‘WataNare’ Sequel & Theatrical Cut Announced for Popular Shojo Ai Anime

REMOW Co., Ltd. has announced that a second season for the TV anime There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…, which premiered on air in July 2025, has been confirmed for production and future TV broadcast. The anime, also known as WataNare, is based on the light novels written by Teren Mikami, illustrated by Eku Takeshima, and published by Shueisha’s Dash X Bunko label.

The sequel season will be restructured as a special theatrical edition, titled There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~, and will receive a limited screening in Japanese cinemas. Alongside this announcement, a new key visual, special announcement trailer and additional details were also revealed.

The anime series is currently streaming on REMOW’s It’s Anime FAST Channel on Samsung TV Plus in the U.S. & Canada, the It’s Anime YouTube channel and many more outlets around the world. (Find a streaming partner in your region at linktr.ee/watanare.)

Sequel Synopsis: “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?