The previously announced I Made Friends With the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class anime revealed a new visual and trailer, along with the opening theme song artist and an April 2026 premiere date. The opening song “Submarine Youth” is performed by reGretGirl, and it is also featured on the latest trailer.
Studio CONNECT is animating with Hideki Tachibana as director. Keiichiro Ochi is writing the script and Shoko Takimoto is handling the character designs. The main voice cast consists of:
- Haruki Ishiya as Maki Maehara
- Manaka Iwami as Umi Asanagi
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Yu Amami
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Niina Nitta
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class is based on a light novel series written by Takata. The series first started on Kadokawa’s Kakuyomu platform in November 2020 and was later picked up for print publishing by Kadokawa’s Sneaker Bunko imprint in December 2021. Yen Press is licensing in English and they describe the plot as:
Maki Maehara is always on his own at school. He has no friends or hobbies others share, and he doesn’t expect the upcoming academic year to be any different, even surrounded by new faces. And six months later, it seems like he was right—until he runs into his popular classmate Umi Asanagi at a video store! Always at the center of attention and called the “second prettiest in class” by the boys, Asanagi’s from a totally different world. But it turns out the two have more overlapping interests than just the B-grade movies they came to check out…and Asanagi asks Maehara to be her friend!
Source: I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Official X
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