Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! TV Anime Set for January 2027

WWWave Corporation announced Friday that its Deregula anime label is producing a TV adaptation of Rui Takatō's Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! (Hagure Idol Jigokuhen). The series premieres in January 2027, and Takatō drew an illustration celebrating the announcement.

The announced cast includes:

• Hisako Tōjō as Misora Haebaru
• Nao Shiraki as Sarah Goujima
• Natsumi Murakami as Chae Yoon-Hee
• Hikaru Iida as Nene Kori

Takashi Andō (My Life as Inukai-san's Dog, My Girlfriend's Friend) directs at Raiose. Eeyo Kurosaki (Yoasobi Gurashi, Do You Like Big Girls?, The Lonely Snow Widow and the Cursed Ring) writes and supervises the scripts.

Ryūji Iwata (My Girlfriend's Friend) designs the characters, Morimori serves as chief animation director, and ZincP composes the music.

Yutaka Aota directs the art, with Do Kim Hoan Tran handling art setting and Riku Saito handling color setting. Tomohiro Hayashi serves as compositing director of photography and editor. Akinori Shiba directs sound at studio Object.

Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the manga through its Ghost Ship adult imprint. The story follows Misora Haebaru, an 18-year-old karate expert who moves to Tokyo hoping to become a famous singer. Her sleazy handlers instead trick her into the adult entertainment industry.

Her escape depends on surviving a martial arts tournament against 100 lustful male opponents. Defeat carries what the publisher describes as an ultimate erotic price.

The manga debuted in Nihonbungeisha's Bessatsu Manga Goraku in February 2014. After the magazine ceased publication in December 2014, the series moved to Manga Goraku Special in March 2015.

Nihonbungeisha shipped volume 19 on April 28. Seven Seas released its eighth omnibus, collecting original volumes 17-18, on July 14. A live-action film adaptation opened in Japan in September 2020.

The manga entered its climax in July 2021. In 2022, Takatō announced his retirement, saying circumstances at home made it difficult to keep drawing manga about breasts and sex. The series went on hiatus, then resumed in March 2024 when he returned to the industry.

Takatō also created Pale Blue Dot Battle Athletes Daiundōkai ReSTART!, an entirely new story for the 1990s multimedia franchise Battle Athletes Victory. Its prologue debuted on Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Comic Ruelle & Comic Jardi manga website in June 2020; the manga ended in March 2021.

That manga inspired an anime adaptation that premiered in Japan in April 2021. Funimation streamed it as it aired.