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There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...

TV anime2025–20261 season17 episodesOriginal: light novelTeren Mikami

Renako Amaori is leaving her awkward and lonely junior high school life behind, determined to become a normal girl with normal friends in high school. Glamorous, confident Mai Ouzuka is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, outgoing, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection. Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s romantic confession sends her into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers.

After Season 1 · Part 2, continue with Vol. 5

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EditionSeven Seas Entertainment
There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... Season 1 · Part 1 anime poster

Season 1 · Part 1

Medium confidence

12 episodesJul 2025 – Sep 2025

Anime ends at
Ep 12

The anime’s continuation point is Vol. 4 of the original. This is the book that contains it.

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel) Vol. 4

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Also in other languages:

Also in manga:

  • There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... · Vol. 8Buy on Amazon

Where it stops:

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... Season 1 · Part 2 anime poster

Season 1 · Part 2

Medium confidence

5 episodesJan 2026

Anime ends at
Ep 5 (overall Ep 17)

The five Next Shine episodes adapt the fourth light novel.

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel) Vol. 5

Seven Seas EntertainmentEnglishPaperback

All 4 books from Vol. 5 to Vol. 8
  1. Vol. 5Buy on Amazon
  2. Vol. 6Buy on Amazon
  3. Vol. 7Buy on Amazon
  4. Vol. 8Buy on Amazon

Also in other languages:

Where it stops:

1 side entryRecapreading notes
  1. There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... ~Next Shine~ (Theatrical Edit)RecapNov 2025This theatrical edit combines episodes 13–17, which adapt the fourth light novel.

Original · Light novel

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless...

わたしが恋人になれるわけないじゃん、ムリムリ!(※ムリじゃなかった!?)

Teren MikamiShueishaOngoing8 volumes so far

  • JapaneseShueisha8 volumes so farsince Feb 2020
  • EnglishSeven Seas Entertainment8 volumes so farsince May 2023

All volumes

Before you read

Suggested reading (English · Seven Seas Entertainment): Season 1 · Part 1 ends at Ep 12. Continue with Vol. 4.

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