The ninth novel in 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/クラスで２番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった ) ligh novel series by Takata, announced that the series will end with the 10th novel.

Kadokawa published Takata’s first novel in December 2021, with illustrations by Osabe Tom, and after the first novel, Hyuuga Azuri took over the illustrations in the series. Kadokawa released the series’s ninth novel on April 1st, 2026.

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The novel series was adapted into a manga by Ono Rin in 2022 on Kadokawa’s Comic Alive+ website. Kadokawa published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in March 2023 and the seventh volume in December 2025. The manga’s eighth volume is scheduled for release on June 26th, 2026.

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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 third volume on June 23rd, 2026.

Yen Press describes the manga 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!”

The light novel’s anime adaptation premiered on April 7th, 2026.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCE8HDUpCeU]

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Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs, and it describes the anime story below:

“Maki Maehara, the class outcast, finally makes his first friend: Umi Asanagi, the second-prettiest girl in class and the center of everyone’s attention. He’s convinced she’s out of his league, but as their unlikely friendship grows, Maki starts to wonder…could there be more than just friendship between them?”