The second main PV for the TV anime You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! has been released. The series is set to premiere on January 5, 2026, and will be streamed on Crunchyroll as it airs.
Additionally, d anime store and AnimeFesta will provide the fastest web distribution of the “on-air version” every Monday starting January 5. Both platforms will also offer exclusive access to the “Puchi Doki version,” which removes certain episode restrictions.
The anime’s opening theme will feature the newly written song “I Love You♡” by HoneyWorks. Vocals are performed by HoneyWorks meets Shio Minamo, Akari Hiodoshi, Runa Tsukimi, and Haru Hinata (CV: Rin Kusumi, Yu Serizawa, Sae Hiratsuka, Yuki Yamamoto).
New Trailer:
A special Christmas illustration by original author Shinya Misu has also been released to celebrate the upcoming anime:
Key Visual:
STAFF:
Director: Satoshi Kurahara
Series Composer and Co-Scriptwriter: Mitsutaka Hirota
Character Designer: Reina Iwasaki
Animation Production: Tezuka Productions
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: @love_Osnnjm_wm
©Shinya Misu, KODANSHA/ We Want to be in a Rom-com with Our Childhood Friends Partners
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