The latest anime, manga, game, voice actor and movie collab news from Japan.
Collaboration Café
A collaboration café for “Re:Zero—Starting Life in Another World: Chronicles of Echoes” will be held at Cure Maid Café in Akihabara from September 18 to October 4, 2026. The cafe will feature food and desserts inspired by Rudel and his friends, as well as a total of nine collaboration drinks. For every collaboration menu item purchased, customers will receive one limited-edition collaboration card.
Pop-up Store
The 2nd Anniversary POP-UP SHOP for *Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue Saga* at Kotobukiya will be held on the 2nd floor of the Kotobukiya Akihabara Building from Friday, October 9, 2026, through Sunday, October 25, 2026!
New merchandise, including large acrylic stands and an acrylic keychain collection featuring in-game illustrations, will be available for purchase at the venue. Additionally, there will be a giveaway of mini photo cards (10 varieties total) for every 1,000 yen (tax included) spent, venue-exclusive illustration cards, and a life-size panel display of Reinhard Yang.
Pop-up Store
The “Parallel Corridor” pop-up shop for *The Idolmaster Shiny Colors* will be held at the “UDX Gallery” on the 4th floor of Akihabara UDX from Sunday, September 20, 2026, through Sunday, September 27, 2026!
This event commemorates the debut of all characters in the “Parallel Collection” gacha series, which depicts the idols’ “alternative futures.” It will feature the sale of new merchandise featuring illustrations from the Parallel Collection cards, an exhibition of production comments and select rough sketches, and the distribution of the purchase bonus “4-Panel Illustration Card.”
Pop-up Store
A “Galaxy Angel” pop-up store commemorating Gamers’ 30th anniversary will be held from Saturday, September 19, 2026, through Sunday, October 4, 2026, at the Akihabara Gamers flagship store, seven other locations nationwide, and the Gamers Online Shop. The event will feature trading pin badges, acrylic stands, and B2 half-size tapestries featuring newly drawn illustrations of the Moon Angel Squad, as well as pre-order items such as Character Fine Graph and Rough Note. Additionally, there will be purchase bonuses including special bromides (12 varieties total), a meet-and-greet event with Ryoko Shintani, and a giveaway campaign for hand-signed color paper by Kanann, the character designer.
Pop-up Store
A pop-up store for *Love Live! Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club* will be held at Volks Akihabara Hobby Heaven 2 starting Friday, September 18, 2026, and at the Volks Osaka Showroom starting Saturday, October 10!
A total of 13 merchandise items—including Trading Heart pin badges, acrylic stands, and half-B2 tapestries—featuring newly drawn illustrations titled “Goddesses of Flowers” will be on sale. Additionally, a purchase bonus will be offered: customers will receive a postcard for every 3,000 yen (tax included) spent on eligible items.
Pop-up Store
A pop-up store for the anime “You and Me: Complete Opposites,” based on the popular manga by Aga-zawa Kōcha, will be held from September 12 to September 27, 2026, at three Sanseido Bookstore locations and online. A total of 10 items will be available, including acrylic keychains and snow globe-style acrylic blocks. For every 3,000 yen (tax included) spent, customers will receive a postcard.
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The 10th-anniversary exhibition for the TV anime *Conference on Blessings in This Wonderful World!*, titled “*Conference on Blessings in This Wonderful World!* Exhibition ~Cheerful~,” will be held from October 12 to October 31, 2026, at “AKIBA_SQUARE” on the 2nd floor of Akihabara UDX. The exhibition consists of 11 areas, including the “Isekai Reincarnation Area” and the “Explosive Magic Experience Area,” and will feature exclusive merchandise such as newly illustrated “Cheerful ver.” items and a Chun Chun Maru paper knife.
Pop-up Store
The “Moon Viewing Ver. Release Commemoration Fair at Animate” for the TV anime *That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime* will be held from Friday, November 6, 2026, through Sunday, November 29, 2026, at Animate’s Ikebukuro Main Store and other participating locations, as well as through Animate’s online store! During the event period, for every 2,200 yen (tax included) spent on “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” merchandise, customers will receive one bonus postcard (8 varieties total). The lineup will also include “Moon Viewing Ver.” trading pin badges, B2 half-size tapestries, and acrylic stands, as well as “Dot Art Ver.” mini-character goods.
