The official website for the Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai (My Childhood Friend Won’t Become a Romantic Comedy/幼馴染とはラブコメにならない ) TV anime has released the second main promotional video and confirmed that the anime will premiere on January 5th, 2026, on TV Tokyo and five of its affiliated channels.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSRJs8e5aRo]
The anime will also be available to stream in Japan on January 5th, on the d Anime Store and the AnimeFesta platforms. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and the CIS.
Kuwabara Satoshi is directing the anime at Tezuka Productions, and the anime will star:
- Urao Takehiro as Yonosuke Sakai
- Kusumi Rin as Shio Minamo
- Serizawa Yuu as Akari Hiodoshi
- Hiratsuka Sae as Runa Tsukimi
- Yamamoto Yuuki as Haru Hinata
The anime is based on Misu Shinya’s Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai manga. Misu started the romantic manga in March 2022 on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website, and Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2022 and the manga’s 18th volume in November 2025.
Kodansha’s K Manga platforms release the manga chapters in English under the name You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!, and it describes the manga story below:
“Hero, your average high school boy, has a problem: Shio and Akari, his two female childhood friends, go to the same school as him, and they’re way too cute! He’s certain they don’t see him as more than a friend, though, and would be mortified if they learned how he feels. Meanwhile, the girls have their own secrets… Enjoy a sweet and vexing love triangle as longtime friends struggle to be more honest with each other! “”
