collab cafe – rentaBLog

Nestled in a narrow, trendy side street in Tokyo’s youth fashion district of Harajuku is a bright pink building named emo café, a tiny collab café that partners with mangaka and publishers to turn manga into a culinary experience. emo café is relatively new, having started up in the last few years, and follows in the footsteps of other BL cafés like Toriko Mangaten and ComiComi Studio Machida (r.i.p.).

I first noticed emo café when they did the second B+Library collab, featuring two absolutely wonderful manga that are on our site—Jimi Fumikawa’s I Seriously Can’t Believe you… (one of my all-time favorites!) and Jyanome’s Twilight Out of Focus—as well as Ichikawa Kei’s incredibly famous Blue Sky Complex (licensed by Futekiya).

There’s also been a café for Kurahashi Tomo’s Someday I’ll Fall For You, and a café for Tsubame Koshiora’s There’s Fanfiction About Us?, as well as a handful of other series. Emo Cafe’s had a lot of great stuff on offer.

When I saw they would be doing a third B+Library, this time for Harada’s Happy Shitty Life, Akira Minazuki’s Smoky Nectar, and Mitsuaki Asou’s The Farthest Love in the World I knew we had to go—especially considering Happy Shitty Life is one of our localizations, and Smoky Nectar is coming soon. Unfortunately, because of the massive popularity of all three artists (each one of them being a veteran in the BL genre) I once again couldn’t get in.

…That is, until they extended the end date by a week. Sometimes it pays to sit on Twitter constantly. -w-)b

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