Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?) (Zoku-hen)) • There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... (Sequel) - Episode 13 discussion

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That Haruna moment where she forcefully grabs Renako’s photo albums.

Kaho gets the spotlight! Renako is conflicted with choosing one and so Renako and Kaho get into an argument. But they make up with Kaho hugging Renako whilst rotating 360 degrees around her!

[](#anko)

Peak is back. I've already watched 2 episodes and this is topping my season!

The childhood friend has entered the arena

Watching Watanare as the first anime of 2026, what a treat. Happy Yuri New Year to you all!

Renako's self-loathing is on full display this episode now that she's forced to confront her feelings. Good thing the wild card Kaho is here to save the day. The way she went from friend, to enemy, and back to friend so quickly was funny. And Ajisai's panic when she heard Rena was confessing to Kaho too lmao.

Okay with just 1 spotlight episode Kaho might just be the funniest one in the cast. That bit with the rock had me dying

Does this mean Watanare can be AOTS for Winter 2026? jk... unless...?

I was sad that Kaho had so little screentime during the season. Give her one proper episode and I already love her. I guess now Kaho is the childhood friend and all the other girls are dorobonekos? Childhood friend, secret otaku, street fighter, and [talented gymnast](https://i.imgur.com/KlPoPB0.jpeg).

What a New Years treat. Ajisai is here to brighten up everyone's day! And yet, her brightness is bringing Renako down to the depths of self-loathing. Oh dear...


> Three years


For a second there I was worried we'd have another Straw Hat timeskip.


> I wish I could be the bright, proactive, and strong girl you think I am.


Nobody's asking you to. Especially these girls now. So you put on a front for your own "selfish" reasons for wanting friends/companionship. You're hardly the first person to do that. Not even counting Kaho by the sound of it. I wouldn't say that's selfishness, regardless of what your initial reasons for doing it was, that's just a facet of the human condition of putting yourself out there and getting to know people. You'll find in life that there are fewer truly selfless reasons and motivations for doing things than you think there are. And even if this was an act of selfishness initially, can you truly look at yourself and how far you've come now and say that you still are.


Easy there Kaho, don't give Ajisai a heart attack with that confession talk.


Kaho considers that photo to be some kind of dark history enough to stone someone over. How very odd.


Nice toss Kaho. And headbutt.


I'm sure Kaho sees just how much this problem is hurting Renako, truly. But from a third party perspective she's kinda feeling like Renako is feeling bad about it for some of the wrong reasons out her own self-loathing. And I'm sure there's also a dash of that "Do you know how many people would kill to have the problem you're having right now?" feeling, herself included no doubt. And Kaho's feeling pissed at Renako acting like she doesn't *deserve* to have this problem, and those words about not wanting to hurt either of their feelings in the way that she said it ain't helping either. Lord knows how many protagonists dragged shit behind the boat and ended up hurting everyone's feelings, including their own, more using that excuse. Cuz all that stuff she just dumped on Kaho at the river is *exactly* the kind of stuff she should be expressing to both Mai and Ajisai.


Well they made up fast. Also wow, either Kaho or Renako have like 0 friction to them. Not even the slickest of dancing poles can give you that degree of spinning.

man i laughed so much this episode, im glad peak is back!!!

Renako immediately rescinding her acceptance of Aji-Sai's confession is at once completely consistent with her character and deeply disappointing. I was somewhat vapidly hoping for a dating arc to start the season/second cour/whatever this bunch of episodes is.

Oddly, Renako getting sick with worry about two of her friends confessing to her speaks kind of well of her. I suspect that most people in her position with crippling inferiority complexes would be basking in the affirmation and seeking more of it. Meanwhile she's wracked with guilt because she feels like her masking has swindled her friends.

[Welp, that was disappointing.](https://i.imgur.com/kQVXO9E.jpeg) Considering how episode 12 ended, I really thought we'd pick back up with Rena dating Ajisai. I guess I really shouldn't be surprised that [Rena's making Ajisai wait for her answer](https://i.imgur.com/Hyp1IwK.jpeg), she really still hasn't [resolved her self-esteem issues](https://i.imgur.com/BWzbB1f.jpeg), so she really doesn't see herself being in a relationship anytime soon.

