You and I Are Polar Opposites (Japanese: 正反対な君と僕, Hepburn: Seihantai na Kimi to Boku) 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.
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Plot
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.
Characters
Miyu Suzuki (鈴木 みゆ, Suzuki Miyu)
Voiced by: Yū Sasahara (PV), Sayumi Suzushiro (anime) (Japanese); Celeste Perez (English)
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 (谷 悠介, Tani Yūsuke)
Voiced by: Yūto Uemura (PV), Shogo Sakata (anime) (Japanese); Brandon Acosta (English)
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 (山田 健太郎, Yamada Kentarō)
Voiced by: Anji Iwata (Japanese); Van Barr Jr. (English)
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 (西 奈津美, Nishi Natsumi)
Voiced by: Kokoro Ōmori (Japanese); Rebecca Danae (English)
Media
Manga
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.
Novel
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.
Anime
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" (メガネを外して; 'Lose the Frames'), performed by Noa, and the ending theme song is "Pure" (ピュア, Pyua), performed by Pas Tasta featuring Eriko Hashimoto. 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" (猫じゃらし), performed by 7co (the music project of Nanako Ashida and Ryuja), while the ending theme song is "Unmei no Kimi" (運命の君; 'You Are the One'), performed by Mega Shinnosuke.
Reception
In 2022, You and I Are Polar Opposites was nominated in the Next Manga Awards in the Web Manga category, and ranked second out of 50 nominees. It ranked 34th on the 2022 "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine. The series ranked ninth in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for male readers, tying with Midori no Uta: Shūshū Gunfū. The series ranked third in the 16th Manga Taishō, tying with Onna no Sono no Hoshi; it ranked seventh in the 17th edition in 2024. The series ranked twelfth in the National Bookstore Employees Recommended Comics of 2023 list; it was also ranked second in the 2024 list. The series ranked sixth in the 2023 Tsutaya Comic Award. The series, alongside The Strange House, won the Men's Comic Prize at NTT Solmare's "Minna ga Erabu!! Denshi Comic Taishō 2024" competition in 2024. It was nominated in the Daruma for Best Romance Manga category at the Japan Expo Awards in 2026. By May 2026, the series had over 2.1 million copies in circulation, including digital versions.
Louis Kemner of Comic Book Resources positively compared the series to My Dress-Up Darling, noting the similarities in the lead characters' chemistry and the story's use of the "opposites attract" romantic paradigm.