Kingdom Season 6 Reveals Main Visual, October 4 Premiere

A main visual for Kingdom Season 6 has dropped with the announcement of its October 4 JST premiere.

Additional cast members were also announced:

• Koji Takeda as Ako
• Dai Matsumoto as Mako
• Shinnosuke Tachibana as Akakin
• Yoshino Nanjo as Kitari
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Katari

Kingdom 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 76 volumes as of July 2025. It received the 17th Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize and passed 110 million copies in print circulation in December 2024. Viz Media announced in February 2025 that it had licensed the manga.

Aside from the anime, there is a live-action film series, which has a fifth installment coming in summer 2026. 

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)