More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers poster

More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers (2022)

Animation · Comedy · Drama

The story centers on third-year high school student Jiro Yakuin, who gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Akari Watanabe for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jiro is the complete opposite of Akari, but the two know that if they do well they will be able to switch partners to end up with their respective crushes, and so they force themselves to act like the perfect married couple.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (8,106 votes)
Episode average: 7.9 ↑ +0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Streaming (US): Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: Mini-series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2022)

7.94 avg 12 episodes 7.6 → 7.9 24 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Living in the Same Place, but Not Living Together	7.6	569
2	Imagined, but Not Real	7.8	514
3	Broken Up, and Not Rekindled	7.9	504
4	A Hero, but Not the Main Character	7.9	498
5	More Than a Nosebleed, but Less Than a Kiss	8.1	536
6	A Male Virgin, but No Female Virgin	8.1	493
7	Fireworks, but No Embrace	8.5	572
8	An Entreaty, but No Reassurance.	7.5	456
9	More Than a Childhood Friend, but Not True Love.	7.6	471
10	Already Has Passed, but Not 'Yet'.	8.2	501
11	More Than a Confession, but Not Yet a Broken Heart.	8.2	489
12	Done, Being Less Than Love.	7.9	494