{"id":49743,"date":"2025-10-01T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49743\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:42:06","slug":"kindergarten-wars-manga-gets-tv-anime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49743\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Wars Manga Gets TV Anime – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/a> announced on Thursday that Yu Chiba<\/a>‘s Kindergarten WARS<\/a> (Y\u014dchien Wars) manga is getting a television anime. Chiba shared an illustration to commemorate the announcement:<\/p>\n

\"KindergartenImage courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/p>\n

\u00a9 \u5343\u8449\u4f91\u751f\/\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712 WARS \u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n

The anime stars Atsumi Tanezaki<\/a> as Rita and Kentar\u014d Kumagai<\/a> as Doug.<\/p>\n

\"kindergarten-wars\"<\/p>\n

\u00a9Yu Chiba, Shueisha<\/p>\n

Shueisha<\/a>‘s MANGA Plus<\/a> website publishes<\/a> the Kindergarten WARS manga digitally. Yen Press<\/a> published<\/a> the manga’s first volume physically in April 2025. Yen Press describes the story:
\nRita is Convict 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of world leaders. Her job is to protect the schoolchildren from the clutches of would-be assassins sent after them! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has a weakness\u2014she’s head-over-heels for good-looking men!<\/p>\n

Chiba launched the manga on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+<\/a> app and website in September 2022. Shueisha published the manga’s 15th compiled book volume on August 4. The manga entered<\/a> its final arc in March. The manga has over 1.7 million copies in circulation.<\/p>\n

Chiba launched<\/a> the Y\u014dchien Wars -LUKE- (Kindergarten WARS -LUKE-) spinoff manga in November 2024. The spinoff manga is a 180-page story about the character Luke.<\/p>\n

Source: Press release<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. Yen Press, BookWalker Global, and J-Novel Club are subsidiaries of KWE.Disclosure: Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Sunrise) is a non-controlling, minority shareholder in Anime News Network Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bandai Namco Filmworks announced on Thursday that Yu Chiba‘s Kindergarten WARS (Y\u014dchien Wars) manga is getting a television…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-49743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}