Otaku Maid Services

[Mulboyne]

There's now a Nippon Maid Association. They plan to issue a newsletter, set up seminars and officially certify maids.

Girls taking the Maid Exam:

[Mulboyne]

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"...

[2triky]

Mari's blog mentions Hibaritei, a transvestite maid cafe. Japanese article here.

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)

[Mulboyne]

[Kuang_Grade]

NYT: Service With a Wink to a Japanese Fad

The one on the left looks like she has it down, the one on the right....not so much....I suspect that tats and maid outfits usually don't have much overlap in Tokyo....maybe on Yanki days...

[IkemenTommy]

The one on the left looks like she has it down, the one on the right....not so much....I suspect that tats and maid outfits usually don't have much overlap in Tokyo....maybe on Yanki days...

I can totally see her go off on a customer "you got a problem with our service?"

[Mulboyne]

New Maid Casino to open this week.

This Maid Casino will be featuring at Summer Sonic this year.

[Mulboyne]

You won't be able to get a maid foot massage from Mefle in Akihabara after August. The owners claim that traffic in the area has dropped off sharply which, presumably, is a result of the recent stabbing incident, and plan to close.

[Mulboyne]

There's now a book out which celebrates ten years of the maid cafe. Most articles date the trend back to the 1998 Pia Carrot video game which featured characters in maid costumes. There was a cafe based on the game at an anime convention the same year which proved a hit.

[Mulboyne]

Yokohama now has its own Maid Cafe - Honey Honey...

Great news! Now you can get the DVD photo collection!

[Mulboyne]

Mari's blog mentions Hibaritei, a transvestite maid cafe. Japanese article here.

Here's a "maid" calld "Yukiji" who works at Hibaritei. I wasn't sure whether to post the picture here or in the Random Gaijin thread but it is most certainly appropriate for a board called Fucked Gaijin. I think he's Swedish:

[Charles]

Here's a "maid" calld "Yukiji" who works at Hibaritei. I wasn't sure whether to post the picture here or in the Random Gaijin thread but it is most certainly appropriate for a board called Fucked Gaijin. I think he's Swedish:

Nah, looks Icelandic to me.

[2triky]

Play Wii Fit with a Japanese Maid for $25




Why Akihabara's Refresh Club doesn't have a New York outlet, I don't know, but on the wake of this groundbreaking news, they better open it soon. For $25 you will be able to play Wii Fit with Japanese girls in French maid dresses. Yes, Wii Fit, that game with the balance board that often requires you to lean forward and backward. Because, you know, as the owner says, exercise is all about your playmates:

Playing Wii Fit by yourself is lonely. But here, playing along with a maid makes exercising enjoyable.

He is right. And yes, I love French maid dresses. Not to wear them, though. Too bad Brian has left Japan already, because this called for a hands-on.

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]If you can't make it along to the maid cafe, you can console yourself with this mascot for 1,029 yen. More details and pictures on the Strapya site. It also comes in pink.

[Mulboyne]

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There are as many as 30 identical 10 minute video clips on YouTube featuring maids talking with their customers while cleaning their ears.

[angelhalo55]

wow thats strange lol ^^,

[angelhalo55]

why would they need maids for ....^^,

[Greji]

why would they need maids for ....^^,

I am going to have to defer the answer to this question to the resident made maid expert, Iraira.....

[angelhalo55]

oh i get it they clean stuff thats cool ^^v

[Iraira]

Tokyo's best maid cafes
Maid cafés may seem like a fad from 2006 but they are here to stay. We present you with a guide to all the different maid experiences.
Maid cafés have become so embedded in Japanese media and fetish culture that it is hard to imagine a Tokyo without them. There are now about 217 maid cafes in Japan, but the good news is that increased competition is making them much, much crazier. (For those needing background, there's more on the history of maid cafes here)

Here is a guide to the best maid cafes in Akihabara -- to help you pick just the right place for your maid-ly needs.

Most overrated: Pinafore, which appeared in the Fuji TV primetime drama "Densha Otoko" in 2005 and put Akihabara maid cafés on the popular radar. They don't actually offer the services seen on TV, and the place smells like cat urine. (Yamanaka Building 1F, Kanda Sakumacho 1-19, Chiyoda-ku, tel. 03 5295 0123, pinafore.livedoor.biz)

http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/drink/tokyos-best-maid-cafes-798315

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[Taro Toporific]

[Bucky]

[Taro Toporific]

Embiggen

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daylife.com - TOKYO - FEBRUARY 25: Male waiters, wearing woman's clothes, serve customers at New Type cafe...<snip>...women customers saying they enjoy communicating with friendly waiters and male customers enjoying talking with the waiters who they can relate to as both men and women.
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And now for that all-important close up...

[Behan]

That looks like Jamie Farr at the bottom.

[Taro Toporific]

That looks like Jamie Farr at the bottom.

Why yes it is Jamie Farr, who looks a lot like the middle "girl".

[Bucky]

All aboard the Maid Train

If you plan to travel on the Hitachinaka Seaside Railway Co. or Kashima Rinkai Tetsudo Co. train lines this weekend, I hope your reservations have been made... or maybe that should be "maid". Yes indeed, cosplay is finally going off, er, on the rails!

The special service offered by the two Ibaraki prefecture train lines is an effort to boost ridership on the local lines. If previous maid-related phenomena such as the Maid Taxi are any indication, the promotion should be a huge success... as long as the maids are being featured.

"Amakusa Chuchu" is one of six young ladies hired to put on cosplay regalia complete with white aprons and blue miniskirts. Squeals Miss Chuchu (choo-choo, heh), "Masters and younger ladies who are not regular customers in Akihabara, I'm looking forward to seeing you."

I'm guessing the opposite is more accurate as an untold number of Japan's basement-dwelling Otaku "masters" get some badly needed fresh air and sunshine en route to the stations where the special Maid Trains will be stopping. Maid Train service will be running Sunday, March 21 through Monday, March 22. All aboooooooard!!

and more over here: http://www.maidtrain.info/about.html

[Taro Toporific]

Maid parking garage
Kyodo News | Thursday, March 10, 2011
A car park attendant dressed in a French housemaid costume welcomes a driver at a parking garage in Osaka's Nipponbashi district...

[Fullback]

Now that really, [SIZE="5"]really[/SIZE], [size="7"]REALLY[/SIZE] is some pathetic shit.

[wuchan]

Now that really, [SIZE="5"]really[/SIZE], [size="7"]REALLY[/SIZE] is some pathetic shit.

come on, fat chicks need love too.

[Christoff]

Id partake in an otaku maid service if a bunch of sniveling otaku had to dress up in maid outfits and clean my toilet.