Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai TV Anime Casts Rin Kusumi

Kusumi to voice Shio Minamo, one of protagonist's childhood friends

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shinya Misu's Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai (I'll Never Have a Romantic Comedy with My Childhood Friend) manga revealed on Tuesday a new teaser visual featuring the character Shio Minamo, and also revealed that Rin Kusumi will voice the character.

Rin Kusumi as Shio Minamo, one of Eiyū's childhood friends and a popular girl at school with a carefree personality. She tries her best for Eiyū to treat her as a girl.

The anime will premiere in 2026. CyberAgent is producing, and Tezuka Productions is animating the project.

The manga centers on Eiyū, a high school boy whose two childhood friends, Shio and Akari, also go to the same school as him. He has now started looking at them with both romantic and lustful eyes, though he knows that they have no interest in him, which causes him no end of worrying. However, Shio and Akari have their own secrets.

Misu launched the manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket website in March 2022. Kodansha published the manga's 16th compiled book volume on June 9.

Sources: Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai anime's website, Comic Natalie