Gigi Broke the News to Fauna That Her Favorite Food Place Was Permanently Closed

[@Natsumi-818]

Fauna's favorite restaurant reopening in a different location under a new name feels strangely metaphorical...

[@blackoutnine]

Fuggin PLANT MORE is a bit on the nose tho innit

[@jergarmar]

TBF, every freakin' thing feels like a metaphor about it these days...

[@sleeplessknight99]

@@blackoutnine Plant! Plant! Plant! Plant! Get tomato! Get tomato!

[@IJustWantANameThatIsAvaliable]

🍋🍃!!!

[@luciferamigodobairro]

​@@jergarmar time is a flat circle. Life imitates art and all that

[@tatewaki2000]

Her parfait graduated :(

[@Warcraftrevenge4]

Yea, but i heard a seasonal parfait is debuting

[@Zyntherion2202]

@@Warcraftrevenge4redebuting to be specific

[@Warcraftrevenge4]

@@Zyntherion2202 we call it, the "McRib is back"

[@VDekuMkII]

Dude...

[@marinda653]

These memes are so funny 🤣

[@Asianese]

The feeling of losing your favourite joint, relatable

[@SNixD]

The only thing that is worse is when the food suddenly gets worse. You think they just had a bad day so you go back again but it's still shit. Then you find out the owner has changed and it's actually no longer your favorite store, just some monstrosity wearing the skin of your favorite store while defiling its memory with crappy imitation products.

[@soap_legend7052]

It's likes losing your favourite vtuber

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

​@SNixD This happened to me about 4 years ago. New owner came in, new cooks replaced the old ones, and even the menu started to change. In the end, it was all vegan nonsense and no one ate there; they finally closed earlier this year.

[@SNixD]

@@shinigamimiroku3723 It sucks so bad! I've experienced it three times. Favorite calzone, favorite takeout kebab and favorite takeout curry, all taken over and ruined. The largest and tastiest calzone, that I never managed to finish in one sitting, is long gone. I just realized it's been ~25 years since it disappeared. There's still a pizza joint with the same name and color scheme in that location and just seeing it on street view is making me crave it again. Some wounds never truly heal it seems.

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

@SNixD They really don't... I'm a huge fan of calzones, so I would've loved to try such a dish.

[@FamilyReunion2097]

We know the feeling, Fauna... ;_;

[@UltimaOmega777]

The painful irony on like two levels, heh.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

uuuuuuuuu

[@ArtwellI]

I don't. My favorite food place is the dumpster. As long as the dumpster exist the racoons and I are eating like kings.

[@jergarmar]

"They took it from me!" "It was everything!" "Isn't it sad though?" YES FAUNA WE CAN EMPATHIZE. 😢

[@uguuv2]

0:48 she was shookt fr

[@blackoutnine]

That was every sapling that day too tho

[@shadymerchant3456]

3:40 The sad "uuuuuuu" breaks my heart!

[@Count.Derfflinger]

We got Peach Parfait Graduating before Fauna

[@logandunlap9156]

NAH NOT MY OSHI PEACH PARFAIT

[@TakerAMD]

The Peach Parfait said to Fauna dont you dare graduate?! Who will be ordering me? I will graduate before you!

[@paulmartingajiran7248]

Fauna experiences what she's doing to us next year.. Their dialogues are so fitting.

[@BrawnyBuddha]

WILL SOMEBODY GET THIS KIRIN A PEACH PARFAIT

[@XellosNi]

yfw someone gets inspired enough by this to become a dessert chef/patissiere just to hope someday Fauna will try their attempt at a Peach Parfait.

[@cyclone8974]

I always think it's sad when places close because it's often the end of someone's dream.

[@nihilvox]

There used to be a little Japanese cafe down in the historic district, opened up about 10 years ago. The lady that owned it moved here from Japan with her American husband, and they started the restaurant because she was homesick. The restaurant closed last December, though the couple still runs a little gift shop.

[@Iridescent_Astraea]

1:10 You're laughing. Fauna lost her favorite fruit item forever and you're laughing?! Same.

[@donq4483]

I looked the place up and the parfait has its own article on a food influencer's blog, that thing must have been magical 😭😭😭 Wired Bonbon Seasonal Peach Tea Parfait "There were so many yummy layers filled with jellies, compost, custard, fruit, and soy whip. Each one had a new flavour or texture and it was simply glorious!"

[@cthulhuwu_]

Compost??? Mother Nature is testing me

[@bmanpura]

He probably miswrote compote lol

[@donq4483]

@@bmanpura yeah it was verbatim from the article, but the blogger probably did mean Compote 😀

[@tpolutts3309]

​@@donq4483 I don't know. Vegan food can get kind weird

[@Yanaro-pi8pt]

Wow, and yet they still closed down ?!

