It’s that time of year again where we get a Hololive x Aniplus cafe collaboration in Singapore!
This time it’s with the GAMERS and Hololive Japan Generation 3.
As usual, do book online at the Aniplus Cafe website for seat reservation. You can do walk ins but there are peak hours/days where it is simply not possible to do.
This collaboration begins on 4 October 2024 to 12 December 2024. Which is in the timeline if you’re coming to Singapore for Anime Festival Asia in November too.
You can’t pick your coasters as it’s ‘gacha’ based and the 2024’s quality of coasters has improved from the 2023 version!
No tablemat for 2024 but instead we got photo covers instead! Unfortunately I didn’t get Marine in the Aniplus collab goodies but I got her when I bought a polaroid gacha card in the merch area anyway. These photo card holders are way nicer than the table mats of 2023 and easier to keep!
Cheers to you guys anyway!
We chose Korone’s Choconana and Mio’s cola drink since it looks good.
I had Marine’s fish and chips with calamari rings.
Mio’s rice is limited per day apparently. It’s stated in the fine print there.
And there’s Pekora’s curry rice. It’s pretty cute.
This time we didn’t try the desserts so we can’t review it. I can definitely say the food has improved from last year.
I realized what would make things better is if Aniplus Cafe had a condiments station. Perhaps some chilli sauce, salt, pepper shakers and such might help too.
Oh the staff ARE friendly and polite and the chef did ask us on the food too.
It’s fortunate that we had some official Hololive events in Singapore and I managed to attend them!
Anime Festival Asia 2022 in Singapore had a hololive meet and the event was from 25-27 November 2022. There was a special holomeet postcard for Singapore but of course it’s super limited and all the fans got it so I didn’t get one.
I did get to stand next to the standees and take a picture with them!
That and I was there for AFA Night Live! With the hololive Meet concert. Buying a VIP ticket for that was so worth it.
No photos or videos of the actual concert but you can have a picture of Ash the translator/emcee of the evening.
We played games with the HoloID girls like Moona and Anya. It’s really nice to know hololive friends from all around the world especially South East Asia came to Singapore to attend this convention. Everyone was trying to help each other because we wanted to listen to Moona being a tsundere during the batsu.
Then after, Calli and Gura sang some songs. Look, I know this was mostly a Hololive MEET and a Watame Live concert but I didn’t expect they’d go all the way for us. They sang songs in turn. As usual the HoloEN curse happened because of the audio though it’s expected especially if you’re a Deadbeat (like me) and know it is a thing.
With that they also talked with Watame too. We did have a little talk with Watame but basically with Moona, Anya, Calli and Gura they entertained us all in between while Watame was getting ready with the concert (Watame Night Fever).
This is her first live concert out of Japan and wow.
And yes, Watame was there in real life in Singapore. We know from her actual pictures on twitter. But wow, if the technology was like this to bring Watame to a concert in Singapore and that’s impressive, imagine how it would be in Japan when you have an actual set up stage with everything in it.
I will never forget how she sang Blue Clapper and everyone in the audience knew what to do. It was one of the most tiring concerts I’ve ever went to since we all did the light stick movements for so many songs.
BUT IF IT WAS TIRING FOR US, imagine how it was for Watame because she was singing it all by herself non-stop!! We needed to cheer for her and to support her with our energy too.
If there’s another Hololive Meet/ concert in Singapore, just spring for the VIP tickets really. It’s so good that you get to sit in front and all. Plus we got an autographed poster too.
Hololive x Aniplus Cafe 2023
Next up was the Hololive x Aniplus cafe that I went on 25 Feb 2023.
We had booked our timeslot over their website. When the announcement was out about this collaboration, within a few minutes it was in the hundred plus range of people in the ‘waiting’ room of the booking system.
Anyway this was the menu list which we could order while waiting outside before the previous slot people would leave.
Just slide to the next picture to see the official menu items there. It is what it is.
These were the free items we could get at random when you bought food and drinks from the menu too.
Unfortunately we got some duplicates so we didn’t have the “full set” though we got both placemats!
I had Risu’s Nutty Milk Tea and my friends had Kronii’s Blue Lagoon Ade and Baelz’s Cream Cherry Ade.
My friend had the IRyS potatoes & meatballs. So it was a BaeryS pairing. We got the table with a little maid Hakotaro standee too!
I had Fauna’s pesto pasta. It was a lot… (It could do with a little more salt but I know the standards of Aniplus’ food anyway.)
For dessert, I had Mumei’s Salted Caramel Cake. This was pretty nice.
Basically, if you ever went to an Aniplus collab with anything, just don’t expect super wow food. Their drinks and desserts are good but their mains have always been average. It’s not the most spectacular of mains but it’s not bad either.
Besides food, you could get the collab goods. I just got a keychain and file for myself. With that, I got a free sticker. Those who spent above a certain number got some other special free ticket thing but I don’t know what it looks like since I didn’t buy that much.
Isn’t Kronii just perfect?
And there were standees you could take pictures with at the front of the cafe.
