A class outcast makes quite a pretty friend in his class in the exciting and wholesome anime adaptation of Takata’s I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class light novel series! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the anime.
In the story of I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class focuses on Maki Maehara, who gains the attention of everyone in class after befriending Umi Asanagi—the second-prettiest girl of the school. He’s convinced that she’s out of his league, but as their friendship grows, Maki begins to question whether there’s more than what’s on the surface.
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class will release on Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs. I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class will feature 12 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class episodes (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – April 7 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 14 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 21 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – April 28 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – May 5 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 12 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 19 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – May 26 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – June 2 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 9 – OUT NOW
- Episode 11 – June 16
- Episode 12 – June 23
New episodes of I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 7:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 8:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 9:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 10:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 2:30 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
reGretGirl performs the opening theme song “Submarine Youth,” and Koresawa performs the ending theme song “Zutto Ichiban ni Shitene.”
- Yūko Kaida as Masaki Maehara
- Shizuka Itō as Sora Asanagi
- Minami Tsuda as Miki Yagisawa
Starting April 7, I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class will begin airing on Tuesdays at 11:30 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX.
The main cast includes:
- Haruki Ishiya as Maki Maehara
- Manaka Iwami as Umi Asanagi
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Yū Amami
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Nina Nitta
Hideki Tachibana directs the anime at CONNECT, with Keiichirō Ōchi overseeing and writing the series scripts. Shoko Takimoto is the anime’s character designer.
Additional staff members include:
- Assistant Director: Takumi Shibata
- Costume Design: Kana Hayashi
- Chief Animation Directors: Shoko Takimoto, Kana Hayashi
- Art Director: Michiko Morokuma
- Background Studio: Studio TENJIN
- Color Design: Erika Tsukino
- 3D Director: Takeshi Saitō
- 3DCG Studio: WIRED
- Director of Photography: Takashi Yanagida
- Photography Studio: EXPLOSION
- Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
- Music: Ruka Kawada, Yayoi Sekimukai, Shūhei Mutsuki
- Editing: Maki Sendo
- Editing Studio: REAL-T
Where Can I Watch I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class?
Crunchyroll is streaming the I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class anime worldwide, excluding Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In Japan, the anime will be airing on the Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, and BS Asahi channels, along with various streaming services.
What is I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class About?
Takata launched the I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class series in November 2020 in Kadokawa’s Kakuyomu website. Kadokawa’s Sneaker Bunko imprint began publishing the novel series in print in December 2021, and Rin Ono launched the manga adaptation in Comic Alive+ in 2022.
Yen Press is publishing the manga adaptation in English. Lastly, here’s an overview of the story from Yen Press.
Maki Maehara is always on his own at school. He has no friends or hobbies others share, and he doesn’t expect the upcoming academic year to be any different, even surrounded by new faces. And six months later, it seems like he was right—until he runs into his popular classmate Umi Asanagi at a video store! Always at the center of attention and called the “second prettiest in class” by the boys, Asanagi’s from a totally different world. But it turns out the two have more overlapping interests than just the B-grade movies they came to check out…and Asanagi asks Maehara to be her friend!
