The Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival Online 2026 event unveiled three additional cast, a key visual (pictured), theme songs and the first promotional video for the television anime adaptation of Tooru Shirogane's Himekishi-sama no Himo (The Kept Man of the Princess Knight). The anime series will premiere in January 2027.

Cast
April: Rika Nagae (Sentai Daishikkaku)
Vanessa: Rie Takahashi (Isekai Quartet 3)
Dez: Tetsu Inada (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals 2nd Season)

Chihiro Kumano (Unnamed Memory assistant director) is helming the anime at Blade, with Deko Akao (Ragna Crimson) handling the series composition. Hisao Ishii (Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete design assistant) is designing the characters. Taku Iwasaki is handing the music.

MYTH & ROID is performing the opening theme "TRUE-TABOO" which was previewed in the promotional video below, with sajou no hana performing the ending theme "Gika."

Shirogane began penning the action fantasy story under the Dengeki Bunko imprint in February 2022, with illustrations by Saki Mashima. Kadokawa published the seventh volume on July 10.

A manga adaptation drawn by Key Yang began in September 2022. The third and final volume was released on December 26, 2024.

Chihiro Yamazaki launched a sequel of the manga titled Himekishi-sama no Himo Act 2 on the same website in August 2025. Kadokawa released the first volume on January 27.

Yen Press licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in 2023. The sixth light novel volume was released on August 11. The third manga volume went on sale on January 6.

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Source: Comic Natalie