Anime Overview
You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!
Osananajimi to wa Love Comedy ni Naranai follows high schooler Yonosuke Sakai, a fan of romantic comedies who has always thought idealized childhood relationships belong only to fiction. Though he grew up alongside two girls, Shio Minamo and Akari Hiodoshi, he has long viewed them as nothing more than friends until their presence in his everyday life begins…
Characters
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Akari Hiodoshi
Main | Japanese VA: Serizawa, Yuu
Shio Minamo
Main | Japanese VA: Kusumi, Rin
Runa Tsukimi
Main | Japanese VA: Hiratsuka, Sae
Haru Hinata
Main | Japanese VA: Yamamoto, Yuuki
Yonosuke Sakai
Main | Japanese VA: Urao, Takehiro
Akari's Father
Supporting | Japanese VA: Kase, Yasuyuki
Staff
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Kuwabara, Satoshi
Director
Misu, Shinya
Original Creator
Hirota, Mitsutaka
Script, Series Composition
Ariyama, Yousuke
Producer
Itou, Azusa
Producer
Kurosu, Nobuhiko
Producer
Latest Episodes
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Episode 12: Did the Three-Legged Race and Feel a Little Naughty? Then Doing the Scavenger Hunt Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
Aired Mar 24, 2026
Episode 11: Scared? Lost Something? Let off Steam on Sports Day? Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
Aired Mar 17, 2026
Episode 10: Feeling the Afterglow Kiss After Kiss? Become a Sports Day Committee Member? Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
Aired Mar 10, 2026
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You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! episode guide
12 tracked episodes
You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! characters
6 featured characters
You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! staff
6 featured staff credits