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I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class (TV)

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Alternative title:
Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta (Japanese)
クラスで２番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, romance
Themes: school
Plot Summary: Maki Maehara, the class outcast, finally makes his first friend: Umi Asanagi, the second-prettiest girl in class and the center of everyone’s attention. He’s convinced she’s out of his league, but as their unlikely friendship grows, Maki starts to wonder…could there be more than just friendship between them.
User Ratings: 35 ratings have been given [details]
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 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Very good: 9 votes (sub:9)
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 So-so: 1 vote (sub:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 121 users, rank: #5139 (of 10389)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.371 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5691, rank: #2428 (of 10565)
Weighted mean: 7.450 (Good+), rank: #1951 (of 10565) (seen all: 7.44 / seen some: 8.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.455 (Good+), rank: #1620 (of 7951)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2026-04-07
Opening Theme:
"Submarine Youth" (サブマリンユース) by reGretGirl
Ending Theme:
"Zutto Ichiban ni Shite ne" (ずっと１番にしてね) by Koresawa
Insert song:
"Uwaki Shitara Akan de" (浮気したらあかんで) by Umi Asanagi (CV: Manaka Iwami) (ep 7)
News:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hideki Tachibana
Series Composition: Keiichirō Ōchi
Script:
Keiichirō Ōchi (eps 1-12)
Storyboard:
Hideki Tachibana (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6-7, 11-12
)
Kunihisa Sugishima (eps 4, 9)
Takumi Shibata (eps 2, 5, 10)
Yūichi Nihei (ep 8)
Episode Director:
Geisei Morita (eps 3, 6)
Hideki Tachibana (eps 1, 12)
Noriaki Akitaya (ep 11)
Ryūta Yamamoto (ep 4)
Taika Miyagi (ep 9)
Takumi Shibata (eps 2, 5, 10)
Toshiaki Kanbara (ep 8)
Yuri Hagiwara (ep 9)
Yūsuke Tomita (ep 7)
Music:
Ruka Kawada
Shūhei Mutsuki
Yayoi Sekimukai
Original creator:
Rin Ono (manga)
Takata (light novel)
Original Character Design: Azuri Hyūga
Character Design: Shoko Takimoto
Art Director: Michiko Morokuma
Chief Animation Director:
Kana Hayashi
Shoko Takimoto
3D Director: Takeshi Saitō
Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
Director of Photography: Takashi Yanagida

Assistant Director: Takumi Shibata
Color design: Erika Tsukino
Costume Design: Kana Hayashi
Editing: Maki Sendo
Insert Song Composition: Koresawa ("Uwaki shitara Akan de" ep 7)
Insert Song Lyrics: Koresawa ("Uwaki shitara Akan de" ep 7)
Insert Song Performance: Manaka Iwami (as Umi Asanagi; "Uwaki shitara Akan de" ep 7)
Theme Song Arrangement:
Hideyuki Daichi Suzuki (ED)
reGretGirl (OP)
Ryosuke Shigenaga (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Koresawa (ED)
Masahiro Hirabe (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Koresawa (ED)
Masahiro Hirabe (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Koresawa (ED)
reGretGirl (OP)
Haruki Ishiya as Maki Maehara
Ikumi Hasegawa as Nina Nitta
Manaka Iwami as Umi Asanagi
Sayumi Suzushiro as Yū Amami

Minami Tsuda as Miki Yagisawa
Rikuya Yasuda as Nozomu Seki
Shinji Kawada as Itsuki Maehara
Shizuka Itō as Sora Asanagi
Yūko Kaida as Masaki Maehara
Yurina Amami as Kyoka Minato

Akane Yamaguchi as Sanae Nitori (eps 4-5, 10, 12)
Arata Nagamine as
background chatter (ep 11)
male student (eps 4, 12)
Ayumu Asakura as story character (ep 7)
Chiaki Kikuta as male student (eps 1, 12)
Eiji Nagamori as male student (ep 1)
Hayata Okawa as passerby (ep 7)
Hayato Yamamoto as
background chatter (ep 11)
male student (eps 1, 4, 6)
Hokuto Meguro as story character (ep 5)
Honoka Inoue as Manaka Houjou (eps 4-5, 10, 12)
Honoka Tsumita as background chatter (ep 1)
Ikuto Kanemasa as male student (ep 6)
Kazuki Asami as female student (eps 3-4)
Keita Miyashita as male student (ep 2)
Kohei Sugino as male student (ep 1)
Kōhei Yanagi as
male senpai (ep 2)
senpai (ep 1)
Mai Fukumoto as female senpai (ep 2)
Manami Imai as background chatter (ep 11)
Nana Hasumi as
background chatter (eps 1, 11)
female student (eps 3-4, 10)
middle school student (ep 5)
Reo Osanai as female student (eps 3-6)
Rika Hayashi as passerby (ep 7)
Rinako Ichimiya as middle school student (ep 5)
Ryōsuke Asano as male senpai (ep 6)
Sanshiro Kozuka as male student (ep 10)
Saya Hitomi as Maki (child; eps 9, 12)
Sayaka Ōhara as Eri Amami (ep 12)
Shino Shimoji as Tomoo Seki (eps 4, 9-10)
Shō Fujisawa as male student (eps 2, 6, 12)
Shō Komura as male student (ep 3)
Sonoka Tanaka as female student (ep 10)
Suzuka Hara as
female senpai (ep 2)
female student (ep 6)
Tarō Yamaguchi as Daichi Asanagi (eps 9, 11)
Tatsumaru Tachibana as Riku Asanagi (ep 9)
Yōhei Hamada as male student (ep 10)
Yōsuke Ōmomo as background chatter (ep 11)
Yū Okano as male student (ep 1)
Yūga Satō as background chatter (ep 11)
Yūhi Asagiri as zombie (ep 5)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
GK Sales (ep 3)
Nakamura Production (ep 4)
RadPlus (ep 2)
Reboot (ep 2)
SILVER LINK. (ep 2)
Studio Massket (ep 3)
Studio PaTHoS (ep 3)
Teddy (ep 4)
3DCGI: Wired
Animation Production: CONNECT
Background Art: Studio TENJIN
Editing Studio: REAL-T
Finish Animation:
CONNECT (eps 1-3)
GK Sales (ep 3)
RadPlus (ep 2)
Reboot (ep 2)
Studio Massket (eps 1, 3)
Studio PaTHoS Overseas Studio (ep 3)
Teddy (ep 4)
Weilai Animation (ep 4)
In-Between Animation:
CONNECT (eps 1-3)
GK Sales (ep 3)
RadPlus (ep 2)
Reboot (ep 2)
Studio Massket (eps 1, 3)
Studio PaTHoS Overseas Studio (ep 3)
Teddy (ep 4)
Weilai Animation (ep 4)
Key Animation:
acca effe (ep 3)
HEBARAKI (ep 3)
Online Editing: qooop (eps 1-4)
Photography: EXPLOSION
Production Cooperation: Teddy (ep 4)
Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
English cast
English staff
Translation Editor: Geoff Mazzolini
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Spanish cast
(none)
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