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'''Cosplay cafes''' are tea shops or small restaurants where the waitstaff's costumes (and frequently the decor and food) are themed around a scenario or fantasy. They typically offer cold and hot tea and coffee drinks, fancy desserts and light meals, often highly decorated and "cutesy", served with [[Fan Service with a Smile]].

A Maid Cafe features attractive waitresses who [[French Maid Outfit|dress]] and [[Meido|"perform" as obsequious and obedient maids]]. A Butler Cafe is similar but with "butlers" and "footmen". Waitstaff at Maid and Butler cafes usually use [[Keigo|extra-polite language]], including the obligatory greeting "Welcome home, Master / Mistress!"

 

 

[[School Festival]]s frequently feature cafes as a class activity, and there is a better-than-even chance it'll be modeled after a Maid Cafe (or possibly a Butler Cafe if the class is mostly male).

 

For the more "adult" version, see [[Host Club|Hostess Club / Host Club]]. Frequently uses [[French Maid Outfit]]. Compare [[Fan Service with a Smile]]. If a couple goes to one together, the menu is extremely likely to include a [[Date Crepe]] and perhaps some [[Sweetheart Sipping]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Ai Kora]]'': A Maid Cafe shows up in chapter 15.

* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'': In the otaku episode, the main characters visit a Maid Cafe.

* ''[[Manga/Welcome To Relish|Welcome To Relish]]'' (Cafe Relish ni Oide): A [[Boys Love Genre]] romance set in a cosplay cafe (with the guys stuffed into a lot of cute outfits, nach).

* ''[[Yubisaki Milk Tea]]'': Minamo decide that the class should do a crossdress cafe for the school festival with Wataru and Kodama as the maids. During the festival Yoshinori remarks that Kodama looks okay, but that Wataru is too tall to pass for a girl. But Minamo answer that the point is to make people laugh, unlike when Yoshinori is crossdressing as Yuki. Yoshinori ends up joining them as a very good looking girl (though not as Yuki). The result is that the cafe suddenly get a lot more customers due to the cute "girl".

 

* One series of strips in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] ''[http://ashitahadocchida.sakura.ne.jp/top.html A's Nano]'' had [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|Hayate]] <s>forcing</s> persuading the Wolkenritter to take part in a Costume Cafe, [http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7285/bangaisp01.jpg much to the horror] of [[Lady of War|Signum]] and [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Reinforce]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Light Novel/Maid Machinegun|Maid Machinegun]]'': The main character gets a job in a maid cafe; deeply nerdy [[Otaku]]-ism ensues.

 

* ''[[wikipedia:Maid in Akihabara|Maid in Akihabara]]'' is a Japanese television series set in a [[Maid Cafe]].

* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'': The Cous Coussier is a major location. Not only is a cosplay cafe, but it's one where the theme changes every day (or at least every time we see it), mostly at the whim of the owner.

* In the ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' [[Webisode|net movies]], Otoya renovates the [[Local Hangout|Cafe mal'damour]] into a series of these, with [[Hilarity Ensues|ridiculous results]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'': In {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird|Kaori Yae]]}}'s storyline, the [[School Festival]] activity your class will choose to do will be a Maid Cafe, allowing you to see an Event showing {{spoiler|Kaori}} having fun acting as a waitress donning this costume, {{spoiler|as part of her [[She's Back]] [[Character Development]] arc}}. The event is also revisited in the [[Novelization]] of this character's storyline, ''Anata o Shinjiteru''.

* ''[[Persona 3]]'': The Main Character's ever-original classmates decide to do a [[Maid Cafe]] for their [[School Festival]]. [[The Chick|Yukari]] dreads it from the depths of her spirit because [[All Men Are Perverts|it means wearing a maid uniform]]; [[Idiot Hero|Junpei]] and the rest of the male schoolmates look forward to [[Fetish Fuel|this cherished event]]. Alas, a typhoon rips through Iwatodai and the [[School Festival]] is canceled, to the endless grief of said schoolmates (and the Main Character is also asked if he mourns the loss.)

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'': Kimiko used to work at a Maid Cafe. She presumably quit after the swarms of otaku made her go temporarily insane.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The most well-known "[[Maid Cafe]]" is [[wikipedia:Anna Miller's|Anna Miller's]].

* [[Maid Cafes]] are so well-known, one "CosCafe" has opened in Singapore.

 

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