Kadokawa has announced the TV anime adaptation for Eri Ejima’s Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games manga will premiere in July 2026. Maria Naganawa will also join the cast of the anime as Arisa Fujimiya.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Aya Mitsuki
- Kana Ichinose as Mio Yorue
- Sayaka Senbongi as Yu Inui
- Shino Shimoji as Tamaki Ichinose
Shōta Ihata directs the anime at diomedéa. Wataru Watari is in charge of the series scripts. Mayuko Matsumoto is the character designer, and Kana Hashiguchi is the music composer. FAV gaming, Kadokawa’s professional gaming team for Street Fighter 6, is credited with collaborating on recording for Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games.
Other staff members include:
- Art Director: Scott MacDonald
- Art Setting: Maho Takahashi
- Color Key Artist: Yuki Hayashi
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou
- Editor: Toshihiko Kojima
- Sound Director: Yayoi Tateishi
Ejima launched the Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games manga in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Flapper magazine in January 2020. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series in English.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga series, via Seven Seas Entertainment:
An over-the-top comedy manga about delicate young ladies indulging in hardcore gaming–inspired a live-action series and an anime!
Kuromi Girls’ Academy is a refined, elegant school that expects the very best in deportment from its young ladies. Aya got into this peerless rich-girls’ institution on a scholarship, and hopes to grow as lovely as her fellow student and idol Shirayui. But Shirayui hides a terrible secret: she’s a trash-talking, combo-chaining, newbie-stomping, ruthless hardcore gamer! Could a mutual indulgence in no-holds-barred video game combat grow into a deeper rapport between these two girls?
