Jirai kei girls tips for Puroland ! ♡ Eviebunnie

 Good morning everybun♡

For today’s post, I wanted to share my most recent code and favourite tips for visiting Sanrio Puroland~

Puroland might be my favourite theme park to visit in the world; the rides are peaceful and cute, colours are pastel and pretty, lots of cute sweets & merchandise as well as the unforgettable parade shows and getting to meet some of my favourite characters of all time !!

That’s why whenever I go to Puroland, I like to try my best to coordinate a girly, fashionable outfit that is both practical to wear all day and fun for taking photos with the many spots throughout the park. While you might have seen my last post about the best photo spots, here I wanted to share some of my outfit and accessory tips for getting the best experience at Puroland as a ryousangata or jirai girl~

#1 Plan your outfit the night before + bring comfy clothes / spare shoes 

It sounds simple, but I really recommend planning what you want to wear to the park the day (or, a couple days before!) you decide to go. Firstly, it saves you time in the morning when you have to get up early to leave for the park, and secondly it helps when you’re planning what character you’ll be representing with the cute ears and accessories!

For example, I planned this coordinate with My Melody in mind to keep lots of white and a baby pink handbag to match her baby pink ears. For a jirai touch I paired this outfit with my Yosuke platform trainers, Justin David and Vivienne Westwood rings. You don’t always need to perfectly match a character, but it is nice to know your outfit works well with them~

Shoes are also very important! While I have worn platform heels like Bubbles many times to Puroland, I always keep a comfy extra pair in my bag. I really recommend the Don Quiote (My Melody) crocs as they are super light to carry and still cute, so even if you end up getting photos not wearing your heels they’re still going to be pretty!!♡

#2 bring plenty of props for otaku activities 

This is one I really recommend, but bring many of your favourite characters accessories to Puroland !~♡

Many jirai girls bring ita bags, plushies, acrylic stands, etc of their oshi to Puroland and you can take the cutest photos. I brought some Madoka accessories with me as well as the doll I have of her, and love the photos you can take!! Some of the spaces at Puroland are very small and work well for dolls, plushies or acrylic stands of your oshi!!
They also have many goods you can purchase for your oshi such as custom penlights, charms, etc…

#3 take plenty of ambience photos and try the adorable crepes 

I think my best sweets recommendation at Puroland is the character crepe, and whilst I always get My Melody, there are so many characters to choose from!! It makes for a lovely photo, tastes pretty good and you can get lots of lovely drinks from the same stand such as bubble tea or soda. This is located in the main food hall!

I’d also recommend trying any of the limited food that you see for sale there- most likely it’ll be super adorable and make your visit even more special~

Many of the ambience photos I take work really well for a great jirai or ryousangata Instagram feed, or, even better, serve as happy memories to look back on♡

#4 bring a penlight and book the parade seats in advance

Puroland has a lot of different parades on depending on the season and time of day..! I definitely recommend researching what the special parade is for the season you are visiting and watching that for an unforgettable experience. The parade is free to watch, but you do have to book front row spots in advance via the app or website♡

I recommend just standing at the area around 30-40minutes early so you can get a good view if you don’t want to spend more money. And, of course buying an adorable lightstick from the gift shop!~

Sanrio’s Miracle gift parade is a wonderful experience to meet new characters you might not know and enjoy catchy songs, I really recommend it! In my experience I love the front row seats as it gives you a chance to interact with the characters and get the best photos…!

#5 explore the park slowly until closing time 

One of my favourite past times at Puroland is just to simply wander and let your eyes look at all the beautiful details you might not miss while on the rides and at the events, such as pretty wallpaper, themed vending machines and even paintings in some of the bathrooms…!♡

This also includes just having those happy moments to share with your friends dressed up as your favourite characters (we went as Kuromi, Kitty and Melo!) and it was just so much fun. Usually I am in a bit of a rush to get home from Puroland and don’t stay until it closes, but this time it was so lovely to take the day slowly and look back at the beautiful rainbow gates enhanced by the light rain.

hope this post is helpful for your visit to Puroland !~ ♡

I’ll try to keep more consistent with writing on this blog- it can be tricky when life is so busy but there’s so much I want to share with you angels…

