is a Japanese

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series by Shinta Harekawa. It is serialized in Kadokawa's boys' love manga website, ''Comic Fleur'', since January 2019. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast from June 17, 2022, to August 12, 2022, for

Drama Shower is a Japanese programming block on MBS. The programming block is set to run for one year and is a collaboration between MBS and Kadokawa's boys' love programming label, Tunku, to broadcast boys' love television drama series published by the la ...

, a programming block created

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in collaboration with Tunku,

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's label for live-action boys' love television dramas.

Plot

Atsushi Yanase is a senior CG animator working at a company specializing in CG animation. Having just returned from the United States, Yanase is assigned to look after Yuki Kaneda, a junior employee. Kaneda is a competent worker, but he remains cold to Yanase. Yanase is under the impression that Kaneda hates him, but, to his surprise, Kaneda actually idolizes him and is secretly shy about his feelings towards him.

Characters

; : : :Yanase is a senior CG animator who has a "flirtatious" personality. ; : : :Kaneda is a junior CG animator who has a "pure" personality and cannot show his emotions easily.

Media

Manga

''Senpai, This Can't Be Love!'' is written and illustrated by Shinta Harekawa. It is serialized in the boys' love manga website ''Comic Fleur'' since January 2019. After its initial end, Harekawa continued the series with ''Senpai, This Can't Be Love! Brush Up''. The chapters were later released in three bound volumes by Kadokawa under the Fleur Comics imprint. Harekawa interviewed several people working in the CG industry while creating the series. On September 8, 2022, a voice drama adaptation of the manga was posted on Ciel Fleur's YouTube channel, starring Takeo Otsuka as Yanase and

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as Kaneda. On January 5, 2024, Yen Press announced that it had licensed the manga for English-language publication.

Television drama

On May 17, 2022, a live-action television drama series adaptation was announced. The series was broadcast from June 17, 2022, to August 12, 2022, on

, a programming block created by

and Tunku (a label of

specializing in live-action boys' love television dramas). In addition to MBS, the series was also broadcast on TV Kanagawa, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, TV Saitama, and Chiba TV. It was streamed internationally with English subtitles on

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and Viki. The series stars Shuichiro Naito as Atsushi Yanase and

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as Yuki Kaneda. Kaoru Azuma, the creator of Tunku, stated that Naito was cast because he could portray a "charming" character like Yanase, while Seto was cast because he was able to express emotion well through his "moody gaze". In addition to this, both actors had a strong relationship off-camera. Additional cast members included Satoshi Matsuda as Shunsuke Imaizumi, Shu Watanabe as Hayato Ichikawa, Rikako Sakata as Chise Ōmura, Taisuke Niihara as Haruki Iguchi, Junya Asada as Kōhei Nakamura, and Hitomi uneda as Sakura Tanimoto. The opening theme song is "Follow Your Heart" by and Kaida Haru, two members of the Nijisanji VTuber group ROF-MAO, and the ending theme song is "Ato Sū Senchi" by

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