There’s one major point about me that my Crunchyroll readers and co-workers may know that others might not: I love collab cafés. I love them, I want to go to one, and I’m always slightly angry when I think about the fact that America doesn’t do them.

I’m sure someday I’ll go to Japan. And when I do, there will be at least six different collab cafés running at once. So I will get to do one . . . probably. In the meantime, my friend Ginger found me a very close second in Illinois. Not only did it scratch that very weird itch, it helped me isolate just why I love this ridiculous conceit and why I feel we need it over here.