[@MinJyo-Ciel]

fauna getting a glimpse of the news she dropped on us AHAHAHA

[@kos2919]

I'm at peace with her leaving now. But it hurt that she dropped the news in the weekend, the time that's supposed to be peace and quiet for a lot of people.

[@ThyArtIsMetal]

Who cares that it was on a weekend, what sucked was that is was the day after thanksgiving so it made a holiday weekend that was already awkward this year in America and made it worse. It’s all good though.

[@pleppie]

I’m thankful it was on the weekend, having to go work in that vibe is just pouring salt in the wound

[@Paradoxikality]

​@@kos2919It's lose-lose either way. If it was on a weekday you'd say "oh but I'm already stressed from work and now you drop this on me"

[@kos2919]

@@Paradoxikality No, the thing is we already prepared for workdays because we knew we will deal with stress so we kinda prepared for problems and bad news coming for us.

[@mzou89]

Ain’t no way I was about to make a “Fauna reacting like saplings did” joke but the whole comment section already did it

[@YoureBreathtaking]

"Gone, like yesterday is gone Like history is gone The world keeps spinning on You're going, going"

[@stenzle392]

switchfoot mentioned 👀

[@HerrHick]

FWMC holding pon-de-ring : "First time ?"

[@kos2919]

At least Mr Donut got a lot of branches

[@Black_Knight767]

​@@kos2919 but iirc that was the original one

[@kos2919]

@@Black_Knight767 Not the first store. Just close enough to FWMC old ground.

[@not-aesthetic9]

frfr the feeling of losing your favorite place on youtube

[@Regnart_Seht]

"I loved that cafe with that peach parfait. You promised you'd take me back there one day, but you never did. I'm there now, waiting for you. There in that cafe with the peach parfait," - Fauna probably.

[@HAVIN_aBLAST]

My friend and i used to have this one Korean bbq place that we went to all the time ever since middle school. The selection was great and it was so affordable that even kids could get a meal with their allowance. Sadly they had to shut down after the pamdemic, especially tragic since all me and my friend have been doing during the lockdown was talk abt how much we wanted to go back there. When my friend found out he literally went into a hysteric fit, like finding out about the death of a loved one. Even now when we can afford to go to higher end places he still talks about that place.

[@rionnachelliot8951]

This is the 2nd saddest Fauna related travesty happening this month

[@xfreedombuckO5x]

I just assume an asshole landlord/property investment firm raised the rent an unreasonable amount.

[@immortal_shrooms6757]

The shop graduated and got a new account

[@metlogthegaemer]

*gigi: "who's gonna tell her?..."*

[@Slugbunny]

Truly sad when we can no longer go back. 💀

[@BigDrewski1000]

First Fuwamoco losing ponderings, now Fauna losing her peach parfait. F in the chat for yummy treats. o7

[@MrMagnetron2]

Her favorite store graduated

[@sonicducktheinoccent]

6 of my favorite eateries closed after they became my favorite place. It always happens Japanese place, Coffee Place, Diner, Korean BBQ, Italian, Greek

[@Goldiizz]

A lot of places in Japan closes even though they are popular This is due to the fact that they rent the spot they are in and the deadline is set in advance

[@mimiru27]

Gigi like durian ? .. damn she's GiGi Chad

[@ardi-69]

Durian is really delicious

[@alastorredgrave522]

Fauna understanding how the saplings are feeling now, tbf... 😢

[@Kazuma1982]

I feel Gigi when she is laughing at Fauna's reaction. I can't help but feel some kind of positive emotion when Fauna is in panic or despair. She's just so adorable.

[@Magusguile]

Yeah, that has happened to me a few times now. COVID really didn't help, rough times

[@wc9760]

Ive had the "Sure it's still open but the chef changed and now it sucks" thing happen twice to favorite places now. So annoying.

[@nekowolf583]

Millions of peaches...

[@pkjk1255]

Gone, reduced to atoms

[@sleeplessknight99]

Peaches for free....

[@StephenwithaPH]

Fauna experiencing the 10% pain of the saplings

[@gigaj2368]

Fauna asking how a busy establishment can close, and then you look at the Mister Donut shop closing this year. It sucks big time when famous places people know close forever

[@wc9760]

The answer seems to usually be "The rent got jacked up too high for the place to be profitable".

