Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is about to bring one of summer’s most bombastically unique anime premises to the small screen, with the ‘anime girls meets fighting games’ series already having made its debut — and the release dates for its remaining episodes are coming fast.
Based on Eri Ejima’s manga, the series follows Aya Mitsuki, a scholarship student at Kuromi Girls’ Academy who wants to become as elegant as her idol, Yorue Mio — only to discover that Mio is secretly a hardcore fighting game player. The anime is produced by Diomedéa, with Crunchyroll confirming it will stream the series worldwide, excluding Japan and China.
If you’ve watched the first episode and are dying to know when the next will be hitting the virtual airwaves, here is when the remaining episodes in Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games will be coming out.
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games release schedule: When are new episodes out?
Episode 1 of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games released on Tuesday, 7 July 2026 (as confirmed in Crunchyroll’s summer line-up announcement). As long as there are no delays, each new episode will be streaming every Tuesday on the following dates:
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 1 – Tuesday 7 July 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 2 – Tuesday 14 July 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 3 – Tuesday 21 July 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 4 – Tuesday 28 July 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 5 – Tuesday 4 August 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 6 – Tuesday 11 August 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 7 – Tuesday 18 August 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 8 – Tuesday 25 August 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 9 – Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 10 – Tuesday 8 September 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 11 – Tuesday 15 September 2026
- Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episode 12 – Tuesday 22 September 2026
As ever, anime release dates can change if there are recap weeks, broadcast delays or scheduling shifts, so we’ll update this guide if any changes are announced.
How many episodes will Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games have?
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is currently slated to run for 12 episodes in its first season, as reported by known anime leaker Sugoi LITE.
However, as is always the case with leaks or insider info, information can always end up being inaccurate — even if from a reliable source. With that, we will be updating this guide if the count ends up being any different.
What time are new Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games episodes released?
In Japan, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is released every Tuesday at 9:30pm JST on U-NEXT, Anime Hodai and d Anime Store; when converted into other time zones for Crunchyroll, this works out as:
- 1:30pm BST
- 8:30am ET
- 5:30am PT
- 2:30pm CEST
- 9:30pm JST
What is the plot of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games?
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Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games follows Aya Mitsuki, a girl from an ordinary background who enrols at the refined Kuromi Girls’ Academy and tries to fit in among its elegant students. Her biggest inspiration is Yorue Mio, also known as ‘Shirayuri-sama’, who appears to be everything Aya wants to become.
That image changes when Aya catches Mio secretly playing fighting games in an empty classroom, despite games being banned at school. Things become even more complicated when Mio realises Aya is not a beginner either, kicking off an intense hidden rivalry.
As confirmed on the anime’s official site Street Fighter 6, which appears heavily in the show, is one of the actual collaborators, too. So, if you’re after a fighting game anime that’s truly faithful, this one might be it.
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games will stream on Crunchyroll from Tuesday 7 July 2026.
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