Katsucon’s Maid Cafe: Strangely Chaste~~1
Filed Under (Anime, Online Anime News) by admin on 24-02-2011
Tagged Under : anime maid cafe, cosplay news, maid cafe shop, maid cafe shop in Japan
At this weekend’s Katsucon anime convention in National Harbor, there was naturally plenty of overlap between the pervy and the adorable. Pervy and polite, though? For that, you had to go to the event’s Maid Cafe.
What’s a maid cafe? Allow the Katsucon site to explain:
Maid Cafés are a special kind of theme restaurant that first appeared in the Akihabara area of Tokyo and became popular around the turn of the century. Unlike your typical Western restaurant, Maid Cafés are staffed by highly attentive workers of a novelty Cafés that provided extra care to individuals that they serve. As the name suggests, Maid Café workers typically dress in maid outfits or other forms of cosplay.
It doesn’t take a genius to see the Maid Cafe’s sexual subtext. Back in 2009, aWashington Postarticle on Katsucon’s first Maid Cafe drew some strong reactions with its portrayal of maids who “reinforce the fantasy” and “call conventioneers ‘master’ and ‘mistress.’”
