Viz Media has licensed the Marronnier Kingdom manga, Nao Iwamoto’s fantasy romance The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, for English-language readers, Anime News Network reported. Viz announced the license Thursday, two days before the series’ TV anime debuted in Japan.
What the Marronnier Kingdom manga is about
The story follows seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, which sits at the center of a group of eight kingdoms. Each brother is sent to a different kingdom as an ambassador, and each goes on an adventure to find a fated partner, Anime News Network reported. Viz put the first two chapters online the same day.
Iwamoto began the manga in Shogakukan’s Flowers magazine in September 2016. The 11th collected volume shipped in Japan on June 10. Anime News Network noted that the series topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.
The anime that arrived this weekend
The television anime premiered Saturday, Oct. 3, at 6:25 p.m. JST on NHK Educational TV. J.C.Staff is animating it. Kiyoko Sayama directs, Shinzō Fujita oversees the scripts, Yuriko Maeda designs the characters and Yoshiaki Fujisawa composes the music. The cast includes Kengo Takanashi, Makoto Tanikawa and Haruki Ishiya as brothers, with Show Hayami as narrator.
Want to find where this and other new series are streaming? Our guide to fall 2026 anime on Crunchyroll, Netflix and more has the details.
Iwamoto’s earlier work
Readers who pick up the Marronnier Kingdom manga may know Iwamoto as the creator of Kingdom of Gold, Kingdom of Water. Madhouse adapted that manga into the anime film Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom, which opened in Japan on Jan. 27, 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment published the manga in English on Nov. 28, 2023.
The Viz license brings the Marronnier Kingdom manga to English readers. For more manga and anime news, see our coverage of the Kagurabachi anime cast and the My Happy Marriage special.
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