Crunchyroll announced at a panel during Otakon 2025 that it will stream The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess TV anime series in October 2025. The series is scheduled to begin airing in Japan on October 8, 2025.
The anime will begin streaming on the service in the following territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Hiroaki Sakurai (The Demon Girl Next Door) is directing the anime series, with Mitsutaka Hirota (Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time) as series screenwriter and Tomoyo Sawada (We Love Rice) as character designer. Studio Deen is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Yoshino Aoyama as Iana
- • M.A.O as Konoha
- • Shohei Komatsu as Sol
- • Makoto Furukawa as Ginoford
- • Shunichi Toki as Yomi Blacksarana
- • Arthur Lounsbery as Cheneau Clematis
- • Atsushi Tamaru as Mika
- • Tomoaki Maeno as Yamato Hydrangea
The original romantic comedy isekai manga by Akiharu Touka debuted in Hakusensha’s LaLa magazine on August 24, 2018 and has released 16 tankobon volumes as of May 2025, which includes a short story collection.
Yen Press licensed The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess manga for release in English, describing the main premise as:
Konoha Satou has a dark history. After all, she spent her teen years writing self-indulgent fantasy romance fics-like her Dark History. But since she’s become its most despicable villainess, remembering every last detail is now a matter of life-and-death. Having avoided the first couple of death flags, Satou’s suddenly left in the dark when a mysterious stranger returns from the Lily Kingdom-a character she doesn’t recall writing in the original script. Although Yomi claims to be her ally, can Satou really trust a character she knows nothing about in such a dangerous world?
Crunchyroll also announced at this year’s Otakon that it licensed Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits- 2 for streaming worldwide, outside of Asia and Japan, this coming Fall 2025.
Source: Crunchyroll News (Kyle Cardine)
