The anime was originally slated to premiere sometime in 2025.
Initially announced last April 2025, the anime based on Eri Ejima’s yuri manga series “Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games” (Tai Ari Deshita ~Ojō-sama wa Kakutō Gēmu Nante Shinai~) has revealed a delay in broadcast.
The news, which was announced through the anime’s official website, revealed scheduling issues that led to the decision of its delay.
The full statement, through a machine translation, reads:
Thank you for your continued support of the TV anime "Taiari Deshita. ~Ojousama wa Kakutou Game Nante Shinai~."
This series was scheduled to air in 2025, but after coordinating schedules with relevant parties, we have decided to change the broadcast start date.
We apologize for keeping everyone who has been looking forward to the broadcast waiting for a while, but all of our staff are working hard to deliver an even more compelling series. The new broadcast start date is scheduled for 2026.
Details such as the broadcast date and broadcasting station will be announced on the official website and official social media as soon as they are decided.
We appreciate your continued support of “Taiari Deshita.”
“Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games” details
Although the anime was unfortunately hit with a delay, much of the details regarding the show have already been revealed.
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Aya Mitsuki
- Kana Ichinose as Mio Yorue
While additional cast members are:
- Ayaka Senbongi as Yu Inui
- Shino Shimoji as Tamaki Ichinose
Shouta Ibata is helming the series at Diomedea studio as director. Wataru Watari is handling series composition, while Mayuko Matsumoto is handling character design.
The rest of the staff includes:
- Art design: Maho Takahashi
- Art director: Scott MacDonald
- Colour design: Yuki Hayashi
- Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou
- Editing: Toshihiko Kojima
- Sound director: Yayoi Tateishi
- Music: Kana Hashiguchi
- Recording cooperation: FAV gaming
The original manga series is written by Eri Ejima, and started back in 2020 in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine. It was also adapted into a live-action web drama in 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the English-version of the manga.
Seven Seas Entertainment describes the story as:
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?
