YOU CAN'T BE IN A ROM-COM WITH YOUR CHILDHOOD FRIENDS! Anime Series Trailers, Images and Posters

"You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!" ("Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai") is a new anime series based on the Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinya Misu. Kodansha published the original manga in their Magazine Pocket digital manga publication since March 2022.

The anime is directed by Satoshi Kuwabara ("The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses") at studio Tezuka Productions, with series composition by Mitsutaka Hirota ("Days with My Stepsister") and character designs by Reina Iwasaki ("VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream").

The opening song is "I Love You" featuring the four main characters as singers, while the ending theme song is is "Amanojaku" ("Contrarian") performed by Hikari Kodama. The voice cast includes Takehiro Urao, Rin Kusumi, Yu Serizawa, Sae Hiratsuka and Yuki Yamamoto.

"You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!" premieres on January 5, 2026 and also streams on Crunchyroll.

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