The staff of the the new TV anime adaptation of Shinya Misu’s You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! (Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai) manga announced the anime’s January 2026 premiere on TV Tokyo, AT-X, and BS NTV. A new key visual for You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! was revealed featuring Haru Hinata, who is voiced by Yūki Yamamoto. Haru Hinata is one of the story’s four heroines.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! when it premieres worldwide, excluding Asia.
The previously announced cast for the anime includes:
- Rin Kusumi as Shio Minamo
- Yū Serizawa as Akari Hiodoshi
- Sae Hiratsuka as Runa Tsukimi
CyberAgent is producing the anime, and Tezuka Productions is animating the series.
Misu released the original manga series on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website in March 2022. Kodansha published the manga’s 17th compiled book volume on September 9.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series, courtesy of Crunchyroll:
Eeyuu, a high school boy, has a problem! Shio and Akari, his two childhood friends who go to the same high school, are too cute! They have no intentions, but if they find out that he is the only one looking at them sexually now that they’ve grown up… it would be so embarrassing! On the other hand, the two childhood friends also have their own secrets…? It’s too tantalizing!! Complicated! But childhood friends are the best! A sweet, impatient, and twisted love triangle romantic comedy.
