The premiere of the Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games TV anime adaptation has been pushed from 2025 to 2026. The anime was announced in 2021 and received a teaser trailer in May 2025. Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is based on the manga by Eri Ejima, which is serialized in KADOKAWA’s seinen magazine Monthly Comic Flapper and has nine volumes as of June 2025.
Synopsis
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?
