Sekina Aoi has two works in active adaptation: My Crush's Crush, her manga with Ryo Tsuzura, is getting a television anime, and her Asobi no Kankei novels are getting a manga adaptation by Koruri that starts in Young Animal on September 25.
Sekina Aoi's two most recent projects both moved into new formats within a month of each other. On August 27, Aoi and Ryo Tsuzura announced that their romantic comedy manga My Crush's Crush is getting a television anime adaptation, with Tsuzura sharing a commemorative illustration. The manga began serialization in Hakusensha's Young Animal Zero magazine in November 2022 and follows Sora Akizuki after Miya Fuwa rejects him; Miya has feelings for Asahi Suzukaze, president of the Clinical Trials Club, and Sora joins the club to learn more about Asahi, only to find she has a crush on someone else as well. The seventh compiled volume shipped in Japan on Friday, and Yen Press has licensed the manga for English release with no date set.
Three weeks later, on September 16, Hakusensha's Young Animal announced that Aoi's Asobi no Kankei novels will be adapted into a manga by Koruri, beginning in the next issue on September 25. Kurehito Misaki is credited as character designer. The story follows Kotarou Tokiwa, a substitute manager at a board game cafe who invents an imaginary girlfriend to hide his crush on a coworker. The adaptation arrives just after the fourth novel shipped in August, keeping the series in the same Hakusensha magazine orbit as Aoi's other ongoing manga.
Both projects sit against a longer record: Aoi created the Gamers! light novel series, which launched in 2014 and inspired a 2017 television anime, and wrote the Seitokai no Ichizon light novel series, which received two television anime adaptations. The newer announcements extend that pattern of her light novel and manga works reaching the screen. Yen Press holds English rights to My Crush's Crush; no English release has been announced for Asobi no Kankei.
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Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine announced that Sekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei novels will be adapted into a manga by Koruri, starting in the next issue on September 25. Kurehito Misaki is credited as character designer. The story follows Kotarou Tokiwa, a substitute manager at a board game cafe who invents an imaginary girlfriend to hide his crush on a coworker.
Sekina Aoi and Ryo Tsuzura's romantic comedy manga My Crush's Crush is getting a television anime adaptation, the pair announced on August 27. Tsuzura shared a commemorative illustration alongside the news. The manga, which began serialization in Hakusensha's Young Animal Zero magazine in November 2022, follows Sora Akizuki after he is rejected by Miya Fuwa, who harbors feelings for Asahi Suzukaze, president of the mysterious Clinical Trials Club. Sora joins the club to learn more about Asahi and discovers she also has a crush on someone else. The seventh compiled volume shipped in Japan on Friday. Yen Press has licensed the manga for English release, though no date has been set. Aoi previously created the Gamers! light novel series, which launched in 2014 and inspired a 2017 television anime. Aoi also wrote the Seitokai no Ichizon light novel series, which received two television anime adaptations.