NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cosplay restaurant

Cosplay restaurants (コスプレ系飲食店 Kosupure keiinshokuten^?), are theme restaurants and pubs that originated in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan around the year 2000. They include maid cafés (メイドカフェ Meido kafue^?) and butler cafés (執事喫茶 shitsuji kissa^?), where the service staff dress as elegant maids, or as butlers. Such restaurants and cafés have quickly become a staple of Japanese otaku culture. Compared with service at normal cafés, the service at cosplay cafés involves the creation of a rather different atmosphere. The staff treat the customers as masters and mistresses in a private home rather than merely as café customers. Theme restaurants are restaurants in which the concept of the restaurant takes priority over everything else, influencing the architecture, food, music, and overall feel of the restaurant. ... Akihabara in 2007 Akihabara ), also known as Akihabara Electric Town ), is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. ... Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ... Coffeehouse in Damascus // A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or cafe (also spelled as cafÃ© from the French, Spanish, and Portuguese or caffÃ¨ from the Italian) shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... Master is an English title. ... Mistress is an old form of address for a woman. ...

The popularity of the Cosplay restaurants and maid cafes has spread to other regions in Japan, such as Osaka's Den Den Town as well as other countries, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Canada.^{[citation needed]} Osaka ) is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of HonshÅ«. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. ... Denden Town For Tennoji Denden Town For Nanba Gundams Osaka at Denden Town Den Den Town (でんでんタウン) is a shopping district in the Nipponbashi district of Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan, famous for its wide variety of consumer electronics stores, and especially famous for its...

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Meido

Meido (メイド Japanese phonetic of maid) is also a jargon term amongst some otaku to refer to a type of stock female character in manga and anime. The characterization can have a cute or ecchi connotation depending on the writer. Most address their employers as goshujinsama(ご主人様) or ojousama（お嬢様） (especially the former. The latter is generally used for the employers' daughter). Image File history File links Emma_manga_vol01. ... Image File history File links Emma_manga_vol01. ... William and Emma Emma (ã‚¨ãƒž, Ema) is a Japanese seinen manga by Kaoru Mori. ... A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. ... Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ... This article is about the comics published in East Asian countries. ... â€œAnimÃ©â€ redirects here. ... Ecchi (from the Japanese ã‚¨ãƒƒãƒ etchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning lewd or naughty when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert or sexual intercourse when used as a noun. ...

The character differs from the traditional image of a typical housekeeper in being young, highly attractive, and usually wearing a maid outfit vaguely similar to a classic English or French design . In shōnen and seinen the outfit is almost universally fetishized: low-cut to show off the legs and chest, excessively colorful and/or frilly, and usually with white apron of variable length. The bishōjo style of cartooning uses large, limpid eyes for increased cuteness, as in the character of Nyuu from Elfen Lied. ... The properties that make a character moe are often difficult to define but easy to recognize. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Bleach , a well-known example of ShÅnen manga This article is about the shÅnen style of anime and manga. ... Seinen not to be confused with adult )) is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at an 18â€“30 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. ...

The types of characters who wear the costumes are often viewed dimly by fans as being an extreme take on the fetish combo of an 'ideal' housewife and an obedient servant, often with sexual connotations. In more wholesome terms, a fairly common device are meido harboring romantic feelings for their master or their wards (especially if they are younger). Look up fetish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A stereotypical housewife A homemaker is a person whose prime occupation is to care for their family and home. ... A servant is a person who is hired to provide regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Meido are often written in a comedic light, having employers with variably subtle embarrassing personality quirks which they put up with, having completely different personalities when "off the clock", or reprimanding their masters like children. Know Your Personality - a poster describing some of the theoretical aspects in the personality research. ...

Many bishojo shows which contain scenes of characters in large households or doing spring cleaning inevitably produce art with the characters in these sorts of outfits. The bishōjo style of cartooning uses large, limpid eyes for increased cuteness, as in the character of Nyuu from Elfen Lied. ...

The maids are often dressed in a combination of french maid-styled uniforms in attempt to look "moe". They also behave in a "cute" and "moe" manner. Sometimes, the maid outfit is augmented with cat or bunny ears. At maid cafes, most service staff members are female, and male jobs are typically limited to bar-backing and janitorial duties. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The properties that make a character moe are often difficult to define but easy to recognize. ... The properties that make a character moe are often difficult to define but easy to recognize. ...

Service

When a customer enters the café, the maids typically give an extraordinarily humble greeting, such as "Welcome home, Master" (お帰りなさいませ、ご主人様！ Okaerinasaimase, goshujinsama^?) in order to play the role of a house servant. In order to enhance the illusion that the customer is indeed the master, they often serve the customer in a very deferential fashion. For example, staff sometimes kneel to mix sugar or milk in teas or other drinks. The purpose of the maid cafés and their service is to make customers feel as though they are at home and to encourage them to relax. Although exemplary customer service is typical of Japan, maid cafés take special care to pamper patrons. For other uses, see Tea (disambiguation). ...

Recently, with the maid cafe scene booming, additional related services have become popular. These include ear cleaning (耳かき Mimikaki^?), a foot or hand massage, or a photography session (the customer typically rents time in a studio during which he can tell a maid which costume to wear and how to pose). Not only can you take pictures with the maids but also, certain cafe's have special performances. With the new game consoles, some cafes also have gaming time when you can ask your favourite maid to play with you but there are also traditional games such as "Jankenpoi" (じゃんけんぽい）), which is rock paper scissors. Akihabara even features a "maid megane" (maid optician). Rock, Paper, Scissors chart Rock, Paper, Scissors (sometimes with the elements in its name permuted and/or Rock replaced with Stone and/or Paper with Cloth, but also known as Roshambo, Rochambeau, Ick-Ack-Ock, Janken, Mora, Morra Cinese, Gawi-Bawi-Bo, JanKenPon or Farkle) is a popular hand game...

Imouto (younger sister) cafe

In imouto cafes, waitresses in uniform role play as the customer's fantasy younger sister. Similar to maid cafes, when a customer enters an imouto café, the "younger sisters" typically give an extraordinarily friendly greeting, such as "Welcome home, older brother / older sister!" (お帰り、お兄ちゃん／お姉ちゃん！ Okaeri, oniichan / oneechan^?), dropping the Japanese honorifics keigo from speech (extremely unusual for waitstaff in Japan). Honorific speech is speech which shows respect. ...

Butler cafe

While most cosplay restaurants and maid cafes cater mostly to men, there is also a type for women called the butler café (執事喫茶 shitsuji kissa^?). The butlers in these cafes are well-dressed male employees and may wear either a typical waiter's uniform or even a tuxedo or tails. ^[1] For other uses, see Butler (disambiguation). ... Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. President Ronald Reagan wearing black tie with wives in Quebec, Canada, March 18, 1985. ...

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Imouto (younger sister) cafe

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Meido

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Imouto (younger sister) cafe

Butler cafe

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