[I'm glad that Kaho is finally getting the spotlight here.](https://i.imgur.com/WHLoW0O.jpeg) I did not expect that she used to be like Rena, who changed her image with her high school debut. [Kaho's reaction when Rena showed her the photo was hilarious!](https://i.imgur.com/JQtFJCF.jpeg) She really thought Rena was trying to threaten her. It's nice to see [the two of them reconnect, tho!](https://i.imgur.com/UyU5gBp.jpeg)

[Kaho's reaction when she finally learned about Rena's problems was great too!](https://i.imgur.com/kBuanrx.jpeg) To someone like her, hearing about Rena's problem is like hearing someone complain that their steak is too juicy and their lobster is too buttery. Honestly, if Renako [really never wanted a girlfriend](https://i.imgur.com/XbtplBG.jpeg), she should just reject both.

Just finished watching this episode and man, already reminded why I love this show so much. Great OP and ED and Renako is such a relatable young woman. And I like Kaho more than I expected to after one episode.

Wow what a asshole kaho is....I mean how dare the mc experience issues that are affecting her mentally she should just be great full the audacity......this hit home as I had people in the past do this...I mean almost as if people and I mean everyone can experience some kind of mental health problem.

I just wanna give Studio Mother the proper praise for what they managed to do.

These 5 sequel episodes are something that rarely happens with Anime these days. The studio decided to work on an additional amount of episodes because they couldn't just leave the story on a cliffhanger. Not only that, it was able to be shown in theaters for multiple weeks before airing all at once on TV for the new year. This shows how passionate the entire team at Studio Mother was. We really lucked out with them when it came to this adaptation.

Well shoot, already reversing the Ajisai victory.

At least as the surprise childhood friend Kaho has already lost. Also she's kind of a nutcase.

Ajisai remains best girl.

The Kaho-Copter goes BRRRRR! Best part of the episode.

From the outside looking, I can see why Kaho wouldn't care. Renako is at the buffet and Kaho has nothing. I get it.

omg yay they brought back the fangirls for the movie. But also they kept queentet but didnt keep renafits!?

Achievement got: “How the fuck did we get here? Like seriously? This wasn’t part of the plan.”

Renako’s really gone and stepped in it now.

Okay, in all seriousness, watching her depressive episode is rough.

Seriously Haruna, boundaries, not cool.

Oh my god! Please tell me she didn’t actually forget all about her previous friend.

“I’m sorry for this Renacchi. You’ve discovered my secret and I can’t allow you to escape. No witnesses.”

I swear to god Renako. Stop complementing her, you’ve already got enough on your plate, you can’t get a third (or fourth depending on what you consider Satsuki as) involved with you.

“Renako, look out! There’s a demon behind you! Oh god, she’s powering up. Look at that menacing aura!”

Their fight is weird because half of it feels really funny and half of it extremely emotionally harrowing.

Satsuki, am I misunderstanding things or how is Kaho your employer? What the hell is she gonna ask Renako to do?

Ah yes, we’re back in familiar territory. I’ve read Bloom Into You, this is classic yuri “Don’t love me because I don’t love myself” stuff.

I wasn’t expecting the estranged childhood friends twist but sure, I’ll take it. I quite like it actually.

Might just be me but something about Kaho gives me off the vibes of an absolutely furious frog.

Being serious, I really like Renako’s and Kano’s dynamic. Feels like there’s a lot more of the true Renako than with the others because they know each other from before, are familiar with each other’s quirks and can talk without any lies between each other. It’s probably healthy for Renako tbh, to have someone to confide in. Especially when dealing with stuff like her extremely problematic love life. They’re also really funny together. I wonder if the “Renacchi… have you heard about mankind’s oldest weapon?” is going to become a running gag.

I wasn’t quite expecting it but Kaho might genuinely be my favorite queentet member as of now. She’s really funny and has a great dynamic with Renako. Excited to see more of her.

