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Los Angeles' Pop-Up Maid Cafe's Risks Pay Off for Kakegurui Day
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Los Angeles' Little Tokyo was home to its very own pop-up maid cafe, Arcane Maid Cafe where patrons could get a taste of restaurant phenomenon made popular in Akihabara. The group went the extra mile on Sunday, when the staff adopted a Kakegurui theme with a stage show and card and tabletop games, albeit with much lower stakes.
The cafe's maids took on the identities of the show's student council members for guests. Head Maid Beari remarked that the event was "wildly successful."
Guests and academy students played a variety of card games, including indian poker, blackjack, double concentration, and hold'em poker. Other games included Jenga, Shark Attack, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and more. Guests used complementary chocolate coins to play against each other.
The group is already planning their next event in Little Tokyo and it will likely be magical girl themed.
The Kakegurui anime adapts Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura's manga of the same name. The anime premiered on Tokyo MX in Japan on July 1, and the series later aired on TV Aichi, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and BS11. Netflix Japan began streaming the series on July 2, and it is available outside of Japan on Netflix. A second season was announced in January.
Yen Press is releasing the original manga in English under the title Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler, and it describes the series:
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
