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Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!
First light novel volume cover
追放者食堂へようこそ！
(Tsuihōsha Shokudō e Yōkoso!)
Genre
Novel series
Written byYūki Kimikawa
Published byShōsetsuka ni Narō
Original runOctober 22, 2018 – September 5, 2020
Light novel
Written byYūki Kimikawa
Illustrated byGaou
Published byOverlap
English publisher
  • NA: Tentai Books
ImprintOverlap Novels
Original runJune 25, 2019 – present
Volumes3
Manga
Written byYūki Kimikawa
Illustrated byTsumumi
Published byOverlap
English publisher
ImprintGardo Comics
MagazineComic Gardo
Original runSeptember 27, 2019 – present
Volumes9
Anime television series
Directed byJōji Shimura
Written byDeko Akao
Music byMasato Kōda
StudioOLM Team Yoshioka
Licensed by
Original networkAT-X, Tokyo MX, CBC, BS11
Original run July 3, 2025 – present
Episodes2

Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! (Japanese: 追放者食堂へようこそ！, Hepburn: Tsuihōsha Shokudō e Yōkoso!) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yūki Kimikawa and illustrated by Gaou. It was serialized online between October 2018 to September 2020 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Overlap, who have published three volumes since June 2019 under their Overlap Novels imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Tsumumi has been serialized online via Overlap's Comic Gardo website since September 2019 and has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by OLM premiered in July 2025.

Characters

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Dennis (デニス, Denisu)
Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi[1]
Atelier (アトリエ, Atorie)
Voiced by: Marika Tachibana[1]
Henrietta (ヘンリエッタ)
Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro[2]
Vivia (ビビア, Bibia)
Voiced by: Mariya Ise[2]
Bachel (バチェル, Bacheru)
Voiced by: Satsumi Matsuda[2]
Vigor (ヴィゴー, Vuigō)
Voiced by: Ryōta Suzuki[3]
Katie (ケイティ, Keiti)
Voiced by: Chika Anzai[3]

Media

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Light novels

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Written by Yūki Kimikawa, Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! was serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from October 22, 2018, to September 5, 2020.[4] It was later acquired by Overlap who began releasing it with illustrations by Gaou under their Overlap Novels light novel imprint on June 25, 2019. Three volumes have been released as of June 25, 2020.[5] The series is licensed in English by Tentai Books.[6] In July 2025, it was announced illustrator Gaou will be replaced due to admitting having a sexual relationship with a minor.[7]

No. Original release date Original ISBN North American release date North American ISBN
1 June 25, 2019[8]978-4-86554-513-5August 7, 2020978-84-122008-3-6
2 November 25, 2019[9]978-4-86554-574-6January 5, 2023978-84-123546-8-3
3 June 25, 2020[5]978-4-86554-682-8——

Manga

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A manga adaptation illustrated by Tsumumi began serialization on Overlap's Comic Gardo manga service on September 27, 2019.[10] The manga's chapters have been compiled into nine tankōbon volumes as of March 2025.[11] The manga adaptation is licensed in English by Kaiten Books.[12]

No. Original release date Original ISBN North American release date North American ISBN
1 May 25, 2020[13]978-4-86554-668-2March 12, 2021 (digital)
January 4, 2022 (print)[14]		978-1-952241-18-5 (digital)
978-1-952241-19-2 (print)
2 September 25, 2020[15]978-4-86554-750-4June 10, 2022 (digital)
July 7, 2023 (print)[16]		978-1-952241-36-9 (digital)
978-1-952241-37-6 (print)
3 March 25, 2021[17]978-4-86554-875-4September 1, 2023 (digital)
September 20, 2024 (print)[18]		978-1-952241-60-4 (digital)
978-1-952241-61-1 (print)
4 September 25, 2021[19]978-4-8240-0008-8April 25, 2025 (digital)
TBA (print)[20]		978-1-952241-78-9 (digital)
978-1-952241-79-6 (print)
5 April 25, 2022[21]978-4-8240-0173-3July 11, 2025 (digital)
TBA (print)[22]		978-1-952241-82-6 (digital)
978-1-952241-83-3 (print)
6 December 25, 2022[23]978-4-8240-0371-3——
7 September 25, 2023[24]978-4-8240-0617-2——
8 June 25, 2024[25]978-4-8240-0868-8——
9 March 25, 2025[11]978-4-8240-1098-8——
10 July 25, 2025[26]978-4-8240-1275-3——

