There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... (Manga) (2025)

Renako Amaori is leaving her awkward and lonely junior high school life behind, determined to become a normal girl with normal friends in high school. Glamorous, confident Mai Ouzuka is Renako's total opposite: wealthy, outgoing, 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 romantic confession sends her 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. Let the love games begin!

Renako Amaori is leaving her awkward and lonely junior high school life behind, determined to become a normal girl with normal friends in high school. Glamorous, confident Mai Ouzuka is Renako's total opposite: wealthy, outgoing, 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 romantic confession sends her 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. Let the love games begin!

TWO’S COMPANY, THREE’S A CROWDThings 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!

ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE, WAR, AND VIDEO GAMES!Still fake-dating Satsuki, Renako finds herself caught in a dangerous love triangle between herself and the two starlets of Ashigaya High. As their conflict reaches its peak, and Satsuki’s true feelings towards Mai begin to emerge, Renako suggests a three-way battle to save her clique, her peaceful high-school life, and above all, her friends’ relationship!

GIRL ON THE RUNSena Ajisai, the angel of the school, always seems to Renako like she has everything together. But this illusion is shattered during a Mai-sanctioned visit to Ajisai’s house where Renako witnesses her normally sweet-natured friend get into a fight with her family. Later, when Ajisai declares over the phone that she’s running away from home, it’s up to Renako to keep her friend from doing something she’ll regret!

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!

FRIENDSHIPS FOREVER BROKEN! UNLESS…Amaori Renako is under attack from all directions. There’s a girl trying to break up her relationship, it’s just been announced that Mai is engaged to someone else, and now she’s learning that she might just be the cause of her sister’s problems?! With everything seemingly falling apart, Renako realizes it’s finally time to face her fears and leave her loser, loner past behind. But will that be enough to prove she can stand on her own two feet?

NO GOING BACKAs summer break winds down, a melancholy Ajisai runs into her dear friend turned rival in love, Mai. A heart-to-heart at the aquarium becomes the push Ajisai needs to do what she could never do alone—confess her feelings for Renako! If that weren’t enough for Renako to deal with, the bubbly Koyanagi Kaho starts kicking up a storm too! Will their circle of friends survive all these new developments?