New MikuColle Collab Cafe On Its Way (?)
While we’re no stranger to collab cafes of the VOCALOID kind, the newest one to be announced sure caught us by surprise! MikuColle (or “Miku Collection”) was a mobile game still loved by many, which featured Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, MEIKO and KAITO as they worked to restore the stound to the world (and many other planets too!). And now you might be able to dine at the coolest and most exclusive Miku cafe around! Planning is courtesy of 7:24 / Inukai, while A ☆ P/ AhoshiP designed the menu!
※All translations here are unofficial
Menu items
Food
Melopi cake
- A cake with six coloured layers inside, based on the character “Melopi” from the game MikuColle!
Music comet jelly
- A refreshing white peach flavoured jelly, based on the character Melopi!
Broken Sound City Curry
- When you start the game for the first time, you’re taken to a town where noises are broken and sound weird! Miku and the gang arrive to save the town and make everything (including music) sound beautiful again. Maybe you can recreate this scene from the game by eating such a fantastic curry? There’s cheese hidden in the hamburger, and the asparagus is meant to look like pipe organs!
MikuColle Map Crackers – Forest ver.
- A dish meant to look like the forest map of the game MikuColle! Follow all of the food and find your way to the finish line (marked by the “goal” flag). Comes with the lunch mat shown!
( a reference of how the maps looked in-game)
※Miku acrylic stand sold separately
4 Types of Jakushi* Steamed Buns
- Based on the cards from the game MikuColle, here were have four flavours of buns – the gold one is a meat bun, the metal one (with the green crown) is chocolate and/or custard flavour, the demon one (green) is a pizza bun, while the angel bun (with the blue crown) has a red bean filling! I’ve added a reference for the in-game versions too.
Kagamine Mini Parfait
- As if last year’s Sakura Kagamine cafe wasn’t popular enough, for this year’s cafe, they’ll be bringing back the Sakura Kagamine acrylic stands! Pair the stands with the parfait and it’ll almost feel like you’re going cherry blossom viewing!
Drinks
Refreshing Lemon Squash
- Comes with a Miku stand
Rin’s chocolate orange drink & Len’s Choco Banana Soy Milk
- Each comes with a Rin or Len stand respectively
Luka’s Peach Ginger Ale
- Comes with a Luka stand
KAITO’s Blue Milkshake
- Has a slice of lemon, so the whole drink matches the colours in his outfit!
- Comes with a KAITO stand
MEIKO’s Ruby Tea – Tea Royale
- A hot drink with a splash of brandy – perfect for adults!
※Age verification will be conducted upon purchase
Free gifts
For every ￥3939 spent on food at the cafe, you’ll receive one of the following coasters:
There are five regular ones and five holographic-effect ones available, so make sure to visit if you can!
Merchandise
Of course, with the potential of a cafe, you have to have merchandise too, right?
- Hatsune Miku Acrylic Figure – ￥500
- MikuColle Motif Apron – ￥1200
- Clear files (set of two designs) – ￥400
- MikuColle Tea Book (a book containing types of tea) – ￥800
Now, you can also buy the MikuColle memorial book (which I talked about previously here) as a bundle with handheld fans and more:
MikuColle memorial book
>Buy it on their BOOTH store here – ￥2,000
(Currently, the physical copy of the memorial book is sold out, but you can still get the digital version for the same price!)
As well as this, they’ve also released an illustration book, detailing the design concepts for the cafe menu items! In this book, you’ll apparently be able to find recipes for all the items shown above as well!
“The MikuColle Cafe I thought up” illustration book – ￥400
>Buy it on BOOTH here! (Digital version only)
Note: It’s said that the book should come with the acrylic stands shown in the tweet below
Other events
On the day of the cafe (April 1st 2021), 7:24, curator of the cafe and head artist for the game MikuColle, is holding a lecture about the game, and also allowing time to chat with other fans about your memories of the game! Apparently.
※Please note that the number of people entering the event is being kept VERY low, so get your numbered ticket while you can!
Inukai also designed a special commemorative daikon radish with the cafe visuals! Because who WOULDN’T want a radish with Miku on it?
Take a look:
Retweet campaign – get a free lunch mat!
Now you can feel like you’re really inside the game, with your very own MikuColle lunch mat! All you have to do to win one is….
- Like and retweet the tweet here
- Click on the image on the right of the tweet
- Right click and save the mat design
- Print it out whenever you feel like it!
Fufu, not much of a contest, huh?
Free social media icons
After all these announcements, we have one more left (and thanks if you’ve read this far!). Although Inukai admitted this was another well planned an executed April Fool’s prank, they did give us something for our trouble – feel free to download some cute icons for use with social media! They’re free, but please make sure not to edit them, and don’t repost them!
For anyone who wasn’t aware, MikuColle was a super fun mobile gacha game featuring the piapro characters, that unfortunately ended service last year. Despite this, since the artist Inukai (who worked on the majority the artwork for the game) still loves and misses the game they worked so hard on, they made a memorial book, and came up with this little prank for us (this whole cafe setup was a prank made up by them to have some fun!).
It’s also important to note that ALL of the items available on BOOTH in the merchandise sections above are genuine items you can buy, NOT a joke. So feel free to support the artists and buy their goods!
Thanks for your continued support of VocaSphere! And happy April Fools!
~Tanudama
Links
7:24 / Inukai
