I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class TV Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, 2026 Debut
The official website for the anime adaptation of Takata's I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class (Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta) light novel series revealed the anime's television format, 2026 debut, cast, staff, teaser visual, and promotional video on Friday. The anime stars: Hideki Tachibana (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? franchise, Armed Girl's Machiavellism) is directing the anime at CONNECT. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Quintessential Quintuplets) is both overseeing and writing the series scripts, and Shoko Takimoto (Armed Girl's Machiavellism, Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody) is designing the characters.The anime was originally announced in 2023.Yen Press is publishing the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story: Takata launched the story on Kadokawa's Kakuyomu website in November 2020, and it won a special prize in the romantic comedy division of the 6th Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest. Kadokawa's Sneaker Bunko imprint began publishing the novel series in print in December 2021. Rin Ono launched a manga adaptation on Kadokawa's Comic Alive+ website in 2022.Sources: I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class anime's website, Comic Natalie
