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Trigun Maximum Chugai Grace Cafe Collaboration - I Translated the Website :3

Hi I saw someone on twt wanting this to be translated and that's literally all it takes to get me moving anymore so!

Anyways I translated all the food and drinks, I found the references they chose really cute except for the evil one lmao and I also included the unbelievably small print drink ingredients if you wanna try mixing them yourself!! 🫶

Also also, if you know how to use a proxy, there is actually some stuff here that overseas fans can get our hands on!! Under the cut to keep the dash clean!! Hope it helps!!!!!

Edit my dumbass forgot the original announcement link sjshsk IT’S HERE!!!

So, the menu

Going from left to right we've got

"Battle Sausage Spaghetti"

"As Many Salmon Sandwiches You Want"

"Love&Peace Donuts"

"Banana Sundae"

and on the bottom row

"The Perfect Meal Plate: Vash's Handmade Fried Rice and Salad" ((´༎ຶོω༎ຶོ`) o k )

"Particularly Wonderful Udon"

"Mille-feuille with Ceylon Tea" (i believe the first part specifies gateau mille-feuille but I went to episode one and checked the subs for what they had her say officially and they left the gateau off so I did too)

"Latte with a random character art"

Character Drinks!!!

The Bride Soda, which comes with a double-sided postcard of the sworn friends (very common nickname for Vash and Wolfwood in JP fandom and ig official uses it too)

So the soda is their proprietary thing, it doesn't say what flavor it is or if it has one, but the shotglasses come with a little bit of smoked oak syrup and black ceylon tea and you're meant to fill the rest of the glass with soda and drink it that way. And then the rest of the text is just information and disclaimers for customers that plan on taking the bottle home (I guess it breaks really easily that’s So. lmao).

Vash's Drink <3

strawberry syrup

carbonated water and lemon juice

yellow candied cherries (drained cherries) and ice

Wolfwood's Drink

crushed coffee jelly and cafe ice (ice made and flavored with concentrated coffee and fruit juice)

brewed iced coffee and gum syrup

blue curaçao syrup and carbonated water

experimental ampules filled with blue soda

the cigarette is full of light brown sugar you're meant to mix in before drinking

Knives's Drink

apple juice and round sliced apples

mint and ice (it looks like mint leaves but full disclosure they have blurred that kanji to all hell I have no idea)

Legato's Drink

blue curaçao syrup

grapefruit juice

carbonated water and a mint cherry

a lemon and ice

Collab Merch

(Overseas pay attention here!!!!!! ChugaiOnline is opening these to online orders so we can get them with a proxy, I'll leave their link at the end of this section!!!!!!)

I've also listed all the prices in yen here so you can convert them to your currency, and all of these are the prices including the listed Japanese sales tax. If you want to see the price without it, it’s just the other number on the image!

So they've got

Two way acrylic figure stands (the main stand comes with a ball chain, you can reference these on Amiami for what this kind of product looks like I'm prettyyyyy sure like they're called different but it looks like they go together the same way). Anyways this is a set of 6 and 1650 yen each, it looks like you get to choose which one you want but they don't have a deal listed for getting all of them.

Next to it are the buttons (also called can badges idk which one is more common over here), set of 12 (6 are regular and 6 are glittery variety). They are 550 yen per button AT RANDOM, THEY WILL GIVE YOU A RANDOM ONE, or a box with one of each all 12 for 6600 yen.

Below that is the polaroid collection, it's also a 12 piece set and you can get A RANDOM ONE, THEY DO NOT LET YOU PICK for 330 yen each or a box with all of them for 3960 yen.

The same exact deal with the plastic (like a vinyl material) postcards underneath, they're double-sided and come one for 660 yen each at random or the whole set for 7920 yen.

The calendar is for 2025 and is 1980 yen probably obvious but y'know

I would be so shocked if a proxy actually let you ship the Kuroneko sama cookie discs lmao but hey wtf they're 1080 yen.

The Bride soda is listed here because this is the same merch that will be sold in the shop but they specify elsewhere that it's not available for online order even in Japan you have to go to the cafe ;-;

Also this is just personal experience but a lot of proxies will not let you get like blind or random stuff like the buttons they don't let you pick which one, some of them will only let you get it if you're getting the whole box.

Annnnnnd online order special gifts!!

For every 3000 yen spent in merch (including tax) you will get a random postcard from this set!! There are 15 to collect, they are NOT divided into halves of the event, you can get any of them at any time or all at once!! However, you can't combine orders made at different times/by different people to get more and if they run out that's it. Altho fwiw I have never seen an event run out of these lol

The online order period will be from Friday, May 24th at 11 am to Sunday, June 16th at 11:59 pm (both JST) and items will begin to arrive (within Japan, proxies will have to handle our own shipping ofc) from August 2024 on a first ordered first shipped basis.

