Kingdom Season 6 Gets Sequel
Kingdom Season 6 is getting a sequel, as announced earlier today with a teaser visual. St. Signpost and Pierrot animated the sixth installment in the anime series.
An announcement video was also shared:
The staff for Kingdom Season 6 included:
- Director: Kenichi Imaizumi
- Series Composition: Noboru Takagi
- Character Designer: Hisashi Abe
- Photography Director: Hiroki Takano
- Art Director: Junichi Higashi
- Music: Kohta Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Sawano
Kingdom was first adapted to anime in 2012: the first season was animated by studios Pierrot and IKIF+. Pierrot returned for the second season in 2013 and was joined by St. Signpost (Pierrot's subsidiary) for the third in 2020. The third season of the Kingdom anime was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic by a whole year: although it initially premiered in April 2020, only four episodes aired before the lockdowns started affecting the production schedule. The third season restarted broadcast in April of 2021 and was the first one to use non-CGI animation. The fourth season premiered in April 2022, while the fifth premiered in January 2024.
Yashuhisa Hara's Kingdom manga has been serialized since January 2006, and as of December 2024, it had over 110 million copies in circulation. In 2013, it also won the Grand Prize of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. VIZ Media announced plans to license it in English earlier this year, and the first volume was released this fall. In addition to the TV anime, the Kingdom manga also has a live-action movie adaptation, which is getting a fifth sequel.
Source: Official Website
©Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha, Kingdom Production Committee