Didn't realize Watanare is back... gotta see if I can access the newest ep

- Renako spiraling in depression
- Haruna completely ignoring that depression
- Mai trying to be supportive while also respecting boundaries
- Satsuki casually flexing her superiority
- Kaho resorting to mankind's oldest weapon
- Ajisai briefly panicking as she thinks Renako might date yet another girl

We are back in full force!

You can't freeze the time Renako, it's inevitable to avoid pain on either Mai or Sena. But hurting both sides would be even worse. Tbh on us personally, it's easy for her to choose Sena to begin with

Man talk about this series had reached the boiling point of Renako's stress, such a way to start this new year

RENAKO WHEN I GET YOU 🤬🤬

YOU JUST HAD TO SAY YES

But oh man this started heavy. It was hard to see Renako relapse.

Kaho, this fucking brat turns out to be infuriating too. Enough time had happened since last episode that I only had fond memories of it and I forgot teeth grinding frustration is part of the appeal lol.

This episode was why I (as a LN reader) had Kaho as my second favourite of the cast. “The oldest weapon known to man” goes hard.

Absolute banger arc. Kaho is goated and so is the throuple (soon to be quadple?) thats forming

A bit of a recap, not sure how necessary that is considering the last episodes were just a few months ago.

Her steak is too juicy and her lobster is too buttery...

Lol Mai's reaction to her saying that to Ajisai.

3 _years_?

That's more reasonable.

Was she expecting Mai to kiss her lol.

Huh. What's up with her?

Ok...

And so she's going to look for photos.

Only in middle school lol.

It's Renako and her 2 girlfriends.

Oh, she knew that girl from before?

Or are they different people?

And so it's her turn to join the polycule.

So, she's going to ask her about that.

What's with the rock?

Ok...

So she _is_ the girl in that photo.

She's blushing!

And so now she's really become friends with her.

Lol her reaction to that information.

Her steak is too juicy and her lobster is too buttery...

Well, so much for becoming friends.

So, what's she thinking?

Ok...

Damn, Renako needs therapy

A yuri show got a sequel! And it's high budget! Sound the alarms! Peak yuri is back. God I love this cast of dorks. Kaho is hilarious.

Also, huge W to best imouto Haruna for replying to Mai and Ajisai for Renako and promising on her behalf that she'd be back at school. That social pressure is the only reason Renako went back and avoided relapsing back to her shut-in self.

What!? They're not going to date? After all that simping she suddenly gets depressed?

[I just want to talk to her](#lolifightsback)

I was glad this show was back, but I'm not gonna lie, the first half of the episode was a mess for me. To the point where I cheered when Haruna and Kaho chose violence.

Kaho lamenting over being stressed when having to choose between shortcake and chocolate was hilarious.

Edit: moved to ep 27 disc

Renako ep 1: I'm not gay

Renako ep 12: I'm not gay, unless...

Renako ep 13: I have two girls who confessed to me and the only reason I can't date them is because I hate myself

It’s yuri time again to start of 2026.

I completely understand why Renako is completely conflicted about this but I will also say this is the first time I have ever watched a romance where someone goes into depression after being confessed to. Still Renako’s moments of self reflection and self hatred are great narrative wise and show her struggles with being extroverted and that she isn’t just messing around with the other girls and values them.

Haruna did well in answering the message but Renako was right in being mad at her regarding the pictures beforehand.

Kaho was great. She was pretty much a chaos gremlin. Wasn’t exactly a great friend in this episode but I got a giggle of her trying to kill Renako with the rock and being livid at Renako getting confessions from Ajisai and Mai.

Studio Mother should do all the yuri animes in future. This was insanely good. It is sad that so many good yuri stories get made by shitty studios.

Year 2026 starts with the bang, with stellar yuri anime!

Kaho is right. She is girl who would want to have cute girlfriend and she seems to be desperate to have their attention. It must be suffering to have friend group like that with beautiful girls for her. Then we have Renako whose biggest problem is that she has girlfriend on her both arm. I too would be mad at Renako about her whining about that. I wish I had same problem than Renako....

Awesome episode, I'm really enjoying this episode. I feel so blessed that we get more episodes of it - I do kind of wish it was weekly so we'd have more time to sit and ruminate on it rather than having it all at once (even though I do normally like binging anime/TV too).

