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You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!
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Cast
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The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Humour.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
High school freshman Sakai Yonosuke, aka Eiyu, is obsessed with rom-coms, especially ones about childhood friends. But even though he has two childhood friends of his own—Shio and Akari—he's sadly given up on romance becoming a reality. Little does he know, both girls have the hots for him! A humorous will-they-or-won't-they rom-com about friendship, love, and first crushes!
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Latest Episodes
S01E12
Did the Three-Legged Race and Feel a Little Naughty? Then Doing the Scavenger Hunt Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
S01E11
Scared? Lost Something? Let off Steam on Sports Day? Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
S01E10
Feeling the Afterglow Kiss After Kiss? Become a Sports Day Committee Member? Still Won`t Start a Rom-Com
S01E09
An Unfamiliar Girl Who's Your "Guy Friend"? But if You Laugh, It Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
S01E08
Kept Running and Missed the Fireworks? Since It Matters Too Much, It Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
S01E07
Relationship Talk? Sharing Half? Festival Vibes? Still Won't Start a Rom-Com
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Katsuhiko MatsubaraProducer
- Ippei FukamiExecutive Producer
- Atsushi YoshikawaExecutive Producer
- Yosuke AriyamaProducer
- Yosuke AomuraExecutive Producer
- Norio FukuiExecutive Producer
Cinematography
- Toshiya KimuraDirector of Photography
Music
- ZENTAOriginal Music Composer
- Tsubasa ItoOriginal Music Composer
- YashikinOriginal Music Composer
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