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'There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...' Anime's New Video Unveils More Cast, Theme Songs, July 7 TV Debut
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The staff for the television anime of Teren Mikami's There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... (Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Naijan, Muri Muri! Muri Janakatta!? or WATANARE) yuri romantic comedy novel series revealed on Tuesday the anime's key visual, additional cast, full promotional video, and July 7 premiere. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Muri Muri Evolution" (The Impossible Theory of Evolution) by Akari Nanawo, and the ending theme song "Mayocchauwa" (I'm Confused) by Philosophy no Dance.
Mayu Sagara joins the cast as Haruna Amaori, Renako's younger sister.
The anime will premiere on July 7 on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and BS11 channels at 25:00 JST (effectively, on July 8 at 1:00 a.m.). The anime's global streaming will follow shortly after the Japanese broadcast.
The anime stars:
- Kanna Nakamura as Renako Amaori
- Saori Ōnishi as Mai Ouzuka
- Yukari Anzai as Ajisai Sena
- Kana Ichinose as Satsuki Koto
- Takako Tanaka as Kaho Koyanagi
Natsumi Uchinuma (episode director for Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers, As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill) is directing the anime at Studio Mother. Naruhisa Arakawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, ISLAND, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers) is supervising and writing the series' scripts. The artist kojikoji is designing the characters. Misaki Kaneko, Haruki Moriya, Takashi Shiokawa, Kino Tokino, and Keinosuke Ami are listed as chief animation directors. Yoshiaki Fujisawa is composing the music.
Mitsuko Sekimoto is the color key artist, and Yuri Takagi and Keito Watanabe are directing the art. Takuma Morooka is the compositing director of photography, while Ichiro Chaen is in charge of editing. Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director.
Seven Seas is releasing the novels and its manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
A high school yuri comedy about fake dating, real dating, competitive dating–and one very overwhelmed girl who's accidentally doing all three at once?!Renako Amaori is leaving her awkward and lonely junior high school life behind, determined to become a normal girl with normal friends in high school. Glamorous, confident Mai Ouzuka is Renako's total opposite: wealthy, outgoing, 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 romantic confession sends her 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. Let the love games begin!
Mikami (If You Could See Love) published the first light novel volume under Shueisha's Dash X Bunko label in February 2020, with illustrations by Eku Takushima. Musshu launched the manga adaptation in Shueisha's Dash X Comic section of the Nico Nico Seiga website in May 2020.
Source: Press release
