My Crush's Crush sets an April 2027 premiere, with Rent-a-Girlfriend director Kazuomi Koga leading Project No.9's adaptation
The TV anime of Sekina Aoi and Ryo Tsuzura's looping love-triangle manga revealed a teaser visual, teaser PV, staff and its three leads on November 9. Gakuto Kajiwara, Haruna Mikawa and Nene Hieda star; stations and an exact date are still to come.
Sora Akizuki has carried a torch for Miya Fuwa since middle school. When the second-year finally tells her how he feels, she turns him down, because her heart belongs to Suzukaze, who runs a mysterious school club built around "clinical trials." Sora sets out to size up his rival and finds that Suzukaze is a girl, Asahi, who is herself pining after a boy she met as a child. That endless chain of one-sided crushes is the hook of My Crush's Crush (Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito), and its TV anime now has a broadcast window: April 2027.
The official website posted the news on November 9, together with a teaser visual and a teaser PV. The visual puts the three leads side by side, stretched out on a school rooftop. Which stations will carry the show, and on what day it starts, have not been announced yet.
The three leads
Gakuto Kajiwara, whose credits include Black Clover, voices Sora. Haruna Mikawa (Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi) plays Asahi Suzukaze, the club president at the center of everyone's attention, and Nene Hieda (Summer Pockets) is Miya.
A staff with romcom experience
Production company Avex Pictures launched the official site, and Project No.9 is animating. Several of the people in charge have worked on well-known romantic comedies before. Director Kazuomi Koga directed Rent-a-Girlfriend, series composer Yoriko Tomita wrote for My Dress-Up Darling, and character designer Takayuki Noguchi worked on The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. The score comes from Rina Tayama, credited on Silent Witch.
The manga behind it
The original story is by Sekina Aoi, the author of Gamers!, with art by Ryo Tsuzura. The series has been running in Hakusensha's Young Animal ZERO since November 2022, and its seventh collected volume came out on August 28. The adaptation itself was first announced by Young Animal that same month.
Readers outside Japan will soon be able to catch up: Yen Press licensed the manga in English in August, and the first volume is scheduled for February 23, 2027, a little over a month before the anime's April start.
