The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses is an adaptation of the manga, written by Seo Kouji.
Seo’s fans usually don’t like the adaptations of his works that much, but this one seems to be different from the rest.
Fans are excited for the sequel, although it doesn’t seem to improve on the visual aspect of the anime.
Seo Kouji has always been a polarizing mangaka. His works are certainly entertaining (among others, they include Fuuka and its prequel from the 00s, Suuzka), but many people dislike them for being incredibly melodramatic. Despite that, he still has a steady fanbase.
What is interesting is that the fanbase is very much divided on the adaptations of his works. A lot of his fans seem to not like them: so far, all of them have been incomplete and/or rushed and never actually adapted the most liked parts of his manga.
However, The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (Megami no Café Terrace) is getting a sequel, and for once, fans are actually excited.
Unique among the author’s works
The official X (formerly Twitter) account revealed the new PV for the anime, as well as announced the date for the second season — July 2024. That means it’s just a season and a half away, which is sooner than many fans expected.
The unique acceptance toward The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, compared to Seo’s other manga, is actually easily explainable. Instead of romantic drama with many love polygons, The Café Terrace is pretty much a harem series with tropes played straight, with a lot of slice-of-life elements that make it an easy weekly watch.
The fact that the manga doesn’t have much content yet also helps. There are less than 70 chapters out currently, which means the second season would be very likely to catch up to the source material — or at least, come close to catching up.
Fans are already speculating on how it would end, though, but knowing the mangaka’s tendencies to make very long stories, it might be a while before we actually see the ending.
It is also important that due to The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses being different from what people usually expect from Seo, it also attracts people who aren’t his hardcore fans — who do not have such prejudice towards adaptations of his manga.
Visuals could be better
The first season of anime was decently received — but many fans complained about somewhat lacking animation. The exception was the episode that was outsourced to studio Shaft, which, to many, was the best episode of the first season.
Sadly, the sequel doesn’t seem to be improving much on that aspect: the anime doesn’t look outright bad, but the animation is still barely passable.
However, the animation could still be better.
Summary:
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses is an adaptation of the manga, written by Seo Kouji.
Seo’s fans usually don’t like the adaptations of his works that much, but this one seems to be different from the rest.
Fans are excited for the sequel, although it doesn’t seem to improve on the visual aspect of the anime.
Seo Kouji has always been a polarizing mangaka. His works are certainly entertaining (among others, they include Fuuka and its prequel from the 00s, Suuzka), but many people dislike them for being incredibly melodramatic. Despite that, he still has a steady fanbase.
What is interesting is that the fanbase is very much divided on the adaptations of his works. A lot of his fans seem to not like them: so far, all of them have been incomplete and/or rushed and never actually adapted the most liked parts of his manga.
However, The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (Megami no Café Terrace) is getting a sequel, and for once, fans are actually excited.
Unique among the author’s works
The official X (formerly Twitter) account revealed the new PV for the anime, as well as announced the date for the second season — July 2024. That means it’s just a season and a half away, which is sooner than many fans expected.
The unique acceptance toward The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, compared to Seo’s other manga, is actually easily explainable. Instead of romantic drama with many love polygons, The Café Terrace is pretty much a harem series with tropes played straight, with a lot of slice-of-life elements that make it an easy weekly watch.
The fact that the manga doesn’t have much content yet also helps. There are less than 70 chapters out currently, which means the second season would be very likely to catch up to the source material — or at least, come close to catching up.
Fans are already speculating on how it would end, though, but knowing the mangaka’s tendencies to make very long stories, it might be a while before we actually see the ending.
It is also important that due to The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses being different from what people usually expect from Seo, it also attracts people who aren’t his hardcore fans — who do not have such prejudice towards adaptations of his manga.
Visuals could be better
The first season of anime was decently received — but many fans complained about somewhat lacking animation. The exception was the episode that was outsourced to studio Shaft, which, to many, was the best episode of the first season.
Sadly, the sequel doesn’t seem to be improving much on that aspect: the anime doesn’t look outright bad, but the animation is still barely passable.
