The There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (WATANARE) TV anime is getting a follow-up.
In addition to a TV broadcast, the sequel will get a “special theatrical edition” with the title There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ that will receive a limited release in Japan starting on November 21 JST. The sequel consists of five episodes.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“I want to learn to love myself—just the way I am!”
Renako Amaori, a former gloomy and socially awkward girl, reinvented herself for high school and successfully made her debut. She even managed to join the top tier popular group… only to be suddenly confessed to by two of its brightest stars?! One is the school’s ultimate prince, Mai Oduka. The other, the beloved angel of the campus, Ajisai Sena.
There’s no way she can handle both their affections—no freaking way! While still struggling to give them an answer, Renako agrees to help her friend Kaho by joining a cosplay event. It’s the perfect excuse to delay her reply… or so she thought. But as she witnesses Kaho’s passion firsthand, something begins to stir inside her.
What is it that she truly wants? What is she truly searching for?
Can she really not become someone’s lover?
Or has that “no freaking way”… not been so impossible after all?
The first season of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… aired during the Summer 2025 anime season. The anime is based on the Shueisha-published light novel series written by Teren Mikami and illustrated by Eku Takeshima, which Seven Seas Entertainment describes 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!
The light novel series is published under Dash X Bunko label and will get its eighth volume on September 25, 2025 JST. There is a manga by Musshu.
Staff (Season 1)
• Director: Natsumi Uchinuma (storyboard artist and director for More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers ending animation, Episode 4 and 8)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Naruhisa Arakawa (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers)
• Advisor: Takao Kato (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers chief director)
• Animation production: studio MOTHER
Cast
• Kanna Nakamura as Renako Amaori
• Saori Onishi as Mai Oduka
• Yukari Anzai as Ajisai Sena
Sources: Press release, @watanare_anime
