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1st Permanent Square Enix Café in U.S. to Open at Los Angeles – News
L.A. location to open in next few months along with new Tokyo location

Square Enix announced on Friday that it will open two Square Enix Café & Shop locations in Los Angeles and Tokyo. The English version of the announcement lists both locations as opening this spring, while the Japanese version lists the Tokyo location as opening in “early summer.”
J-Pop Culture Café Inc. will operate the Los Angeles café and shop at 316 East 1st Street in the “Little Tokyo” neighborhood. This will be the first time an official Square Enix Café location offers a “full, authentic menu” in the United States.
Newton Corporation will operate the new Tokyo café and shop on the first three floors in the Paselabo Tower in the Shinjuku district — the same location as a previous “Square Enix Pop-Up Cafe” that announced its closure at the end of March.
The two cafés will offer menu items inspired by different Square Enix properties, and the adjoining shops will carry official merchandise for the same.
Square Enix‘s Previous Cafés
The previous Square Enix Café Tokyo (pictured above) in Tokyo’s Akihabara district permanently closed in March 2025, after more than eight years in operation. Square Enix opened this first Square Enix Café in Tokyo inside the Yodobashi Camera store in Akihabara in October 2016. The café featured time-limited collaborative menus and drinks with different Square Enix properties, as well as a shop with merchandise.
Square Enix had previously noted that its separate Artnia café and shop in Shinjuku in Tokyo will continue operations. The Square Enix Garden merchandise shop that opened in 2024 in Shibuya in Tokyo is also continuing operations. The Pasela Resorts building in Akihabara in Tokyo hosts the Dragon Quest-themed Luida’s Bar and a Final Fantasy Eorzea Café, and the Pasela Resorts building in Osaka’s Namba district also hosts a Final Fantasy Eorzea Café.
A different Square Enix Café in Osaka opened in October 2017 in Osaka’s Umeda area, and relocated to a nearby location later on. This Osaka café closed down in August 2021. There are now Square Enix Pop-Up Café locations in Osaka and Nagoya.
Square Enix also has an official café in Shanghai.
Sources: Square Enix, Pasela
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Fatal Fury City of the Wolves Game’s New Animated Trailer by Masami Ōbari Highlights Kim Kaphwan – News
SNK began streaming on Thursday an animated trailer for its Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves fighting game featuring DLC character Kim Kaphwan, who joined the game’s roster on the same day. Masami Ōbari (Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, The King of Fighters XV, Battle Arena Toshinden), who directed previous animated trailers for the game, was again the director and creative producer. Studio G-1 Neo produced the animation.
The company also streamed Kim’s character guide and background music (BGM):
June Yoon voices the character in English and Kunihiro Kawamoto voices the character in Japanese.
Season 3 launched on July 23 with six characters joining the roster. Rick Strowd joined the game on July 23. Duck King launched on August 27. Manjiro Sano and Ken Ryuguji from the Tokyo Revengers anime will join the game as Season 3 DLC characters in October. The game will add Laocorn in November, as well as a mystery character in December. SNK teased new characters in an animated trailer in July.

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The game debuted in April 2025 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. The game will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 digitally on October 22 and physically in January 2027.
The game’s crossover with Street Fighter includes characters Ken and Chun-Li. Both characters are a part of the game’s Season Pass 1. The game launched Andy Bogard as a playable character in June 2025, added Ken as a playable character in August 2025, introduced Joe Higashi as a playable character in October 2025, debuted Chun-Li in November 2025, and launched MR. BIG in December 2025.
Kim Jae Hoon, the first DLC character for the game’s Season Pass 2, launched on January 22. Nightmare Geese launched on February 26, and Blue Mary debuted on March 26. Wolfgang Krauser debuted in the game on April 24, coinciding with the game’s first anniversary. DLC character Mr. Karate launched on May 27. Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star debuted in the game on June 28.
The game added real-life DJ Salvatore Ganacci, professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, and Hokutomaru. Other returning characters include Terry Bogard, Rock Howard, Tizoc, Hotaru Futaba, Marco Rodrigues, B. Jenet, Kevin Rian, Billy Kane, Mai Shiranui, Kim Dong Hwan, and Gato. The game also includes the new characters Preecha and Vox Reaper.
SNK announced the new game at the EVO fighting game tournament in 2022. It is the first new game in more than two decades since the last installment.
Fatal Fury (known as Garō Densetsu in Japan) is one of SNK‘s most iconic fighting game franchises, and is the origin of some of the company’s most recognizable characters, including Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, Mai Shiranui, Blue Mary, Geese Howard, and more. Fatal Fury: King of Fighters debuted in arcades in 1991, and the latest installment, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, debuted in 1999. SNK‘s separate fighting game franchise The King of Fighters initially began as a crossover fighter for SNK‘s Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting franchises, and their characters have been mainstays in the long-running series until today.
The series inspired the Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf OVA in 1992, Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle OVA in 1993, and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture in 1994. All three feature Masami Ōbari‘s character designs, with Ōbari also directing the third anime. Discotek Media has released all three anime.
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Disney+, Hulu Raise Monthly Pricing on Streaming Plans in U.S. Again – News
Standalone subscription prices rise to US$12.49 with ads, US$21.49 without ads following last year’s increase

