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December 26, 2005
Tea Room Alice
Hemispheres is a peculiar Australian/Canadian co-production featuring worthy documentary reporting for the two countries' mutual edification. For some reason the Australian journo sounds canned and appears to be made from a plastic resin: but perhaps this is a feature of distance. Whatever the merits of the enterprise, and while I cannot find it linked on-line, I have Hemispheres to thank for a piece on Japan's Generation Z NEETs. Unemployment, unenthusiasm and goths featured making for the usual gloomy stuff about the latest unenterprising youth to come down the pipe.
But it was an otaku hang-out that caught my attention. Tea Room Alice* appears to be only only example of a "recently popular "maid kissa" trend going on mostly in Akihabara." Chipple reports from Nakano earlier this year.
The Alice in Wonderland dresses are rivalled by the heart-shaped... something... to eat for diabetes-inducing kawaii content. Japan Times weighs in on this latest otaku-scare. If you have any remaining insulin after that you might also consider Sony's Gun Parade Orchestra maid cafe promotion or the promising Candy Maid Caf� ("We're waiting for your coming!").
*Not to be confused with Alice's Tea Cup.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 26, 2005 09:34 AM
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