The anime adaptation of Though I Am an Inept Villainess premieres July 12, 2026, on TV Tokyo and streams on Crunchyroll and Netflix in various regions, with an English dub on Hulu starting July 12.
The anime adaptation of Satsuki Nakamura's light novel series Though I Am an Inept Villainess has locked in a July 12 premiere on TV Tokyo after a production delay pushed it from its original April date. Studio Doga Kobo produces the series, with Mitsue Yamasaki directing, Yoshiko Nakamura handling series composition, Ai Kikuchi designing characters, and Yukari Hashimoto composing the music. Manaka Iwami voices protagonist Kou Reirin, and Natsumi Kawaida voices Shu Keigetsu, with additional cast including Makoto Furukawa, Yuichiro Umehara, Ai Kayano, Inori Minase, and Yui Ishikawa.
The opening theme is milet's "Sunny," the singer-songwriter's first solo opening for a TV anime. Crunchyroll streams the series in North America, Europe, and Oceania, while Toho Entertainment Asia handles distribution in Asia, where it also streams on Netflix. Hulu will carry the English dub starting July 12. The light novel series, which began in December 2020 under Ichijinsha, has 12 volumes as of March 2026, with a concurrent manga adaptation by Ei Ohitsuji in Monthly Comic Zero-Sum. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes both in English under the full title Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court. Combined sales of the novels and manga exceed four million copies, and the light novel won top honors in the light novel category at the 2023 Everyone's Choice Electronic Comic Awards.
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