[@littlewishy6432]

Me when Panera discontinued the Chicken Tortellini Alfredo

[@benjiusofficial]

Bro, there was a italian restuarant that was in downtown forever and they had the best manicotti. They closed down and the space got turned into a bar. Like Fauna, I will remember that manicotti forever

[@zachf3788]

This is how I felt when my favorite breakfast place closed shop during covid.

[@thefurmidablecatlucky3]

I know how it feel, literally 😢

[@adamchuahzongye395]

this is by far the second most devastated I've seen Fauna actually is

[@monkaeyes]

Red Kiwifruit is the best fruit, hands down. I can't wait until they get more widespread.

[@Jackjack-p9y]

Quality = Low income = Permanently close

[@KazutoIshin]

Get all the saplings to put a request to the new place for peach parfait and they'll think wow this is really popular and will start making it again

[@Tsino69]

Wired Bonbon was a concept by Wired Cafe which is still open, but they don't have parfaits. I'm guessing being in Shinjuku and serving fruit dishes in Japan didn't have high enough margins to stay afloat.

[@genus.species3362]

Something about this feels painfully familiar :').

[@augustcross2305]

Ugh, I feel her despair. A smaller town that I went to for college had a local Thai Cafe. One of the best places I've ever eaten, because EVERYTHING on the menu was so good. Then they closed it down and instead made a place that did takeout Japanese hibachi, which ended up tasting disgusting. 😑

[@bennyboiii1196]

I was in this exact situation when i found out a Crepe place near me permanently closed. Good thing was that I knew the name of my order, and could extrapolate most of the toppings. The sauce that I learned from trying to make it myself was so good I legit use it on everything now.

[@BNuts]

FUWAMOCO can comfort their Fauna-sempai with some non-Akiba Misdo pon-de-rings and an offbrand peach parfait, before Fauna leafs. But would they let her pat their ears before she goes?

[@logandunlap9156]

dawg it always fucking sucks when a joint you like disappears used to go to a little joint for pasta rosa, nobody fucking serves pasta rosa and the pasta rosa i had was so fucking good. same kind of deal too. reasonably busy any time i wanted to go there, it was just there until it wasn't. i still think about that pasta rosa on the regular

[@DELC1]

I lost my favorite cheesesteak place years ago and I still miss it

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

Well well well, how the turntables.

[@easyduster]

Live heartbreak reaction

[@MiguelGarayStarty]

Fauna cant catch a break, huh?

[@andremorr]

Club penguin is kil ... No...

[@oatkungar]

Oh no, you’ve done it. By upsetting Mother Nature, everything but peaches will have a bad harvest next year, and they’ll inevitably have to make peach parfait.

[@michaelrhett4958]

That was me with my local theater when it closed before Sonic Movie 2 came out

[@funghiman8492]

A small family business closing is sometimes quite literally, the dream from its owner dying. Be it a bakery dismantling their masonry oven, a clocksmith laying down their magnifying loupe, or an orchard leveling their crops. It's like witnessing a new page in history turned over. Especially when you get to visit the place both before and after. Fortunately, the fire of passion propagates through sparks of inspiration. As long as craftsmanship still exists, the cycle will not cease.

[@yakumoyomi5765]

This is how I felt when they closed the Shoney's near me many years ago. I used to love going there for the breakfast buffet.

[@EganCraft]

Luckily my comfort food spot will never close. For anyone wondering it is the Sam’s Club cafe, I buy a 16 inch pizza for myself and it only costs $10 and it’s heavy and delicious. Then if I want the deserts are under $2 and they provide free sauerkraut packets and chili flakes

[@lorddeecee]

Thank god McDonalds will never leave me

[@KailoVT]

there is a wired cafe by the same people behind wired bonbon, they might have the parfait there. ironic now that i think about it

[@Azure-qx1ct]

i'm officially a peach sapling 🍑

[@kerlee547]

It looks like Nanami was right about the little misfortune's that make you an adult... Your favorite fruit parfait discontinued...

[@lanoche]

I know that feeling. There is this Chinese food place in Asia that I used to go buy food at for lunch every so often before I moved abroad. Well it's been like 20 years since I've been to that country and it closed down I think in 2015? Then again it's a franchise so there might be some restaurants out there in the wild, but I won't know if it's the same taste since sometimes franchises don't taste the same cause even if the ingredients and how it made is the same, people can fuck up the cooking process.

[@bug5654]

A green character talking with a smaller brownish character about a parfait that has layers. Dunno why that sounds familiar. It's like it's something somebody once told me.

