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INTEREST: New Maid Café Opens in Richmond, B.C.

Past wrote:

KanjiiZ wrote: Hope it fails hard enough for no one to ever think about bringing this outside of Japan again. You're serious? If so, why may I ask?

I've despised the very idea of maid cafes from the very beginning since I saw it in Tokyo Eye. The appeal quite moronic. A "cute" maid that pretends to have the mentality of a child comes to you, acts like a weak woman and serves you overpriced coffee and cake. Oh, and don't forget you can pay her to play pattyfreakin' cake with you!

I'm sure some guy is going to come into the thread and argue that it's not like that at all, but I'm sure if you interviewed half the people that go to Akiba's cafes they'd tell you that they go there for the 3D moe effect. If this cafe is heading in that direction, I hope it falls flat on its face.

Past wrote:

chefneer wrote: Ain't Canada grand? Awsome place. Hmm. I wonder how a cosplay cafe would fare in Texas? Probably not well with a boys-love theme or crossdressing maids

Heh, probably not.

Hell yeah!! I'm just an hour from Richmond!!

mdo7 wrote:

zeonozero wrote: Too bad they wont look as good as anime unless they get some really hot girls. But i have never been to Canada, so i can't say if the girls over there are fine or anything. But dang i like anime/manga continuing to be influential even in Canada. I would pay double tip every time i went there I agree, my concern are the ladies. Not that we need Asian girls only or anything. But I'm afraid the girls they use might not be hot enough. So maybe if it's possible to maybe use hot models to maybe attract people who are not even anime fan. It's nice to see a maid cafe opened up in Canada. I wonder how it would do.

Uhmm Metro Vancouver has no shortage of hot chicks, that I can assure you.

chefneer wrote:

Past wrote: chefneer wrote: Ain't Canada grand? Awsome place. Hmm. I wonder how a cosplay cafe would fare in Texas? Probably not well with a boys-love theme or crossdressing maids Heh, probably not.

You just have to stay within areas like D/FW and Houston and such. If you go out to small towns, then yeah, you will be eaten alive.

Koji98 wrote:

chefneer wrote: Past wrote: chefneer wrote: Ain't Canada grand? Awsome place. Hmm. I wonder how a cosplay cafe would fare in Texas? Probably not well with a boys-love theme or crossdressing maids Heh, probably not. You just have to stay within areas like D/FW and Houston and such. If you go out to small towns, then yeah, you will be eaten alive.

Yeah, that's what's got me wondering. I'm on the Fort Worth side of DFW and anime and manga are readily available in stores with large selections to choose from. My local Borders has made manga a focus point of the store (the manager's a fan, every time I go in there we end up talking for a good while), and anime's on TV 24/7/365 (Funimation Channel, among others).

I don't think Japan style interactive service would go over very well, but if the cosplay were done properly, and the food and service were good... I wonder.

It would certainly be different from anything else you can find around here, which can be a good thing. Or not. Perhaps some market research is in order.

Before judging why it opened or will it succeed or how the women may be degraded (no such extra services as mentioned by some are offered), why not read about it first? The owner is a woman, she knows what maid cafes are. Richmond has a high Asian population and anime/manga is popular. This is the article in the Richmond News:

http://www.richmond-news.com/life/Dressing+your+side+salad/3304156/story.html

zeonozero wrote:

Too bad they wont look as good as anime unless they get some really hot girls.

If they're gonna do this and succeed, then they have to do this unabashedly. By that, I mean Hooters forget-womens-lib-pc unabashedly!

*oh and just as an aside, most food in Japanese maid cafes tastes like cardboard.
But actually that's the way it is in MOST cafes in Japan. Looks better than it tastes *shrug* don't think that would go over well in the western world.

No Japanese Hooters creepiness = no succeed