The romance anime was originally slated for October 2025
The upcoming romance anime “The Barbarian’s Bride” (Hime Kishi wa Barbaroi no Yome) has revealed unfortunate news regarding its broadcast schedule. In an official statement to the anime’s website, the staff revealed that the title is being delayed from its original October 2025 run to April 2026.
Delayed due to quality improvement
The staff cited quality improvement as their reason for delaying the anime, and further apologised to awaiting fans for the inconvenience and concern caused.
The full statement, in a machine translation, reads:
Thank you very much for your continued support of "The Barbarian's Bride."
This series was originally scheduled to begin broadcasting in October 2025, but in order to further improve the quality, we have decided to change the broadcast start date to April 2026.
We sincerely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to the broadcast for the inconvenience and concern caused.
All of our staff will do their utmost to ensure that this is a work that everyone will love for a long time to come. We appreciate your understanding.
We will provide the latest information on the official website and official X. We sincerely ask for your continued support of the TV anime “The Barbarian’s Bride.”
Furthermore, manga artist Noriaki Kotoba, who wrote and illustrated the manga the anime is based on, released an apologetic illustration on their X (formerly Twitter account), stating:
Due to various circumstances, it has been postponed to April...! To everyone looking forward to the fall anime, please wait just a little longer with anticipation!
And in a reply further said:
Since it’s been made quite faithful to the original artwork, I think it also ensures a level of quality. And coincidentally, it’s now April, the timeline when the main story begins, so this is all good…!
The anime previously revealed its main cast:
- Serafina de Lavillant - Sayumi Suzushiro
- Weor - Keiji Inomata
- Tsetsi - Kana Hishikawa
- Alyssa Marcias - Aki Toyosaki
While the staff members working on the series are:
- Director: Takayuki Tanaka
- Series composition: Miya Asakawa
- Main character design: Kikuchi Masayoshi
- Character design: Fujita Mayumi, Hatakeyama Gen
- Sub-character design: Kin Luho
- Prop design: Shirasaki Shiori
- Chief animation director: Kikuchi Masayoshi, Fujita Mayumi, Hatakeyama Gen, Kin Luho
- Art director: LeeHak Min
- Art setting: Arai Kazuhiro, Sakai Shunsuke
- Color design: Araki Ryusuke
- 3D director: Lim Jin San
- Director of photography: Kim Yong Ho
- Sound director: Aketagawa Jin
- Sound production: Magic Capsule
- Music: Okehazama Arisa (Kaito Co., Ltd.)
- Editing: Ueno Yusuke (Yanagi Editing Office)
- Video editing: Ray
- Backgrounds: Jumondou Seoul
- Cinematography: Jumondou
- Visual Director: Koji Sugimoto
- Animation Producers: Seiji Misaki, Hajime Kamata
- Production Desk: Shinichi Igawa
- Setting Production: Hiroto Terada, Moe Miyajima
- 3D Production: Seonghyuk Choi
- Production studio: Jumondu Seoul
The Barbarian’s Bride is based on the manga of the same title by Noriaki Kotoba, and serialised in Kodansha’s shonen manga magazine Bessatsu Shonen Magazine since 2021, and is still ongoing. As of 2024, eight volumes have been released. The Barbarian’s Bride English license is handled by Seven Seas Entertainment for both print and digital, the official website describes the plot of the story as:
A captured knight finds herself betrothed to the leader of the very tribe she was sent to fight in this fantasy manga.
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?