CHUGAIONLINE STORE (JAPAN)

Ok, this last bit is relevant to the in-person cafe experience so it's just for if you're curious about other cool things going on or you have a hobby of watching JP mercari like a hawk and wanna know what to expect!

Guests who reserve places at the cafe online will get copies of some of Nightow sensei's most prized sketch pages, they'll get 3 random ones! Like with the special gift postcards, there are a limited amount and this event will end when they're all gone.

And these are the coasters, guests will get one with every item they order off the food or drink menu at random (while supplies last)! The variety you can get is split between the former and latter halves of the event so there's something new to come back for even if you've already been once! (The first 12 days is on top and the last 12 days is on bottom)

They're also doing a wallscroll campaign!

They'll have these decorating the venue, and when the event is over a raffle will be held where the winners get to pick out a scroll of their choice!

OK I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING RELEVANT HAPPY TRIGUN MANGA CAFE EVENT!!!!!

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He. Him. Look at this bug.

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

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babe, we’re getting out the fine china

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I wish I could read Japanese. I am amused that the apparent Vash-drink comes with a little feather.

Chugai Grace Cafe x Trigun Maximum Collab [x]

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hmm

* Without getting resurrected/coming back. Permanently dead by the end of the series.

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E-Ko - Tainted Donuts (a Trigun and Cowboy Bebop crossover AMV)

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Vash 🥹 I love him so much 😭

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Hey! I got into Trigun in January 2022 and ended up joining a discord server where somebody linked to one of your old fics - "Hotel 64," I think. I really enjoyed it (I just love Legato >.>), so when I saw you had a blog here, I had to follow.

It's also always nice to find another older person who's still active in fandom. :)

I remember that one. I'm embarrassed by it, like I am about most of my old work, but I am glad you enjoyed it. If you hear more of me in the old fandom... Um... I'm not an anti-yaoi freak anymore. I'm not exactly fond of yaoi, but I'm not anti-it either. (got away from being churched, expanded my views on the world. Found out I'm ace. You know, live and learn). I am also no longer in contact with an ex-friend who I used to cause a lot of trouble with. I have no idea what happened to them and am glad of it. Check out my new stuff on Ao3 under Shadsie if you want to see the evolution of my writing work.

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New Trigun video up! Enjoy!

WARNING!!! Contains Spoilers from Trigun Stampede and Trigun 1998.

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Watching tristamp: oh vash has mommy issues

Watching trigun 98: oh vash has MOMMY ISSUES

Reading Trimax: Actually Vash went through an extremely traumatising event at a young age and had to face the realities of humans. Rem was there, as the twins' mother figure, to represent the good. Reconciling humanity's differences is what made him how he is, and he projects that onto Rem. In this essay I will-

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contemplating his pacifism once again

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Trying not to step on controversy-toes here... But I feel like, with this fandom in particular (and with fandom in general, pick a fandom any fandom almost) regardless of my own nitpickity headcanons, I have witnessed "phases" of fandom-popularity of different headcanons. Back in OG fandom, fandom-past, the "Everyone is gay!" (with maybe a little side of "everyone is bi!") was the most popular headcanon / the default Big Thing (het-only fans and gen / platonic fans were in the minority). In current fandom, it's "Everyone is trans!" That seems to be the popular veer of this fandom now. I'm sitting here waiting for the next wave of Most Popular Fandom Headcanon I Find Everywhere to be "Everyone is Ace!" and "Everyone is Aromantic!" and "Everyone is Aroace!" I don't think it will happen, but an Ace can dream.

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Watching stampede at first, I didn't realize you could see MORE of vash's plant markings on his body, it's so hard to see, but I turned up the contrast to show them off more... theyre SO pretty...

It's so interesting to see the actual placement, could make for a good reference for artists! I know I definitely want to make my own now

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Trigun Stampede | s01e07

“Vash… That pattern… A plant?”

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Vash the Stampede You are a kindhearted person, and often seek the approval of others, often to your own detriment. You do your best to not act on any violent impulse, but sometimes struggle with your ideals of right and wrong. However, you usually manage to pull through with your beliefs- though, that does not mean you do not fail or make mistakes. Your past actions follow you like a fearsome specter, refusing to let you forget the consequences of your mistakes. You effect everyone around you, and everyone seems to notice you in a room, even if you don't want to be seen and would rather just live peacefully. But overall, you aspire to bring happiness to others, and live happily with the ones you love.