Hopper's Cafe is a cat café-shop run by the brothers Ichiro and Jiro Hotta.
Description#
Hopper's Cafe is located in a low-rise building at east Naruhata. Since the establishment is a theme café whose attraction is cats, inside there are several cat trees. The place is also conditioned for customers of different physical conditions, with bathrooms adapted for larger sizes.
The staff is made up reformed minor criminals, like the Hotta Brothers themselves, who are former Trigger dealers, and former Instant Villains like Kirihito Kamachi, Ikajiro Takobe, and Teruo Unagisawa. Because of this, they have no qualms about giving jobs (sometimes by force) to other Villains and minor thugs in the establishment, with the goal of reforming them and helping them to leave behind their old criminal life.[1][2]
History#
The idea for Hopper's Cafe begins during the Instant Villain incidents, when Pro Hero Eraser Head started to frequently use their shop, Recycle Shop: Hoppers, as a meeting place when discussing his investigations into the Villain Factory. To their begrudging reluctance, they would continue to serve coffee to the Hero who called it "the best in the city".
The Hotta Brothers' warehouse would be destroyed during a confrontation against Ikajiro when he was still the Next-Level Villain Octoid.[3] After the effects of Trigger disappeared from Ikajiro, the Hotta Brothers realized that he is not a bad person, and they allow him to live in a tent where their warehouse used to be, along with Kirihito.
However, the situation could not last forever, so the four decided to open a café-shop, using the Villain damage insurance payment they received for the destruction of the warehouse, and the welfare subsidy that Ikajiro and Kirihitio got for their oversized housing. The idea of turning coffee into a cat themed one came up by chance when Koichi brought a kitten to the Recycle Shop and Ikajiro adopted it, with Eraser Head encouraging them to use the theme.[1]
Several years later, Hopper's Cafe is quite successful, to the point they started to open multiple branches.