Sumiko Arai’s The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All manga series, lovingly referred to as “green yuri” online, has been confirmed to receive an anime adaptation. The Animate Al.Plaza official X (formerly Twitter) account posted an image of the manga’s third volume this week; the obi (paper strip) revealed an anime adaptation was decided. You can check out Volume 3’s cover and the post below.
Animate Al.Plaza’s post is below:
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All enjoys massive popularity domestically and internationally. The series won first place in the Web Manga category of the Next Manga Awards 2023; Arai currently has over 1.1 million X followers while the series had over 840,000 copies in circulation with just two volumes (as of December 24, 2024). It was a highly requested English license, with Yen Press picking up the series after Volume 2. Volume 2 was released on February 18, 2025.
Arai first published the series on X in April 2022, followed by the online image platform Pixiv in April 2023. Kadokawa Shoten handles the series’ print release with Volume 3 released in Japan on February 20, 2025.
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All Volume 1 is officially described:
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: Animate Al.Plaza official X (formerly Twitter)
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