#au lait

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Au Lait commissioned by Lyu_Quo! Thank you for the support!

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FLIGHT RISING DESIGNS [ 1 / ? ] — Biological Weapon Mew Mew

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Tokyo Mew Mew Au Lait:

Aoi Shibuya / Anzu Hinata / Shizuka Yoyogi / Ryuusei Kanda / Ayato Roppongi / Taichi Hiroo

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Tokyo Mew Mew Exhibit and Cafe

In order to celebrate both the upcoming Tokyo Mew Mew remake anime, and the success of Tokyo Mew Mew Au Lait, an exhibit and cafe are being held in two locations in Tokyo and Osaka.

- 東京都豊島区西池袋3-29-9 B1F (06/08/2020 ~ 23/08/2020) - 大阪市中央区谷町6丁目13-10 (18/09/2020 ~ 27/09/2020)

This cafe is free entry, you're able to walk in at any point during open hours and take a look at the artwork, purchase goods, or even enjoy some snacks. In terms of the menu, as this is half an exhibit displaying manga art from Tokyo Mew Mew and Au Lait, the menu isn't 100% the focus of this event. As such, its quite small and limited to just sweets and drinks.

1. Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew! 2. Cream Ribbon Pasta 3. Parfait-buono

4. Ichigo 5. Minto 6. Pudding 7. Retasu 8. Zakuro

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I visited this cafe on the 19th of September 2020, the cafe itself is quite out of the way and a little difficult to find, being in a residential neighborhood. Inside the cafe, the place was decorated nicely with panels from both the Tokyo Mew Mew manga (original and 2020 one shot), and the new Au Lait manga. It was a lot of fun comparing Mia Ikumi's older artwork to the new one shot. 

On top of that, they offered draft pages to compare with completed ones. It was quite amusing to compare Mia Ikumi's nice easy to read drafts with Madoka Seizuki's crazy barely detailed drafts. I was amazed!

For this cafe, I ordered two foods and two drinks as usual. Everything came out at the same time, and was served by a lovely lady cosplaying Ichigo in her cafe outfit ^^ And as usual, for each item from the menu you order, you receive a coaster. I was super lucky and didn't get a double! If only I could have fit in one more menu item, I might have gotten a full set! There were two options to choose from, Tokyo Mew Mew or Au Lait. (You could also ask for a mix of the two)

I had ordered the adorable roll cake dish 'Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew!'. It was super cute and also very tasty! Though I must admit... It's a lot smaller than it looked in the photo... pffff.

I also ordered the 'Parfait-buono', unfortunately I forgot to read the ingredients and it had a lot of coffee jelly in it. So in the end, it wasn't that enjoyable for me :(

For the drinks, I ordered Ichigo and Zakuro's drinks. Ichigo's strawberry au lait drink was great! Strawberry au lait is a favourite drink of mine, so I was very happy with it. Unfortunately Zakuro's pomegranate juice wasn't so great. I'd never tried pomegranate until then, and I was disappointed to find it was unpleasantly bitter. On the bright side, the bitterness from the drink worked well with the sweetness of the dishes.

All in all, this event was alright. Wasn't the best I'd visited, but wasn't the worst either. I was the only customer at the time, which led to a bit of an awkward atmosphere unfortunately, however the staff were very kind! The food was 50/50, but I believe that's simply due to it not being the focus of the event (more focused on seeing the beautiful artworks on the walls). I really enjoyed seeing the art, especially the drafts, and they offered some very cute merchandise as well!

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Been easing the wait between chapters by trying out some color on some of my favorite pages and here is one of those.

Credit @hikayagami who has provided these scans and @berrychanx who has them shared on her blog. Edit: cursed color difference on my laptop has best cat looking pink, learned my lesson about double checking across screens!!

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Kuromitsu is really something that matches nicely with bubble tea and milk...