Following the release of Crunchyroll’s panel schedule at New York Comic Con 2025 , Crunchyroll is also announcing today that it will stream the upcoming You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! ( Osananajimi to wa LoveCom ni Naranai in Japanese) anime when it premieres in 2026. The first episode will premiere at the Crunchyroll Premieres Round 2 panel at New York Comic Con on Sunday, October 12. You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! Release Date : 2026 Territories : North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS Synopsis, via Magazine Pocket (translated) : Eeyuu, a high school boy, has a problem! Shio and Akari, his two childhood friends who go to the same high school, are too cute! They have no intentions, but if they find out that he is the only one looking at them sexually now that they've grown up… it would be so embarrassing! On the other hand, the two childhood friends also have their own secrets…? It's too tantalizing!! The original manga by Shinya Misu is serialized in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket since March 2022, with 17 volumes released in Japan to date. Tezuka Productions will animate the TV anime adaptation. Initial voice cast members include Rin Kusumi as Shio Minamo, Yu Serizawa as Akari Hiodoshi and Sae Hiratsuka as Runa Tsukimi. No further details about the staff have been revealed at the time of this reporting.
