Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games anime has been delayed from 2025 to 2026. The staff apologized for the delay and will deliver a more detailed broadcast date on their official website. Additionally, the series revealed a collaboration visual with Street Fighter on Monday.
The anime is based on a manga series by Eri Ejima. It has been serialized in Media Factory’s Monthly Comic Flapper seinen manga magazine since January 2020. Shota Ihata is directing the anime adaptation at studio Diomedéa with Wataru Watari in charge of the series composition. Mayuko Matsumoto is in charge of the character designs, while Kana Hashiguchi is composing the music.
A trailer was released last May. The cast consists of:
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Aya Mitsuki
- Kana Ichinose as Mio Yorue
- Shino Shimoji as Tamaki Ichinose
- Sayaka Sembongi as Yu Inui
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga in English, and they describe it as follows:
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?
Source: Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games Official Website
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