Otaku Maid Services

[Mulboyne]

[Greji]

will get you a haircut and "head spa".

A "head spa"? I've been to two Chinese fire drills and the molestation of a young goat, but a "head spa"? What else does the Maid do?

[groovewonder]

Neat

[Taro Toporific]

will get you a haircut and "head spa".

..it a "head spa"? What else does the Maid do?

Here's a photo essay with more "maids" for anime-addled otaku.

JPN: Spa Services "Maid" To Order In Akihabara
Getty Images: 23 Oct 2005 07:36 AM

[Mulboyne]

Akiba culture will hit Roppongi Hills when Maid Moe Cafe opens in Event Space Umu on the 14th of this month. Unfortunately for Roppongi otaku, the cafe will only be there until the 5th February. Still, plenty of time to buy the moe goods in the shop. "Cosplay performers" Fice (above) will appear at the opening ceremony along with over 20 maids.
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[Kuang_Grade]

Fitting for Roppongi, it looks like they may have a FG maid as well

From the photo gallery of the maidmoecafe site

[Taro Toporific]

Fitting for Roppongi, it looks like they may have a FG maid as well

Yep, her name is Jenya and she seems to be a "professional" cosplayer according to her website, Jenya.jp.
I says "seems" because her website is in Japanese with smatterings of Russian.

Actually I have had an FG wannabe emailing me questions on 3Yen.com about how she should become a "maid" ---Yikes, its's a trend!

Embarrassing pix
http://jenya.jp/main/uploads/photos/3.jpg
http://jenya.jp/main/uploads/photos/34.jpg
http://jenya.jp/main/uploads/photos/47.jpg

http://jenya.jp/main/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=34
http://jenya.jp/main/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=16&cid=3
http://jenya.jp/main/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=6

[Mulboyne]

[maninjapan]

Is this an actual cafe or a front for a brothel?

[Mulboyne]

Maid Reflexology MaiSen has just opened in Tenjin, Fukuoka.

[Mulboyne]

Maid Reflexology MaiSen has just opened in Tenjin, Fukuoka.

[Greji]

Looks like the Shinagawa Honten to me!

[inthebubble]

I say we open a serving wench cafe. Dress them all like Zena warrior princess. Be a huge hit!!!

[Mulboyne]

Akiba culture will hit Roppongi Hills when Maid Moe Cafe opens in Event Space Umu on the 14th of this month. Unfortunately for Roppongi otaku, the cafe will only be there until the 5th February.[t]japan[/t] [t]tokyo[/t] [t]roppongi[/t] [t]cafe[/t] [t]cosplay[/t] [t]maid[/t]

Ending soon...

[GomiGirl]

"Maid in Japan" cafes treat geeks like lords
Tue Feb 7, 2006
Oddly Enough.

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." ...more...

But my question is related to this...

At Royal Milk, diners can follow up a meal with a range of grooming services, including ear cleanings.

yuk gross bleugh - who wants somebody else to clean their ears????

[Taro Toporific]

[Mulboyne]

In related news, Butler Cafe Swallowtail is due to open in March. I suppose it was only a matter of time.

[Greji]

yuk gross bleugh - who wants somebody else to clean their ears????[/I]

Any man who goes to a barbershop in Japan and orders the works.The shampoo guy or girl will usually do it after the shave.

[GomiGirl]

Any man who goes to a barbershop in Japan and orders the works.The shampoo guy or girl will usually do it after the shave.

That is just.... well... wrong!!

[Mulboyne]

Yokohama now has its own Maid Cafe - Honey Honey - You have to think that saturation point is around the corner. And I'm not talking about a nearby pink salon.

[Mulboyne]

Maid Cafe Co-Prosperity Plan:

[Mulboyne]

yuk gross bleugh - who wants somebody else to clean their ears????

