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Author: Sarah O'Donnell

Unboxing My Habanero Boyfriend [Guest Post]

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I chose to grow Habanero, the tsundere guy with a bad mouth.

Let me start this post off by saying: sometimes when you’re pals with Anne, she will ask you to be a surrogate plant parent to a vegetable ikemen boyfriend. She will ask you what your vegetable boyfriend type will be. Don’t resist. Give her your address. Receive the above box in the mail. This is my duty as official Tokyo correspondent to Chic Pixel, and I will take up any and all responsibilities, be it sampling various themed cafés or tenderly growing an anime boyfriend.

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Final Fantasy XIV Eorzea Café in Akihabara [Guest Post]

5 / 5 / 1510 / 4 / 16

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Hello again. Sarah here! At long last, it’s time for my write up on the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Eorzea Café in Akihabara! Sorry to keep ya’ll waiting. I’m going to do my best to write up a detailed explanation of how to get the most out of the experience.

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The café itself is inside a larger building, so you’ll have to keep an eye out for this display (it ran alongside the Otomate café).

Unlike the Pokémon Café Roy and I went to, you could reserve tickets for the Eorzea Café online. Tickets only open for one month in advance, so you’ll want to keep an eye out on the site if there is a certain window of time you’re aiming for. [Anne’s note: If you don’t know Japanese, Voyagin offers a service to buy tickets on your behalf! It’s super easy!]

For the sake of brevity, I’m going to assume you know how to get the tickets and am going to skip to the part where you arrive at the café. (If you want step-by-step instructions on how to order the tickets and redeem them at Lawson’s, let me know! If there is enough demand I will do a write up with step-by-step instructions, including screencaps.)

You’ll want to arrive at the café around 15 minutes before your reservation, and you’ll notice that you’ll be with a group of other people that will be dining at the same time. When you give your tickets to the person at the counter (there’s only one counter that’s situated between both the Eorzea and Otomate cafés), they’ll hand you a menu and an order sheet for food and drinks. This is so that you can decide what to order while you wait to be seated.

They will also ask if you have a point card, which we didn’t. Since the reservation is under one name, the points would only apply for that one person even though two people are dining (this is important to note only for diners who have their own point cards and want to save them separately).

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Some impressive looking replicas of weapons from the game (bonus moogles!)

Once you are seated, the host will explain how the ordering system works. Basically you have a span of 2 hours (!) to leisurely eat, drink, and play the game itself. I highly recommend spacing out your orders as best you can, otherwise you may find yourself actually bored at times. So get drinks first, then a food item, maybe another round, some more food…That’s what we ended up doing. If you are seated at a two-person table there won’t be room for much food anyway.

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I jokingly referred to myself as a failed academic to @BRKeogh, but now I'm liking the sound of "academia escapee" 😝
Well this escapee's fulfilled a major life goal by working on otome game localizations! Norn9: Var Commons with updated English text by me is out next Thursday!

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So, there was a new otome announcement! ✨ Hana Awase New Moon is coming to the Nintendo Switch! So I created a new page with some details over on Blerdy Otome! #otometwt

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Chocobo and the Airship is out! And I had the absolute pleasure of translating the English edition of this gorgeous and fun Final Fantasy picture book! It's some of the work I'm most proud of recently, so I hope folks enjoy it! And thanks to my amazing editor Leyla, too!

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Capcom dogs x cute shiba illustrations?! Sign me up! https://chic-pixel.com/2023/03/japan-envy-shibanban-x-capcom/

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Wanted to try making some more mini videos since that's all the rage these days 😝 first up, visiting Eco Town and checking out all the fun second hand toys and merch!

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Come explore the Eco Town in Fountain Valley with Come explore the Eco Town in Fountain Valley with me and @marquisdegame! There were so many neat finds, from Reboot figures (anyone remember that show??) to merch featuring my fav Touken Ranbu sword boy! 🗡️ 
It was a lot of fun getting out of my comfort zone to film this when I was out the other day. I'd love to share more locations near my new home in California - let me know if you'd like to see more reels like this! 
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Opening the June @stickiiclub vintage pack! The th Opening the June @stickiiclub vintage pack! The theme is “welcome to the meow-seum” 🐱🖼 How fun! I love how Stickii Club collaborates with different indie artists every month 💕 Soon they’ll be adding washi tape and switching to a more environmental friendly storage option. Definitely recommend! 
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A super cute new desk mat from a friend was the mo A super cute new desk mat from a friend was the motivation I needed to revamp my work space! 💻 I don’t think I’ll ever fully settle in to our current rental (it’s too tiny with both my husband and me working from home now), but at least this corner is cute! 💕💕 
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