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THE Chara online store has started accepting post-event mail orders for merchandise from the "Tears on a Withered Flower" POP UP SHOP, previously held at Animate Ikebukuro Main Store and Animate Umeda Store.
A pickup gacha for the new character Ice Heaven's Prison Catastrophia has begun in the cross-heroine RPG Techcronoss, running from July 21 to August 3, 2026, alongside the new Doppel Fantasy content running through August 2.
New That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime merchandise — including T-shirts, character rubber mats, tea cups, and clear files — is now open for pre-order on the CharaON! online shop.
Az Maker has begun accepting orders through its online shop, CharaON!, for new merchandise themed around TV anime The Dangers in My Heart, including character rubber mats, B2 tapestries, acrylic character stands, and clear files.
From July through September 2026, TOKYO Solamachi is hosting a lineup of summer vacation workshops for all ages, including wind chime painting, hermit crab and axolotl scooping, food sample making, resin keychain crafting, and candy sculpting, plus an original T-shirt and tote bag workshop at Tokyo Skytree's SKYTREE SHOP.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, TOKYO Whisky Library in Omotesando is releasing its second collaboration bottle with Nagahama Distillery, a 6-year single cask heavily peated whisky finished in PX sherry quarter casks, available in-store now with general sales starting July 28, 2026.
TOWERLAND –ROOFTOP BAR & BBQ–, located directly beneath NIDEC Kyoto Tower, will host its first bubble performance event, TOWERLAND BUBBLE STATION, on August 8, 2026, featuring performer Shabota Awao as part of its ongoing 30-day summer event series.
New original TRIGUN STARGAZE merchandise inspired by three themes — Western, Birthday, and Angel and Devil — is now available through Marukuji, the online lottery service, running through August 23, 2026.
Seven-Eleven Japan is releasing "Uchoten Aliens Dance, Earthlings! Gummy (Tropical Fruit Flavor)" nationwide from July 28, a non-alcoholic gummy inspired by Yoho Brewing's hazy IPA craft beer Uchoten Aliens.
On August 16, Yokohama FC will hold a Pokémon-themed J.League Special Fes for its match against Júbilo Iwata, giving eco-friendly EVO Bags to the first 50,000 attendees and rolling out new Pikachu and Clefable collaboration merchandise.
YOKOHAMA URBAN SPORTS FESTIVAL ’26 returns to the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse on October 17 and 18, 2026, with skateboarding, breaking, BMX flatland, and more, alongside the co-located ALL AMERICAN FOOD FESTIVAL ’26.
A collaboration cafe for the TV anime "You and I Are Polar Opposites" will run at motto cafe Ikebukuro from August 4 to September 13 and at motto cafe Osaka from November 6 to November 23, 2026, with the food menu and collaboration merchandise to be announced later.