The staff for the anime of Kouji Seo's The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (Megami no Café Terrace) manga announced on Wednesday that VTuber Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (a.k.a. Pepechi), one of the former Heavenly Kings of VTubers. is performing the ending theme song "Nacchatta!" for the second season. Vocaloid producer Kinoshita is writing, composing, and arranging the song. The staff also unveiled a new visual featuring the 10 goddesses, as well as a promotional video that previews and reveals the opening theme song "Charge!" by Hikari Kodama.
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The staff also unveiled a visual for Pepechi:
The new cast members from the rival café Family includes (pictured below from left to right):
- Kana Hanazawa as Hekiru Yoshino
- Reina Ueda as Moemi Sо̄ya
- Ayana Taketatsu as Ririka Chiyoda
- Yū Serizawa as Valentina Azuma
- Rie Takahashi as Mao Takasaki
The second season will premiere on July 4 at 12:26 a.m. JST (effectively, July 5) on 28 MBS/TBS stations in the Super Animeism TURBO programming block.
The anime premiered in April 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
Satoshi Kuwabara (Black Jack, The Quintessential Quintuplets) directed the first season at Tezuka Productions. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Demon Girl Next Door, The Quintessential Quintuplets) was in charge of the series scripts, Masatsune Noguchi (Hakushon Daimaō, My Home Hero) designed the characters, and Shu Kanematsu (Castle Town Dandelion, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) and Miki Sakurai (The Quintessential Quintuplets, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) composed the music. NeRiAme performed the opening theme song "Unmei Kyōdōtai!" (Common Destiny) and Miki Satō performed the ending theme song "Dramatic."
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
When Hayato's grandmother passed, he planned to sell her rundown café on the shore—not realizing that it was also home to five young women who call themselves her family?! Their desperation to keep the café open convinces Hayato to give it a shot...but even their best intentions might not be enough to make it work! And can he even work with these five unruly women? No matter what, he's got his work cut out for him! A fun new romcom by the author of Fuuka and Suzuka!
Seo (Fuuka, A Town Where You Live, Suzuka) launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in February 2021.
Update: Added promo video, visual, opening theme song information. Source: MBS' YouTube channel
Source: Press release