An Office Comedy Built Around One Badly Kept Secret
By day, Noa Saotome (早乙女望愛) is the picture of the hyper-competent career woman: an art director at a video game company who appears to have everything under control. Her junior colleague Rihito Ōtsuka (大塚理人) is her opposite, a second-year employee whose entire philosophy is spending as little energy on life as possible. Then he accidentally witnesses the other side of Noa, the one she has been hiding from everyone at the office.
What starts there is a strictly after-work "friend" relationship between the two. As the announcement itself asks: can genuine friendship between them actually work?
Enma Akiyama has been serializing the manga in Weekly Young Jump, Shueisha's seinen magazine, since 2023, and the series is up to volume 11 in Japan. Japanese anime news site Anime Anime reports that the TV anime announcement arrived with a teaser visual plus a newly opened official site and X account.
feel. Brings a Serious Rom-Com Resume
The adaptation lands at feel. (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU seasons 2 and 3, Hinamatsuri), a studio with a long track record in character-driven comedy.
Shinsuke Yanagi directs. Keiichirō Ōchi, who handled series composition on The Quintessential Quintuplets, takes the same role here, and Yumiko Yamamoto is designing the characters. Pairing a workplace setting with staff steeped in romantic comedy fits the manga itself, which is less about game development and more about two coworkers negotiating what "just friends" means once one of them has seen too much.
No voice cast has been named yet, including for Noa and Rihito themselves.
Looking Ahead
There's nothing on casting, episode count, or a premiere window so far. The announcement covers the teaser visual, the main staff, and the new official site, which is where follow-up announcements will appear.
No international streaming partner has been announced, which is normal this early. The bigger gap for Western fans is on the manga side: Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi. has no English release so far, so there's no legal way to read ahead yet. An anime green-light is often what changes that, so a license announcement is worth watching for alongside the cast reveal.