Kyoto Animation Reveals Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved Film for 2025

Kyoto Animation revealed throughout a 2025 lineup livestream on Saturday that it’s producing a movie for the Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid franchise titled Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Samishigariya no Ryū). The movie will open in 2025.

Tatsuya Ishihara (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S; Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!) will direct the anime. The movie will characteristic returning solid members Mutsumi Tamura as Kobayashi, Yūki Kuwahara as Tohru, and Maria Naganawa as Kanna.

Coolkyoushinja began the continuing Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid manga within the inaugural problem of Monthly Action journal in Could 2013. The manga moved to Manga Action in February 2024 when Month-to-month Motion ended publication.

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English.

The sequence inspired an anime adaptation by Kyoto Animation that premiered in Japan in January 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the sequence because it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed an English dub. Funimation launched the anime on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in April 2020.

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S, the anime’s second season, premiered in July 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime because it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed an English dub. The anime obtained a particular “Quantity S” on Blu-ray Disc and DVD that features an unaired episode titled “Nippon no Omotenashi (Attend wa Dragon Desu)” (Japanese Hospitality (My Attendant Is a Dragon)). Quantity S shipped in January 2022.

The manga has additionally impressed quite a few spinoff manga (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Elma’s Office Lady Diary, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Fafnir the Recluse, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Kanna’s Daily Life), which Seven Seas can also be releasing in English.

Supply: Kyoto Animation 2025 new work announcement livestream