Take A Look At The New 'Hunter x Hunter' Cafe

Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter may currently be in the middle of another hiatus, which rubbed fans the wrong way given how much has built up during the Succession Contest, but the series is still being celebrating in a big way.

Hunter x Hunter turned 20 this year (much like another big series getting a cafe collaboration soon), and the series is making its mark with a Phantom Troupe themed cafe. Fans in Japan have been sharing photos of the cafe, and you can check them out below:

Hunter x Hunter Animate Cafe in Japan

Hunter x Hunter launched an official collaboration with ANimate cafe in Japan starting from today until May 13. You can check out more information on the official website (which you can check out here), and fans who vist the shop can purchase small charms featuring the series' characters like Gon, Killua, Kurapika, Leorio, and even the deadly members of the Phantom Troupe in adorable service maid uniforms.

The cafe itself is decorated with the Troupe in various suits (much like they wore in Yorknew City), and the cafe even has a specialized menu featuring character twists on favorites drink orders and desserts. It's something fans definitely wish hit the United States as well.

If you want to celebrate your love of Hunter x Hunter in a different way, Premium Bandai is also currently selling a replica set of its Greed Island card game. It runs 8,800 yen (about $78 USD) and Premium Bandai will be taking orders with shipment beginning in April. If this seems like it would be too cumbersome but you still want to show off your love of Hunter x Hunter, you can do so with Premium Bandai's other replica offering, the Beatle 07.

For those unfamiliar with Hunter x Hunter, the series was originally created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The story follows a young boy named Gon Freecss, who discovers that his previously thought to be dead father is in fact alive. Not only is he alive, he is a famous Hunter, a professional traveler who specializes in finding rare treasures, exploring unidentified lands, and hunting down dangerous individuals. Gon then decides that in order to meet his father he has to become a licensed Hunter, but in that journey gets wrapped up in way more strangeness than he ever could have anticipated.

The series first ran in Shuiesha's Weekly Shonen Jump in March 1998. Unfortunately, the series has gone on a number of hiatuses ever since 2006 which were most likely incurred by bouts of illness Togashi experienced when publishing his last work, Yu Yu Hakusho. The series has run for 360 chapters, and been collected into 47 volumes as of 2017. It's one of Shueisha's most successful selling series with over 66 million copies sold in Japan.