Thank you so for reading,

♡ Evie xox ♡

♡ Sanrio Puroland | How to meet My Melody & the best ryousangata photo spots!~ ♡

 Good morning everybun! ♡

For today's blog post, I really wanted to share some of the cute and happy moments from a super fun day at Sanrio Puroland with my adorable friend, and also some of my favourite photo spots that are popular with Jirai-kei and Ryousangata type girls, as well as advice for if you are thinking of visiting Puroland too~ ♪

This was my 4th visit to Puroland,….! We managed to see so many things and enjoy the cute Puro atmosphere, as well as take so many cute photos hehe…! ♪~

Outfit details 

Dress: Ank Rouge x Sweet Piano

Pouch bag: Sanrio Sweet Piano Birthday 2023 collection

Headband: Sanrio Sweet Piano Birthday 2023 collection

Hair ribbons: Paris Kids

Shoes: Buffalo 

Photo recommendation: heart headband pose 

This adorable pose is one I was inspired to try from photos on insta, but it’s where you pose the headbands together to look a little like a heart!~ This works best with matching headbands, but you can also try a cute contrast like My Melody and Kuromi ♡

You can use many different backgrounds for this pose depending on the characters you’re representing, but I recommend a background that has shows some of Puroland’s adorable wallpaper, like this one outside of ‘Lady Kitty’s Mansion’~♪  For an extra bit of cuteness, make sure to show your cute ita nails in the photo, and edit in sparkles with an app like ‘Snow’!

Photo recommendation: character greeting 

For the next photo, I wanted to share a cute candid from meeting my idol, My Melody!
In order to meet the Puro cast, you can check their app or website to see what characters are available that day~♪ Next, book a slot on the machines that can be found in the Puro Village (bottom floor) near the Wisdom Tree, in the entertainment hall. If you really love a character and it’s your dream to meet them, I really recommend researching the day they’re at Puro beforehand so you can definitely meet them! ♡

This was my first time meeting My Melo, despite having gone to Puroland so many times.. and it was so so special! She is so sweet

For my photo recommendation for this spot, I would say candid hugging photos are really the cutest for sure!! the staff take many photos for you, and it is a really adorable keepsake. For the character meet, it’s best to enjoy yourself and the photos will definitely be cute!~♪ 

Photo recommendation: My Melo drive

This adorable strawberry wall is in the entertainment hall of puroland, and has become one of my favourite photo spots for how cute and perfect it is!♡
The My Melo car is actually the same as the ones on ‘My Melo Drive’ ride, which you can also get a souvenir photo of. However, this photo spot is a little more cute because of the background, and you can get a better quality, closer up photo~♪

Photo recommendation: strawberry carriage 

This might be my favourite photo spot ever…♡

I really felt like a Princess, and the pastel pink colours are too perfect. You can also take photos in this carriage with friends, or bring your itabag hehe~
This photo spot is too adorable, and is conveniently located next to Lady Kitty’s House!

Photo recommendation: My Melody’s room

This photo spot is seriously perfect for My Melody theme codes♡

The twin chairs would look super cute with a friend, and you can get creative with props and accessories to match the delicious cake!

I really loved the delicate cherry blossom background too, so beautiful…

and the statue of My Melody is too perfect for outfit codes ! I recommend wearing platform shoes for this pose~

Photo recommendation: Puro Shop 

One of my favourite photo types is to pose with various merchandise I really love at Sanrio Puroland…!~♪

This particular shop is for a character called ‘Wish me Mell’, an adorable fluffy white bunny with a rainbow tail. I really loved how pink it was, so it was perfect for photos

Thank you so much for reading angels♡

I also have more Puro photos in one of my previous trip blog posts, which you can read here ! Hopefully I’ve covered all the cutest photo spots here, but there’s even more in that post hehe… I’ll also be planning new photo ideas and a vlog too on my next trip, so please look forward to that~♪

Lots of love,

♡ Evie xox ♡

First Time At Maidreamin Café…?!~♪ | Exploring Akihabara!

 

Hello everybun!♡

For today’s blog post, I'm so excited to be sharing my experience visiting a maid cafe in Akihabara, Tokyo for the first time…!~♪

As this was the first day of this holiday, I woke up very early due to jet lag… around 3am Once I was awake, I was too excited to go back to sleep hehe♡ So, it was time to get dressed, do my hair arrange and cosme, then head to Akihabara! I was staying in Shinjuku, so it was a easy trip to do… although since we arrived around 6am, nothing was open  Despite that, it was a truly incredible experience to walk around such a unique place with no crowds, and try to shortlist what shops we would visit~♪ I’m a huge fan of collecting my favourite manga and anime goods in the forms of figures, tapestries, acrylic stands, charms and even more… so it felt impossible not to want to visit every shop!

