BODY: Few romance manga have earned the quiet devotion that "Horimiya" commands, and this year the series hits a milestone worth celebrating: 15 years since it began life as HERO's web comic. To mark the occasion, a themed collaboration café styled as the "Katagiri High School Festival" is opening its doors—and it comes loaded with fresh merchandise for longtime fans.
The lineup centers on the kind of keepsakes that reward emotional investment. A postcard set stitched together from memorable moments across the series leads the charge, offering fans a curated scrapbook of the story's warmest beats. Acrylic stands—the perennial must-have of any Japanese anime café—round out the headline items, letting you park your favorite Katagiri High classmate on your desk.
The "school festival" framing is a clever touch. "Horimiya" has always drawn its charm from the ordinary texture of high school life, so recreating a bunkasai (cultural festival) atmosphere for the café taps directly into the series' DNA. Expect the space, menu, and goods to lean into that classroom-and-corridor nostalgia.
For the uninitiated, "Horimiya" follows Kyoko Hori and Izumi Miyamura, two classmates who each hide a very different self outside of school—and the gentle, unusually mature relationship that grows once they discover each other's secrets. Daisuke Hagiwara's manga adaptation of HERO's original ran in Monthly GFantasy and spawned a hit 2021 anime.
The insider take
Character-café culture in Tokyo runs on scarcity and sentiment, and "Horimiya" is precisely the kind of title that thrives in it—a series whose fanbase skews toward the emotionally attached rather than the merely curious. Anniversary cafés like this typically require advance reservations and often carry a bonus-item incentive for booking, so overseas fans planning a visit should watch the official site closely once dates and venues (usually Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya) are confirmed. Postcard sets in particular tend to sell out fastest.
Originally reported by コミックナタリー - 最新ニュース (Japanese).