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A high school yuri comedy about fake dating, real dating, competitive dating-and one very overwhelmed girl who's accidentally doing all three at once?! Don't miss the original light novels, also from Seven Seas, or the anime!After a lonely three years as a junior high outcast, nerdy Amaori Renako vows to reinvent herself as a cool kid and attain her ideal high school life. She soon finds herself suffocating under the pressure to keep up appearances, but an encounter with school superstar Oduka Mai grants her an unexpected confidante and best friend. That is, until Mai suddenly confesses her newfound love for Renako and "friendship" flies out the window! Friends or lovers-the battle for the future of their relationship begins!

IT'S HAPPILY EVER AFTER! UNLESS...Amaori Renako is walking on sunshine. Everything’s gonna be totally great forever! The End. Except the story’s not quite over. It turns out dating’s harder than she thought. Plus, she’s got that strange text from Koto Satsuki to reckon with. How on earth did things turn out like this? For now, Renako resolves to spend time with both Sena Ajisai and Oduka Mai while preparing to battle the Quintet’s rivals in an inter-class athletics competition basketball game! Welcome to season two of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless..., where becoming lovers is only just the beginning!

Things between Renako and Mai have just taken a turn for the complicated. After hurting Renako’s feelings, self-flagellating Mai has abandoned all hope of becoming her lover, leaving Renako on a mission to save her from herself. Just what will become of their relationship?! Then, as the pair’s showdown reaches its conclusion, the raven-haired beauty Koto Satsuki throws Renako for a total loop with an unexpected confession of her own!

The battle to decide whether Oduka Mai and Amaori Renako should be friends or lovers is heating up! But after their first kiss, Renako finds herself grappling with new emotions swirling around inside her. And how will the collateral damage from their love games affect their circle of friends? The outrageous rom-com hijinks continue in volume two!

Awkward, introverted Amaori Renako is leaving her lonely middle school life behind, determined to become an outgoing and popular high schooler. Glamorous, confident Oduka Mai is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, carefree, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection. Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s love confession sends her feelings into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers!

Absolute angel Ajisai-san has an awful argument with her family and decides to decamp to the seaside for the summer. In other words: she’s running away from home! Renako Amaori can’t let this innocent ingenue wander the big, bad world alone. She’s coming along, too! Will their high school hearts and minds be healed by bouts of ping-pong and wholesome spells in the hot springs, or will romantic drama find them, no matter where they go?

Sparks are flying in more ways than one on Renako and Ajisai’s runaway vacation. An unexpected conflict brings the two closer than ever before, but is it the bond of friendship that’s growing between them, or something more…? Before they can pin down their true feelings, though, a certain friend with Renafits crashes the party! This summer will certainly be one to remember!

After a lonely three years as a junior high outcast, nerdy Amaori Renako vows to reinvent herself as a cool kid and attain her ideal high school life. She soon finds herself suffocating under the pressure to keep up appearances, but an encounter with school superstar Oduka Mai grants her an unexpected confidante and best friend. That is, until Mai suddenly confesses her newfound love for Renako and “friendship” flies out the window! Friends or lovers - the battle for the future of their relationship begins!

A high school yuri comedy about fake dating, real dating, competitive dating–and one very overwhelmed girl who’s accidentally doing all three at once?! Don’t miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas, or the anime! Awkward, introverted Amaori Renako is leaving her lonely middle school life behind, determined to become an outgoing and popular high schooler. Glamorous, confident Oduka Mai is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, carefree, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection. Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s love confession sends her feelings into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers!

After a lonely three years as a junior high outcast, nerdy Amaori Renako vows to reinvent herself as a cool kid and attain her ideal high school life. She soon finds herself suffocating under the pressure to keep up appearances, but an encounter with school superstar Oduka Mai grants her an unexpected confidante and best friend. That is, until Mai suddenly confesses her newfound love for Renako and “friendship” flies out the window! Friends or lovers - the battle for the future of their relationship begins!

High school gal pals Amaori Renako and Oduka Mai battled it out to decide if they’d be friends or lovers…and ended in a tie! Now they’re trying a bit of both at once as 'friends with Rena-fits'. Their in-between arrangement could be the relationship of Renako’s dreams, but then Ashigaya High’s gorgeous ice queen Satsuki-san asks her on a date too! Caught between the two prettiest girls in school, what’s an ex-social-misfit to do?!

After a lonely three years as a junior high outcast, nerdy Amaori Renako vows to reinvent herself as a cool kid and attain her ideal high school life. She soon finds herself suffocating under the pressure to keep up appearances, but an encounter with school superstar Oduka Mai grants her an unexpected confidante and best friend. That is, until Mai suddenly confesses her newfound love for Renako and “friendship” flies out the window! Friends or lovers - the battle for the future of their relationship begins!

After a sudden confession, Amaori Renako has just one month to answer Sena Ajisai’s feelings. But in the meantime, hey, it’s Koyanagi Kaho’s time to shine! While working through her feelings for both Oduka Mai and Sena Ajisai, Renako finds herself being roped into a whole bunch of cosplay activities with Kaho. Cute costumes? ASMR? A love hotel??? Is this really what life’s like as an extrovert?

After a lonely three years as a junior high outcast, nerdy Amaori Renako vows to reinvent herself as a cool kid and attain her ideal high school life. She soon finds herself suffocating under the pressure to keep up appearances, but an encounter with school superstar Oduka Mai grants her an unexpected confidante and best friend. That is, until Mai suddenly confesses her newfound love for Renako and “friendship” flies out the window! Friends or lovers - the battle for the future of their relationship begins!

Equipped with her two girlfriends, Amaori Renako feels like she can overcome any challenge that comes her way. But when her status as a mature, reliable oneechan is put to the test, she quickly realises she has no clue how to communicate with her sister, let alone solve her problems! It’s time to summon the Quintet to help find out why Amaori Haruka’s been skipping school and what they can do to fix it.