Café au Lait is known for his dry sense and clever of humor, but is also a quick and logical thinker among his classmates. He is also shown to be quite philosophical, questioning the nature of the world during moments of peace. Although Café au Lait tries to act brave, he gets scared quite easily and is deathly afraid of being mechanically retooled. In Japanese, his dialogue is written in wonky lettering known as Café au Lait Font (), and exclusively uses the Katakana script.
He is composed of a brown ultrametal called karuikane (カルイカネ),[a] a material that makes him surprisingly lightweight, and has many screws around his body. There are exactly six small ones and two large ones on his chest, and five on his head. He also has a few sectioned parts where joints are, like on his legs and feet. He has three digits on each hand, each composed of three silver joints and attached to a gray metal socket on each palm. Café au Lait has one orange eye that rests on his bucket-shaped head. On his head are three brass funnels, and he carries two tanks on his back. Beneath his head, he has a mouth-like hatch containing a digestive apparatus. Yellow markings glow on his body when casting magic.
趣味 旅行 ずっと昔に作られた古代機械だけど、ずっとゼンマイがのびたまま眠っていた。Translation: Hobby: Traveling An ancient machine created long ago, but his mainsprings have been lying dormant the entire time.
古代遺産からのプレゼント １万年以上前、古代文明の技術によって作られたロボット。骨董屋で２００ブラーで安売りされていたところをグラン＝ドラジェ校長に引き取られた。なにかとクールでカッコいい発言をしようとするが、いつもカラまわりしている。Translation:A present from an ancient legacy A robot created by the technology of an ancient civilization over ten thousand years ago. He was taken in by Headmaster Grand Dragée, who saw him on sale at an antique market for 200 bura. He always tries to make cool and clever remarks, but they fail to land every time.
Biography
Early life
Café au Lait was built twelve thousand years ago[2] by a powerful ancient civilization, equipped with a prototype artificial intelligence program titled Ribbit Ribbit β (Beta). This program was the successor to Ribbit Ribbit α (Alpha), designed to give Café au Lait and similar robots complex emotions such as nihilism and coolness. At first, development on Beta was handled by five people, but half way through, more technicians were called over as the negligent Alpha robots grew increasingly out of control. The technicians hastily worked on the Beta program using human wave tactics, and as a result, they failed to implement complex personality traits. The Alpha robots eventually went haywire and annihilated the ancient civilization, while Ribbit Ribbit β was declared an unreleased AI that faded into obscurity.
Twenty years before Magical Vacation, while digging in Zundoko Pit on the Dark Plane, Bruschetta and his team of dwarves excavated Café au Lait from the underground temple Garam Masala.[3] The dwarves went bankrupt shortly after, paying off their debt by selling Café au Lait and their digging machinery to an antique market. Principal Biscotti discovered Café au Lait, and upon noticing that he had Ribbit Ribbit β installed, he erupted into a dance and purchased him for two hundred bira.[4] Café au Lait was then enrolled in Will-o'-Wisp Academy, where Biscotti taught him magic.[5]
Sesame became an ancient technology researcher when he grew up, running Café au Lait under several modifications and experiments. Café au Lait's final modification was a rocket, in which he was launched into outer space from Valencia Beach and never heard from again.
In 2006, he starred in a Flash game called Café au Lait Fight on the Brownie Brown website, br2.co.jp. It was a shooting game where Café au Lait was guided by the player's cursor. To defeat enemies, he used ancient magic that could be buffed by summoning spirits. However, because of his limited HP and MP, the player needed to direct him towards special healing characters periodically. After the discontinuation of Flash and br2.co.jp, very little footage of this game was archived.
Trivia
His favorite food is broiled eel.
In an interview with Nintendo Online Magazine, director Nobuyuki Inoue stated that Café au Lait and Chocolat Cracks were designed to be gender ambiguous.[6] Although Chocolat's in-game profile lists him as male, Café au Lait is listed as "?", but he tends to use the masculine personal pronoun オレ ore.
Nomenclature
His comes from café au lait, meaning "coffee with milk" in French.
↑"カフェオレ: 「オレダッテ ソウダゼ～。オレガ ツクラレタノハ１２０００ネンマエ ナンダガ グラン・ドラジェニ ミコマレテマホウヲ オシエラレテルンダ。" Translation: "Café au Lait: I'm much the same, you know~ I was built twelve thousand years ago, but Grand Drageé discovered me and taught me magic." Magical Vacation. Japanese.
↑"ブルスケッタ: 「なんでも、かんでも、２０年前、ここの地下の神殿からおめぇを掘り出してやったオラの顔、忘れたが！？" Translation: "Bruschetta: I dug you outta the underground temple here twenty years ago, and you forgot my face of all things!?" Magical Vacation. Japanese.
↑"ブルーベリー: 「グラン・ドラジェ先生がこっとう市で買って来たのよね。２００ブラーで。" Translation: "Blueberry: Professor Grand Dragée bought you at an antique market. For two hundred bura." Magical Vacation. Japanese.
↑"人工知能・ケロケロβのテスト版が搭載されている。ケロケロβはケロケロαの投げやりな性格を修正したもので、ちょっとニヒルでカッコイイ行動をすることを目標に作られた。ケロケロβは、最初は５人の小さなグループによって開発が行われていたが、ケロケロαの暴走が拡大したため、プロジェクト途中から数十人規模の開発者が投入された。そこから、人海戦術で大急ぎで作られたため、本来のコンセプトであった『ニヒル』や『カッコイイ』が活かされなかった。ケロケロα暴走とともに古代文明は崩壊、ケロケロβは世に出ることなく終わった幻の人工知能と言われてきた。グラン・ドラジェはケロケロβ搭載のカフェオレを骨董屋でみつけて、思わず小躍りしてしまったと言われている。そしてカフェオレは、踊り狂うグラン・ドラジェを見て涙をこぼした。" Translation: "He is equipped with a test version of artificial intelligence Ribbit Ribbit β. Ribbit Ribbit β revised the negligent personality of Ribbit Ribbit α, created for the purpose of behaving a bit nihilistic and cool. Ribbit Ribbit β started development with a small group of five people, but as Ribbit Ribbit α grew increasingly out of control, droves of developers were brought in midway through the project. From there, it was hastily designed through human wave tactics, and thus, the original concepts of "nihil" and "cool" were not implemented. The ancient civilization collapsed when Ribbit Ribbit α went haywire, and Ribbit Ribbit β was dubbed a phantom AI that never made its way to the world. It is said that Grand Dragée discovered Café au Lait at an antique market, equipped with Ribbit Ribbit β, and could not help but do a little dance. Café au Lait burst into tears at the sight of Grand Dragée's dancing." [3]. Archived: [4]. Retrieved August 15, 2024. Nintendo.co.jp.
↑"井上 本当は男女半々だったんですが、カフェオレとかショコラとか性別がわからないキャラクターが入っちゃったんで、女の子が多い印象になりましたね。" Translation: "Inoue: Actually, it was supposed to be an even number of boys and girls, but because we included gender ambiguous characters like Café au Lait and Chocolat, it ended up seeming like there were more girls." [5]. Archived: [6]. Retrieved August 8, 2025. nintendo.co.jp.
English fan translation
), and exclusively uses the Katakana script.