Anime

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An anime television series adaptation was announced at the Overlap Bunko 10th anniversary event on December 15, 2024.[27][28] It is produced by OLM and directed by Jōji Shimura, with series composition handled by Deko Akao, characters designed by Aoi Yamato, and music composed by Masato Kōda. The series premiered on July 3, 2025, on AT-X and other networks.[1][2] The opening theme song is "Unique" (ユニーク, Yunīku), performed by Dannie May,[2] while the ending theme song is, "Magokoro My Heart" (まごころMy Heart; Sincerely My Heart), performed by Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu.[3] Crunchyroll is streaming the series.[29] Tropics Entertainment licensed the series in Southeast Asia for streaming on the Tropics Anime Asia YouTube channel.[30]

Episodes

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No.Title [31][32]Directed by [a]Written by [a]Storyboarded by [a]Original release date [33]
1"You Are Free"
Transliteration: "Omae wa Jiyūda" (Japanese: お前は自由だ)		TBATBATBAJuly 3, 2025 (2025-07-03)
The adventuring party Silver Wing fail to defeat a cave dragon. Captain Vigo blames their cook Dennis for his skill Dread Voice scaring the dragon away, even though it was Vigo who told him to use it. Despite their both being level 99 Vigo looks down on Dennis for being a cook and pressures the other party members to kick Dennis out. Dennis willingly leaves, actually grateful they are no longer his problem. Vice-captain Katie chases after Dennis, begging him not to leave since she knows Dennis has been vital to their victories in his supporting roles as cook, alchemist and healer, and without him Silver Wing are actually pretty useless. Dennis chooses to leave anyway, planning to open a restaurant. After obtaining a run-down shop Dennis comes across a slave-trader with a little girl supposedly the only survivor of a ruined noble family. Dennis is compelled to buy her to save her from the merchant Polvo, a known pervert. Traumatised from her past, the girl Atelier is surprised Dennis grants her freedom, but she decides to stay after trying his food. After a few weeks preparing Dennis opens The Adventurer’s Restaurant, with Atelier as his waitress. Their first customer keeps their identity hidden behind a suit of armour.
2"It's Crazy Delicious!"
Transliteration: "Meccha Oishī desu!" (Japanese: めっちゃおいしいです！)		TBATBATBAJuly 10, 2025 (2025-07-10)
The customer chooses the cheapest meal due to lack of money, so Dennis decides to just make a more expensive dish for free. The customer accidentally reveals she is a female adventurer named Henrietta. She explains despite her skills she was kicked from her all-male party just for being a woman and hopes to find work hiding her gender under male armour. Dennis asks around and finds a party of male adventurers willing to hire her. Later, Dennis hears a rumour an all-male party has been hiring female adventurers in order to take them into dungeons, rape them and leave them to be killed by monsters. Henrietta is thrilled her new party values her skills with a sword but after a full day of monster-slaying she is so tired she is easily paralysed by the party mage, revealing their contempt for female warriors. Dennis furiously appears with twin meat cleavers with a paper bag hiding his face, thus knock out the rapists in a swift. Henrietta awakens at the adventurer’s guild with no idea how she got there but grateful the rapists have been found and arrested. She returns to Dennis’ restaurant and learns he had mysteriously closed the restaurant for the last two days. Looking closely of Dennis, she is reminded of somehow he fits the back figure of the mysterious paper bag man. She decides to ask about it but interrupted by another customer's arrival.
3"It's an Adventurer!"
TBATBATBAJuly 17, 2025 (2025-07-17)
Henrietta decides to get rid of her armor suit when Dennis told her to be herself as an adventurer, while reminds her that she needs to start paying the money she owes for her meals. Adventurer Vivia Strange comes in complaining the local adventurers are too inferior to form a party with. Dennis realized his last party probably kicked him out. Vivia eventually joins the Night Mist party for a job on the labyrinth’s fifth floor. Dennis worries as Vivia is too weak for the fifth floor so he confronts two members of Night Mist who admit they left Vivia alone on the fifth floor as a cruel test to see if he can survive. In the labyrinth, Vivia runs from goblins and in his panic forgot all his spells. He is rescued by a young adventurer named Cynthia, whose party also abandoned her. Vivia realized he has been an arrogant idiot and decides to help Cynthia escape. He draws the goblins to himself but is saved by Dennis, who scolds his idiocy. Accompanied by Dennis, Vivia tries to retrieve Cynthia but devastatingly found out that only her remains are left in the hiding spot where he ran out from. At the adventurers guild, Vivia learns that Cynthia went missing 13 years ago when her party abandoned her in the labyrinth. Dennis explains the lost adventurer’s spirits sometimes appear to help those who got lost in labyrinths. With the help from Dennis, Vivia makes a grave for Cynthia and buried her remains inside it. Feeling heartbroken and ashamed, Vivia promised himself to visit Cynthia’s grave whenever he's free and swears to become a great wizard and rescue others who got lost in labyrinths.

