Gold Leaf JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Ice Cream Available in Kanazawa
Hakuichi Co., Ltd., from Kanazawa, Ichikawa, is doing a special collaboration with none-other-than JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. For a limited time, customers are able to purchase vanilla ice cream complete with edible gold leaf and a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character cookie, and also golden compact mirrors with character designs. Both the ice cream and the mirrors are very limited, and already extremely popular.
The memorably named JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation is celebrating its 10th Anniversary all this year with special events and collaborations across Japan. The 10th Anniversary website just opened on April 4th, 2022 (which is Jonathan Joestar's birthday), so the celebrations are only just beginning. Before anything is set to kick off in Tokyo, where most special events will be held later this year, the celebrations have already begun in the western city of Kanazawa.
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Kanazawa is a city known for gold and gold leaf, which has been historically a huge part of the city's cultural heritage. Today, visitors can still buy gold leaf plated items all across the city, and also edible gold leaves can be found in tea and coffee, sprinkled on desserts like mochi and pancakes — and yes, on ice cream as well. Gold leaf ice cream has been a popular treat for visitors to Kanazawa for a long time and is synonymous with a trip to the city.
A city famous for gold is the perfect setting for celebrating JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's 10th Anniversary. Gold is a favored color in the JoJo universe, with plenty of characters wearing it (often accentuating their unique styles), and the fourth season of the anime is even called JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden
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