Less than half a cour into its split cour run, the Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle TV anime has been hit with a delay.
Its next episode, Episode 6, will be skipping a November release and will only premiere on December 2 JST. Filling up the series’ slots for the rest of the month will be Wooser’s Hand-to-Mouth Life.
Additionally, the new release dates for Episodes 11 to 13 are currently undetermined and will be announced later.
“Production circumstances” are the official reason for the delay.
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle is an adaptation of the light novel series written by Hiromu and illustrated by raemz, and is so far about a popular boy who helps people and is more than his projected persona suggests. Yen Press describes the books’ starting premise as such:
Being popular isn’t easy. It’s hard to beat Saku Chitose. The most popular kid in his high school? Check. An ironclad reputation that can weather even vicious online attacks? Check. A group of friends as attractive on the outside as they are inside? Check. But when a teacher asks for his help bringing back a student who has been shut away in his room for months, Saku’s perfect world will never be the same. What is this, some kind of normie harem story…?
The light novel series, part of Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko label, began in 2019 and has nine main volumes as of August 2024. There is a manga adaptation published by Square Enix.
Crunchyroll, the Ani-One Asia YouTube channel, and Bilibili are streaming the anime.
Staff
• Director: Yuji Tokuno (storyboard artist and episode director for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 20, OSHI NO KO Episode 10, YAIBA: Samurai Legend Episode 6).
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Naruhisa Arakawa (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers)
• Scriptwriter: Hiromu
• Character designer: Sumie Kinoshita (Spy Classroom)
• Animation production: Feel.
Cast
• Shogo Sakata as Saku Chitose
• Manaka Iwami as Yuko Hiiragi
• Hina Yomiya as Yua Uchida
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Yuzuki Nanase
• Rumi Okubo as Haru Aomi
• Chika Anzai as Asuka Nishino
Source: @feel_feel