Joseph Luster
May 9, 2025 
More information has arrived for the Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games anime, based on Eri Ejima’s comedy manga of the same name. The series is still set to premiere this year, and you can see a teaser trailer and learn more about the cast and staff behind it.
The anime is also collaborating with Street Fighter 6, which is featured as the game Aya Mitsuki (VA: Ikumi Hasegawa) and Mio Yorue (Kana Ichinose) are playing in the trailer below.
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games Teaser Trailer
Sayaka Senbongi and Shino Shimoji are new to the cast as Yu Inui and Tamaki Ichinose, respectively.
Shota Ihata (The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent) directs, with Wataru Watari (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU author) on series composition, Mayuko Matsumoto (Parallel World Pharmacy) on character designs and Kana Hashiguchi on music for the Diomedéa production. Other staff members include:
- Art Setting: Maho Takahashi
- Art Director: Scott MacDonald
- Color Designer: Yuki Hayashi
- Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Ito
- Editor: Toshihiko Kojima
- Sound Director: Yayoi Tateishi
Ejima’s manga has been running in Monthly Comic Flapper since January 2020, and Seven Seas Entertainment publishes it in English. Here’s the official 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?
Source: Comic Natalie
