A new main visual has been unveiled for The Fated Magical Princess: Who Made Me a Princess donghua animated series. The series was first released in China, via iQIYI, on September 28, 2025, along with the Japanese dub version, which is now streaming its first three episodes on Crunchyroll. The Japanese dub will then begin broadcasting on Japanese TV, starting October 1, 2025.
iQIYI and KuaiKan are involved in the general non-animation production of the donghua series, while KADOKAWA is credited with the Japanese dub production. Zhang Yingying is directing the show at animation studio Colored Pencil Animation.
Meanwhile, the Japanese dub cast includes:
- • Sumire Morohoshi as Athanasia
- • Tomoaki Maeno as Claude
- • Ryohei Kimura as Felix
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Lucas
- • Shuichiro Umeda as Ijekiel
- • Manaka Iwami as Jennette
- • Azumi Waki as Lilian York
- • Kana Hanazawa as Diana
- • Junichi Suwabe as Duke Alpheus
- • Hidenori Takahashi as Anastacius
Daoko will perform the opening theme song, “Ii yo,” while XAI will perform the ending theme song, “Sono Hitomi de.”
The Fated Magical Princess began as a web novel by Plutus, which later inspired a manhwa webtoon series illustrated by Spoon, which was published from December 20, 2017 to April 30, 2022. Nine total volumes were released. The web novel is available in English on Tapas, while the manhwa is available on both Tapas and Tappytoon. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manhwa for release in English.
Crunchyroll is streaming The Fated Magical Princess donghua series worldwide, and describes the main premise as:
When a woman wakes up as Athanasia, the ill-fated princess from the novel The Lovely Princess, she’s gotta rewrite this tragedy or face execution—by her own father! She may be trapped, but she’s got her wits and the doomed girl’s memories to help her with a plot twist of survival. But when her escape plan fails, she has to charm her way into not being executed again.
Sources: The Fated Magical Princess Official Twitter, Crunchyroll News
