A third new key visual has been released for the upcoming Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? TV anime series, which features the two lead characters Yu Natsume and Himari Inuzuka. The show will begin broadcasting in Japan on April 4, 2025 and its Japanese title is Danjo no Yujo wa Seiritsu suru? (Iya, Shinai!!).
Yohei Suzuki (Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) is directing the anime series, with Nozu Yaemori as series screenwriter and Natsuki Oyama (2.5 Dimensional Seduction Episode 11 co-animation designer) as character designer. J.C.Staff is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff include Pony Canyon’s Jun Ichikawa (Baban Baban Ban Vampire, Engaged to the Unidentified) as music composer and Magic Capsule’s Jin Aketagawa (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) as sound director.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Kikunosuke Toya as Yu Natsume
- • Sayumi Suzushiro as Himari Inuzuka
- • Yuka Nukui as Rion Enomoto
- • Ko Bonkohara as Shinji Makishima
- • Masaaki Mizunaka as Hibari Inuzuka
- • Hisako Kanemoto as Sakura Natsume
The anime is based on the romantic comedy light novel series written by Nana Nanana and illustrated by Parum. The light novels were first published by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko label on January 9, 2021 and has released 10 volumes as of April 2025, which includes the second part of the fourth volume. An 11th volume will be released on April 10, 2025. A manga adaptation by Kamelie was launched in August 2021.
The series will also air on BS Asahi and Kansai TV channels on April 6, 2025, as well as on TV Miyazaki on April 10, 2025.
Plus Media Networks Asia announced this week that it has licensed the series for release in Southeast Asia and will stream it on Aniplus Asia.
Crunchyroll will be streaming Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? worldwide, outside of Asia, and describes the anime’s main synopsis as:
Childhood BFFs Himari and Yu’s vow of friendship hits turbulence when Yu reunites with his first crush in high school. Himari, who’s never known the fuzzy warmth of a crush, now must confront her feelings. Their shared dreams and peaceful days as a twosome gardening club are tested in this tale of love, flowers, and growing pains!
Source: Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? Official Japanese Twitter, Official Anime Website
