Staff for 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 have released the second promotional video, and it confirms that the anime will premiere on July 7th, 2026. The anime is set to debut on the AT-X, Tokyo MX, MBS, BS NTV, and Nagasaki Broadcasting Company channels.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-efbopLrYk]
Ihata Shouta is directing the 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
- Aru as Flamberge
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 10th volume on December 22nd, 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?”
