"Maid in Japan" cafes treat geeks like lords |
02-09-2006, 02:17 PM
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#1 | | Consulting your needs Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 5,691 Location: Earth Collection Count: 15 | "Maid in Japan" cafes treat geeks like lords
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"Maid in Japan" cafes treat geeks like lords
Tue Feb 7, 2006 11:02 AM ET
By Naomi Tajitsu
TOKYO (Reuters) - "Welcome home, Master," says the maid as she bows deeply, hands clasped in front of a starched pinafore worn over a short pink dress.
This maid serves not some aristocrat but a string of pop-culture-mad customers at a "Maid Cafe" in Tokyo's Akihabara district, long known as a Mecca for electronics buffs but now also the center of the capital's "nerd culture."
"When they address you as 'Master', the feeling you get is like a high," says Koji Abei, a 20-year-old student having coffee with a friend at the Royal Milk Cafe and Aromacare.
"I've never felt that way before."
Maid cafes dot Akihabara, which has become a second home for Tokyo's "otaku" -- roughly translated as "geeks." They're known for their devotion to comics and computer games and can easily be identified by their standard outfit of track suit, knapsack and spectacles.
In the cafes, girls dressed in frilly frocks inspired by comic-book heroines wait hand and foot on customers, mostly male, who might have once been obsessed with naughty schoolgirls and nurses.
At one cafe, maids get down on their knees to stir the cream and sugar into the customer's coffee.
At Royal Milk, diners can follow up a meal with a range of grooming services, including ear cleanings.
Maids at some of the more attentive shops even offer to spoon-feed customers at their table.
Maid cafes have mushroomed since they first emerged about four years ago, evolving from cafes where waiting staff emulated characters from a popular series of role-playing video games, often dressed in schoolgirl-inspired uniforms.
Shops where computer-generated characters came to life to serve coffee to gamers have since morphed into establishments serving customers ranging from teens to septuagenarians. Continued ...
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02-09-2006, 02:25 PM
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02-09-2006, 02:29 PM
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#3 | | Protectobot Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,295 Location: Little Rock, AR | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Kickback That would turn in to a prostitution thing here. | I think they call it Hooters here. | |
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02-09-2006, 02:31 PM
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#4 | | Terrorcon Queen Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,409 Location: The not-so-frozen North Collection Count: A lot ? | Those wacky under-sexed otaku ! Give it time, and it will show up here, since so many kids these days are obsessed with Japanese anime. | |
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02-09-2006, 03:31 PM
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#5 | | 4-5. Finally a win Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 4,720 Location: Los Angeles Collection Count: I am afraid to count | Nerds here in US needs some more love from the society. How come Otakus are treated so well over there? Maybe they are big spenders and very loyal customers. I often wonder what kind of job those people have when they are in front of their TV set 24/7. 
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02-09-2006, 03:50 PM
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#6 | | is a CHAR Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 6,043 Location: England Collection Count: Lots | Do you need torpedo-style tits to get a job in one of those places?  | |
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02-09-2006, 03:51 PM
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#7 | | Smooth Is Smooth Baby Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 11,169 Location: Niceville, FL Collection Count: Lots |  NERDS!!!
Sorry couldn't resist.  
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
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02-09-2006, 03:56 PM
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#8 | | Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 16,505 Location: Philadelphia Collection Count: Over 1100 News Credits: 2 | Girls dressed up in comic characters sells.
True love hates what is evil.
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02-09-2006, 04:32 PM
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#9 | | Twin Twist's Daddy Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,026 Location: Walden, NY | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Drake NERDS!!!
Sorry couldn't resist. | god i used to love that movie
I have summoned you here for a purpose
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02-09-2006, 04:56 PM
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#10 | | The True Beast Wars Fan Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 13,905 Location: Dublin, OH Collection Count: 200+, though it may get downsized soon. News Credits: 7 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RabidYak Do you need torpedo-style tits to get a job in one of those places? | *cough* Amazing Nurse Nanako Chan and *cough cough* Brave Magnus...*cough* | |
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