Wait, what favor did she ask her for?

Wait so you are telling me Kaho was the secret childhood friend all along

I've missed this great anime so much (it's not like it's been that long, let's not exaggerate).


And about the episode itself, we started the Kaho arc and it started strong because the first thing she wants to do is kill Renako with a rock XD Even Satsuki didn't dare go that far. This was a great episode; I want to see more of this chaotic gremlin.

Starting the year off with anime of the year on day 1 is actually fucking crazy 😭. I’m still mad they didn’t just give us a theatrical release so we could watch these on the big screen like in Japan, but whatever. This was incredible and a perfect conclusion to this first part of Renako’s story, definitely NEEDED to be adapted after the cliffhanger we ended off on. Now we hope for season 2 🙏🏾 please read the books if you like the show!!

Obviously a TON of stuff to talk about here since it’s 5 episodes, but I’ll just go over the big themes and events that really struck a chord with me. I could yap about peak yuri all day.

Normally not a fan of the whole “I somehow forgot what my childhood best friend looked like” gimmick, but I’ll allow it here because Kaho’s arc is arguably the single most important part of this series to this point. Renako helping Kaho deal with her insecurities also helped her move past her own issues. Definitely need to see more Kaho, she’s such a sweetheart. I absolutely love the gap moe with her being this loud cheery extrovert with her contacts and a shy introvert just like Renako without them. I really wanted to see their relationship explored a little more, especially since they have so much history, but alas that’s for later volumes.

“I’m not into girls, why does no one believe me” GEE, I wonder why?? Totally nothing to do with you being a chronic girl kisser and making everyone fall in love lol.

Renako being a little insecure over her fupa when trying on the cosplay had me dying, girl we grown af bring that pudge over here. Acting surprised that everyone loves her when she’s built like THAT is crazy.

I generally really loved Renako’s inner conflict throughout these 5 episodes. That “I always say no” at the start of the episode really hurt me because I can really empathize with the way Renako felt her life was spiraling out of control and she had no say in anything that was going on as everyone was forcing their own feelings on her. Kaho showing up and helping her take her mind off things with the cosplay, and then Renako helping Kaho through her issues really provided the necessary refocusing she’d been craving.

I’m also so proud of Mai’s overall growth throughout this season. I was so hard on her from the start because of how much she forced herself on Renako and didn’t respect her boundaries, but I gained so much respect for how she was willing to put her personal feelings aside and let Renako make the best choice for HER. That’s what real love is about.

“I don’t care about being normal anymore. I’ll go out with both of you”

A mediocre het romance would’ve had the mc pick one and leave the other heartbroken. The based yuri polycule romance that Watanare is has Renako say screw that and pick both. This is the greed they talk about in the bible 😭

Such a massive moment for Renako’s character because she’s done with trying to fit in with her pre conceived notion of normality and is being selfish for the first time in her life. I’m so glad they adapted this because this is really her first big turning point and the start of the story! Really a great ending, again I could yap nonstop about this and I’ll probably make a longer video on the channel at some point, but I’m very happy with how this ended. Lesson of the series, fuck being normal, be yourself.

Kaho heard about the gays and immediately went to stoning.

[Kaho spinning](https://i.imgur.com/nyLKuFF.mp4)

To get the obvious out of the way, Kaho is amazing, best comedic character, and to me only Ajisai-san and Renako herself are better characters as a whole. I wouldn't have put Renako above her if it weren't for this episode, because damn it weight heavy on her. And truly made me empathize with her even with the ridicules setting that the story is in. This is only the first episode of the new 5 and so far I would say it's the best in every department over the previous season, in tone, animation, characters, writing, pacing, music, and comedy

It was kind of insane that that entire confession happened on stage in front of a lot of people. I had a hard time watching it because of secondhand embarrassment. Just pull mai aside when she gets on stage. She isnt literally teleporting away. It just could have gone really wrong, and if Mai is as famous as the show claims her to be it could have caused all kinds of complications

Are there any Yuri anime similar to this

We finally got to see Kaho brinigng up humanity's oldest weapon. One my fav gags in the series lol.