A new promotional video for the TV anime of Yūki Kimikawa’s Welcome to the Outcast’s Restaurant! light novel series reveals a July 2025 premiere. The main cast and staff were also revealed.
Shunsuke Takeuchi joins the cast of Welcome to the Outcast’s Restaurant! as Dennis, and Marika Tachibana plays the role of Atelier. Jōji Shimura directs the anime at OLM Team Yoshioka. Deko Akao oversees the series scripts, Aoi Yamato designs the characters, and Masato Kōda composes the music.
Kimikawa launched the light novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2018. Overlap published the first volume in 2019.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via Tentai Books:
Leave everything to the strongest cook of them all! Backstabbed by those he considered friends, Dennis has been exiled from one of the strongest guilds around: The Silver Wings Battalion. He doesn’t think much of it, though, as he was dying to use his Level 99 cooking skills anyway. That’s why he decides to leave the city behind and open up a diner in the countryside.
While pursuing his dream, Dennis meets Atelier, a girl exiled from her noble household and relegated to slavery until he saves her.
The pair open the diner together, and their first client is… an exiled knight from a different guild? How peculiar. But she is not the only customer; a cocky mage and a drastically overworked yet underpaid sage become regulars as well.
The knight brings trouble to the diner at times, but Dennis’s cooking skills and beloved butcher knives cut through trouble and hunger alike!
Thus begins the legend of Dennis and his diner, the talk of the town!
