'There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...' Anime's New Video Unveils More Cast, Theme Songs, July 7 TV Debut
The staff for the television anime of Teren Mikami's There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... (Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Naijan, Muri Muri! Muri Janakatta!? or WATANARE) yuri romantic comedy novel series revealed on Tuesday the anime's key visual, additional cast, full promotional video, and July 7 premiere. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Muri Muri Evolution" (The Impossible Theory of Evolution) by Akari Nanawo, and the ending theme song "Mayocchauwa" (I'm Confused) by Philosophy no Dance. Mayu Sagara joins the cast as Haruna Amaori, Renako's younger sister.The anime will premiere on July 7 on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and BS11 channels at 25:00 JST (effectively, on July 8 at 1:00 a.m.). The anime's global streaming will follow shortly after the Japanese broadcast.The anime stars: Natsumi Uchinuma (episode director for Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers, As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill) is directing the anime at Studio Mother. Naruhisa Arakawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, ISLAND, More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers) is supervising and writing the series' scripts. The artist kojikoji is designing the characters. Misaki Kaneko, Haruki Moriya, Takashi Shiokawa, Kino Tokino, and Keinosuke Ami are listed as chief animation directors. Yoshiaki Fujisawa is composing the music.Mitsuko Sekimoto is the color key artist, and Yuri Takagi and Keito Watanabe are directing the art. Takuma Morooka is the compositing director of photography, while Ichiro Chaen is in charge of editing. Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director.Seven Seas is releasing the novels and its manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:Mikami (If You Could See Love) published the first light novel volume under Shueisha's Dash X Bunko label in February 2020, with illustrations by Eku Takushima. Musshu launched the manga adaptation in Shueisha's Dash X Comic section of the Nico Nico Seiga website in May 2020.Source: Press release
