The Pizza Cats renaissance continues! Fangamer has launched a brand-new line of officially licensed Samurai Pizza Cats merchandise, including:

📌 Bad Bird Moving Wings Pin
👕 A Slice of Samurai T-shirt
🧸 Speedy Cerviche plush, coming soon!

The Bad Bird pin is especially neat, with a mechanism that allows his wings to move, and the upcoming Speedy plush has definitely caught my attention. The silhouette has me intrigued. 👀

Interestingly, these releases cannot be shipped to Japan due to licensing restrictions, making this one of those wonderfully unusual occasions where new Pizza Cats merchandise is being produced specifically for markets outside of Japan.

Between the new game, BellFine’s Yattaro model kit finally hitting shelves, TGS merchandise, and now a new line from Fangamer, it really does feel like Samurai Pizza Cats is properly alive again.

It’s a pretty incredible time to be a Pizza Cats fan.

More information / ordering:
👉🏻 https://www.fangamer.com/collections/samurai-pizza-cats

Looks like BellFine’s 1/12 Yattaro & Toritsukkun plastic model kit is officially making its way into the wild, with stock now arriving at Japanese retailers! Those that have pre-ordered should be seeing him, soon!

After such a long wait, it’s incredibly exciting to finally see this guy becoming a reality.

Mine is preordered, so expect plenty more photos and thoughts once he arrives! ^_-

Tokyo Game Show 2026 has wrapped up, so here’s a little recap of everything Samurai Pizza Cats / Kyattou Ninden Teyandee from the show! ❤🤍💙

First, the important bit: there were no official announcements regarding the game. TGS was primarily an opportunity for people to finally get their hands on Blast from the Past! and play the demo.

And judging by attendee reactions on X, the demo went over extremely well. I saw overwhelmingly positive impressions throughout the event, with several people mentioning the long queue specifically to say that playing the game was worth the wait. That’s incredibly encouraging to see. 💚

No official word about whether the demo will be downloadable for home consoles.

The Red Dunes booth itself deserves some appreciation, too. They decorated it to resemble the interior of the Pizza Cats restaurant, complete with the counter, familiar colours and details from the anime.

And the queue markers?

CAT. PAW. PRINTS. 🐾

Seriously, the attention to detail surrounding this game continues to be ridiculous.

The booth also featured a display cabinet absolutely stuffed with Teyandee goodies, including:

• Framed artwork from the the game.

• YOLOPARK Speedy/Yattaro, alongside the unpainted Polly/Pururun and Guido/Sukashii prototypes.

• The adorable TOIVO chibi acrylic standees. (Fun fact: the artist responsible for these was actually at TGS and got to see their work displayed at the booth! 🥹)

• The GRANUP × Balloon Fight collaboration standee.

• The Akibaunyu collaboration Yattaro standee and Nyankee keychain.

• The plush Nyanki-ear headbands that were distributed at last year’s TGS.

And, of course, the two new TGS 2026 promotional items:

✨ A Yattaro/Speedy souvenir cel featuring possibly the happiest cat alive throwing up a peace sign.

✨ An acrylic standee featuring Yattaro, Pururun and Sukashii / Speedy, Polly and Guido together.

I’ll cover these in more detail once I’m able to get my paws on them.

Both were marked as TGS 2026 / BLAST ZERO exclusives and, predictably, began appearing on the Japanese secondhand market less than a day after attendees escaped the building. 😂

There may not have been a big announcement this year, but honestly? TGS 2026 gave me more confidence in this project than I had going into it. Between the care put into the booth, the little details we’ve been spotting in gameplay, and especially the enthusiastic response from people who actually played it, BLAST ZERO continues to demonstrate that they understand what makes Teyandee special.

Okay, Pizza Cats people. The last few days have been ABSURD, so here’s the giant pre-TGS news dump. 💚💜

We are now only TWO DAYS AWAY from Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past! / キャッ党忍伝てやんでえ ～復活のニャンキー！ やっぱり明日は日本晴れ！ getting its world-first playable demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026, beginning September 17 at the Red Dunes Games booth, Hall 7, N03. The demo will let players switch between Yattaro/Speedy, Sukashii/Guido and Pururun/Polly, with combat, platforming and completely new animated sequences created by Blast Zero in the style of the original anime.

And apparently Blast Zero decided that the appropriate way to prepare us for this was to OPEN THE FLOODGATES.

