Dengeki Bunko light novel series The Kept Man of the Princess Knight (Himekishi-sama no Himo) will be adapted into a TV anime. A video and an illustration were released in commemoration. The Toru Shirogane-authored, Saki Mashima-illustrated series started in February 2022 and has six volumes as of August 2024. It has a manga adaptation.
Chihiro Kumano (Unnamed Memory assistant director) is directing the series at BLADE. Deko Akao (Unnamed Memory) is the series composer, while Hisao Ishii (16bit Sensation: Another Layer Episode 12 co-animation director), who drew the commemorative illustration, is character designer. The lead cast includes Junichi Suwabe as Matthew and Mikako Komatsu as Arwin.
Synopsis:
he Dungeon City is a wicked place filled with crime, debauchery, and death. Its one shining light is Arwin, the beautiful Crimson Princess Knight. She and her brave party of adventurers descend into the dungeon at the city’s center, seeking a legendary treasure with the power to rebuild the princess’s fallen kingdom. Many yearn to be by her side, but that spot is already taken by Matthew, a man despised by all in town as a cowardly weakling. Everyone thinks he is scum who just spends her hard-earned money on booze, women, and gambling. No one in the city not even the princess knight knows what Matthew is truly capable of.