Reception

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By December 2024, the series had over 850,000 copies in circulation.[34]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Production staff information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Cayanan, Joanna (March 18, 2025). "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! TV Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, July Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 18, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cayanan, Joanna (April 20, 2025). "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Anime's New Video Unveils More Cast & Staff, Opening Song, July 3 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Cayanan, Joanna (May 28, 2025). "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Anime's 2nd Video Reveals New Cast, Ending Song". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  4. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！　【書籍第三巻、6/25発売！】 (in Japanese). Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  5. ^ a b 追放者食堂へようこそ！ ③　～追放姫とイツワリの王剣～ (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  6. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (May 1, 2020). "New Light Novel Publisher Tentai Books Announces 1st 2 Licenses". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  7. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (July 12, 2025). "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!, I May Be a Guild Receptionist Novels Replace Illustrator Gaou". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 12, 2025.
  8. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！ ①　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人（Lv.99）は、田舎で念願の冒険者食堂を開きます！. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  9. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！ ②　～追放メイドとイニシエの食卓～ (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  10. ^ 『追放者食堂へようこそ！～最強パーティーを追放された料理人（Lv.99）は、田舎で念願の冒険者食堂を開きます！～』のコミカライズ連載が開始. LN-news.com (in Japanese). September 28, 2019. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
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  12. ^ Mateo, Alex (December 12, 2020). "Kaiten Books Licenses 3 Manga for Digital Release in 2021". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  13. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！ 1　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  14. ^ "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Volume 1". Kaiten Books. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  15. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！２～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  16. ^ "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Volume 2". Kaiten Books. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  17. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！③　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  18. ^ "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Volume 3". Kaiten Books. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  19. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！④　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  20. ^ "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Volume 4". Kaiten Books. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  21. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！⑤　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  22. ^ "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Volume 5". Kaiten Books. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  23. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！⑥　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  24. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！⑦　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  25. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！⑧　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  26. ^ 追放者食堂へようこそ！⑩　～最強パーティーを追放された料理人は、冒険者食堂を開きます！～. OVERLAP (in Japanese). Overlap. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  27. ^ Dempsey, Liam (December 15, 2024). "Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Anime Announced for 2025 Release". Crunchyroll. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  28. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (December 15, 2024). "Yūki Kimikawa's Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Light Novels Gets TV Anime in 2025". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  29. ^ Mateo, Alex (June 18, 2025). "Crunchyroll Announces Release Schedule for Summer 2025 Season". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  30. ^ Tropics Anime Asia (July 3, 2025). "📢 Tropics Entertainment Licensing Announcement 📢 ／／ 👨‍🍳《Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!》＼＼ We will be updating《Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!》every Thursday at 9 PM (UTC+7)". Retrieved July 3, 2025 – via YouTube.
  31. ^ "STORY｜「Tsuihōsha Shokudō e Yōkoso!」Terebi Anime Koshiki Saito" STORY｜「追放者食堂へようこそ！」TVアニメ公式サイト [STORY｜「Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!」TV Anime Official Site]. tsuihosha-shokudo.com (in Japanese). Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  32. ^ "Watch Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! - Crunchyroll". Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  33. ^ "ONAIR｜「Tsuihōsha Shokudō e Yōkoso!」Terebi Anime Koshiki Saito" ONAIR｜「追放者食堂へようこそ！」TVアニメ公式サイト [ONAIR｜「Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!」TV Anime Official Site]. tsuihosha-shokudo.com (in Japanese). Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  34. ^ 異世界グルメファンタジー「追放者食堂へようこそ！」25年にTVアニメ化決定. Eiga.com [ja] (in Japanese). December 15, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
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