The Twisted Wonderland anime is a Disney+ exclusive project, announced for release of eight episodes, once a week every Wednesday beginning from October 29, 2025, and confirmed for three seasons.
Animated PV released on September 29, 2025, confirming that the Opening Song is to be Piece of My World by the Night Ravens, with Ending Song of “Obedience“:
The anime’s official release schedule was announced on October 19, 2025 (source):
Episode 5: November 26 (5pm (JST))
EN dialogue changes here ▶︎
Episode 7: December 10 (5pm (JST))
Episode 6: December 3 (5pm (JST))
EN dialogue changes here ▶︎
Episode 8: December 17 (5pm (JST))
Main visual released on August 5, 2025 (source 1 / source 2)
On October 17, 2025 Disney+ JP announced that animated, day-in-the-life, original stories are going to be released following each episode of the main anime story, featuring the characters in chibi form (source).
On November 9, 2025, Yana confirmed that the art, scenarios and all direction for the anime are being overseen by Disney:
“The art, scenarios, and all direction for the Twst anime are handled by Disney. You can catch a glimpse of notes showing what points they focused on when designing the characters and drawing them so beautifully…it’s already proving educational.”【Toboso】
Announced by DisneyPlusJP, the voice actors from Twisted Wonderland game have been retained in season 1 of the anime including all 22 of the main student cast, the faculty, the dark mirror and Chenya.
Azakami Youhei joined the cast as manga/anime-exclusive character Enma Yuuken, with music by the Twisted Wonderland game’s composer Ozawa Takumi.
In November 2025 interviews with anime seiyuu were published in Nikkei Entertainment magazine (2025/11/4), Animedia magazine (25/11/10) and PASH! magazine (25/11/10).
A compilation of anime voice-cast comments on the anime have been translated here ▶︎
Anime voice-cast interviews compiled here:
・Yuuken (Azakami Youhei)
・Deuce (Kobayashi Chiaki)
・Leona (Umehara Yuuichirou)
・Azul (Tamaru Atsushi)
・Vil (Aiba Hiroki)
・Idia (Uchiyama Kouki)
・Malleus (Kato Kazuki)
Below: Promotional flyer distributed at the Blazing Jewel live concert, October 2025.
Twisted Wonderland: The Animation – Staff Profiles
Animation Production – Yumeta Company × Graphinica
Previous Collaborations:
- Re:Stage! Dream Days♪ (2019)
- Muv-Luv Alternative (2021 & 2022)
- Cue! (2022)
- Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ (2022 & 2023)
- Record of Ragnarok II (2023)
General Director / Series Composition – Natori Takahiro
Past Work:
- ARIA The BENEDIZIONE – Director, Storyboard, Unit Director
- ARIA The CREPUSCOLO – Director, Storyboard, Unit Director
- Cannon Busters – Director
- Kiniro no Corda: Blue♪Sky – Director
- Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ – Director
Director – Katagai Shin
Past Work:
- CUE! – Director
- Neo Angelique Abyss – Director
- Neo Angelique Abyss – Second Age – – Director
- The Ossan Newbie Adventure – Director
- Re:Stage! Dream Days – Director
- Yume Ookoku to Nemureru 100-Nin no Ouji-sama Short Stories – Director
Main Writer – Kato Yoichi
Past Work:
- City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes – Script Writer
- The IDOLM@STER Million Live! – Script Writer
- Monster Sonic! D’Artagnan’s Rise to Fame – Script Writer
- Sorcery in the Big City – Script Writer
Character Designer – Nakano Haruka
Past Work: Asteroid in Love, Moriarty the Patriot (Key Animation)
Character Designer – Sato Akane
Past Work: Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain (Animation Director, Key Animation)
Sub-Character Design – Tsunaki Aki
Past Work: Legend of Basara, Muv-Luv Alternative (Sub-Character Design)
Color Design – Abe Nagisa
Past Work:
- 86
- Blue Exorcist
- Kurokami the Animation
- Love Me, Love Me Not (movie)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
- Sand Land (movie)
- Scarlet Nexus
- SD Gundam World Heroes
- SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next (movie)
- Tales of Gekijou
- Uncle From Another World
Art Director – Matsumoto Hiroki
Past Work:
- A-Channel
- Concrete Revolutio
- Cue!
- Girly Air Force
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san
- Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East
- Hanamaru Kindergarten
- ItaKiss
- Koe de Oshimoto!
- Love Tyrant
- Masamune Datenicle
- Mr. Villain’s Day Off
- OneRoom
- The Ossan Newbie Adventurer
- Please Tell Me! Galko-chan
- Rainy Cocoa
- Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3
- Taisho Otome Fairy TaleStrike Witches
- Ultramarine Magmell
- We Never Learn: BOKUBEN
3DCG Director – Ooya Kazuya
Past Work: Muv-Luv Alternative
Director of Photography – Saitou Takao
Past Work: Akashic Records, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Undead Unluck
Editing – Takigawa Michi
Past Work:
- Assassins Pride
- DAKAICHI -I’m being harassed by the sexiest man of the year-
- IDOLiSH7 the Movie LIVE 4bit BEYOND THE PERiOD
- The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Spin-off!
- Meiji Gekken: 1874
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Once Upon a Witch’s Death
- Skate-Leading Stars
- Tokyo Mew Mew New
- Wise Man’s Grandchild
- The World’s Finest Assassin
Sound Director – Sugawara Miho
Past Works: Witchy Precure! MIRAI DAYS, Power of Hope: Precure Full Bloom
Twisted Wonderland Reference Note 