{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-23T00:52:40.616Z","story":{"id":"r_a2826243c25c4760bf7fa733","slug":"i-made-friends-with-the-second-prettiest-girl-anime-adds-three-cast-members","url":"https://yomimono.id/i-made-friends-with-the-second-prettiest-girl-anime-adds-three-cast-members","headline":"I Made Friends With the Second Prettiest Girl Anime Adds Three Cast Members","summary":"The ongoing television anime I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class revealed a third promotional video and three new cast members on Tuesday. ASMIK Ace announced the additions. Rikuya Yasuda joins as Nozomu Seki, a classmate of protagonist Maki Maehara. Shinji Kawada plays Itsuki Maehara, Maki's father. Yurina Amami voices Kyoka Minato, a subordinate of Itsuki. The new trailer features the reGretGirl song \"Hi no Ataru Kotoba\" from 2025. The series premiered on Tokyo MX on April 7 and streams on Crunchyroll. Hideki Tachibana directs at studio CONNECT, with Keiichirō Ōchi writing the scripts and Shoko Takimoto designing the characters. The story follows isolated student Maki Maehara after he befriends popular classmate Umi Asanagi at a video store. Takata launched the original light novel on Kadokawa's Kakuyomu platform in November 2020, and Kadokawa's Sneaker Bunko imprint began publishing it in print in December 2021. Rin Ono's manga adaptation runs on the Comic Alive+ website.","why_it_matters":"The new cast additions arrive while the show is still airing its first cour, signaling that the production is introducing secondary characters tied to the male lead's family and social circle rather than front-loading the entire ensemble at premiere.","published_at":"2026-05-16T13:59:36.000Z","source_count":3,"sources":["Anime News Network","Anime Corner","The Fandom Post"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime News Network","title":"I Made Friends With the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Anime Reveals 3rd Promo Video, More Cast Members","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-05-11/i-made-friends-with-the-second-prettiest-girl-in-my-class-anime-reveals-3rd-promo-video-more-cast-/.237221"},{"source":"Anime Corner","title":"I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Anime Reveals New Trailer","url":"https://animecorner.me/i-made-friends-with-the-second-prettiest-girl-in-my-class-anime-reveals-new-trailer/"},{"source":"The Fandom Post","title":"I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Episode #06 Anime Review","url":"https://www.fandompost.com/2026/05/13/i-made-friends-with-the-second-prettiest-girl-in-my-class-episode-06-anime-review/"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":["I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class"],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Rikuya Yasuda","Shinji Kawada","Yurina Amami"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false}}}