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Anime Sakamoto Days has only been on Netflix for a few days as of this writing, but already, a burgeoning fanbase is taking shape. The anime was the #2 non-English show on the streamer for January 7-14 (right behind perennial record-setter Squid Game), but perhaps even more importantly, it's already inspiring a pop-up cafe with a themed menu. Unfortunately for fans in the US, however, it's a cafe that'll cost quite a bit to check out.

Let us explain.

The news comes to us via Japanese outlet Natalie, who reports that a cafe called Sakamoto Days Cafe American Diner will open in two locations... in Japan exclusively. Those two places are the sites of BOX Cafe & Space locations, in the Omotesando Hills store in Tokyo and the Tennoji MIO store in Osaka. If you're reading this in the US, that's not exactly a quick trip you can make for lunch.

Which is a real bummer, because fans of the show will be absolutely thrilled at the speciality menu items. As the name implies, the pop-up is themed like an American diner (similar to the one in the show), but the Box Cafe & Space teams have whipped some items not just based on diner food, but on the characters that populate the series. In no particular order, here they are:

• Nagumo’s Disguise Pizza - A pasta dish that's plated to look exactly like a personal pizza, a reference to the cloak-and-dagger nature of the series
• Overweight Rice - A loving (if rude?) tribute to titular character and former hitman Sakamoto, featuring his bespectacled face made out of rice
• Kamihate & Oboro’s Cutlet Burger - A fried cutlet between burger buns and topped with some Japanese fare
• Sakamoto Shoten's Guilty Man loaded fries - A side dish that comes topped with a small Sakamoto cutout
• Shin's Esper Waffle - A dessert named after a particularly sweet-toothed main character 
• Hana and Aoi's Love Banana Split - The perfect desert to split, mirroring the series' main mother/daughter relationship
• Sakamoto Shake - We'll give you one guess as to what this is

Along with all these items, fans can purchase a Sakamoto face glass, to have their favorite beverage served to them in the form of their favorite killer-turned-restaurateur. 

Yes, I can feel your jealousy rising as you read this, knowing it would be a very expensive plane ticket just to sample one of these menu items. And with the pop-ups only lasting from Feburary 6 to March 9, chances are even lower of US-based fans making it to one.

But hey, who knows? Maybe if Netflix continues to see success from Sakamoto Days here in the US, it'll consider opening its own version of Sakamoto Days Cafe American Diner a little bit closer to home. Keep streaming season 1 and we'll find out how possible that'd be.

Sakamoto Days is streaming now on Netflix. 

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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