The anime production committee The Barbarian's Bridebased on the manga Noriaki Kotobaannounced that the release date is postponed from October 2025 to April 2026. According to the statement, the decision was made with the objective of raise the quality of the work before its television broadcast.
Creative team behind the adaptation
The project management is in charge of Takayuki Tanaka (Baldr Force EXE) in the studio Jumondo. The series scripts are supervised by Miya Asakawa (Shonen Onmyouji). Regarding the visual section, Masayoshi Kikuchi (The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World) leads the character design, along with Mayumi Fujita, Hajime Hatakeyama and Lo Ho Kimwho also serve as chief animation directors. The music is composed by Arisa Okehazama.
The story of the original manga
The manga, published by Kodansha since January 2021, follow Seraphine de Lavillantthe most powerful knight in the West. After a failed mission to subdue the barbarian tribes of the East, she is captured and taken prisoner. Convinced that she will suffer a cruel fate, she asks to be executed, but to her surprise, the leader of the tribe proposes marriage. What seemed like a cruel arrangement could turn into an unexpected opportunity to discover the truth about those she considered savages.
Availability and rescheduling
The publisher Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and released its fourth volume on August 12, 2025. For its part, Kodansha The launch of the tenth compiled volume for him October 9, 2025.
With this delay, The Barbarian's Bride now aims to premiere on Japanese television in April 2026promising a more polished adaptation of the original work.
