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Answerman - Why Don't Promotional Anime Cafés Last Longer?

While these restaurants might sound really elaborate and exciting, like a theme park experience, the reality isn't quite so impressive. These cafés are usually quite small, and the food is usually overpriced and not so great. The special merchandise is often just small souvenirs like collectable coins. Most of these events involve simply putting up some poster and standees, and maybe playing some footage on a monitor.

EricJ2 wrote:

(And ftr, the chocolate-strawberry Batman cereal was tastier than the caramel Superman cereal, but it was close.)

I prefer the Superman cereal, but that's probably because semi-sweet chocolate has never been my thing. But I think they're best off mixed together. (A subtle message told through edible merchandise!)

BadNewsBlues wrote:

First I'm hearing about this cereal.

The next thing I know, you're going to tell me you've never heard of the Avengers: Age of Ultron cereal, or the Frozen cereal, or the Yu-Gi-Oh! cereal (which is, frankly, the most boring tie-in cereal I've ever seen), or the recent Star Wars cereals that come in Yoda and Kylo Ren.

In a way, American businesses do these sort of things sometimes too, like a few 7-Eleven stores becoming Kwik-E-Marts for The Simpsons Movie, complete with RC Cola sold there relabeledas Buzz Cola, Budweiser relabeled as Duff Beer, serving Homer's signature pink-frosted sprinkled donuts, etc; or various Westfield malls retheming themselves around Pokémon Black and White. Unofficial ones are very rare though, due to how active some of these lawyers are.

Is that Hello Kitty Cafe official?

leafy sea dragon wrote:

Is that Hello Kitty Cafe official?

I tried looking into it too, but I couldn't find anything actually confirming it. I'm pretty sure it is, though. Not sure why Sanrio would allow an unofficial van branding "Hello Kitty Cafe" to tour the country. It made stops to places like ComiCon and such, too.