A girl breaks the illusion of elegance as she aims to improve her fighting game skills and compete with a close friend in the highly anticipated an anime adaptation for Eri Ejima’s Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games manga! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the new anime.
The story of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games focuses on Mitsuki Aya, a young lady wanting to be refined like the “White Lily” of Kuromi Girls’ Academy, Yorue Mio. However, her image of Mio breaks when she catches her playing fighting games. Mio is actually a hardcore fighting game player, and she wants to duel Aya in a competitive friendship.
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games will release on Tuesdays at 4:30 a.m. PT / 7:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs. Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games will feature 12 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – July 7 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – July 14 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – July 21 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – July 28
- Episode 5 – August 4
- Episode 6 – August 11
- Episode 7 – August 18
- Episode 8 – August 25
- Episode 9 – September 1
- Episode 10 – September 8
- Episode 11 – September 15
- Episode 12 – September 22
New episodes of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 4:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 5:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 6:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 7:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 11:30 a.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
HANABIE performs the opening theme song “Life Is Short, So Fight On, Maiden,” and halca performs the ending theme song “New Game.”
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
- Maria Naganawa as Arisa Fujimiya
- Yumiri Hanamori as Hana Ichinose
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as gekido
- Yōhei Azakami as Cafe Au Lait
- Taku Yashiro as Seshiro
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
Where Can I Watch Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games?
Crunchyroll is streaming Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games worldwide excluding Japan and China. In Japan, the anime is airing on the AT-X, Tokyo MX, MBS, BS NTV, and Nagasaki Broadcasting Company channels, along with select streaming services.
What is Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games About?
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?
