Danica Davidson
April 25, 2025 
In 2023, we got our first word that the light novel series I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class was getting an anime adaptation. Now, two years later, a whole slew of stuff has been released about it, including information on members of its cast and crew, its premiere next year, and both a trailer and visual.
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Trailer
Here is the visual:
Here’s what we know about the cast:
- Haruki Ishiya (Daga in Farming Life in Another World) plays Maki Maehara
- Manaka Iwami (Mahiru Shiina in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten) plays Umi Asanagi
- Sayumi Suzushiro (Kei Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love is War) plays Yū Amami
- Ikumi Hasegawa (Ikuyo Kita in Bocchi the Rock!) plays Nina Nitta
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class is being made at CONNECT, with Hideki Tachibana of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? helming the project as director. The person penning the scripts and overseeing them is Keiichirō Ōchi, known for working on The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten and The Quintessential Quintuplets.
Yen Press is releasing the manga adaptation and gave this description for the plot:
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Plot
Maki Maehara is always on his own at school. He has no friends or hobbies others share, and he doesn’t expect the upcoming academic year to be any different, even surrounded by new faces. And six months later, it seems like he was right—until he runs into his popular classmate Umi Asanagi at a video store! Always at the center of attention and called the “second prettiest in class” by the boys, Asanagi’s from a totally different world. But it turns out the two have more overlapping interests than just the B-grade movies they came to check out…and Asanagi asks Maehara to be her friend!
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
