©三簾真也・講談社／幼馴染とラブコメになりたい製作委員会Crunchyroll revealed at New York Comic Con 2025 that it will showcase the romantic comedy TV anime series You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! when it debuts in 2026. The anime will be accessible on Crunchyroll globally, with the exception of Asia.
The company also shared that it will unveil the first episode of the series during a panel at New York Comic Con 2025 on October 12, 2025.
The anime is known in Japan as Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai. The animation production will be handled by Tezuka Productions.
Additionally, the primary voice cast features Rin Kusumi as Shio Minamo, Sae Hiratsuka as Runa Tsukimi, and Yu Serizawa as Akari Hiodoshi.
This anime adapts the childhood friend-themed romantic comedy manga by Shinya Misu, which started its serialization in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket on March 22, 2022. As of September 2025, seventeen tankobon volumes have been published.
©三簾真也・講談社／幼馴染とラブコメになりたい製作委員会Crunchyroll outlines the central synopsis of You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! as follows:
Eeyuu, a high school boy, faces a dilemma! Shio and Akari, his two childhood friends attending the same high school, are simply too adorable! While they harbor no intentions, if they discover that he is the only one viewing them with romantic interest now that they’ve matured… it would lead to embarrassment! Conversely, the two childhood friends possess secrets of their own…? It’s quite the tease!! Complex! But childhood friends are the pinnacle! An endearing, anxious, and intricately woven love triangle romantic comedy.
Source: press release
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