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Square Enix's Artnia Cafe and several Pokémon Stores will be temporarily closing ahead of the approach of Typhoon No. 7. The typhoon is expected to impact the Kanto area over the weekend, leading to potential transportation disruptions. As a precaution, Square Enix has announced the cancellation and refund of reservations made for Saturday, August 17, 2024, at the Artnia Cafe. Customers affected by the closures can the Artnia Center to request a refund.

You can view the official announcement post concerning the affected Pokémon Stores below:

In addition to Square Enix's Artnia Cafe, Pokémon Store locations at Tokyo Station and Outlet Kisarazu will also be temporarily closed ahead of the typhoon on Friday, August 16, 2024, with plans to reopen on Saturday, August 17, 2024. However, the reopening schedule may change depending on the path and speed of the typhoon.

Other significant events in Japan have also been affected by Typhoon No. 7. Atlus announced the cancellation of one day of the demo trial event for Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio due to the typhoon. The event scheduled for August 16, 2024, has been canceled, while the August 17 schedule will proceed as planned. The Atlus Stalker Club broadcast, originally intended for a live audience, will now be held online for safety reasons.

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Fans are able to pose with a real-life Buster Sword while dining and shopping at the ongoing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth-themed cafe collaboration at the Square Enix Cafe in Akihabara and ARTNIA in Shinjuku. The cafe collaboration will run through to May 10, 2024.

The Buster Sword is modeled after Cloud Strife's and Zack Fair's sword from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and although fans cannot pick the sword up and pose with it, they are able to take photos of it while it is resting in its stand. Square Enix highly recommends that fans also bring their plush toys and figures to have them posed next to the sword. Photos of the Buster Sword can be seen below:

The ongoing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth cafe collaboration features unique menu items, coasters, and store items for fans to get their hands on. Fans who order food items will receive one random placemat per item and fans who get a drink will get one random coaster per item. There are different placemats and coasters available throughout the collaboration, so fans are encouraged to come back multiple times to try and collect as many as they can.

The food items at the cafe collaboration are based on various characters and locations from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which include a Cloud black omurice, a Moogle meat bun, a Zack seafood pizza, Cactuar churros, a Kalm sandwich, Mog cheesecake manju, a Deluxe Burger, a Costa del Sol rice dish, and a Gongaga mushroom pasta. The drinks are based on Cloud, Sephiroth, Aerith, Kalm, the Tiny Bronco, Junon, Tifa, Bugenhagen's planetarium, the Gold Saucer, and the Temple of the Ancients. Photos of the food and drink items are available below:

FFVII Rebirth is available on the PS5. The exclusivity arrangement ends on May 29, 2024.

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Square Enix's store is no more, but that's no reason to fret! The spirit lives on at their new cafe, Artnia. When Yusouf  came to Japan, he and I visited this cafe and had a some coffee and pancakes. Artnia is right near Square's offices, housed in the strange egg-like structure above.

The cafe part of Artnia sticks to a very strict red and white color scheme, which nicely complements the constant smooth jazz (surprisingly non-game-related) soundtrack.

They had a special pancake available on the day we went.

Yu ordered it, and the Cactuar kind of matched the color scheme.

...and a “potion” to drink as well, which was actually a glass of ginger ale.

Meanwhile, I went for a coffee, and got a cute chocobo in my foam.

...and a Moogle to match my strawberry pancakes.

Above is a look at the menu you’ll find in the café section of Artnia.

However, I mentioned that the spirit of their old store lives on at Artnia, and the non-café part of the store is devoted to Square Enix goods.

They even have a shelf devoted to soundtracks and games.

The three iPads at the bottom will allow you to listen to any soundtrack they sell, which doesn't make not buying them any easier...

Finally, there's the showroom, where they show off the expensive stuff. At the center of the room is, of course, a crystal. The water around it seems to be moving upwards. (The music in this room is different too, but, bafflingly, it was Christmas music).

The things in the showroom vary from Play Arts toys for both Square Enix and non-Square Enix franchises...

...to jewelry and keyrings.

And of course, Final Fantasy VII cologne based on Cloud and Sephiroth.

Images taken by Yusouf Azahan.

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