Staff for the Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa inai!? (Gal Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!?/ オタクに優しいギャルはいない！？) TV anime has confirmed that the anime will premiere in April 2026. The anime will air on TV Asahi and its affiliated channels every Wednesday at 11:45 p.m. JST.
A teaser video and visual for the anime were also revealed earlier this week.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOnjLHOVspA]
Mita Shin is directing the anime at TMS Entertainment’s Number 6 Studio, and it will star Komura Shou as Takuya Seo, Inagaki Konomi as Kei Amane and Serizawa Yuu as Kotoko Ijichi.
The anime is based on the Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa inai!? manga by Norishiro-chan and Uozumi Sakana. The manga began in August 2021 in Coamix’s Monthly Comic Zenon magazine, and Coamix published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in March 2023 and the 11th volume in October 2025. The manga’s 12th volume is scheduled for release on March 19th, 2026.
Yen Press released the manga’s first volume in English, under the name Gal Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!?, in October 2025. Yen Press describes the manga’s story below:
“Meet Takuya Seo, an otaku who sits behind the popular gals in class, Ijichi and Amane. As people from different “castes”, you wouldn’t expect them to have much in common. But when their worlds collide over a borrowed eraser, Takuya slips up about his favourite anime, and Amane…is rather quick to correct him. She says she’s not a fan, but her familiarity with the series suggests otherwise. Could she be…a fellow geek?!”
