Just a short update on the maid trend in Japan. After the maid cafes sprung up in Tokyo and got worldwide extensive press coverage, everybody would have thought it will be old stuff in a year or so. BUT…not so at all. Not only are the maid cafes popular as ever with waiting lines up to 1 hour. Many other places developed around that trend, from maid foot massage to drinking bars with the staff all dressed up. Businesses have started developing attractive maid costumes or parts of it (overknee high socks) not only for cosplay or party goods but also for the more (or less) moderate street fashion…
Also refer to previous article:
Japan Trend Maid Cafe 2005
I love cute gilrs in cosplay (As anyone), and maid-con is one of my favorites.
And though the idea of runing into a girl like the one on the picture in my way to work seems like a dream, I cant help but wonder, if girls just started to dress up like maids as regular street clothes, would the maid outfit loose its alure?
Condomania? WTF
This must be a Tokyo thing. I’ve been working in Nagoya for about a year and been to Osaka several times and seen nobody dressed up as a maid.
That said, there are an unsettling number of men dressing as women, lately.
Wow!!! And only 5 years too late!!!
Could anybody let me know, how this game work´s, that the maid´s play in the café´s ?- I mean this one, where the maid´s are on stage together and sing and perform !!..
ThX, dalleena
Dalleena – the maids “do a little dance” for the patrons then play games with them (like tic tac toe). Each cafe has its signature moves that go with the various types of food/drink you order. If you order a coffee drink they’ll sing this song while mixing your cream and sugar in:
maze, maze
oishikunaaaare
translation:
mixing, mixing
makes it yummy!
They have journals the maids write entries in and regular customers (stalker types) write fan notes in…
Its all this quest for childhood innocence (in terms of the behaviour) mixed with a masked sexual fetish as most of the otaku going can’t deal with a real woman and use the maids to set up fantasies they can relate to (read: wank to)
Its all very harmless and silly. When it started, the maids were otaku girls (cute but homely) but lately, the cabaret girls figured out they could get more money without degrading themselves as much as in the stip/drinking clubs for the salarymen… which makes the girls much sexier, but alot of the “care and sensitivity” has been lost as a result
Vince
Eric Carlson and Joan Wagar, A,K,A, Doubleclick and Mrs Dash,( yes those are there nicknames they gave each other.) admitted to poisoning me while I was a plasma donor back in 2005.
Eric carlson pedofied me behind prison walls and then framed me as a pedophile on march 26th 2007, I caught the crime on a audio recorder I put in Joan’s purse.
there were people in authority helping them with this and nobody in authority will help they pretend nothing happened and refuse to investigate this.
Eric carlson changed his hair color and his name but this is not hidden, only ignored by the authority’s and media
Im disabled from being poisoned and the hospitals refuse to admit Im poisoned.
My Family is in danger from these people and I have no other recoarse but to make these charges public.
My name is Terry Wagar,Im from portland oregon and Im backing up these charges.
I have been threatened with harassment charges by a Sargent walker, She is a portland police officer stationed at the OHSU hospital, for the non crime of reporting a multi murder conspiracy within that hospital.
They dont give a s4!t joan and eric was poisoning a plasma donor!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
flashback!
i remember walking past that shop about 2 years ago and took an almost identical picture.
the maid cafe trend is here to stay, it’s 10 years and still going strong
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/maid-cafes-in-japan-celebrate-10-years/