The first thing i saw that made me really happy was this Pachinko shop that had Madoka art all over it…! Madoka is my favourite character along with My Melody, and I adore collecting their merch…! If you live in Japan, seeing promotional art from anime in the city is very common. But in the uk, it’s very rare; let alone your favourite characters or series! So seeing so much adorable art of my favourite girl really did fill my heart with joy~♪

The arcade itself had giant murals of Madoka everywhere, to advertise the themed game that they have for Madomagi. The game itself didn’t really interest me as I’m not really a fan of gambling-type games, but it was really fun to explore the arcade and take photos It was also surreal to see such a busy part of Tokyo so empty…! I’m not sure if the photos really do it justice, but it was too fun, and really gave us a chance to appreciate all the details!

Since exploring this district while shops were still closed took us a little over an hour, we decided to head back to the station area to try Starbucks…!♡ On the way back, I compiled a little list of places to visit hehe… there were quite a few cute makeup and cosplay shops too! It was a little overwhelming how many places there were to visit~♪

For my Starbucks drink choice, of course I had to try the limited edition ‘red velvet’ flavoured Frappuccino that you could only get in Japan…! I wish we had such interesting flavours in the uk, it really was lovely♡ I ordered mine with oat milk, but of course many of the flavours and toppings used in this drink would only be veggie, not vegan, so for this trip it seemed best to adapt to being vegetarian~♪  

After the refreshing drinks, we headed to the first shops that were opening…!~♪ I was so happy to finally visit the azone and dollfie dream doll shops, I’ve admired these dolls for years and love my little doll collection so so much. Just to give you an idea how big some of these dolls are, here’s me sitting next to them for scale! They are so detailed and even more beautiful in person, one day I'd love to own a dollfie dream or 1/3 scale azone doll… these dolls were even dressed in jirai kei and ryosangata, how perfect?!♡

The dollfie dream store even had this little family tree about the history of dollfie dreams…! It’s incredible to see how they’ve become even more detailed over time, and how the doll art style has changed along with anime art styles over time. If you’re also a doll collector, I’d really recommend visiting the store to see this; they even had some of their rarest dolls on display in-store!♡ It was so beautiful and made me want a dollfie even more hehe… they are very pricey, but also very cute!

After exploring many of the adorable shops, we finally made it to the cafe…!♡ We had both never visited a maid cafe before, so it was lovely to have the ‘welcome home’ greeting, and talk to such friendly and sweet maids too…! The first thing we talked about was, unsurprisingly, My Melo as I'd brought her as a charm on my backpack hehe~♪

After reading the menu a little, we ended up ordering a couple different goodies to share and review…!~♪ The first was this incredible matcha soufflé pancakes that were so tasty and refreshing; the slightly nutty, savoury azuki on the side paired so well with the fluffy sweet taste of the pancake I was so impressed as pancakes are my favourite food, and these did not disappoint! ♡

When you buy certain menu items from Maidreamin Café you also get this adorable clear file…! I was happy to get the cute pink one I wanted hehe, it's a really cute souvenir~ we also got a blue ver. which was really cute too! Perfect for visitors who might not be super girly ♡ 

The next thing that we ordered were these adorable bunny and bear themed ice cream parfait!~♪

I had always wanted to try the bunny parfait ever since seeing photos of Maidreamin online, so it made me really happy to finally order it and get to see this cute dessert in person. The parfait itself was a refreshing strawberry flavour with whip cream, various white and milk chocolate details, strawberry syrup, wafer biscuit and cornflakes underneath. The ice cream paired really well with the sweet syrup and whip cream, and it was just what I fancied for such a warm and sunny day I did, however, find that the cornflakes and wafer were a bit too dry, so I'd recommend swooshing the dessert around a little before eating, hehe♡

 We also couldn’t resist taking photos with the maids too…!~♪ I ended up getting a cheki with the cutest Neru-chan! All the staff were so lovely when we took the photos, and overall I really enjoyed the experience. Next time I'm in Akihabara, I'll definitely visit again, I'd love to meet more cute maids!

Thank you so much for reading,

Evie xox