Cats & Soup Adds Sanrio Crossover With Free Pompompurin Costume Set

Cats & Soup has turned its Sanrio crossover into a reward chase, giving every player a free Limited Cat Ticket and putting a free Pompompurin Mini Costume Set on the line for anyone who logs in across seven days before the event ends. The collaboration runs until May 6, with a Japanese release listing the cutoff as May 7 at 08:59, so the exact deadline shifts slightly by region and timezone.

The lineup leans on familiar Sanrio names without going for the full mascot roster. Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, and Pochacco appear as special visitors, while Hello Kitty is notably absent from the collaboration set. The event wraps those characters into a forest story beat involving a mysterious rainbow above a pot of soup, then folds back into Cats & Soup’s usual loop of cooking, managing spaces, and building out the village. For collectors, the draw is not just the mascots themselves but the limited-edition Sanrio Collaboration Miniroom decorations, costumes, special facilities, and wind-up toy friends modeled after the characters.

The strongest practical value sits in the event boards and login cadence. Players can move across a Dice Event board to earn currency for limited-time furniture and facility skins, which gives daily check-ins a direct payoff instead of a purely cosmetic one. Droid Gamers also reported a Workshop on Wheels Sanrio event, an Attendance Event titled Sanrio characters Cherry Blossom Picnic, and a new Special Soup Pass, all of which widen the checklist for anyone trying to clear out every limited reward before the timer runs out.

That structure fits the way Cats & Soup has always been positioned. NEOWIZ markets it as a relaxing idle game with ASMR-style sound design and easy progression, so crossover content works best when it adds a clean set of login goals, event currency, and collection items without changing the core loop. NEOWIZ said the collaboration was shaped around long-standing fan wishes and highlighted the “irresistible cuteness” of the cats and Sanrio characters together.

The timing also matters because Cats & Soup is not a small niche title. NEOWIZ said the game had passed 50 million downloads across Google Play and Apple App Store by October 2023, which makes this kind of event less like a novelty drop and more like a retention push for a huge installed base. For active players, the message is simple: log in, clear the board, and grab the freebies before the Sanrio window closes.