A newly launched website has announced that a TV anime adaptation of Kei Misawa and Natsu Mizuno’s The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration / “Kimi o Koi Suru Ki wa Nai” to Itta Jiki Kōshaku-sama ga Nazeka Dekiai Shitekimasu manga series is in the works. The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration will premiere in July 2026 on TV Asahi and BS Asahi, and the anime’s main cast and staff were revealed.
The main cast of the anime includes Yui Ishikawa as Elsa Yukarainen and Soma Saito as Julius Roias.
Hitoyuki Matsui directs the anime adaptation at Zero-G and Glass. Kaoru Suzuki is credited for planning technical direction, Tomoko Konparu oversees the series scripts, and Yūko Yahiro is the character designer. MICHIRU is the music composer, and Saber Links handles sound production.
Misawa and Mizuno launched the manga series on the BookLive digital bookstore in February 2021. Flex Comix publishes the manga series in print, and the fifth compiled book volume will launch on March 13. Flex Comix also publishes the manga in English on digital platforms.
Flex Comix describes the manga’s story as follows:
Elsa, the daughter of a fallen aristocrat, receives news.
It was a marriage proposal from Julius, a very elite nobleman.
Elsa is wondering,” Why would such a distinguished man marry me”?
But after the wedding, Julius, who had been kind and gentle up to that point, changed completely!
In a cold voice, he tells her, ”I have no intention of loving you.”
