Happy Year of Ox! My New Year holiday

 

Happy Chinese New Year everybody!!!!  I spent New Year Eve through Second Day with my mom :3

Hope your year started out on a positive note!  Even if you did not, that just means we can only go up from here, right? ( ´･･)ﾉ(._.`)

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card x animate cafe

 Cardcaptor Sakura has collaborated with animate cafe again!  This time with the most recent Clear Card arc!  Previously I went to the Cardcaptor Sakura cafe collab back in 2016, but this year the drinks were more interesting because you can get pictures printed on them!

Taiwan Teddy cosplayed again

This time I attended with Doro!  Another good part is that the coasters this time were plastic (fitting for Clear Card) so I'm actually reusing my coaster instead of hoarding it as I do with the paper ones most places will give for events!

There were also non-print beverages, but they are not as special as the drinks from the previous Cardcaptor collaboration in my opinion.

The pictures at the bottom are the 9 coasters available at random, one with each drink.

Doro and I both got the NT$170 printed drink.  She got Yue printed on milk tea and I got Kero-chan and Subi (sp?) printed on matcha with lychee popping bubbles.  I really do not recommend adding fruity popping bubbles with matcha.....  But the whipped cream was very solid and good!

Look at how clear the pictures are! And the colors are so vibrant!

It really is a drink!  Topped with whipped cream!

The decor was so nice too.  There were not as many standing cutouts to take pictures with, but the two main walls were nice.

And of course there were the photo stick pictures to use!!

I brought Taiwan Teddy in her Cardcaptor Sakura cosplay, and Doro brought a Kerochan plush

As for coasters, I got Tomoyo-chan and Doro got the Kerochan and Subi that I had printed on my drink!  Since she did not want to collect them on coasters, she gave her coaster to me!!!  Super excited!

We were able to get a table space and after the other people there left, we could even clear the table to take photos while the shop staff was sanitizing!

I didn't buy any collaboration goods this time, but we might go again and I'm eyeing the card stand as my current stand is a gacha Gengar which is a little too small and light so it easily falls over.  I use the stands to hold my receipts, so it's useful!!  Not just spending money!!!

Goods available for purchase

The "cafe" is actually just set up in a hotel lobby, so there is only standing space.  That does make it easy to ensure nobody lingers too long, I suppose?

I love the art style of this wall

I was able to wear an easy Lolita coordinate~  It is a secondhand JSK and KC set I got from Near in Osaka I believe.

KC, JSK, socks: BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT

Blouse: Little Dipper (taobao)

Bag: Swimmer Japan

Ribbon ring: BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT

Cake ring, unicorn ring: Don't really remember haha

I need to make another backdrop for my sweeter and pastel outfit photos.

After visiting the cafe, we went to the animate shop proper (their main business; the cafe is really more of an attraction) where I found several of the A and C prizes from a previous Cardcaptor lottery drawing!  A prize is the Clow Staff, and C prize is the Dream Staff.  I couldn't buy both so I went with the Dream Staff since I already have the Clow staff as a lip balm (seen in photos above.)

The pen can also be worn as a bag charm

Although I am saving money to try and purchase property soon, NT$400 seemed too good a deal to pass up!  Drawings usually cost NT$320-360 and the prizes are random.  I also bought a couple of Style by ROCK! x Monster Hunter keychains (only NT$50 each) for my ita bag.  So the pen and stand is an unexpected expense, but I love it!!!

Now I just need to make a new Clear Card cosplay outfit for Taiwan Teddy.  I want ot make her a new wig in a lighter color, since the current wig seems to be too close to her fur color.  Then she can use this pen as a cosplay prop!  I think it is really quite well made so I am happy!

Who is your favorite magical girl/magical transformation series?  I know Sailor Moon and Magic Knights Rayearth are also very popular, and more recent ones like DoReMi.  I loved Cardcaptor Sakura because her costumes are all actual clothes, not magically conjured ones, and designed for her by Tomoyo!

Tokyo Mew Mew is another one I really like, though it's much more shallow in terms of story line.