Jōyō Nishi‘s I’m Fine With Being the Second Girlfriend series ended with the ninth and final novel on Saturday. Dengeki Bunko streamed a special voiced promotional video to commemorate the end of the series.

Rie Takahashi voices Akane Hayasaka, and Reina Ueda voices Hikari Tachibana.

Seven Seas publishes the manga adaptation in English and describes the story:

Shirou Kirishima and Akane Hayasaka have a secret relationship that they keep to themselves. Despite having feelings for other people, the two act like lovers when they’re alone, knowing their hearts ache for their first choices. They even made a promise to end things the moment feelings with their first choice became mutual. But as they grow closer with each other and their crushes, the act becomes something real, something unexpected. When it comes down to picking their crush or the person that has grown closest to them… will they be able to make the right choice?

Kadokawa published the first novel with illustrations by ReTake in 2021. The novels ranked 15th in the Next Light Novel Awards in 2021. The novels ranked 7th in the paperback category and 3rd in the new titles category in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! awards in 2023.

Ninoko launched the manga adaptation on Kadokawa‘s Dengeki Comic Regulus platform in 2022. Kadokawa published the third volume on January 27. Seven Seas will ship the first volume in July.

Sources: Dengeki Bunko‘s YouTube channel, Anime! Anime!

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ASMIK Ace revealed the third promotional video and new cast members for the television anime adaptation of Takata‘s I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class (Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta) light novel series on Tuesday. The promo video features reGretGirl‘s 2025 song “Hi no Ataru Kotoba” (Words in the Sunlight).

The newly announced cast members are:

The anime debuted on Tokyo MX on April 7 at 11:30 p.m. JST, before airing later that evening on Kansai TV. The anime started airing on BS Asahi on April 10. Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs.

The anime stars:

Hideki Tachibana (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? franchise, Armed Girl’s Machiavellism) is directing the anime at CONNECT. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Quintessential Quintuplets) is both overseeing and writing the series scripts, and Shoko Takimoto (Armed Girl’s Machiavellism, Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody) is designing the characters.

reGretGirl performs the opening theme song “Submarine Youth,” and Koresawa performs the ending theme song “Zutto Ichiban ni Shite ne.”

The anime was originally announced in 2023.

Yen Press is publishing the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

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!

Takata launched the story on Kadokawa‘s Kakuyomu website in November 2020, and it won a special prize in the romantic comedy division of the 6th Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest. Kadokawa‘s Sneaker Bunko imprint began publishing the novel series in print in December 2021. Rin Ono launched a manga adaptation on Kadokawa‘s Comic Alive+ website in 2022.

Source: Press release

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.