Maid Dry Cleaning
Sun 2008/06/01 04:44 JST
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The otaku business mind continues to show us more maid monetization opportunities. This time its Maid Dry Cleaning and Locker Service.
NTK System was just a bog standard dry cleaners and locker rental place in Akihabara until they decided to have maids serve their customers.
Prices for dry cleaning don't differ much from other places but you get a maid thrown in so it must be value for money - especially when they
pose like this for customers.
Apart from the Dry Cleaning, they also have a locker service where they lock you up for 3 days without food or clothes for a bargain price of
3,450 yen. They would occasionally show up and pour hot wax on your dolphin.
OK, I'm only jesting. They actually provide lockers for you to keep stuff in. Although there are coin lockers at Akihabara station, you may want to pay the same price for a locker and have the maid thrown in. They provide hourly lockers at
200 yen per hour and also monthly lockers for the otaku who has something to hide from the rest of the family.
The lockers range from 3,000 yen per month for a W：270 × D：310 × H：168 sized locker or 13,000 yen for a W：420 × D：475 × H：890 sized locker - may be able to fit a Candy Girl inside. Full price list at NT System.
If you are convinced that this service is for you then walk along Chuo Dori in Akihabara until you see this entrance. Photos and coverage by AkibaMap.
I know there are maid cafes in Shanghai, Canada and Thai but am interested to know if there are maid cafes or other maid related businesses in your region.
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Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
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Maid related services in L.A.? Never.
The ideas that continue to grow in Japan that surround anime & otaku would never come true. I'm not sure if it's because people are scared or because th ideas would be rejected. L.A. is ful of mixed interests anyway.
And my dry cleaners is a plain dry cleaners on the corner of 5th and Spring in Downtown L.A. I can't even stand being inside for too long. The dry cleaners in these pictures make me wanna live there. :p
Student, I hate school. FML
aren't there a maid cafe in LA just stared a month ago??? call Royal/T Cafe in Culver City L.A
http://www.royal-t.org
University Student, otaku
http://chenzen.org
Maid services here? Never =(.
Although we as part of the manga/anime/figure/2D/etc. etc. community probably have a largely different picture of what a maid is (should be) like.
If the girls are cute though, I'd definitely want one to open here, but I guess that'll only happen in the farfetched opposite world.
working part time
Maid service LOL , First time i see this but maids sure looks so cute ^^
Hikikomori in the making
http://supermariabros.deviantart.com/
There are a few maid cafes here, I think... Never really been to any of them...
LOL, you got me there for a second... Lock you up and a locker and pour wax on your dolphin, that sounds more like torture than anything else...
pervert
next will be maid swiming instructors
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
I Will be the first to go take photos if that happens.
Student
http://christianchoi.wordpress.com/
how about maid dolphin instructors?? eh?
(ok that might be a bit too far)
Ronin
http://roadblogg.blogspot.com
Would really love that! ^.^ *Grin*
Hikikomori in the making
http://supermariabros.deviantart.com/
I sense Maid Cooking classes in the near future^^;...
Student
Maid services? I wish.
This is just going a bit too far, but I still like the idea.
Engineer by weekdays, Hikki by weekends
http://ejump.wordpress.com/
Considerable service i must say, as they didnt attempt to ripoff customers with massive extra fees for maids.
There one Meido Kissa in Penang, MY, but thats just waitress wearing maid outfit. No 'Irashaimasen goshujin-sama' (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
IMO, this kind of stuff is best leave it in Japan, as it wont really work outside Japan.
Pre-U Student
http://wakuwakusuru.zeroclipse.net
That's kinda far still.. Wish they had one here in KL though.
Admin
Maid-cosplay dry cleaning here? Oh, Danny, you jester you.
You'll be lucky if the woman taking the dry cleaning isn't some mature woman in her 40s.
In any case, the concept of maid here is very different from the one in Japan. We have Filipino or Indonesian petit women serving as household cleaners and baby-sitters. And sometimes, the maids here get lousy employers where they get shouted at, locked in the house without food and such.
Otaku maids represent a fantasy, which is why I don't see the idea being exported to other countries much. We have a maid cafe here, though, I think.
