Niichi's Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie Is Getting a TV Anime in 2027

Anime News Network reports that *Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie*, the romantic comedy by Niichi, is being adapted into a television anime for 2027. The manga ends with its ninth volume on September 16.

From dojinshi to a TV order

The origin is the part worth pausing on. Niichi began the series as a dojinshi in 2018 — self-published rather than launched through a magazine's editorial department. It is finishing as a completed nine-volume run with a broadcast adaptation attached.

That route from self-published work to commercial series is no longer unheard of, but it remains uncommon enough to be notable. A title that builds its own readership first arrives with a ready-made argument for adaptation; what it does not arrive with is a publisher's promotional machine behind it from day one, which is why plenty of dojinshi-born romances get one volume and disappear. Reaching nine and ending on the author's own schedule is the harder outcome.

An adaptation with a finished source

Anime adaptations are usually greenlit mid-serialisation, which means the staff are building on ground that is still shifting and the season often ends on a shrug because the manga has not resolved yet. This one is different: the source will be complete before production wraps. The ending exists. Whether the adaptation uses it is a separate question, but for romance in particular, a series that can actually land its final beat is worth more than one that stalls.

No studio, staff, or cast details are confirmed at this point, and 2027 is a long wait — treat anything more specific circulating before then as guesswork.

Romantic comedies free on AnimeSphere right now

If the pitch appeals — a small-scale romance with a comic engine and a real conclusion — these are streamable at no cost, legally, today:

• **[There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless…](/anime/184591)** — all 12 episodes free. A 2025 girls' love romcom about two classmates negotiating their way from friendship into something neither will name first. The closest tonal match in our catalogue.
• **[Actually, I Am](/anime/21033)** — all 13 episodes free. The 2015 high-school comedy about a boy who physically cannot keep a secret and a girl who has several worth keeping. Still one of the more good-natured romcoms around.

If you would rather sample than commit, the first three episodes of *[My Dress-Up Darling](/anime/132405)* and the premiere of *[Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie](/anime/127911)* are also free here.

We will update this piece if a studio and staff list are announced.