Kindergarten Wars
Kindergarten Wars is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by You Chiba. It began serialization on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website in September 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 16 volumes as of January 2026. An anime television series adaptation produced by Sunrise has been announced.
Plot
The story takes place in Kindergarten Noir, known as "the world's safest kindergarten". Hosting the children of politicians, celebrities, businessmen, and other VIPs, Kindergarten Noir protects them from would-be assassins and kidnappers by employing former criminals as teachers in exchange for reduced sentences. Rita, also known as Convict #999, is a former assassin who finds herself working at Kindergarten Noir—both to get a reduced sentence by acting as a bodyguard and to find a hot guy along the way.Characters
;Rita;Doug
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by You Chiba, the series began serialization on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website on September 15, 2022. Initially starting publication in Jump+'s Rookies program as an "independent manga", in March 2023 Shueisha announced that it would become a full-fledged series. The series reached its final arc after a two-month break on March 27, 2025. As of January 2026, the series individual chapters have been collected in 16 volumes.Shueisha's Manga Plus platform is publishing the series in English. At New York [Comic Con] 2024, Yen Press announced that they licensed the series for English print publication.