Spiral Warrior
http://www.perfectdesignsense.com/martinwandering
Still no maid cafes nor anything of the like in Taibei (that I've come across), but I don't spend too much time downtown, and moreover I haven't been looking.
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
guh....Australia
;_;
Artist/Flash Programmer
http://wcloudxkumo.wordpress.com/
It would be damn lucky to even found a maid that cute in a store, working, here in Singapore >_<
There's a Maid Cafe here in Singapore, but I've never been there =/
Student
http://romance.freesitespace.net/
I wish, I need a new job...
だいがくせい
http://www.myspace.com/awsumchino
maid service in miami? well with enough money... but for normal folk, no maids here =/
Thats my future job XD
C. Engineering Student
http://otaku.baywords.com
Sadly, no maid services around here. It's disappointing really.
uni student
http://reggie21.wordpress.com
no maid services around here too. but then again, there are no girls that moe enough
writing mini thesises
http://kazenomise.net/
you need to use your imagination dude LOL
Geek Liaison
http://www.thegeekreview.com
Well if someone tried to open a Maid Cafe in the US I'm sure that the radical feminist would throw a fit. And, protests are rarely good for business in the long run.
Now if I remember right some of the anime cons have set up temporary maid/cosplay cafes. That's about the most we will see for maid in the US.
Anime Otaku/gamer
http://www.a.childers84@yahoo.com
oooooooooo....kakoii
Electrical Engineering Student
umm hey guys first comment but
have you guys heard of ROYAL/T?
Its a cos cafe in CA
http://www.royal-t.org/
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
http://loli1983.wordpress.com
Holy crap. Thanks for the info. How could i let this slip under my radar?
I had no idea. Now i'm eager to check it out this week. And what better place than Culver City. I like that part of Culver City, it's all artistic. Thanks again. :)
Geek Liaison
http://www.thegeekreview.com
Holy Crap on a Triscuit. How the heack did this sneek in under the radar. Too bad I live 10 hours away and gas in 4.30 a gallon or I would head down there.
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
http://loli1983.wordpress.com
Sucks to be you. :p
I'll check this out next week after i see the dentist for my root canal. I want to enjoy my first visit without any random oral pain. :p
University Student
Thx for telling how CHEAP gas is in the States! Did some calculating: In Germany 1 gallon would cost 9,06 $. But nevertheless i wouldn´t drive that far 2...what a pity for u
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
http://loli1983.wordpress.com
My monthly $24 bus pass sticker replaces $100's worth of gas a month. :p
So i don't have to worry about gas.
Filmmaker
http://josewritingthelife.blogspot.com/
OMG......i live only ten minutes away....where the hell was I? How could I not know....
Student
WHOAH! Thanks!
Videogame Magazine Editor
http://www.gamerslitterbox.com
Last I heard, there was a maid cafe in Penang, Malaysia. But I've never been there.
Considering the number of anime fans concentrated in Klang Valley, I'm surprised a maid cafe hasn't been set up.
Assembly line worker, nationally certified madman
http://urisblog.morbid-sore.de/
That dress looks like it is mainly made of polyester. The poor girl must be sweating a lot in it on hot days.
Assembly line worker, nationally certified madman
http://urisblog.morbid-sore.de/
Oh and no, we don't have any maid cafes here and I have no problem with that.
Student Otaku (ITM Student) and ACG NA Staff
http://koiaichaku.com/
Okay, the maid business sure is getting bigger in Japan...
Here, not so much...
browsing the nets
http://otakuposts.blogspot.com/
no maid cafe here! it wouldn't work anyway since majority of population hardly knows about anime.
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
http://puppy52art.com/
kawaii! love that large bow on the maid's hair XD maybe I should make one for myself LOL
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
maids in sngapore works long hours with only 1 day off each month.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/344530/1/.html
writing mini thesises
http://kazenomise.net/
that maid and our "maid" are totally different don't you think.
free lance otaku, full time Protector of Peace.
despite our maids being imports, some are pretty nosebleed material. However, there are minority which are higurashi material. cases of "nice boat" have occurred before.
Student and full-time otaku
Nope, no maids here; heck there aren't even many drycleaners around here...