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Disney+ raised its price for monthly subscriptions to its streaming platform on Wednesday. The price for the subscription tier with ads increased from US$11.99 to US$12.49, while the Disney+ Premium ad-free tier increased from US$18.99 to US$21.49. Hulu subscriptions with and without ads feature the same price increases. The price for the Disney+ and Hulu bundle with ads remains at US$12.99, while the Premium bundle for both services without ads rose from US$19.99 to US$21.99. The Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Select Bundle increased from US$19.99 to US$21.99, and the Premium bundle’s price rose from US$29.99 to US$32.99.
The updated prices apply to new subscriptions as of Wednesday. Current subscribers will get a price change on or after October 21.
The streamer previously raised its prices in October 2025, and before that raised its price in October 2024. Disney+ also raised its prices and revealed plans to restrict password sharing for accounts in October 2023.
Disney+ announced in August 2025 that it is “fully integrating” the Hulu streaming service, along with a new singular app with both Disney+ and Hulu services, which will launch in 2026. The subscription services will remain standalone, but both Disney+ and Hulu will be accessible from the unified app. Disney already offers bundles including both Disney+ and Hulu. In addition, a significant amount of content, including anime, from the Hulu library already streams on the Disney+ for subscribers of both.
Disney owns 100% of Hulu, after acquiring Comcast‘s 33% stake in Hulu for US$8.61 billion in 2023.
Before Disney acquired the entirety of Hulu, anime that streamed on Disney+ internationally would stream in the U.S. on Hulu instead. Currently, anime still stream on Hulu, but now also stream on Disney+ for subscribers of both services.
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Crunchyroll Screens Dive in Wonderland Film on November 16 in U.S. as Part of Anime Nights Program – News
English-subbed trailer streamed for anime inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Crunchyroll revealed last week that it will screen Dive in Wonderland (Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland-, or With Alice in Wonderland: Dive in Wonderland-), which the staff initially described as Japan’s first anime film adaptation of Lewis Carroll‘s classic children’s novel Alice in Wonderland, in select theaters for one day only on November 16 as part of its “Crunchyroll Anime Nights” program dedicated to screening anime across the U.S. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:

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The film’s story centers on Rise, a modern-day girl who somehow stumbles into Wonderland and meets Alice.
The film opened in August 2025.
The cast includes:
Toshiya Shinohara (Black Butler, A Lull in the Sea, The aquatope on white sand) directed the film at P.A. Works. Yūko Kakihara (Blue Box, Urusei Yatsura 2022, The aquatope on white sand) penned the script. Shochiku and TBS are listed as production coordinators.
Other staff members include:
SEKAI NO OWARI perform the film’s theme song “Zukan” (Guidebook).
Lewis Carroll‘s Alice in Wonderland book centers on a girl named Alice, who one day follows a talking white rabbit into a rabbit hole, and ends up in a strange Wonderland where she has surreal encounters with its mercurial rules and denizens. The book has become one of the most referenced works of literature in pop culture, with elements and motifs appearing in virtually every medium, including anime, manga, and video games.
The book previously inspired Nippon Animation and Apollo Film‘s 1983-1984 television anime adaptation.
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