I absolutely love the cat cafe concept, since they're on an upward trend globally (my city just got our first one last month, in fact!), and it ties well into my itching for something more... modern. I definitely feel like we have enough items that can cobble together a solid Japanese teahouse vibe, but it's a pretty tried and true aesthetic by itself.

Now this might be out of left field/totally tough to incorporate in a pixel form, but it might also be cool to do some kind of riff on the Taiwanese poop-themed restaurant craze, while we're at it?! Perhaps this is diverging enough into its own CI territory, but I don't recall us having a toilet pose/background yet, right? I'm still catching up on items since I've been away for so long, but I definitely know it wasn't in that bath-themed CI...

Anyway... I'm always a fan of CIs/EIs/items as a whole that don't easily fit into one aesthetic category, personally, so I may be a loner there... Plus I love potty humor, 'cause I'm garbage.