Madoka Magica Café
The Madoka Magica Café was an event that took place in Good Smile Café, a café specializing in otaku culture. Located in Matsudo-chi, Chiba prefecture, it was entirely devoted to the Madoka universe: signs and interior decorations, but also special food served for the occasion, official merchandise for display with some items available for purchase.
The event took place from May 3rd until July 18th, 2011. Because of its popularity, with waits commonly exceeding 2-3 hours according to cafe twitters [1], the event was extended to August 14, 2011. The Madoka Magica cafe event ended on August 14, 2011. The cafe is now continuing with normal operations.
Special Menu
In addition to their regular menu of traditional dishes and drinks, the café offers a "special menu" of Madoka-themed dishes for the event. Note that at times items were sold-out or otherwise not available.
Soul Gem Drinks
Dishes and desserts
Runes
Image | Transcription | Explanation/Translation | Item |
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[Archaic] CAFE DU MADOKA MAGICA Cafe du Madoka Magica |
This is supposed to mean "Madoka Magica Café" in French, but there is a grammatical error.
The "du" article can be used only as a possessive for a male possessor, i.e. the grammar used implies male grammatical gender for "Madoka Magica". |
The back of the Shop Card, with information about the surrounding area. | |
[Archaic] PUELLA MAGI Puella Magi |
The text below the runes reads 「魔法少女」 (Mahō Shōjo), meaning "Magical Girl". | The ladies' bathroom sign | |
[Modern] incubator Incubator |
The text below the runes reads 「インキュベーター」 (inkyubētā), which is "incubator" spelled in Japanese katakana. | The gentlemen bathroom | |
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Images
Advertisement and Promotional Products
The Café
Not even Charlotte can defeat Gen Urobuchi.
Drinks and Food
Merchandise for Display and Items for Sale
Oversea Good Smile Cafes
Start of a New Madoka-Themed Cafe
According to sources, a collaboration between figure company Good Smile and a karaoke chain Tetsujin Keikaku will be starting a figure cafe in Akihabara and the first project is Madoka Cafe. It started from Oct 28 and ran for 3 months.
They now have an oversea cafe in Taipei, opening at Dec 18, 2011. The theme of the first season is Magical girls.
There may be future ones open in more countries, possibly Thailand and Singapore in the future.
See also
- Official website (in Japanese).
- One brave pilgrim decided to visit the holy site and wrote down the experience to be recorded in sacred digital text.
- Another pilgrim visits the Holy Site.
- The Madoka Café on Twitter.