Girlfriend, Girlfriend
Girlfriend, Girlfriend, also known as KanoKano for short, is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 2020 to May 2023, with its chapters collected in sixteen volumes. The series focuses on a high school student who engages in a polyamorous relationship with his childhood friend and another girl who confessed her feelings for him.
An anime television series adaptation produced by Tezuka Productions aired from July to September 2021 on the Animeism programming block. A second season by SynergySP aired from October to December 2023.
Plot
Naoya Mukai is a high school student who has recently begun dating his childhood friend Saki Saki. One day, another classmate of his named Nagisa Minase, who is in love with him, decides to confess her feelings to him. Initially, Naoya was not going to date Nagisa, but after some initial hesitation, he eventually accepts her request to be her boyfriend if Saki agrees. Naoya decides that he will have both Saki and Nagisa as girlfriends at the same time. As Naoya currently lives alone due to his parents living elsewhere for work, Saki and Nagisa decide to live with him. The series follows their daily school life, as Naoya, Saki, and Nagisa experience difficulties and challenges in maintaining their non-monogamous relationship, which is only worsened by the arrival of Rika Hoshizaki, whose extreme obsession of Naoya constantly terrifies him. Before long, another girl named Shino Kiryū also gets involved as she too has unrequited feelings for Naoya.Characters
;Naoya Mukai;Saki Saki
;Nagisa Minase
;Rika Hoshizaki
;Shino Kiryū
;Mr. Hoshizaki
;Risa Hoshizaki
Production
Girlfriend, Girlfriend is based on Seiseidōdō, Futamata-suru Hanashi, which Hiroyuki had uploaded on Twitter and later published in Comiket 86 in August 2019.Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Hiroyuki, Girlfriend, Girlfriend was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 4, 2020, to May 24, 2023. Kodansha collected its chapters in 16 volumes, released from June 17, 2020, to July 14, 2023. A commercial to promote the series, starring Ayana Taketatsu and Ayane Sakura, was released on October 23, 2020.In February 2021, Kodansha USA announced the English digital release of the series in North America and the first volume was released on April 6, 2021. In November 2025, Kodansha USA announced that it would release the series in print in a 2-in-1 volume omnibus edition, set to start on December 9 of the same year.
Anime
In November 2020, the 51st issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced that the series would receive an anime television series adaptation. Tezuka Productions animated the series, with Satoshi Kuwabara as director, Keiichirō Ōchi as scriptwriter, and Akiko Toyoda designing the characters. Miki Sakurai, Tatsuhiko Saiki, and Sayaka Aoki composed the series' music. It aired from July 3 to September 18, 2021, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS, as well as AT-X. Necry Talkie performed the series' opening theme song "Fuzaketenai ze", while Momo Asakura performed the series' ending theme song "Pinky Hook". Crunchyroll streamed the series outside of Asia. Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia, and streamed it on its YouTube channel and iQIYI.On September 16, 2022, it was announced that the anime would be receiving a second season. It was produced by SynergySP, with Takatoshi Suzuki serving as the director, Kazuhiko Inukai serving as scriptwriter along with Ōchi, Shouko Hagiwara serving as the character designer, and Kanade Sakuma and Junko Nakajima composing the music along with Sakurai and Saiki. The second season aired from October 7 to December 23, 2023. Hikari Kodama performed the opening theme song "Dramatic ni Koi Shitai", while ClariS performed the ending theme song "Forira".