Kadokawa has announced that the TV anime adaptation of Noriaki Kotoba’s The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King (also known as The Barbarian’s Bride) manga will premiere on April 9 at 9:30 p.m. on AT-X. New details about the anime adaptation were also revealed, including the cast, theme song artists, and additional TV networks that will air the series.
Mayu Maeshima performs the opening theme song “Beautiful” and sajou no hana performs the ending theme song “Shiru Beki Koto.”
Following the premiere on AT-X, The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King will air on Tokyo MX, BS NTV, and Kansai TV, along with the WOWOW streaming service.
The cast of the anime includes:
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Serafina de Lavillant
- Satoshi Inomata as Veor
- Hana Hishikawa as Cersei
- Aki Toyosaki as Alyssa Marsius
- Miyu Tomita as Kimaki
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Sidius
- Hisako Kanemoto as Kofa
- Ayaka Asai as Vyufmec
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Calca Lot
- Yurika Kubo as Nimuhara
- Kōichi Sōma as Vas
- Yasuhiro Kikuchi as Guas
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Balhas
- Yō Taichi as Nyrea
Takayuki Tanaka directs the anime at studio Jumondo. Miya Asakawa is in charge of series scripts. Masayoshi Kikuchi is the main character designer, Mayumi Fujita and Hajime Hatakeyama are credited for character design, and Lo Ho Kim is the sub-character designer. Kikuchi, Fujita, Hatakeyama, and Kim also serve as chief animation directors. Arisa Okehazama is the music composers.
Other staff members include:
- Prop Design: Shiori Shirazaki
- Art Director: Hak Min Lee
- Art Setting: Kazuhiro Arai, Shunsuke Sakai
- Color Key Artist: Ryūsuke Araki
- 3D Director: Jin San Lim
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yong-Chan Kim
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Production: Magic Capsule
- Editing: Yūsuke Ueno (Yanagi Editing Room)
- Video Editing: Ray
- Backgrounds: Jumondo Seoul
- Photography: Jumondo Seoul
- Visual Director: Kōji Sugimoto
- Animation Producer: Seiji Misaki, Hajime Kamata
- Production Desk: Shinichi Igawa
- Setting Production: Hiroto Terada, Moe Miyajima
- 3D Production: Seong Hyuk Choi
Crunchyroll will stream the anime adaptation of The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King worldwide, excluding Japan and mainland China. The anime was previously slated to premiere in October 2025 before being delayed to April 2026.
Kotoba launched the manga in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in January 2021, and K MANGA releases the manga in English digitally. Seven Seas Entertainment releases the manga in English.
Seven Seas Entertainment describes the story as follows:
Serafina de Lavillant, the strongest female knight in the West, was sent to subjugate the barbaric tribes of the East. But when her mission fails spectacularly, she’s captured alive and imprisoned. Humiliated and dreading what horrific torture she’ll endure, she asks to be put to death. To her surprise, rather than tearing her limb from limb, the tribe leader asks for her hand…in marriage! Will Serafina face a cruel and abusive arranged marriage? Or will she discover that these tribes aren’t as barbaric as she was led to believe?
