Starbucks Japan And Pokemon Announce First Collaboration
Pokemon has run food tie-ins with Krispy Kreme and CJ CheilJedang this month, and the Starbucks line puts the franchise into a daily cafe chain rather than a limited festival or fast-food window.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Starbucks Japan and Pokemon announced a collaboration on Thursday, starting with tumblers on September 30. The line includes a Pikachu Honey Cream Latte priced at 690 yen (about US$4.50) and merchandise from 1,500 to 6,600 yen (about US$10 to US$42), among them tumblers, bottles, mugs, drip coffee maker pots, kettles, aprons, and tote bags. No end date was announced.
The drink is a Pikachu Honey Cream Latte at 690 yen, with the merchandise spanning tumblers, bottles, mugs, drip coffee maker pots, kettles, ceramic canisters, milk foamers, aprons, keychains, stickers, postcards, posters, tote bags, and cup pouches. One tumbler has a Pokeball-shaped lid. The item prices run from 1,500 to 6,600 yen.
Pokemon and Starbucks have not announced when the collaboration will end. The franchise's other food tie-ins this month are a Krispy Kreme doughnut line tied to its 30th anniversary and Pokemon Spam sets with South Korean distributor CJ CheilJedang for the Chuseok harvest festival on September 24 to 26.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network Interest Starbucks Japan Introduces 1st Pokémon Collaboration