Kingdom Season 6 — Everything We Know

Kingdom is back. Season 6 is officially scheduled for October 4, 2025, and the newest trailers, visuals, and staff confirmations make this one of the year’s biggest historical-anime events.

Crunchyroll and official announcements frame Season 6 as bringing the “all-out war between the Qin and Zhao armies” to television. That means large-scale strategic warfare, siege tactics, and emotional payoffs after long-burn character arcs. In plain terms, expect the anime to adapt later-stage manga material focused on the Western Zhao invasion and the climaxes that follow. These arcs are where Yasuhisa Hara turns chess-board maneuvers into cinematic spectacle, so the season is being treated as a major event rather than a casual cour. The production is largely in familiar hands. Pierrot and Signpost previously collaborated on Kingdom seasons, and core staff like Kenichi Imaizumi and Noboru Takagi returning signals the anime is aiming for continuity rather than a tonal reboot. That usually means consistent voice cast, musical direction, and (crucially for Kingdom) a similar approach to staging gigantic clashes. Big-name composers like Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto are attached — that usually equals an epic, percussion-heavy score that elevates slogging lines into operatic battle beats. The official trailers (two full PVs have been released so far) lean hard into battlefield scale: sweeping army formations, brutal close-quarters clashes, and a few intimate character beats for the Hi Shin Unit’s core members. The new key visual telegraphs a more cinematic color palette and tighter composition than some earlier seasons’ promotional art, and the first-look trailers already preview the Ikimonogakari opening — a tactical move to hook mainstream viewers with a familiar J-pop act. If you’re the GIF-and-reactions type, expect those PV frames to explode on X/Twitter the moment they go live.

The season will broadcast on NHK channels in Japan starting Oct 4, 2025 (the official domestic window). Crunchyroll has historically simulcast Kingdom and it’s the most likely international streaming partner again, keep an eye on Crunchyroll’s official news feed for simulcast/dub windows and episode release times in your region.

Image Credit Pierrot and Studio Signpost