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An anime adaptation for the girls’ love light novel There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… has been announced and scheduled for July 2025. A teaser visual and trailer were also released along with the staff and cast information.

Natsumi Uchinuma is directing the anime at Studio Mother, with Naruhisa Arakawa supervising and writing the script. Misaki Kaneko, Haruki Moriya, Takashi Shiokawa, Kino Tokino, and Keinosuke Ami are credited as chief animation directors, while kojikoji is the character designer and Yoshiaki Fujisawa is the music composer. The main cast includes:

• Kanna Nakamura as Renako Amaori
• Saori Onishi as Mai Ouzuka
• Yukari Anzai as Ajisai Sena

The website and trailer also feature the characters Satsuki Koto and Kaho Koyanagi, though their voice actors are yet to be announced.

The anime adaptation of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… is based light novel written by Teren Mikami with illustrations provided by Eku Takeshima (Whisper Me a Love Song). The light novel was published under Shueisha’s Dash X Bunko label in February 2020 and a manga adaptation with art by Musshu was launched in Shueisha’s Dash X Comic section of the Niconico Seiga website in May 2020.

Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the light novel and manga in English and they describe it as follows:
Awkward, introverted Amaori Renako is leaving her lonely middle school life behind, determined to become an outgoing and popular high schooler. Glamorous, confident Oduka Mai is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, carefree, 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 love confession sends her feelings 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!

Source: Official Website
© Teren Mikami / Eku Takeshima / Shueisha / Watanare Production Committee