We Are Worse at Love than Pandas (2026)

Shibata Ichiha, who entered a publishing company dreaming of becoming a fashion magazine editor, learns on her very first day that the magazine has been discontinued. With her dream crushed, she spends her days stagnating in the editorial department of a lifestyle magazine. Her fate takes a dramatic turn when she meets charismatic model and ultra–queen-like diva Haizawa Aria. Assigned to launch Aria’s new romance-advice column, Ichiha is even forced into working as its ghostwriter. At her wits’ end, Ichiha visits a university hoping to interview a “specialist in the study of romance,” only to encounter Associate Professor Shido Tsukasa, a hyper-cool, human-averse researcher who studies not human romance, but animal courtship behavior. Though the two clash at first, they gradually come to realize that the ways animals express love contain unexpected hints for solving the modern dilemmas of work, romance, and human relationships.