The I Made Buddies with the Second Prettiest Woman in My Class TV anime has obtained some updates, together with a 2026 launch date, a teaser visible, and the reveal of its fundamental solid and employees.
The romantic comedy will star Haruki Ishiya as Maki Maehara, Manaka Iwami as Umi Asanagi, Sayumi Suzuhiro as Yu Amami, and Ikumi Hasegawa as Nina Arata. Within the director’s seat is Hideki Tachibana (Is It Fallacious to Attempt to Choose Up Women in a Dungeon? [Season 2 onwards], The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio), who’s directing the sequence at CONNECT.
Additionally a part of the employees are Keiichiro Ochi (Summer season Pockets, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) as sequence composer and Shoko Takimoto (The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) as character designer. Ochi can also be credited as scriptwriter.
I Made Buddies with the Second Prettiest Woman in My Class (Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta) relies on the Sneaker Bunko gentle novel sequence by Takata. The sequence follows the connection between highschool pupil Maehara Maki and his (solely) pal Asanagi, who occurs to be the second cutest woman in his class (the cutest being Asanagi’s finest pal, Amami).
The sunshine novel sequence started in 2021 and has seven volumes as of October 2024, with Azuri Hyuuga illustrating all however the first (which was illustrated by Tom Osabe). It was the Tsugi ni Kuru Gentle Novel Award 2023 winner within the bunko class and has over a million copies in circulation.
Yen Press will publish the manga adaptation by Rin Ono beginning in June 2025. Its description of the premise reads:
Maki Maehara is at all times on his personal in school. He has no pals or hobbies others share, and he doesn’t count on the upcoming tutorial 12 months to be any completely different, even surrounded by new faces. And 6 months later, it looks as if he was proper—till he runs into his well-liked classmate Umi Asanagi at a video retailer! At all times on the focal point and referred to as the “second prettiest at school” by the boys, Asanagi’s from a completely completely different world. However it seems the 2 have extra overlapping pursuits than simply the B-grade motion pictures they got here to take a look at…and Asanagi asks Maehara to be her pal!
I Made Buddies with the Second Prettiest Woman in My Class was initially an internet novel printed on Kakuyomu. The anime was first introduced in 2023.
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