Kingdom Season 6 Set for October 2025 Premiere

A new announcement for the Kingdom anime reveals that Season 6 is set to premiere in Japan this October.

The announcement, which teases a showdown between Qin and Zhao, was accompanied by a visual.  

The Kingdom anime series started in 2012, with the fourth season airing in 2024. The anime is based on the Shueisha-published Warring States period-set manga by Yasuhisa Hara. Crunchyroll describes the anime 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 75 tankoubon volumes as of March 2025. It has inspired four live-action film adaptations as of 2024. Viz Media announced in February 2025 that it had licensed the manga.

Kingdom was the recipient of the 17th Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize. In December 2024, the series’ print circulation numbers passed 110 million copies.

Staff (as of Season 5, same as Season 3 and 4)

• 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)

Cast

• Masakazu Morita as Shin
• Jun Fukuyama as Ei Sei
• Rie Kugimiya as Karyo Ten
• Hirofumi Nojima as Mou Ten
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ou Hon

Source: @kingdom_animePR