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TERRACE & DINING ZERO at Cross Hotel Osaka is offering an autumn lunch buffet with unlimited dining time from September 5 through November 29, 2026, featuring seasonal mains, pastas, and desserts made with mushrooms, sweet potato, and Pacific saury.
dancyu Shokudo, inside GranSta Yaekita at JR Tokyo Station, is once again offering its Summer Kurose Buri Katsu Set Meal for a limited time, made with Nissui's ikijime Kurose buri, from July 28 to August 10, 2026.
The popular asymmetric action game DATSUGOKUGOKKO launches a special collaboration event with Rascal, offering limited-edition skins through the Rascal Collaboration Gacha running until August 31, 2026.
Kikkoman Foods Corporation adds a limited-edition Wakayama mikan and Ehime ponkan blend to its Delmonte Puree Fruits pouch series, going on sale nationwide on August 24, 2026 through the end of March 2027, as cumulative shipments of the series top 5.5 million pouches.
Furuta Seika is collaborating with DyDo Drinco to release DyDo Blend M Coffee Cookie, a new cookie inspired by DyDo's long-selling DyDo Blend M Coffee, blending milk's gentle sweetness with coffee's light bitterness.
SANKYO's e-Fever Blue Lock app comes to 777TOWN.net, the PC-based pachinko and pachislot online game operated by Sammy Networks, from July 27, 2026, alongside a paid membership campaign offering in-game items through August 16.
Chugai Mining Co., Ltd. Content Department will hold the TV Anime "The Elusive Samurai" Marui POP UP SHOP at Yurakucho Marui and Namba Marui starting August 15, 2026, featuring new merchandise such as acrylic stands and mini hanging scrolls with newly drawn illustrations of Tokiyuki Hojo dressed for each of the four seasons.
Fujiya's long-running Look, Country Ma'am and Home Pie lines welcome a new lineup of limited-edition autumn treats made with Ibaraki's "Beni Tenshi" sweet potato and Japanese chestnut, arriving in stores nationwide on August 4, 2026.
A new line of GIRLS BAND CRY x CRAFTHOLIC merchandise went on sale July 24, 2026 through eeo Store online, featuring a new Toei Animation illustration of the Togenashi Togeari members in roomwear hugging CRAFTHOLIC hug pillows, plus can badges, acrylic goods, a tote bag, and the hug pillow itself.
Nijigen COSPA is releasing a full-color T-shirt depicting a scene from the Girls Band Cry ending, with advance sales at Comiket 108 on August 15-16, 2026, ahead of general release in early November 2026.
Kamaboko no Kanezaki, the long-established Sendai maker of sasa kamaboko, is holding a collaboration with the anime Haikyu!! from August 1 to August 31, 2026, featuring newly drawn artwork of Hinata Shoyo and Kageyama Tobio visiting Kanezaki Sohonten Sasakama-kan, limited-edition kamaboko sets with bonus novelties, and original goods such as acrylic figure stands and a B2 half tapestry, available at Kanezaki stores in Sendai, Fukushima, Yamagata, and Morioka as well as online.
Hakutsuru Sake Brewing is rolling out a new tokubetsu junmai release, renewed dry sake packs, limited-time seasonal sake, and an updated non-alcoholic sparkling drink nationwide starting in September 2026.