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'There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...' Anime Gets Theatrical Sequel (Updated)
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REMOW announced on Monday that 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 is getting a sequel. The sequel will be a restructured limited theatrical release in Japan titled There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... ~Next Shine~. The company stated the sequel will also air on TV in the future. The company unveiled a trailer and visual, which reveal the five-episode count for the sequel and the November 21 release:
REMOW describes the sequel:
“I want to learn to love myself—just the way I am!” Renako Amaori, a former gloomy and socially awkward girl, reinvented herself for high school and successfully made her debut. She even managed to join the top- tier popular group... only to be suddenly confessed to by two of its brightest stars?! One is the school's ultimate prince, Mai Oduka. The other, the beloved angel of the campus, Ajisai Sena. There's no way she can handle both their affections—no freaking way! While still struggling to give them an answer, Renako agrees to help her friend Kaho by joining a cosplay event. It's the perfect excuse to delay her reply... or so she thought. But as she witnesses Kaho's passion firsthand, something begins to stir inside her. What is it that she truly wants? What is she truly searching for? Can she really not become someone's lover? Or has that “no freaking way”... not been so impossible after all?
The first season's 12th and final episode aired on Monday.
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) directed the anime at Studio Mother. Naruhisa Arakawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, ISLAND, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers) supervised and wrote the series' scripts. The artist kojikoji designed the characters. Misaki Kaneko, Haruki Moriya, Takashi Shiokawa, Kino Tokino, and Keinosuke Ami wereef animation directors. Yoshiaki Fujisawa composed the music.
Mitsuko Sekimoto was the color key artist, and Yuri Takagi and Keito Watanabe directed the art. Takuma Morooka was the compositing director of photography, while Ichiro Chaen was in charge of editing. Takayuki Yamaguchi was the sound director.
Akari Nanawo performs the opening theme song "Muri Muri Evolution" (The Impossible Theory of Evolution), and Philosophy no Dance perform the ending theme song "Mayocchauwa" (I'm Confused).
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.
Update: Added release date and episode count. Source: anime's X/Twitter account
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