Yowamushi Pedal and Sanrio Team up for a Collaboration Cafe

Starting on January 9, there will be a limited-time collaboration cafe featuring Sanrio and “Yowamushi Pedal.”

It will be held at 46 Shokudou in Ikebukuro and 21 characters will be featured in both merchandise and meals. For the collaboration, the “Yowapeda” characters have gained a cute redesign with them as chibis. Both merchandise and themed menu items can only be enjoyed during the event which will run until February 13.

For those who wish to take part in the event, they should book a table in advance. Those who do so will receive one of four possible A4 stickers selected randomly. With the menu, it includes set meals, parfaits featuring the school team colors and drinks with the chibi designs.

“Yowamushi Pedal” is a sports series that first began as a manga series written and illustrated by Wataru Watanabe. It was released in 2008 and is being serialized by Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion. The anime came about in October 2013 and recently it has been confirmed that a fourth season will be premiering in January 2019.

The third season of the series had released in January 2017 and was titled “Yowamushi Pedal New Generation.” It took place in the aftermath of Sohoku High defeating Hakone Gakuen in the national tournament “Inter-High,” and the senior members are retiring. Now the first years fall under the leadership of Teshima as team captain and Aoyagi as vice-captain.

The staff for the third season included:

Director: Osamu Nabeshima
Series Composition: Kurasumi Sunayama
Music: Kan Sawada
Character Design: Yukiko Ban

As for the cast, it included:

Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda
Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko
Kousuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi
Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida
Ayaka Suwa as Miki Kanzaki
Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima
Daisuke Ono as Masakiyo Dōbashi
Hiro Shimono as Issa Kaburagi
Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjō
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasumoto Arakita
Jun Fukuyama as Komari Kishigami
Junichi Suwabe as Toji Kanzaki
Kenji Nojima as Yukinari Kuroda
Kentaro Ito as Jin Tadokoro
Koji Yusa as Akira Midōsuji
Kouki Miyata as Terufumi Sugimoto
Mamoru Miyano as Takuto Ashikiba
Megumi Han as Aya Tachibana
Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Sadatoki Sugimoto
Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai
Showtaro Morikubo as Yūsuke Makishima
Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō
Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi
Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami
Wataru Hatano as Ryūhō Danchiku
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi
Yūichi Nakamura as Kimitaka Koga
Yūma Uchida as Yūto Shinkai

Source: Anime Anime