Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Anime Part 2 Debuts October 13
The recap episode slotted for the week before the return is a scheduling move that acknowledges how far the first cours' delayed broadcast pushed the serial's audience.
Key Facts
- The second cours of Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle premieres on October 13, 2026, with the first airing on AT-X at 11:00 p.m.
- Cider Girl performs the opening theme "Saku" and aruma performs the ending theme "Doko nimo Ikenai Mama."
- Sora Amamiya joins the Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle cast as Mai Todo.
- Studio feel. animates the series with Yuji Tokuno directing and Naruhisa Arakawa overseeing series composition alongside original author Hiromu.
- An episode 13.5 recapping the series so far airs the week before the October 13, 2026 premiere.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Kadokawa announced on Friday that the second cours of the Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle television anime will premiere on October 13, 2026. The first broadcast is set for AT-X at 11:00 p.m., with later airings that evening on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, Fukui Broadcasting, and TV Aichi. An episode 13.5 recapping the series so far airs the week before. Cider Girl performs the opening theme "Saku" and aruma performs the ending theme "Doko nimo Ikenai Mama." Sora Amamiya joins the cast as Mai Todo. Studio feel. returns to animate, with Yuji Tokuno directing and Naruhisa Arakawa overseeing series composition alongside original author Hiromu. The first cours debuted in October 2025, and its delayed run of episodes 11 through 13 aired in March 2026.
Cider Girl and aruma are the two musical acts attached to the new cours, and both tracks feature in the promotional video released alongside the announcement. Sora Amamiya joins the cast as Mai Todo, a name that did not appear in the anime's first broadcast run.
Sumie Kinoshita is handling character design, and Yoshiaki Fujisawa is composing the music. Hiromu and raemz are credited for the original work, with raemz on original character design and Hiromu co-writing scripts with Naruhisa Arakawa. The light novel series has run on Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko imprint since June 2019, and Bobcat's manga adaptation began in Square Enix's Manga Up! in April 2020. Yen Press releases the light novels and manga in North America, and Manga UP! Global publishes the manga digitally. The story is set in Fukui prefecture and follows Saku Chitose, a popular second-year at Fujishi High School who is asked by a teacher to convince a withdrawn classmate to return to school.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.