The manga adaptation of You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! is heading toward its finish line. Creator Shinya Misu announced Tuesday that the series will end in three chapters, wrapping up the story that's been running since March 2022.

The manga follows Hero, a high school student caught between two childhood friends—Shio and Akari—who also attend his school. Both girls are attractive, but Hero is convinced they see him only as a friend and worries about revealing his feelings. Unknown to him, each girl harbors her own secrets. The result is a love triangle between longtime friends struggling to communicate their true emotions.

Published through Kodansha's Magazine Pocket website, the series has reached 20 compiled volumes as of May 8. With the end in sight, fans won't have to wait long to see how the romantic tensions resolve.

The manga's anime adaptation premiered on January 5 of this year and is currently available on Crunchyroll, which offers both subtitled and English-dubbed versions of the show. The anime has given fans a fresh take on Misu's story, though the manga's conclusion arriving so soon means the original source material will reach its endpoint while the anime is still airing or recently wrapped.

For longtime readers who've followed Hero and his two childhood friends since 2022, the three-chapter conclusion represents the final stretch of a love triangle that's kept them guessing about which girl might win out—or if the story takes an unexpected turn altogether. Whether the anime will adapt all the way through the manga's ending remains to be seen.