Watanare Anime Sequel Announced With Theatrical Release
The Watanare (There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...) anime is getting a sequel that will also screen in Japanese theaters starting on November 21, 2025. The theatrical screening, titled There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~, will consist of five episodes (13-17), and it will have a TV version. The release date for the TV version of the sequel has not been revealed.
There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ Trailer
Studio MOTHER is animating the Watanare anime. The staff includes:
- Director: Natsumi Uchinuma
- Series Composition / Script: Naruhisa Arakawa
- Character Design: kojikoji
- Chief Animation Director: Misaki Kaneko, Haruki Moriya, Takashi Shiokawa, Kino Tokino, Keinosuke Ami
- Color Setting: Mitsuko Sekimoto
- Art Director: Yuri Takagi, Keito Watanabe
- Director of Photography: Takuma Morooka
- Editing: Ichiro Chaen
- Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
- Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa
The cast includes:
- Kanna Nakamura as Rena Amaori
- Saori Onishi as Mai Oduka
- Yukari Anzai as Ajisai Sena
- Kana Ichinose as Satsuki Koto
- Takako Tanaka as Kaho Koyanagi
The anime is based on the light novel series written by Teren Mikami and illustrated by Eku Takeshima. Seven Seas is licensing it in English.
The plot of the WATANARE sequel is as follows:
“I want to learn to love myself—just the way I am!”
Renako Amaori, a former gloomy and socially awkward girl, reinvented herself for high school and successfully made her debut. She even managed to join the top-
tier popular group... only to be suddenly confessed to by two of its brightest stars?!
One is the school’s ultimate prince, Mai Oduka. The other, the beloved angel of the
campus, Ajisai Sena. There’s no way she can handle both their affections—no freaking way!
While still struggling to give them an answer, Renako agrees to help her friend Kaho by joining a cosplay event. It’s the perfect excuse to delay her reply... or so she thought. But as she witnesses Kaho’s passion firsthand, something begins to stir inside her.
What is it that she truly wants? What is she truly searching for?
Can she really not become someone’s lover?
Or has that “no freaking way”... not been so impossible after all?
There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ English-Subbed Trailer
Source: Press Release, Official Website
© Teren Mikami, Eku Takeshima/Shueisha/Watanare Production Committee
