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Sumiko Arai’s manga The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All is officially getting an anime adaptation, as revealed on the obi of its third volume.
The news surfaced on Feb 19, 2025, when the official X account of Animate’s AL.PLAZA Kusatsu branch in Shiga Prefecture posted an image of the ‘Animate Set’ for the third volume, which is set to be released on Feb 20, 2025.
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sumiko Arai.
Originating as a short story posted on Arai’s Twitter account from July to September 2021, it started its current weekly run in April 2022, before being serialized on Pixiv Comic in April 2023.
Kadokawa Shoten published the series in print in the same month, with its chapters collected in 2 tankobon volumes as of February 2024.
Yen Press licensed the series for English publication and describes the plot as:
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she meets a cool, stylish employee at a CD shop. Dressed in black from head to toe, he has this air of mystery about him, and his taste in music is impeccable. Aya falls hard for him—not knowing her crush is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! For her part, Mitsuki generally keeps to herself and avoids standing out at school. But given that she sits right next to Aya, Mitsuki’s all too aware of the other girl’s feelings, and she’s afraid to reveal the truth. So why does she find herself talking with Aya more and more…?
Source: X, ANN
