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Aniplex of America Partners With Café Dulce For Blend-S Event


© MIYUKI NAKAYAMA, HOUBUNSHA / BLEND-S Committee

It looks like Café Dulce regulars will get a bit of the Do-S experience.

Yesterday, Aniplex of America announced that they are partnering with Little Tokyo’s Café Dulce to host a special Blend-S event. The café will host “branded exclusive giveaways” through October, though specifics on the promo have yet to be announced as of press time.

In addition, Aniplex launched an English-language teaser page and Facebook site for the Blend-S anime series. The teaser site features the newest key visual for the series, a brief English description, and a link to a subtitled version of the first teaser.

Blend-S will hit Japanese TV on October 7. The series will début on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 on October 7 at 24:30 (10/8/2017 at 12:30AM). Kansai TV, TV Aichi, and AT-X will carry the series at a later date.

Crunchyroll will stream the show as it airs this fall.

Blend S will be directed by Ryouji Masuyama (Gurren Lagann Parallel Works) at A-1 Pictures, with Yousuke Okuda (Is the order a rabbit?) providing character designs. Go Zappa (Shin Koihime Musō, Chronicles of the Going Home Club) is in charge of series composition for the project.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Maika Sakuranomiya: Azumi Waki
  • Kaho Hinata: Akari Kitō
  • Mafuyu Hoshikawa: Anzu Haruno
  • Miu Amano: Atsumi Tanezaki
  • Hideri Kanzaki: Sora Tokui
  • Dino: Tomoaki Maeno
  • Kōyō Akizuki: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

The Blend S anime will adapt Miyuki Nakayama’s manga of the same name. The title is a four-panel comedy that debuted in the October 2013 issue of Manga Time Kirara Carat. To date, three collected volumes of the title have been produced, with the most recent hitting stores on January 27.

Aniplex of America describes the show as:

Everything’s a treat – even being stomped on – in this outrageous working comedy!

At Café Stile, tsundere and imouto (or little sister type) are only a few of the characters the café waitresses must act out. Much to her surprise, new hire, Maika, is asked by the café manager to take on the role of the super sadist?! As she works hard at her new job, she unexpectedly flourishes as a super sadist and…

A several character visuals and a trailer were unveiled for Blend S. You can check these out below:

Promo Video

Character Visuals

Source: Aniplex of America (Press Release)

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