My Crush's Crush is getting a television anime in April 2027. The official site posted the first teaser trailer and a teaser visual on Monday, and the same update confirmed the main cast, the core staff and the studio: project No.9.
The adaptation itself was announced back in August, so this is the first proper look at what the production actually is rather than a title card and a logo.
Kazuomi Koga directs. Yoriko Tomita handles the series scripts, Takayuki Noguchi is on character design, and Rina Tayama composes the music.
The announced cast covers the three leads. Gakuto Kajiwara plays Sora Akizuki, Haruna Mikawa is Asahi Suzukaze, and Nene Hieda voices Miya Fuwa.
A comedy built on a chain of wrong guesses
Yen Press, which holds the English license, describes the setup this way. Sora Akizuki confesses to Miya Fuwa and gets rejected outright. Miya likes Asahi Suzukaze, the president of something called the Clinical Trials Club. Sora joins that club to learn more about Asahi, then finds out Asahi is carrying a crush of her own. Nobody is pointed at the person who likes them back. That is where the jokes come from.
The structure asks a lot of its voice cast. A story about three people constantly misreading each other lives or dies on comic timing rather than plot twists, and three names is a thin cast to carry a whole cour.
Sekina Aoi's comedy track record
The manga is written by Sekina Aoi and drawn by Ryō Tsuzura. It has run in Hakusensha's Young Animal Zero since November 2022, and the seventh compiled volume shipped in Japan on August 28.
Young Animal Zero is a sister title to Hakusensha's better-known Young Animal, and both are seinen magazines. That readership is worth keeping in mind. The premise is a sweet romantic comedy, but it is not being written for the shōnen weeklies.
Aoi's name is the strongest signal in the announcement. He wrote the Gamers! light novels, which started in 2014, picked up a manga adaptation by Tsubasa Takahashi in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace in October 2016, and became a TV anime in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed that one as it aired, and Funimation handled the dub and the home video release. Before Gamers!, his Seitokai no Ichizon novels turned into The Student Council's Discretion in 2009 and Lv. 2 in 2012, both licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
Gamers! is the closest reference point. It ran on people mishearing each other and then building entire emotional theories on top of the mishearing. It worked because the characters were written as sincere rather than stupid, which is harder to pull off than it sounds. My Crush's Crush is running the same engine with a smaller cast, so the writing has less room to hide.
What is still open
No episode count yet. No streaming partner announced for outside Japan. Nothing on how far into the manga a first season will go, though seven volumes is enough runway for a single cour with material to spare.
The teaser trailer is up on the anime's official site and on its X account, @bokusuki_PR, which is where the date and cast news has been posted so far.
Why the April slot matters
April 2027 is filling up with romance. The Dangers in My Heart season 3 already has an April 2027 premiere, and Minami-ke Korekara lands in the same month, so this show will be fighting two established franchises for the same viewers.
There is also a quiet advantage in the premise. Chain-of-crushes comedies do not need a big budget, they need good pacing, and a studio that keeps the direction clean will get more out of this script than one that throws sakuga at it.
The risk is the opposite one. Three characters and one misunderstanding engine can run thin across twelve episodes if the writing does not keep finding new angles on the same joke. Seven volumes of manga is a decent sign that the author found those angles, but a first season will burn through the early ones quickly.
Source: Anime Corner
Featured image: Teaser visual for My Crush's Crush, via Anime Corner.
