The official website for the Aishiteru Game o Owarasetai (愛してるゲームを終わらせたい / I Want to End This Love Game) TV anime has revealed the show’s key visual and confirmed its premiere date as April 14th, 2026. The anime will debut on the Tokyo MX channel at 11:00 p.m. JST.
Tani Azuma is directing the anime at Felix Film studio, and the anime will star Ishikawa Kaito as Yukiya Asagi and Itou Miku as Miku Sakura. Newly announced cast members are listed below:
- Maruoka Wakana as Wakana Asagi
- Koyasu Takehito as Masaru Shinonome
- Ogura Yui as Hinako Hanaba
- Hondo Kaede as Natsuki Moegi
The anime is based on Doumoto Yuuki’s Aishiteru Game o Owarasetai (愛してるゲームを終わらせたい) manga. Doumoto (Girlish Number, Necromance) started the romance manga in December 2021 on Shogakukan’s Sunday Webry website, and Shogakukan published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in April 2022 and the seventh volume in June 2025. The manga’s eighth volume is scheduled for release on April 10th, 2026.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English under the name I Want to End This Love Game, and it released the sixth volume on May 13th, 2025. Viz Media describes the manga story below:
“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 favourite shojo manga as his weapon, he’s prepared to pin her to the wall and gaze at her with the perfect smoulder! Will his advances get her heart racing? Or will Yukiya end up making a fool of himself?”
