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I Maid Cafe | Cosplay cafe | Toronto
Oh horrors, shades of Akihabara Otaku madness has arrived in Canada! Alas, the cosplay cafe (in particular, the maid cafe) has made it over the Pacific and now resides in Toronto in the form of I MAID CAFE, where young waitresses in short French-maid uniforms gamely serve the clientele such fare as fruit with ice cream waffle or fresh mango and bolden fried chicken steak with rice.
The premise is that you get "served" by a cute subservient maid in full gear cosplay, who'll most probably giggle coyly and bat her lashes at pimply teenage boys into anime, or worse yet...oily older men into anime. Are you rolling your eyes already?
Alright, alright, can't knock it until it's been tried, and according to reports the clientele is actually mostly 20-something female Asians (the cafe is located near one of the new Chinatowns in Toronto), and the owner sees the cosplay element as a gimmick rather than exploitation. If only that was the truth...
More: Official website @ www.imccanada.com | "I Maid Cafe Serves Up Japanese Weirdness in Cold Canada" by Steve Levenstein, (Oct 05, 2007) @ inventorspot.com | CBC Toronto Metro Morning report on I Maid Cafe (Feb 4, 2007) by Catherine Jheon @ www.cbc.ca/metromorning.
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Posted by TamikoOctober 25, 2007 at 7:55 AM
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