Pop-up Store
A pop-up store featuring Sanrio’s six-member boy group “Hapidanbui,” in collaboration with Munyu Gurumi Patio, will be held at AKIBA LINK on the 1st floor of Ecute Akihabara from September 23 to October 6, 2026. Newly drawn visuals of the six characters transformed into angels and little devils have been unveiled.
Pop-up Store
A POP UP CORNER for the TV anime “High School D×D HERO” will be held on the 1st floor of Kotobukiya Akihabara from Friday, September 18, 2026, through Sunday, September 27, 2026!
In addition to pin badges, acrylic cards, acrylic stands, and large acrylic keychains featuring newly drawn artwork, merchandise featuring original mini-character illustrations will also be available. A purchase bonus will be offered: for every 2,200 yen (tax included) spent on related merchandise, customers will receive one randomly selected illustration card (7 types total).
Pop-up Store
The TV anime “You Wicked Person Who Wants to Eat Me” POP-UP STORE will be held from Saturday, September 12, 2026, through Sunday, September 27, 2026, on the 7th floor of the Akihabara Gamers Main Store and at the Gamers Online Shop. New “Wedding Dress Ver.” merchandise featuring original illustrations will be on sale, and there will be a raffle for a chance to win an extra-large, approximately 30 cm acrylic figure, as well as purchase bonuses offering all 6 types of bromides.
Pop-up Store
A pop-up store for the TV anime “My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected: The End” will be held from Saturday, September 12, 2026, through Sunday, September 27, 2026, at the 7th floor of the Akihabara Gamers Main Store, as well as the Namba, Nagoya, and Sendai branches, and the Gamers Online Shop. New “Elegant Ver.” merchandise featuring newly drawn illustrations will be on sale, along with a raffle to win an oversized acrylic figure, purchase bonuses offering bromides, and pre-orders for oversized tapestries and commemorative art.
Pop-up Store
The “POP UP SHOP” for *Bunny Garden 2* is set to open on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Karupop on the 4th floor of AKIBA Cultures ZONE in Akihabara! Merchandise such as oversized acrylic stands, tapestries, and curtains featuring newly drawn illustrations of Kana, Rin, Miuka, Erisa, Kurone, and Runa will be on sale. Additionally, a prize drawing for an A3 poster will be held, with one entry granted for every 2,000 yen (tax included) spent.
Collaboration Café
Details for the 4th through 6th installments of the “GiGO Collaboration Cafe: Love Live! Series Official Card Game 2026” have been announced. The event will be held in three phases: “Hasuno Sora” starting September 12, 2026; “μ’s” starting October 3; and a “Pack Art Collaboration” starting October 24. We’ll provide a comprehensive overview of the event, including drinks and food inspired by the members, original coasters as order bonuses, merchandise such as acrylic stands and heart-shaped pin badges, and even a mini-event exclusive to Akihabara Building No. 3.
Pop-up Store
A pop-up store for the TV anime “A Certain Scientific Railgun T” will be held from Saturday, September 12, 2026, through Sunday, September 27, 2026, on the 7th floor of the Akihabara Gamers Main Store and at the Gamers Online Shop. In addition to new merchandise—such as an oversized tapestry and large acrylic stands featuring newly drawn illustrations—there will be a raffle for a special oversized acrylic figure (approximately 30 cm) and a purchase bonus offering free photo cards.
Collaboration Café
The “Retro Flower Cafe,” a collaboration between the TV anime *Mob Psycho 100 III* and Collaboration Cafe Honpo, will be held at the Akihabara and Osaka Nipponbashi locations from September 18 to October 18, 2026. In addition to a total of 16 collaboration menu items featuring newly drawn illustrations adorned with flowers, original merchandise—including L-size bromides and coasters given with every order, as well as a total of 7 different types of original goods—will be available.
