Light Novel 'Himekishi-sama no Himo' Gets TV Anime

The Dengeki Bunko New Year Super Appreciation Winter Festival Online 2025 announced a television anime adaptation of Tooru Shirogane's Himekishi-sama no Himo (The Kept Man of the Princess Knight) light novel on Monday. Kadokawa also opened an official website, revealing the main cast, staff, and an illustration drawn by the light novel's artist Saki Mashima (pictured).

Voice actors Junichi Suwabe (Great Pretender) and Mikako Komatsu (Helck) are starring as Matthew and Arwin Mabel Primrose Mactarode, respectively.

Staff
Director: Chihiro Kumano (Unnamed Memory assistant director)
Series Composition: Deko Akao (Ragna Crimson)
Character Design: Hisao Ishii (Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete design assistant)
Studio: Blade

Shirogane began penning the action fantasy story under the Dengeki Bunko imprint in February 2022, with illustrations by Saki Mashima. Kadokawa published the fifth volume in February 2023. The light novel has a cumulative 200.000 copies of its volumes in circulation.

A manga adaptation drawn by Key Yang began in September 2022. The third volume was released on December 26.

Yen Press licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in 2023. The fourth light novel volume is scheduled to be release on March 18. The second manga volume went on sale on December 17.

Himekishi-sama no Himo won the Grand Prize at the 28th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2021.

Synopsis
The Dungeon City is a wicked place filled with crime, debauchery, and death. Its one shining light is Arwin, the beautiful Crimson Princess Knight. She and her brave party of adventurers descend into the dungeon at the city's center, seeking a legendary treasure with the power to rebuild the princess's fallen kingdom. Many yearn to be by her side, but that spot is already taken by Matthew, a man despised by all in town as a cowardly weakling. Everyone thinks he is scum who just spends her hard-earned money on booze, women, and gambling. No one in the city—not even the princess knight— knows what Matthew is truly capable of. (Source: Yen Press)

Announcement


Official light novel site: https://dengekibunko.jp/product/himekishisamanohimo/
Official X: @himehimo0410

Source: Comic Natalie

Himekishi-sama no Himo on MAL