Kyodo via Yahoo: Healing service parlors emerge, specialize in ear cleaning, massage

A new type of esthetic parlor is emerging in Tokyo to provide people with a healing effect. These establishments are devoted exclusively to cleaning people's ears or providing a combination of earwax removal and massage. The idea is to remind customers of pleasant feelings they had during childhood when resting their heads on their mother's lap to have their ears cleaned. Store manager Akiko Inaba heads the Mimi Kurin (ear cleaning) Store at the western entrance of JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Staff use an earpick equipped with an ultrasmall camera to take a close-up photo of the inside of the ear and show it on the monitoring screen. Inaba said the ear cleaning device is well received because people can see their earwax with their own eyes...more...

[Greji]

"...equipped with an ultrasmall camera to take a close-up photo of the inside..."

Ahh, a myriad of uses for this great technology come immediately to mind!

[Mulboyne]

Maid Cafe "La Vie en Rose" has decided to ditch the "cafe" image in the evening and now runs a full bar. All maid cafes generally serve booze until their 11:00pm closing time but the owners of La Vie en Rose feel that customers don't generally realize the places are somewhere to get tanked up in the evening. Some more free-flowing liquor might help push up their sales of large-sized cosplay outfits.

[Yorik]

What sort of training do you have to do for this?? What a crap load of anime??

[Mulboyne]

In related news, Butler Cafe Swallowtail is due to open in March.

And it is now open:



Asahi article (Japanese)

[Taro Toporific]

And it is now open:

Asahi article (Japanese)

MENU:
Darjeeling　（ダージリン） \1,050yen（税込）
爽やかな渋みと優雅な香りが特徴です。
Assam　（アッサム）※ \1,050yen（税込）
濃厚なコクのある、熟成されたまろやかな口当たりです。
Nilgiri　（ニルギリ）※ \1,050yen（税込）
爽快でさっぱりとした、クセがなく飲み易い紅茶です。
Ceylon Dimbula　（セイロン・ディンブラ） \1,050yen（税込）
-Afternoon Tea Set-
伝統的な英国のアフタヌーンティー形式のセットです。ケーキ、スコーン、サンドウィッチをお楽しみ頂けます 1,890yen（税込）.
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Coffee　（ブレンド・コーヒー） 840 yen（税込）

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Yahoo: Healing service parlors emerge, specialize in ear cleaning, massage

BBC: A spring clean the Japanese way

...I had come to try one of Tokyo's newest hi-tech treatments for Japanese businessmen with time on their hands. In a tiny salon called Mimi Kurin (which means ear clean) on the third floor of a building near one of the city's biggest stations, they will scrape the gunk out of your ear with a scoop attached to a miniature camera. You sit down in a lime green chair and try to relax. In front of you is a flat screen television with what looks like an image of the sun, an orange circle slightly out of focus against a black background...

...It tickled, but not in a good way. It felt like the scoop was going way too far down inside my ear although to be honest that might have been just the effect of watching my aural spring clean on the monitor in front of me. Maria told me she was a college student studying anthropology. This was a part-time job. The training had taken a month to get the technique just right. "Why on earth do you do this all day?" I asked her. "I like to do something different," she said "something out of the ordinary." Apparently most clients are male, in their thirties or older. When I asked why, my therapist laughed. "The men are less good at the cleaning out," she told me. "Women are better at it"...

...Ear cleaning in Japan is traditionally a family activity. My friend in the next booth Miho told me her father had an especially good technique when she was a little girl, resting her head on his lap while he dug away with a small wooden scoop. Later she showed me one of the scoops in a chemist's shop. It was about 10cm long with what looked like a miniature powder puff on the end that is used to brush away the dust. "You can't buy these outside Japan," she told me. "When I lived in London I had to get people to send them to me"...

[Taro Toporific]

TURNING THE TABLES ON 'MAID CAFES'
For female 'otaku,' a coffee house all their own
Japan Times, April 24. 3006
Opening the thick wooden door to the Swallowtail coffee house in Tokyo, a man in a black tailcoat greets female customers: "Welcome home, Madam.
Then the "butler" leads the women to a table in a room designed to look like the interior of a British country house....more...

[Kuang_Grade]

Something I saw on flicker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/124181250/in/pool-onlyinjapan/