You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! Anime Opening Theme Song Music Video Released

Sony Music Japan has started streaming an anime version music video for “I LOVE YOU ♡”, the opening theme song of TV anime You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!. The music video features memorable scenes from the anime focusing on each heroine.

The song is performed under the unit name HoneyWorks meets Shio Minamo, Akari Hiodoshi, Runa Tsukimi, and Haru Hinata. It was produced by HoneyWorks as a collaboration with the anime’s four main heroines. The characters are voiced by Rin Kusumi, Yu Serizawa, Sae Hiratsuka, and Yuuki Yamamoto.

HoneyWorks meets Shio Minamo, Akari Hiodoshi, Runa Tsukimi, Haru Hinata “I LOVE YOU ♡” Anime Music Video

Singer-songwriter and voice actress Hikari Codama, who performs the ending theme “Amanojaku”, also posted her own singing video of “I LOVE YOU ♡” on her official YouTube channel.

Hikari Codama “I LOVE YOU ♡” Singing Performance Video

Story Visual:

STAFF:
Director: Satoshi Kurahara
Series Composer and Co-Scriptwriter: Mitsutaka Hirota
Character Designer: Reina Iwasaki
Animation Production: Tezuka Productions

The anime is based on the romance manga by Shinya Misu. It premiered in Japan on January 6, 2026. Crunchyroll streams the series in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.

Crunchyroll describes You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! anime as follows:

Eeyuu, a high school boy, has a problem! Shio and Akari, his two childhood friends who go to the same high school, are too cute! They have no intentions, but if they find out that he is the only one looking at them sexually now that they’ve grown up… it would be so embarrassing! On the other hand, the two childhood friends also have their own secrets…? It’s too tantalizing!! Complicated! But childhood friends are the best! A sweet, impatient, and twisted love triangle romantic comedy

Source: Official YouTube channel

©Shinya Misu, KODANSHA/ We Want to be in a Rom-com with Our Childhood Friends Partners

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