On Monday, REMOW revealed that Teren Mikami’s yuri romantic comedy light novel series, There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…, will receive a sequel anime. The sequel, titled There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~, is set for a restructured limited theatrical release in Japan.
REMOW also confirmed that the sequel will later be broadcast on television.
Here is a teaser trailer for the sequel:
The anime also unveiled a teaser visual:
REMOW portrays the upcoming sequel as following:
“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… is a Japanese yuri light novel series authored by Teren Mikami and illustrated by Eku Takeshima [ja]. Shueisha has published seven volumes since February 2020 under its Dash X Bunko label. A manga adaptation with artwork by Musshu began serialization in May 2020 on Shueisha’s Dash X Comic section of the Niconico Seiga platform. Both the light novel and manga are licensed for North American release by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series, produced by Studio Mother, was broadcast from July to September 2025.
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