Tokyo has launched its first schoolboy cafe, where customers and waiters role play themes from manga comics.
In keeping with the schoolboy theme, waiters with manicured hands and effeminate voices pretend to be teenage students, chatting and flirting with scorching young professional women who visit the Edelstein boarding school cafe.
Emiko Sakamaki, the cafe's 27-year-old-manager, dressed in a loose mini-dress over skinny jeans and knee-high boots reported in
The Sydney Morning Herald that most of the customers are office ladies in their twenties and thirties, who are fashionable but normal.
While Japanese men enjoy visiting establishments where sexy waitresses dress up as French maids and schoolgirls, businesses have discovered another type of free-spending Japanese consumer: the female otaku, who tend to be better-looking, trendier, and more sociable than the men.
The otaku market, who spend more than $1.87 billion a year on animation manga movies and computer games primarily lust over boy-love manga, which features feminine-looking male characters who probably look more like Anthony Callea and Kyle Sandilands.
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