My Crush’s Crush manga gets a TV anime

Sekina Aoi and Ryō Tsuzura’s romantic-comedy manga My Crush’s Crush is getting a television anime, turning its already tangled chain of unrequited feelings into an even larger problem.

The manga, also known as Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito, began in Hakusensha’s Young Animal Zero magazine in November 2022. Further details about the anime, including its studio, cast, staff and premiere date, have not yet been announced.

A crush aimed at the wrong person

My Crush’s Crush follows Sora Akizuki, a second-year high-school student who confesses his feelings to his younger schoolmate Miya Fuwa and is rejected outright. Miya tells him that she already likes someone: her senior, Asahi Suzukaze.

Sora visits Asahi’s mysterious Clinical Trials Club to meet the person Miya likes. Then the story throws its first proper curveball: Asahi, whom Sora assumes is a male senior, is actually a girl — and she has a crush on someone else.

The result is a romantic chain reaction in which three high-school students keep circling around feelings that point in different directions. Everyone is close to the person they like, but nobody appears to be standing on the correct emotional platform.

From the creator of Gamers!

Aoi is also the writer of the Gamers! light-novel series, which launched in 2014 with illustrations by Sabotenn. That franchise later received a manga adaptation and a television anime that premiered in 2017.

Aoi’s earlier light-novel series Seitokai no Ichizon also inspired television anime adaptations, including The Student Council’s Discretion and The Student Council’s Discretion Lv. 2.

The manga continues

Aoi and Tsuzura debuted My Crush’s Crush in Young Animal Zero in November 2022. The manga’s latest seventh compiled volume was released in Japan on 28 August 2026.

Yen Press has licensed the manga in English and describes it as a romantic comedy about a chain of crushes centred on the secretive Clinical Trials Club.

To mark the anime announcement, Tsuzura released a commemorative illustration, while Aoi shared a message praising the adaptation and joking that seeing the Clinical Trials Club move on screen may leave the original author mortified.

The television adaptation currently has no announced release date, streaming partner, production studio or cast.

Our opinion

My Crush’s Crush has a premise that understands the oldest rule of romantic comedy: if two people communicate clearly, the story is over in ten minutes.

The Clinical Trials Club gives the series a nicely odd centre, while the chain of crushes should provide plenty of room for misunderstandings that are funny on the page and potentially excruciating when animated.

The biggest question is whether the anime can make the emotional confusion feel character-driven rather than mechanically prolonged. If Sora, Miya and Asahi feel like real teenagers with understandable blind spots, the loop could be charming. If not, viewers may start prescribing communication skills instead of watching the next episode.

For now, the adaptation is one to keep an eye on. A release date and production announcement will tell us whether this crush has a future beyond the announcement illustration.