Merchandise Announced for the Sakura Miku x Animate Café 2020

Hello everyone, Tanudama here! And I’m here to excitedly present the freshly announced merchandise available at the Sakura Miku x Goodsmile x Animate Café to you. If you’d like to know specific details about the collaboration, you can read the main article here.

Without further ado, let me unveil the merch…

In the first box at the top, we can see the “big acrylic stands” for ¥1,600 (about £12 GBP / $15 USD). They feature the art of from 芳野サク, Naoto and さくらしおり (Sakura Shiori) respectively. They will be roughly 15cm x 12cm, so they are indeed reasonably big.

Second on the list of merch are the “trading can badges”. And we all know what that means… it means that you won’t be able to choose which one you want, since they’ll be blind bagged. For the badges, we have two of each Cryptonloid (12 badges altogether), with half of them based of the illustration by 猫魚 /Neko Sakana, and the other half from that of つるしまたつみ / Tsurushima Tatsumi. Let’s hope that we’ll have good luck when us Vocasphere reporters go there ourselves! These are ¥400 each (about £3 GBP / $4 USD) and each badge is about 5.6cm in diameter.

Now in the top left corner, we have a Sakura Miku lunchbox! In delicate pastel pink and white, we have a practical item that can be used to rekindle your memories of this Sakura Miku café collaboration. This costs ¥1,600 too, it’s about 20.5 x 9 x 6 cm in size, is made of polypropylene and has a motif of 福きつね (Fuku Kitsune)’s Miku illustration . As well as getting the lunchbox, you’ll also be gifted with one of six Sakura Miku- only trading can badges! Again, since they’re trading can badges, you won’t be able to choose which one you want exactly, but they’re all cute either way. To top it all off, you’ll also get a set of five prawn-flavoured senbei (rice crackers).

To the right of the lunchbox are the “acrylic portraits”, of which there are ones for every commissioned artist (芳野サク, 綿 / Men (Attaka Taoru Men), さくらしおり (Sakura Shiori), 福きつね (Fuku Kitsune), Naoto, つるしまたつみ / Tsurushima Tatsumi and 猫魚 / Neko Sakana. They’re actually pretty big at A4 size, and they cost ¥700 per portrait (about £5 GBP / $7 USD).

In the bottom left corner, you an see the designs for the “uchiwa” fans, which are fans that people tend to use in the summer to keep cool. You can get one with either the illustration from 芳野サク, 綿 / Men or 福きつね (Fuku Kitsune). Like the portraits, these are ¥700 each, but they come in a size of 11.2 cm x 13.4 cm.

As our last item we have the acrylic drink stirrers! At the top they have small illustration of 猫魚 / Neko Sakana’s Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, Meiko and Kaito, depending on which one you buy. Each one is about 17 cm in length, with the illustrated part being around 3.5 cm in diameter, and they’ll set you back by ¥800 per portrait (about £6 GBP / $8 USD).

(Note: all prices include tax!)

But there’s something else I’m particularly excited about… and it’s the new campaign the café will have!

Okay… so here’s what you have to do to be in with the chance of winning one of ten Sakura Miku happi (a traditional japanese straight- sleeved coat, typically worn to festivals).

1. Take a photo of the menu, merchandise or store when you’re there.
2. Upload the photo to social media and show it to a member of staff in- store so that they can verify it.
3. Fill in the application form that they give you. Once you’ve filled out the details on the form, you can post it into their application forms box.
4. . Once the collaboration cafe is finished, the winners will be drawn by a lottery. There will be five winners from each store, making ten winners altogether.

(Note: you’ll need to fill in your details in japanese, and potentially have a japanese address to use so that they can send you the prize if you win).

I think that that’s just about everything we need to know about the collabo café before it opens in March! For more information about the design competition that they held for the menu items, feel free to read about it here, and to see what the menu items will look like in real life, you can read our overview here!

We hope that everyone who manages to go there has an amazing time, and we’ll make sure to gather as many photos as possible when we go ourselves!

Thanks for reading!

~Tanudama