The official website for the Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta (I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class) TV anime has revealed a promotional video and teaser visual for the show. It’s also been confirmed that the anime will premiere in 2026.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzlYhpGuMf0]

Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta Anime Teaser Visual

Tachibana Hideki is directing the anime at CONNECT studio, and the anime will star Ishiya Haruki as Maki Maehara, Iwami Manaka as Umi Asanagi, Suzushiro Sayumi as Yuu Amami, and Hasegawa Ikumi as Nina Nitta.

The anime is based on Takata’s Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta light novel series. Kadokawa published Takata’s first novel in December 2021, with illustrations by Osabe Tom (Yuujin Chara no Ore ga Mote Makuru Wakenai Daro?), and after the first novel, Hyuuga Azuri (Jakushou Soshage-bu no Bokura ga Kamige o Tsukuru Made), took over the illustrations in the series. Kadokawa released the seventh novel in October 2024, and a new novel labelled as number 7.5 will be published on May 1st, 2025. 

Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta Novel Cover 1

Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta Novel Cover 7.5

The novel series was adapted into a manga by Ono Rin (Senpai Nanka Suki janai!) in 2022 on Kadokawa’s Comic Alive+ website. Kadokawa published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in March 2023 and the fifth volume in November 2024. Yen Press will publish the manga adaptation in English under the name I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class, and it will release the manga’s first volume on June 24th, 2025.

Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta Manga Cover 1

Yen Press describes the story below:

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 centre of attention and called the “second prettiest in class” by the boys, Asanagi is 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!