[@StephenwithaPH]

The old place will soon be closed permanently, and is re opening under a new name... But it's not going to be the same... Damn

[@LawOfOne_Elris]

they call me the parfait, cause im sweet in the cut🗣️📢

[@Shiki0414]

The day we say farewell is approaching and it's triggering my abandonment issues. Nothing parasocial but I just hate being left so much that I don't really get attached but I let myself get attached to Fauna's yapping 😢 I know about the leaf so I'm not paralyzed by sadness but it's still not a good time

[@NarutoSakura1]

Everyone! We need to send Fauna Peach Parfait recipes!!!

[@tmplblck]

Based durian fan GG.

[@shiropuu5145]

This is the pain of oshi loss…

[@zhuljojo]

Ah.. It happen to me too when i Found great choco bread that choco taste never Found in my place and 2nd time go there it's already close forever..😢 damn it

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

rip fauna. this pain isn't new, but it still hurts lots.

[@The_New_CrisisTTV]

If my Favorite Bar A Few Blocks down Closes I'd cry ngl

[@vincemarenger7122]

I feel the same with Quiznos... 😑

[@Hughjaynus6d9]

Uuuuuuu indeed fauna; Uuuuu indeed

[@KB_13247]

hahaha fauna's nooooooo-uuuuuuuuu-ooooo the most painful uuuuu ever hahaha.

[@highwindknight]

Now, I suspect that my giant wall of text about boring business talk is likely going to not show up because of KZbin or a moderation requirement. So I'll just sneak in a much smaller post here. I hope that they just reopened it somewhere else for her to find. It's always heartbreaking when a local business dies out.

[@ToastGhost]

Well it's not like she'll have to go back to Japan anytime soon

[@RockhardConstructionPebble]

Food service industry is brutal. A lot of legacy shops with long history close, because people don't really want to work any more for what amounts to minimum wage for 12+ hours a day. It was how people made living after the Great Wars but that's not the only option for careers nowadays.

[@andipratama2186]

my honest reaction to Fauna Graduation

[@michaelking7847]

Found out yesterday my favorite bakery shut down. Solidarity✊✊✊

[@lmko]

Something very strange with JP business. Too often hear about popular places that always busy, but then permanently close without a visible reason.

[@suaviduds]

I still cant really understand why she is graduating like this.. After the other members have reassured us that holo management isnt rotten behind the scenes, that together with the fact that she herself said that shes not leaving because she doesnt want to be an idol ..... just doesnt make sense for me. If the problem was her own personal manager, couldn't she just have changed managers? Ofc we dont have all the info, but I just dont understand how anything in the scope of what this could be would be worth throwing your dream job and daily close relationships with friends in the trash over. :( Its her decision still and i support it in the end of the day, but it just leaves a bad feeling in my mouth that shes saying "im not leaving bc i dont wanna be here, i dont want to leave but i will because the problem is too much" and then other members are like "chill guys we dont have big new problems here dont worry we are fine", its like ??????

[@TYAC_red]

"Good restaurant should never close." We have to respect the owner's wishes and will. Just like we have to respect your decision with the IP Fauna.

[@bileborgg]

my favorite fruit moved away recently

[@deathwizard1996]

Is anyone looking up wired bon bon on KZbin to see fauna’s favorite food place. It does look pretty good though

[@zellrang]

This is me when my favorite bookstore is closed... And my favorite Rotiboy is also closed... 😢 I dunno why are they closing, they always have a LOT of people coming...

[@ketsuekiuki]

this girl can't have anything u_u

[@ItsFusaaa]

Wired Bonbon Doko?

[@atomsk3386]

Me when Nescafé Discontinued Berry Mocha, or when Jack N Jill Discontinued Chippy Beef Chilli Flavour

[@blackoutnine]

Ahoy SEA gang

[@davidna6465]

Happened to me when my family was going to this place. The soup quality started to wane and it closed a month after. Kinda sad

[@jordanholloman5907]

Me when Atelier Online and Crossing Void got shut down.

[@christopherwebster6354]

Gigi: What's your favorite fruit? I'm gonna say all of Hololive. ¬‿¬

[@ExtraArk]

It's ironic when it got replaced by a vegan place.

[@CactuarNick]

Imagine your favorite thing going away forever 😑

[@lqfr8813]

maybe peaches are not popular to japanese taste on parfait? i generally love any fruit on parfait

[@jzzycaprice]

In todays news, Fauna makes a public statement to Wired Bonbon, offering to cancel graduation on the condition that they reopen the store. More at 7.

[@gsh-69]

She likes durian and plays league. Aint no way she isnt sea origins but family moved to murica

[@prowse321]

Its like going yo youtube and missing fauna forever, hope she canxels graduation