Atsumi Tanezaki is voicing the 20-year-old assassin Rita, who is also known as “The Witch,” and Kentaro Kumagai is voicing Doug, a 23-year-old American swindler. Joining Tanezaki and Kumagai are:
- • Hitomi Owada as Hana
- • Satoshi Hino as Luke
- • Mariya Ise as Silvia
Shinsuke Gomi is directing the series with Junko Yamanaka (Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life) as the character designer. It will be animated by Sunrise and Felix Film studios.
The series was first announced in October 2025. More information will be announced in the coming months.
Yo Chiba‘s action and romantic comedy, Kindergarten Wars, is a web manga series that debuted in September 2022 on Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump+ app. As of March 2026, it has released 16 manga volumes, with the 17th volume scheduled to be released in Japan on April 3, 2026. It received an honorable mention at the 3rd LINE Manga Taisho.
Yen Press has licensed and is publishing the manga in English, describing it as:
Rita is Convict No. 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of the world’s most powerful people. Her job is to protect the kids from the clutches of would-be assassins! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has one fatal flaw—she falls head over heels for good-looking men, even if they’re her enemies! Can she find the hottie soulmate of her dreams amid the chaos at the “world’s safest kindergarten”?
Sources: official website, official X/Twitter
