A nice little mystery from earlier this year finally seems to have an answer.

Back at Anime Expo 2026, Shout! Studios had Samurai Pizza Cats included on a “coming soon” display. At the time, a lot of us assumed that meant Shout! would be handling the upcoming English-language HD Blu-ray release.

Turns out, we were wrong, but this is not where the story ends.

Discotek Media later announced that they were releasing the English dub on Blu-ray from newly remastered film elements, even joking that the timing of another company’s convention banner had helped keep their announcement secret.

So what did Shout!’s “coming soon” actually mean?

Streaming.

Samurai Pizza Cats is now available to stream legally in Canada through Crave, with Shout! Studios branding appearing before the episodes.

That’s a pretty big deal for Canadian fans. The English dub originally aired here on YTV in the early 1990s, so seeing it finally return through a mainstream Canadian streaming service feels wonderfully full-circle.

And, just as importantly, the presentation looks really clean. This isn’t some ancient low-quality TV master limping back into circulation. The image is crisp, colourful, and looks dramatically better than the older releases many of us are used to.

Between the Discotek Blu-ray, the new game, new merchandise, and now legal Canadian streaming, Samurai Pizza Cats is having one hell of a revival year.

If you have Crave, this is a very easy excuse for a rewatch. ❤💙🤍

Another vintage piece of Kyattou Ninden Teyandee fan history has joined the collection, though this one comes with a very important caveat:

⚠ Adults only / 18+ content.

URIHO 2 is an adult-oriented doujinshi published by T2 UNIT in December 1990, making it a very early piece of fan-created material from the original broadcast era.

The book includes a mix of comics, illustrations, parody material, and character-focused pieces featuring several Teyandee characters. Some sections are relatively tame, while others are explicitly adult in nature, so I’m keeping the images shared here limited to safe-for-work pages and publication details.

From a preservation standpoint, this is a fascinating artifact because it shows just how quickly Teyandee inspired its own fan-production scene. The series had barely begun, and fans were already producing substantial anthologies and doujinshi around the characters.

The colophon credits Franken N as editor and T2 UNIT as publisher, with the first edition dated December 24, 1990.

Definitely not something you’d want children reading, but as a piece of early Kyattou Ninden Teyandee fandom history, it’s a very interesting addition to the archive.

猫座特別公演 (Nekoza Tokubetsu Kōen, “Nekoza Special Performance”) is a fan-made anthology produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kyattou Ninden Teyandee.

The book was published on December 29, 2010, and brings together work from a number of artists, with stories and illustrations covering a wonderfully broad slice of the cast.

The colophon identifies 小鈴屋 (Kosuzuya) as the publisher/circle and 小鈴ゆーき (Kosuzu Yūki) as the publisher/organizer, and that contributor page is worth including among the photos because it makes clear this was a genuine multi-artist anthology rather than one creator’s book.

What I especially love about anthologies like this is how clearly they show that the series still had an active, affectionate fan community two decades after its original broadcast. There are comedy pieces, character-focused stories, summer artwork, plenty of obscure characters, and lots of wildly different artistic interpretations of Edoropolis and its residents.

The cover alone is fantastic. It crams an enormous amount of the cast together, from the Nyankees and Otasuke members to villains and supporting characters, and really gives the whole thing a celebratory reunion feeling.

One of my favourite details comes right at the end:

「これにて終演!!」

“And with that, the performance is over!!”

followed by:

「絶対復活してやるからな！てやんでぇ!!」

“We’ll definitely come back someday! Teyandee!!”

Which hits a little differently in 2026, considering just how alive this franchise suddenly feels again. ❤💙🤍

This is exactly the kind of fan-produced material I love preserving. Official merchandise tells one part of a franchise’s history, but doujinshi like this preserve the history of the people who kept loving it when there wasn’t much official material being made at all.

Another Tokyo Game Show 2026 promotional item for Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past has joined the collection.

This Yattaro / Speedy Cerviche “cel souvenir” measures approximately 18.5 cm tall by 19 cm wide and was distributed as a TGS 2026 Blast Zero exclusive.

The design deliberately mimics a traditional animation cel, right down to the registration-style holes along the top edge. Those holes also make it especially easy to display on a wall, which is a nice little bonus for collectors. :3

The artwork features Yattaro flashing a peace sign, with the Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past logo in the lower-left corner and the “NOT FOR SALE / TGS 2026 BLAST-ZERO Exclusive” marking along the bottom.

It’s a fun piece because it bridges two eras of the franchise: a brand-new promotional item for the 2026 game, styled after the physical cel-animation materials associated with the original series.

One of the more elusive pieces of Samurai Pizza Cats / Kyattou Ninden Teyandee merchandise from Tokyo Game Show 2026 finally made it into the collection.

This acrylic standee features the main Nyanki trio together:

Yattaro / Speedy Cerviche 🤍

Sukashii / Guido Anchovy 💙

Pururun / Polly Esther ❤

The standee measures approximately 6.5 cm tall at its highest point, counting Sukashii, and 10 cm wide.

The base is branded with Red Dunes Games × Blast Zero, along with the Kyattou Ninden Teyandee logo and a QR code that links directly to the Steam page for the upcoming game, Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past.

What makes this one especially interesting is how scarce it became almost immediately after TGS. Compared with some of the other promotional items from the event, these standees appeared far less frequently on the secondhand market and tended to disappear ridiculously fast whenever they surfaced, regardless of what it was priced at.

It’s a small piece, but a really neat snapshot of the franchise’s 2026 revival and of the game’s presence at Tokyo Game Show.