We’ve been getting an almost ridiculous stream of new screenshots, a short teaser trailer and a ton of new artwork, including beautiful new shots of the Nyankī, Otama, Karamaru and other familiar faces. The newly created animation continues to look uncannily faithful to the original series. Even the returning cast have commented on how impressive the recreation is. Ai Orikasa called the reproduction of the original anime’s look essentially “splendid,” while Koichi Yamadera said he initially thought the animation was old footage before learning that Blast Zero had made it from scratch. 😭💚

We’ve ALSO been getting behind-the-scenes material. Blast Zero has shown footage from the soundtrack recording sessions, including live orchestral musicians recording music for the game. Between that and the artwork being shared by the game’s art director, we’re suddenly getting these wonderful little windows into how this thing is actually being made rather than just seeing finished promotional material.

Visit Blast Zero on X, here: https://x.com/blastzero_games?s=11

And then yesterday brought us some Japanese VOICE CAST NEWS.

Several original Japanese cast members are officially back:

Kappei Yamaguchi returns as Yattaro.
Ai Orikasa returns as Pururun.
Ken’yū Horiuchi returns as the Narrator.
Koichi Yamadera is officially back as Karamaru.
And, to my absolute delight, SATOMI KOOROGI IS BACK, NOT ONLY AS OTAMA, BUT SHE’S ALSO VOICING OMITSU (in the absence of late great miss Yuko Mizutani, RIP 💔). 💚

Seiichiro Yamashita voices Sukashii, succeeding original actor Jūrōta Kosugi. The Japanese script for the TGS demo is also being written by Satoru Akahori, the original anime’s series composer/scriptwriter.

Koorogi actually talks about returning to Otama after all these years and says that being able to deliver her familiar “Ikki-ma~su!” again made her happy.

😭 And Yamadera’s reaction might be one of my favourite details of this whole project: he was apparently shocked to discover that the anime sequences weren’t recycled footage.

Akahori himself describes being involved again 35 years later as a miracle and says the quality made him feel as though a genuine new Teyandee production had arrived.

Which pretty much captures why I’m losing my mind over all of this.

This isn’t just somebody licensing Samurai Pizza Cats, slapping the characters onto a competent platformer and collecting nostalgia money. Everything we’re seeing suggests that the people making it are ridiculously invested in getting the tiny details right, right down to rebuilding the visual language of a 1990 anime, bringing back as much of the original Japanese cast as possible, involving one of the original writers, and recording a proper soundtrack.

After spending decades being a fan of an IP that frequently seemed to exist in a cupboard Tatsunoko occasionally remembered to open…

THIS IS VERY WEIRD. I LIKE IT HERE.

And in two days, actual human beings are going to get their hands on the thing.

TGS 2026: September 17–21
📍 Red Dunes Games
📍 Hall 7, Booth N03
🎮 World-first playable demo

The 17th and 18th are business days, with general admission beginning September 19.

Famitsu has the new screenshots, cast comments and a ton more information here:

Famitsu: New Samurai Pizza Cats game cast comments, screenshots & TGS 2026 details⁠

TWO. MORE. DAYS!

At this rate I fully expect Blast Zero to reveal tomorrow that they have located the original Pizza Cat restaurant brick by brick and reconstructed it in their office. 🤣

Straight from the official Blast Zero X account!

BLAST ZERO has officially announced that the upcoming Kyatto Ninden Teyandee / Samurai Pizza Cats game will be appearing at Tokyo Game Show 2026, and attendees won’t just be watching another trailer…

THE GAME WILL BE PLAYABLE.

Visitors at TGS will have the opportunity to actually get their hands on the game and try the demo for themselves.

This marks a major milestone for the project. Until now, we’ve primarily experienced the game through trailers, screenshots, and promotional footage. A public playable demo means fans attending Tokyo Game Show will finally be able to get firsthand impressions of how the game actually feels to play.

Hopefully this also means we’ll start seeing plenty of new information from the show, including gameplay impressions and perhaps a few additional surprises. 👀

BLAST ZERO has invited fans to come visit them at the event and says the team is looking forward to meeting everyone.

Alongside this announcement, they also dropped a GORGEOUS, but short (presumably) cutscene animation that has fans hungry for more!

📣 Source: BLAST ZERO’s official X account, @Blastzero_Games