I Want to End This Love Game (TV)

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Alternative title:

Aishiteru Game o Owarasetai (Japanese)

愛してるゲームを終わらせたい (Japanese)

Plot Summary: Childhood friends Yukiya and Miku share everything…except their feelings. Ever since sixth grade, they’ve played a "love game": they take turns saying "I love you" and whoever gets flustered first loses. Now in high school, their hearts are closer than ever.

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Running time: 24 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 12

Episode titles: We have 5

Vintage: 2026-04-14

Opening Theme:

"Kimi no Sei de Aishiteru" (君のせいで愛してる) by CHiCO with HoneyWorks

Ending Theme:

"Little World" (リトルワールド) by PompadollS

Official website:

TVアニメ「愛してるゲームを終わらせたい」公式サイト (Japanese)

News:

I Want to End This Love Game, The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch, More Anime Stream in India on Crunchyroll (Apr 17, 2026)

I Want to End This Love Game Anime's Promo Video Previews Opening Theme Song (Mar 31, 2026)

Crunchyroll Announces Release Schedule for Spring 2026 Season (Mar 24, 2026)

I Want to End This Love Game Anime Reveals More Cast, Staff, Theme Song Artists, April 14 Debut (Mar 9, 2026)

I Want to End This Love Game TV Anime's Teaser Video Previews 2 Main Leads (Dec 19, 2025)

I Want to End This Love Game TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, Staff, April 2026 Debut (Nov 2, 2025)

Other article:

The Spring 2026 Anime Preview Guide - I Want to End This Love Game (Apr 14, 2026)

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Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Azuma Tani

Series Composition: Keiichirō Ōchi

Script: Keiichirō Ōchi

Music: Akito Matsuda

Original creator: Yūki Dōmoto

Character Design: Yūki Fukuchi

Art Director: Masanori Nishiyama

3D Director: Masaomi Suzuki

Sound Director: Satoshi Yano

Director of Photography: Jun Kubota (Cyan)

Color design: Natsuko Ueno

Editing:
Azuma Tani
Misaki Enokida (EditZ)

Prop Design: Tomokazu Sugimura

Sub-Character Design:
Ryōsuke Tanigawa
Tomokazu Sugimura

Theme Song Arrangement:
HoneyWorks (OP)
MARUMOCHI (OP)
PompadollS (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Gojū Igarashi (ED)
Gom (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Gojū Igarashi (ED)
Gom (OP)
shito (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
CHICO with Honeyworks (OP)
PompadollS (ED)

Kaito Ishikawa as Yukiya Asagi

Miku Itō as Miku Sakura

Kaede Hondo as Natsuki Moegi

Takehito Koyasu as Masaru Shinonome

Wakana Maruoka as Wakana Asagi

Yui Ogura as Hinako Hanaba

Azusa Tadokoro as Marika Yanagi (eps 2, 4)

Chihiro Kamijō as Miku's mother (ep 2)

Eriko Matsui as Yukiya Asagi (elementary school; eps 1-2)

Fū Hirohara as female student (ep 2)

Gen Sato as Hayato Iishiba (ep 2)

Haruki Asada as young man (ep 5)

Hisako Tōjō as Akane Suou (eps 2, 4)

Kōki Nakamura as
male student (ep 2)
young man (ep 5)

Noa Honda as female employee (ep 3)

Rena Hasegawa as female employee (ep 3)

Shunichi Toki as male employee (ep 4)

Tomohiro Ōmachi as
male employee (ep 3)
male student (ep 2)
young man (ep 5)

Yuina Itō as female customer (ep 3)

Japanese companies

Animation Production: Felix Film

Broadcaster:
BS Asahi
Mainichi Broadcasting System
Tokyo MX

Editing Studio: EditZ

Music Production: POPHOLIC

Music Production Assistance: Myrica Music

Photography: Cyan

English staff

English cast

ADR Director: Manuel Aragon

ADR Script: Domonique French

ADR Engineer: Victor Acosta

ADR Engineer Manager:
Brandon Peters
Gino Palencia

ADR Mix: Neal Malley

ADR Prep: Marilyn Reyes

ADR Producer:
Justin Cook
Michael Harcourt
Nathanael Harrison
Zach Bolton

ADR Script Supervisor: Macy Anne Johnson

ADR Talent Coordination:
Brittni Hurley
Tara A. Williams

Assistant ADR Engineer: Devin Foster

Casting Director: Manuel Aragon

Giovannie Cruz as Miku Sakura

Nicholas Markgraf as Yukiya Asagi

Ian Sinclair as Masaru Shinonome

Rebecca Danae as Wakana Asagi

Sara Ragsdale as Hinako Hanaba

Amanda Gael as Marika Yanagi

Donna Xia as Akane Suou

Nia Celeste as Miku Sakura (Young)

Rachel Glass as Yukiya Asagi (Young)

Katie Otten

Meggie-Elise

Taylor Murphy

English companies

Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll

Spanish staff

Spanish cast

ADR Director: Diego Becerril

ADR Script: Montserrat Rea

ADR Mix: César Morales

Production: Alejandro Espinosa

Quality Control: César Morales

Marisol Hamed as Miku Sakura

Óscar López as Yukiya Asagi

Alicia Vélez as Hinako Hanaba

Spanish companies

ADR Production: VSI Group

ADR Studio: VSI Mexico City

Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll

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