snake than to be with the priest. As Daija left the village, he was struck by lightning and reincarnated into the white snake of the current story.
Miyo is a single woman in her early 30's, offered to Daija to be his wife (although the village thought it meant she was a human sacrifice). Years ago, her father was accused of murder and died escaping execution. The grief broke her mother's mind, leaving her and her brother without parents. Because of her reputation of the being the daughter of a murderer and the scar on her head, she was considered disposable and thus chosen to be the sacrifice to Daija.
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Fushiashikumo, The Great Snake's Bride began serialization on the Comic Marche section of the Pixiv Comic website on February 12, 2021. Enterbrain has collected the series' chapters into seven volumes as of September 2025. The series is licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Other
In commemoration of the release of the series' third volume, a voice comic adaptation was uploaded to the Kadokawa YouTube channel on the same day. The voice comic features the voices of Takehito Koyasu and Yumiri Hanamori. It also had an illustration collaboration with Hachi Inaba's The Tiger Won't Eat the Dragon Yet manga series.
In commemoration of the release of the series' fourth volume, the series had a collaboration with Haruomi Tomotsuka's Dara-san of Reiwa manga series.
Reception
The series was nominated for the eighth Next Manga Awards in the web category in 2022. The series, along with Otsuji's My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked won the Men's Comic Prize at Comic Solmare's Electronic Manga Award in 2023. The series, alongside the manga adaptation of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and When Marriages Fracture won the 2023 Piccoma Award in the manga category.
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