Kingdom Season 6 Unleashes 1st Trailer

The first trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Season 6 has been released.

The promotional video includes a preview of the newly announced opening song “Ikite, Sansan” by Ikimonogakari.

Aside from the trailer, the historical action anime also received a teaser visual and the announcement of Tomonari Sora‘s “Houkou” as the ending theme song.

Kingdom Season 6 is set to premiere in Japan this October. The show is based on the Shueisha-published Warring States period-set manga by Yasuhisa Hara. Crunchyroll describes the anime series, which started in 2012, as:

Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of proving themselves on the battlefield until the day Hyou is captured by a minister. The boy manages to escape and return to his village, but he is badly injured. Shin then meets a mysterious youth who bears an eerie resemblance to Hyou—a boy who will one day become emperor!

The Kingdom manga debuted in Weekly Young Jump in 2006 and has 75 tankoubon volumes as of March 2025. It has inspired four live-action film adaptations as of 2024. Viz Media announced in February 2025 that it had licensed the manga.

Kingdom was the recipient of the 17th Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize. In December 2024, the series’ print circulation numbers passed 110 million copies.

Staff (same as Season 3, 4, and 5 unless stated otherwise)

• Director: Kenichi Imaizumi 
• Series composer: Noboru Takagi
• Character designer: Hisashi Abe  
• Music composers: Hiroyuki Sawano and KOHTA YAMAMOTO
• Animation production: Pierrot and St.Signpost (Pierrot subsidiary)

Source: Kingdom anime website (1), (2), (3)