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LAist: The 1st U.S. Japanese 'Maid Cafe' Opens in Culver City

Bettina Korek and her For Your Art crew did it again -- another fantastic art opening slammed with people. Actually, they have been sizzlin' hot all weekend with the first LA Art Weekend...which has highlighted some of the city's newest gallery spaces including last night's opening of Royal/T, the nation's first Japanese "Maid Cafe"...

http://laist.com/2008/04/13/the_1st_us_japa.php

Wow.

I'd better give Q a call.

bmwracer wrote:

Wow.

Yeah I was pretty surpised to read this myself.

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I'd better give Q a call.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!


Cross-dressing maids add spice to Tokyo cafes

Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:32am EDT
By Chika Osaka

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - "Welcome home, Master," a group of French maids sings out, bowing deeply to a customer entering their maid cafe.

This could be any of the dozens of maid cafes dotting Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, where geeks engage in role-play with girls dressed as French maids. But don't be fooled by the frilly pinafores: all of the maids here are men.

In this novelty-hungry market catering to Japan's free-spending computer and comic book fans, cafe owners are coming up with ever more exotic formulas to satisfy booming demand.

"I do this for a change since I have an ordinary job," Miyuu Kurusu, one of the cross-dressing maids working at the cafe, told Reuters. "I love talking to people, enjoy wearing cute costumes and get a kick out of it when people tell me I'm pretty."

It all started when the manager of "Hibari Tei" cafe, named after a bird, asked a few cross-dressing men to fill in for women working at a different maid cafe. To his surprise, no customer found out they were being served by a male waiter.

"The maids are too pretty to be men," said 33 year-old businessman Takao Mochizuki, who also cross-dresses while on vacation.

Maid cafes generally do not offer sexual services. Customers order typical cafe fare such as coffee, tea and sandwiches, served by giggling, girlish maids. In addition, they can ask the maids for special, non-sexual services, such as drawing pictures on an omelette using tomato ketchup.

"These maids know how to look good -- more so than real women!" Yoko Iwata, a 33-year-old customer, enthused.

Maid cafes first emerged in Akihabara some six years ago. They have grown into a booming business and are a core part of the Japanese "otaku" or "nerd" industry believed to be worth nearly $2 billion.

Like Kurusu, most waitresses at the cafe have day-time jobs so the cafe opens only on weekends, depending on the maids' availability.

The cafe caters not just to Japanese geeks but also to fellow cross-dressers, tourists and even couples.

"I think there are many Japanese cross-dressers and they actually look good," said 24-year-old maid Chazuke. "They're just not out in the public yet because most Japanese used to be hesitant to cross-dressers."

(Writing by Sophie Hardach)

Tu_triky wrote:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!

I've always had suspicions.
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Wynter wrote:

I've always had suspicions.

I already sent my outfit to the dry cleaner's
Happy times are queer again!

Tu_triky wrote:

I already sent my outfit to the dry cleaner's Happy times are queer again!

Don't forget your pepper sprays.
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Tu_triky wrote:

Cross-dressing maids add spice to Tokyo cafes

That can stay in Japan.

bmwracer wrote:

That can stay in Japan.

Hehe.

LOL@33 year-old businessman Takao Mochizuki.
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tabana wrote:

LOL@33 year-old businessman Takao Mochizuki.

I don't feel so alone anymore!

Tu_triky wrote:

chobits girl on the far left...or atleast portraying that..lol

the effort is there....gaijin otaku-maid_o....but its not the same...nihonjin nai-desu! lol

i think it's just her hair and not meant to be Chi's port covers, i'd think more along the lines of He is my Master.

Akihabara English Conversation Materials

Some selected entries:

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Also, for a limited time only ships with 1 set of full native dress:

Pure gold. I know at least someone who could use the book.

I'm surprised it's tagged with "Yokoso Japan". I thought they were more serious than that.
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tabana wrote:

Good for a laugh.

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Pure gold. I know at least someone who could use the book.

Just on this board....

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I'm surprised it's tagged with "Yokoso Japan". I thought they were more serious than that.

They should change it to "Yokoso Geeks"

I found the ISBN and original title on amazon.co.jp

�p��ŏH�t�����Љ��{(Guiding Your Firends Around Akihabara in English) (�P�s�{�i�\�t�g�J�o�[�j)
# ISBN-10: 4876151725
# ISBN-13: 978-4876151721

It should go on sale tomorrow. And they made a typo writing friends.
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tabana wrote:

It should go on sale tomorrow. And they made a typo writing friends.

LOL