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Last Updated on February 10, 2026 by Dante
The upcoming anime series, Ichijyoma Mankitsu Gurashi!, is coming to Spring Anime 2026. An official teaser was just dropped on YouTube:
Here’s a brief synopsis of the series:
Girl’s new life begins in… Manga cafe!?
Meiko Morita, a high schooler living in Akita, is suddenly selected as a special transfer student to the prestigious girls’ school Amamiya Girls’ Academy. With both excitement and nerves, she heads to Tokyo to begin her new life.
But what awaits her isn’t a typical student dorm—it’s a manga café called “Hedgehog”, which also functions as a shared dormitory!
Living in a tiny one-tatami room and working at the café as part of her daily duties, Meiko finds herself surrounded by quirky fellow residents—and so begins her slightly strange, manga-filled Tokyo life!
Toshinori Watanabe will be directing this series and brings massive experience from working on Naruto Shippuden, Tokyo Ghoul: re, and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. The series is expected to debut on Crunchyroll for all interested in taking a peak.
Staff:
- Original Work by Kumako Hisama (Serialized on Manga Time Kirara, Published by Houbunsha)
- Directed: Toshinori Watanabe
- Character Design: Fumiya Uehara
- Chief Animation Director: Fumiya Uehara, Minefumi Harada, Yuki Yabuta, Saori Sakiguchi
- Costume Design: Fumiya Uehira, Michiko Otani
- Art Setting: Shino Tanaka
- Art Director: Harumi Nakazato, Maika Hosoda
- Color Setting: Hiroko Umezaki
- 2D Work: Yumeta Company
- Director of Photography: Yasushi Kimura
- Editing: Keisuke Yanagi
- Sound Director: Yayoi Tateishi
- Music: MONACA
- Animation Production by PRA
Cast:
- Meiko Morita voiced by Hana Hishikawa
- Rie Amamiya voiced by Saho Shirasu
- Marika Suzuki voiced by Chiharu
Dante is Editor-in-Chief (Lord Hokage), which means he runs editorial and operations at BrandAnime. That means this whole thing was his idea, and he spends his time making stuff work and covering the latest anime and games. When he's not doing 100 things at once, he's usually... watching anime or playing games. His life isn't that interesting, honestly.
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