Kadokawa has revealed that the Tai Ari Deshita: Ojou-sama wa Kakutou Game Nante Shinai (Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games/ 対ありでした。～お嬢さまは格闘ゲームなんてしない～) TV anime will premiere in July 2026, and it has also released a new key visual. The anime was initially scheduled for release in 2025.
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Ihata Shouta is directing the Tai Ari Deshita: Ojou-sama wa Kakutou Game Nante Shinai anime at Diomedea studio, and the anime will star:
- Hasegawa Imuki as Aya Mitsuki
- Ichinose Kana as Mio Yorue
- Shimojo Shino as Tamaki Ichinose
- Senbongi Sayaka as Yu Inui
- Naganawa Maria as Arisa Fujimiya
The anime is based on Ejima Eri’s Tai Ari Deshita: Ojou-sama wa Kakutou Game Nante Shinai manga. Ejima started the manga in January 2020 in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Flapper magazine, and Kadokawa published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in June 2020 and the 10th volume in December 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English under the name Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, and it will release the manga’s ninth volume on April 28th, 2026. It describes the story below:
“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?”
