BODY: If you ever wanted to eat at the Katagiri High School festival, you'll soon get the chance. "Horimiya CAFE: Katagiri High School Festival" celebrates 15 years of Horimiya, and it has announced the menu for the first half of its Tokyo run.
The café marks the anniversary of Daisuke Hagiwara's manga, which is based on the original webcomic by HERO. The theme is the school festival at Katagiri High, where Kyoko Hori, Izumi Miyamura and their friends go to school. The dishes and drinks are designed as if the students had made them for their class booth.
One drink is based on Hori herself. The announcement calls her a "粉砕系彼女," which roughly means a girlfriend who can crush things. The phrase is a joke about the side of Hori that only Miyamura sees: under her polished image, she's blunt and a little scary. The menu also has a hamburg steak described as "full of love." That's a nod to Hori's life at home, where she cooks and takes care of her little brother Sota while her parents work.
This menu covers only the first half of the Tokyo run, so a second lineup should follow. Fans planning a visit should check the official café site for dates, bookings and bonus items. Collab cafés in Japan usually give out random bonus items with each order, and reservation slots for popular series can fill up fast.
The insider take
In Tokyo, collab cafés are one of the main ways an anniversary gets celebrated. Fans in Japan book time slots, order extra food to collect the random coasters, and trade duplicates outside. Horimiya still draws a crowd because of the CloverWorks anime from 2021 and Horimiya: The Missing Pieces from 2023. A school-festival theme fits the series well, since so many of its best moments happen at school rather than on grand romantic dates. Splitting the menu into two halves is a common trick to get fans to come back a second time. Most will go early for the Hori drink and plan a return visit for whatever comes next.
Originally reported by コミックナタリー - 最新ニュース (Japanese).
The Natalie page blocked my request with a 403 error, so I wrote this from the Japanese title and summary only. It leaves out venue, dates, prices and bonus items. The series background and the reading of "粉砕系彼女" come from general knowledge of the series, not the source.