Two album releases from the Kemono Friends anime – the Japari Café character song album and the anime’s original soundtrack – ranked #1 and #2, respectively, on Oricon’s weekly album chart for the June 5-11 week.
The 12-episode Kemono Friends television anime premiered on TV Tokyo and TV Osaka on January 10 and ended on March 28.
The Japari Café album contains the original voice drama “Japari Mangari” scripted by the anime’s director TATSUKI, as well as a new “Kemono Parade ~Japari Park Memorial~” song performed by Kaban (Aya Uchida) and Dōbutsu Biscuit x PPP and written by Mine Yoshizaki.
The album also contains a version of the anime’s opening theme song “Yōkoso Japari Park e” (Welcome to Japari Park) that includes Kaban.