Anime Feminist's weekly round-up for April 15-21, 2026, covers premieres of I Want to End This Love Game, Rooster Fighter, Yowayowa Sensei, and The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch, plus a Kamome Shirahama interview and an analysis of Journal with Witch.
The premiere of I Want to End This Love Game introduces Yukiya and Miku, childhood friends who have spent years trying to fluster each other by trading the words "I love you" as a game. Now in high school, their real feelings are surfacing, and the game is starting to feel closer to reality than to play. The first episode spends its time establishing that dynamic and the obvious mutual attraction between the two leads, with little plot beyond the back-and-forth. It sets up a straightforward friends-to-lovers story in which the journey is meant to matter more than the destination. The execution is clean rather than ambitious, and the show makes no attempt to complicate its premise in the opening episode. The result is a clear, low-friction setup that lands in the middle of a busy spring romance season, where it has a lot of company and not much yet to set it apart.