The There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wakenaijan, Muri Muri! (*Muri Janakatta!?)) yuri light novels are getting a TV anime adaptation that will begin airing in the Summer 2025 anime season.
A teaser trailer and teaser visual, the latter illustrated by character designer kojikoji, were released with the announcement.
Natsumi Uchinuma (storyboard artist and director for More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers ending animation, Episode 4 and 8) is directing There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… at studio MOTHER. The adaptation will star Kanna Nakamura as main character Renako Amaori.
Other announced staff and cast members include:
• Naruhisa Arakawa (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers) as series composer and screenwriter
• Takao Kato (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers chief director) as advisor
• Saori Onishi as Mai Oduka
• Yukari Anzai as Ajisai Sena
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… is written by Teren Mikami and illustrated by Eku Takeshima. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the premise as:
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!
Shueisha publishes the series under its Dash X Bunko label, and there are six volumes as of November 2023. It has inspired a manga by Musshu.
Source: Press release
