HIDIVE has announced that it has licensed the upcoming BADGIRL TV anime series, as part of its Summer 2025 anime simulcast lineup. The series will stream exclusively on the service on July 5, 2025 in U.S. local time, at the same time as its premiere in Japan.
Additionally, HIDIVE revealed plans for the world premiere of BADGIRL’s first two episodes at Anime Expo 2025 on July 4, 2025. The premiere panel will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on the Level 2 concourse in room 511ABC from 3:15 PM PST to 4:05 PM PST.
Joji Furuta (Shaman King, Shaman King Flowers) is directing the anime adaptation, with Shoji Yonemura (Shaman King, Shaman King Flowers) as series screenwriter, Yuki Morimoto (Boarding School Juliet) as character designer, and Alisa Okehazama (The God of High School) as music composer. Bridge is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Azusa Tachibana as Yu Yutani
- • Nina Hanamiya as Atori Mizutori
- • Misato Matsuoka as Suzu Suzukaze
- • Miharu Hanai as Rura Ruriha
The anime is based on the 4-koma manga series by Nikumaru, which began serialization in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Carat on March 27, 2021. Four tankobon volumes have been released as of July 2024, with a fifth volume set to be released on July 26, 2025.
HIDIVE describes the main premise of BADGIRL as:
Yu Yutani is a first-year high school student with sharp eyes, large piercings and flashy two-tone hair. She’s become notorious as a bad girl… but she’s really not. At heart, Yu is an incredibly good girl, but her mind is always full of thoughts of the beautiful and popular Atori Mizutori, the school’s Madonna and head of the student disciplinary committee. So, on her mission to attract the attention of Atori, Yu decided to quit being an honor student and become a “bad delinquent!”
Source: press release
