Light Novel ‘Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?)’ Gets TV Anime in Summer 2025
Production company Shueisha DeNA Projects opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Teren Mikami’s Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?) (There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…) light novel on Tuesday, revealing the main cast, staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and teaser promo. The anime will premiere in July 2024.
Cast
Renako Amaori: Kanna Nakamura (Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naru zo)
Mai Ouzuka: Saori Oonishi (Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san)
Ajisai Sena: Yukari Anzai (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)
Staff
Director: Natsumi Uchinuma (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season episode director)
Series Composition, Script: Naruhisa Arakawa (Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.)
Character Design: Kojikoji
Chief Animation Director: Misaki Kaneko (Fruits Basket 1st Season), Haruki Moriya (Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon), Takashi Shiokawa (Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari), Kino Tokino (Megami no Café Terrace), Keinosuke Ami (Summertime Render animation director)
Color Design: Mitsuko Sekimoto (Mars Red)
Art Director: Yuri Takagi (Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!), Keito Watanabe (Sword Art Online: Alicization)
Director of Photography: Takuma Morooka (Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction)
Edited by: Ichirou Chaen (Kanojo ga Koushaku-tei ni Itta Riyuu)
Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi (Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi)
Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight)
Studio: studio MOTHER
Mikami began penning the school girls love novel, also known by its short title Watanare, under the Dash x Bunko imprint in February 2020, featuring illustrations by Eku Takeshima (Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau). Shueisha published the sixth volume on November 29 last year. Watanare has a cumulative 500,00 copies of its volumes in print.
Musshu (Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku) began drawing a manga adaptation on the Suiyoubi wa Mattari Dash X Comic website in May 2020. Shueisha released the seventh volume on September 19.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both the light novel and manga in English in May 2022. The fifth light novel volume went on sale on September 10, with the sixth volume planned for a February 11, 2025 release. The sixth manga volume shipped on October 22, with the seventh volume set to be released on June 24, 2025.
Synopsis
Renako Amaori is leaving her awkward and lonely junior high school life behind, determined to become a normal girl with normal friends in high school. Glamorous, confident Mai Ouzuka is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, outgoing, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection. Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s romantic confession sends her into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers. Let the love games begin! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Teaser PV
Official site: http://watanare-anime.com/
Official X: @watanare_anime
Source: PR Times
Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?) on MAL
