Miya Fuwa

Many romantic comedies follow one pair of people who slowly fall in love. My Crush's Crush, known in Japan as Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito, takes another path. It asks what happens when each person likes someone who likes someone else, like a line of dominoes. The story comes from a manga by writer Sekina Aoi and artist Ryo Tsuzura. It has run in the magazine Young Animal Zero, from the publisher Hakusensha, since November 2022. The magazine is aimed at older teen and adult readers, so the humor and feelings are a little more grown-up than in many school romances. The story is set in a high school. Sora Akizuki is a second-year student with a big heart and not much luck. He tells Miya Fuwa how he feels, and she says no right away. She does not dislike him. She simply has strong feelings for another person. That person is Asahi Suzukaze, an older student who leads a small group called the Clinical Trial Club. Sora wants to understand why Miya likes Asahi so much, so he joins the club himself. This is a strange reason to join anything, and it is where the comedy begins. Once he gets to know Asahi, he finds out that she has a crush too, and it is on yet another person. Now the three of them are tied together in a chain of one-way feelings. Each of them wants something that someone else may not give. The cast is small, which lets the story look closely at each person. Sora is open and honest, but he often lets his feelings take over. Miya is direct, and she knows exactly what she wants. In the official art she uses a boyish way of speaking about herself. Asahi is calm and seems in control as club president, yet she has the same kind of worries as the others. The anime gives them voices from Gakuto Kajiwara (Sora), Nene Hieda (Miya), and Haruna Mikawa (Asahi). The series is tagged as a comedy and a romance. It looks at love triangles and other tangled relationships without making fun of the characters. Some of the themes include people who like more than one kind of person, and feelings that do not fit neatly in one box. The humor comes from awkward talks, wrong guesses, and the way these students try to be kind to each other while hiding what they feel. The TV anime is being made by studio Project No.9. Kazuomi Koga is the director, Yoriko Tomita handles the series scripts, and Takayuki Noguchi designs the characters. Music is by Rina Tayama. It is planned for the spring 2027 season, and the number of episodes has not been shared yet. Fans of light, funny love stories with an unusual setup should keep an eye on it.