Two childhood friends get perpetually stuck in battle over their own feelings for one another in the thrilling anime adaptation of Yūki Dōmoto’s I Want to End This Love Game manga! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about I Want to End This Love Game, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the anime.
The story of I Want to End This Love Game focuses on childhood friends Yukiya and Miku, who both share everything with each other except their feelings. They’ve been playing a “love game” since sixth grade, taking turns saying “I love you.” Whoever gets flustered first loses, but now they’re in high school and every feeling gets even more real. It’s clear that they’re ready to seal the deal, but who will confess their love first? The anime might hold the answers fans seek.
I Want to End This Love Game Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of I Want to End This Love Game will release on Tuesdays at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs and an English dub. I Want to End This Love Game will feature 12 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for I Want to End This Love Game (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – April 14 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 21 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 28 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – May 5 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – May 12 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 19 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 26 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – June 2 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – June 9 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 16
- Episode 11 – June 23
- Episode 12 – June 30
New episodes of I Want to End This Love Game will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 7:00 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 8:00 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 9:00 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 2:00 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
CHICO with Honeyworks perform the opening theme song “Kimi no Sei de Aishiteru (It’s Your Fault that I Love You),” and PompadollS performs the ending theme song “Little World.”
The cast members include:
- Kaito Ishikawa as Yukiya Asagi
- Miku Itō as Wakana Asagi
- Wakana Maruoka as Miku Sakura.
- Wakana Maruoka as Wakana Asagi
- Takehito Koyasu as Masaru Shinonome
- Yui Ogura as Hinako Hanaba
- Kaede Hondo as Natsuki Moegi
Azuma Tani is directing the I Want to End This Love Game anime at Felix Films. Keiichirō Ōchi writes and oversees the series scripts, Yūki Fukuchi is the character designer, and Akito Matsuda is the music composer.
Additional staff members include:
- Sub-character Designers: Ryōsuke Tanigawa, Tomokazu Sugimura
- Prop Design: Tomokazu Sugimura
- Art Director: Masanori Nishiyama
- Color Design: Natsuko Ueno
- 3D Director: Masaomi Suzuki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Jun Kubota (Cyan)
- Editing: Azuma Tani, Misaki Enokida
- Sound Director: Satoshi Yano
- Music Production: POPHOLIC
- Music Cooperation: Myrica Music
Where Can I Watch I Want to End This Love Game?
Crunchyroll is streaming I Want to End This Love Game in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, India and Southeast Asia. In Japan, the anime is airing on the Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS Asahi, along with ABEMA, d Anime Store, and other streaming services.
What is I Want to End This Love Game About?
Dōmoto launched the manga series on the Sunday Webry website in 2021. Shogakukan publishes the manga series in Japan, and in the west, VIZ Media publishes the manga in English.
Lastly, here’s an description of the manga series, via VIZ Media:
After leaving behind his image as a quiet nerd, Yukiya’s ready to break hearts and take names with the ultimate high school glow-up. Well, he’s really just got one girl in his sights—his best friend, Miku! Using her favorite shojo manga as his weapon, he’s prepared to pin her to the wall and gaze at her with the perfect smolder! Will his advances get her heart racing? Or will Yukiya end up making a fool of himself?
