You and I Are Polar Opposites

• Ja Kanji — 正反対な君と僕 • Ja Romaji — Seihantai na Kimi to Boku • Genre — Romantic comedy

• Type — manga • Author — Kōcha Agasawa • Publisher — Shueisha • Magazine — Shōnen Jump+ • Imprint — Jump Comics+ • First — May 2, 2022 • Last — November 25, 2024 • Volumes — 8

• Type — tv series • Director — Takakazu Nagatomo • Producer — * Fumi Teranishi • Wataru Tanaka • Yuri Kondou • Kei Takamoto • Writer — Teruko Utsumi • Music — Tofubeats • Studio — Lapin Track • Licensee — Crunchyroll • Network — JNN (MBS, TBS) • First — January 11, 2026 • Episodes — 20

• Portal — yes You and I Are Polar Opposites is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Kōcha Agasawa. It was serialized on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website from May 2022 to November 2024, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. The series follows Miyu Suzuki, an outgoing high school girl, and her relationship with her crush Yusuke Tani, an introverted boy, while also drawing focus on their group of friends and their respective relationships. An anime television series adaptation produced by Lapin Track aired from January to March 2026. A second season premiered in July of the same year.

Miyu Suzuki and Yusuke Tani are two high school students who are polar opposites of each other—Suzuki is an energetic and outgoing girl who tends to follow the crowd, even when she does not feel like doing so, while Tani is a quiet and introverted boy who bluntly speaks his mind. Because of this, Suzuki fell head over heels in love with Tani the moment she saw him for the first time, but is unable to really make her feelings known to him, and is unaware that Tani also has a crush on her. After she confesses her love to him, he reciprocates and the story follows Suzuki and Tani in their developing relationship, as well as their friends' issues.

• Miyu Suzuki: • A gyaru who has pink hair and painted nails. She has an outgoing personality, going out of her way to please the people around her, even though sometimes she finds it exhausting. She sits next to Tani, whom she fell head over heels in love with at first sight, but is shy about her feelings. Tani eventually returns her feelings and the two later start dating, even continuing their relationship after Tani leaves their hometown. • Yusuke Tani: • A glasses-wearing loner student who sits next to Suzuki. He has a quiet personality but is honest when he does speak, contrasting with Suzuki's more outgoing and friendly personality. The two eventually start dating. At the end of the series, he is accepted at a university and moves away, with him and Suzuki planning to have a long-distance relationship. • Kentaro Yamada: • One of Suzuki's best friends, whom she has known since middle school. Known for his quirky and airheaded demeanor, he often asks Tani for homework and touts having a friend named "Gapacho" that no one else ever sees. He is drawn to seeing people laugh who he would not expect to see laugh, which draws him to Nishi, eventually leading to them dating. • Natsumi Nishi: • A kind but extremely shy girl from another class who volunteers at the library with Tani. She has a habit of finding the antics of the other characters hilarious, but often muffles her laughter out of embarrassment. In contrast to Yamada's dimwittedness, Nishi overthinks everything regarding conversations, leaving her with social anxiety. Despite her insecurities, she slowly builds confidence and eventually starts dating Yamada. • Shuji Taira: • A cynical and self-deprecating student with a downer demeanor, who works part-time at a nearby convenience store. He is highly self-conscious and views everyone as being on a social hierarchy. He and Azuma are from the same middle school, and the two develop a budding relationship from the positive impact they have on each other, but does not reciprocate her growing crush on him. • Shino Azuma: • A friendly girl who often overthinks looking cool in front of others, leading to incredibly low self-confidence. Her past romantic situations usually took a turn with the boy being a bad person, leaving her somewhat jaded. She and Taira are from the same middle school, and the two develop a budding relationship from the positive impact they have on each other. She slowly begins to fall in love with Taira, but it appears to be one-sided as Taira's feelings for her are platonic. Realizing this, Azuma is heartbroken, but she decides to brush her feelings aside and just remain friends with him. • Aoi Sato: • One of Suzuki's best friends whom she has known since middle school along with Yamada, and was in her first year class. She tends to be a more serious member of the group, second only to Tani. • Manami Watanabe: • One of Suzuki's best friends whom she met in their first year. She is incredibly lively and mischievous, while also being airheaded like Yamada. • Rikako Honda: • Nishi's best friend who is in the same class as her. She has a habit of sucking in her lips to keep herself from smiling. Despite being kind to her friends, and viewed as incredibly beautiful by Suzuki, Honda has a general disdain towards people she has not met or who get on her nerves. She and Yamada were in the same class the previous year, and thus helps facilitate his and Nishi's relationship.

Written and illustrated by Kōcha Agasawa, You and I Are Polar Opposites was initially a one-shot published on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website on January 7, 2021. It was serialized in the same website from May 2, 2022, to November 25, 2024. Eight tankōbon volumes were published from July 2022 to March 2025. In June 2022, Shueisha began releasing the series in English on its Manga Plus platform. In October 2023, Viz Media announced that it licensed the series for English publication.

A novel written by Shunto Saiba, titled You and I Are Polar Opposites: Sunny & Rainy, was published in Japan on November 2, 2023. It chronicles the events of a single day from the perspectives of three groups.

An anime television series adaptation was announced on November 25, 2024. It is produced by Lapin Track and directed by Takayoshi Nagatomo, with series composition handled by Teruko Utsumi, who also served as animation producer, characters designed by Mako Miyako, and music composed by Tofubeats. The series aired from January 11 to March 29, 2026, on the Nichi-5 programming block on all JNN affiliates, including MBS and TBS. The opening theme song is "Megane o Hazushite", performed by Noa, and the ending theme song is "Pure", performed by Pas Tasta featuring Eriko Hashimoto (musician). Crunchyroll is streaming the series. Medialink licensed the series in Greater China, South and Southeast Asia for streaming on the Ani-One Asia YouTube channel. A second season was announced at AnimeJapan on March 29, 2026, which premiered on July 5 of the same year, on the same programming block. The opening theme song is "Nekojarashi", performed by 7co (the music project of Nanako Ashida and Ryuja), while the ending theme song is 4='You Are the One', performed by Mega Shinnosuke.

You and I Are Polar Opposites is associated with Japan.