A new visual for the ongoing Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle TV anime series was unveiled earlier this week, highlighting Yua Uchida with a pink umbrella. The anime began broadcasting in Japan on October 7, 2025 and will run for two split cours.
This is the third latest installment for the show’s “Chiramune Fukui Graffiti” visual project, which combines live-action photos of Fukui with the anime’s characters. The photos are taken by tomosaki (@photono_gen).
© Hiromu/Shogakukan/Chiramune Partners
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle resumed its regular broadcasting with its sixth episode on December 2, 2025. The anime announced a delay in its broadcasting schedule early last month, citing “production circumstances.” The new release dates for episodes 11-13 are currently undetermined and will be announced later on.
Yuji Tokuno (storyboard artist and episode director for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 20, OSHI NO KO Episode 10, YAIBA: Samurai Legend Episode 6) is directing the anime series, with Naruhisa Arakawa (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers) as series composer and co-scriptwriter, original light novel author Hiromu as co-scriptwriter, and Sumie Kinoshita (Spy Classroom) as character designer. Feel. is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • 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
The light novel series is written by Hiromu and illustrated by raemz. It was first published under Shogakukan’s Gagaga Bunko label on June 18, 2019 and has released nine main volumes as of August 2024, which includes two short story collections. Yen Press licensed the light novels for English release.
The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Bobcat from 2020 to 2025. It was published by Square Enix, with Yen Press also releasing it in English.
© Hiromu/Shogakukan/Chiramune Partners
REMOW licensed the anime series for streaming on Crunchyroll, which describes the main premise as:
Saku Chitose is a student at Fujishi High School, the most prestigious school in Fukui Prefecture. Outstanding in class, on the field, and in his social life, Saku attracts attention, good and bad. Naturally, he is surrounded by a circle of friends anyone would be happy to have. Now in the spring of his second year, with a new class, Saku is asked to help a shut-in classmate return to school life.
Source: Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Official Twitter (via AIR News)