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Otaku business mind applicability.. Hmmm, seems like just about everything can be otaku flavoured.
Online Shop
http://wildarms.egloos.com
It never cease to amaze me with the new ideas they keep come up at Akihabara. I wonder how far will they go o_O?
Student
No maids here :'(. I know that my room would be so clean if there were. :D
University Student
No Maid related Business here. I think there will never be any, since when somebody would try to start something like this some feminists would make a riot and demonstrate against it infront of the shop with sings like "Is that what we fought for?" or "Like back in the Middle Ages..." and the TV coverage would lead to debates about how "Stores try to downgrade the role of women in contemporary society"... or maybe not, but i can really imagine it.
NEET
http://hobbyjapan.blogspot.com/
I don't think there is a single maid in Sweden, except for the cosplayers. Which is boring, as maids are awesome. ^^-b
Student
http://chuymaster.exteen.com
There was one in Bangkok. But it was closed due to a certain situation... Anyway, here, you can see many maids in cosplay, comic events' snack corners. But they come with very plain but expensive snacks&drinks lol
Amateur novelist
http://memories-of-eternity.com
The closest thing we got was a mediocre maid cafe, and it closed down >_>
Student
http://www.joesblog.jp
Wow!
This is going on the visit list
Secretary
http://figured.wordpress.com/
A (lame) anime store here has a (lame) maid cafe just to say they have one. The girls are nothing special and all they have is a cruddy looking couch...no cafe at all. It is sooooo stupid I can't even express how stupid it is...
Software Developer
http://www.reallycuteasians.net
No maid laundry in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada >_<
Although putting it in the Plaza across from the University would definitely be good for business since there are so many engineer/cs students
Student
http://www.tecurious.com
All these maid things... I wonder, how do they hire people for these jobs?
I mean, wouldn't they have to hire based a lot on attractiveness, eye size, etc? Isn't that illegal or something? >_>
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
None here. And I don't think it will click either. Just not enough otakus to support the business.
Wish there was a locker rental business in my region as well. I could think of a lot of ways to use that.
Student
Unfortunately, I don't know any of these services, but this is a really great idea. I would really like to open one of these businesses. XD And we don't have to gather point here like in the Maid Cafe? Personally I really like this business, like to see it in live.
Art student
http://ohcirnine.wordpress.com
Lockers in a dry cleaning huh? Reminds of that line from Terminator:
"Laundry day. No clothes. Right."
http://anigumi.wordpress.com
Is expensive, but, i think is more cause everything looks expensive in japan
We have a nice try of maid cafe in Monterrey, but the way to get the same service is a long way to walk
student during the day, otaku at night
No maid service here, should gather some girls and start one...
Part time employee - University student
http://girishakara-nihonmade.blogspot.com/
Maid service in Greece? Mwahahaha!!! ^0^ You can see many topless girls in beaches, but maids...definitely not!
Alchemist
There was this one that used to be on the ground floor of a senior citizen residence around my area...but I'm not sure what the status of it is now. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to go.
engineer :)
http://animesearchsite.com
Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but they recently (last month?) opened the first maid cafe in the U.S.! I actually went by, and the maids were there, but the cafe wasn't open yet (they gave us free ice coffees though :)). It's supposed to be based on Japanese maid cafes, but it also has an art gallery space.
I wrote about it on my blog: http://animesearchsite.com/?p=17
anime/cosplay events organizer
http://www.cosplay.ph
The only meido service that I know of here is the local Manga Kissaten near my place and that's it. ^^;;;
Student of Engineering in computer
http://pirataespacial.blogspot.com
Maid services are very few here, even there no store with that kind of girls in that suit.
I could open a maid cofee here. That's been the first.
That's all...bye
オタク all day long
http://www.nekomagic.com
I don't even know we have a maid cafe in Canada!!! (Oo.
Machine Operater, Otaku
http://www.myspace.com/sk1ne
Totally jealous, even if it is just a dry cleaning service. We have nothing like that here in our USA city, and prolly no where for a good long drive. Not to be a smartass on the subject, but we do have a maid service here called "maids on wheels" and I highly doubt they wear the uniform, much less someting remotely cute.
student
maid services here-no. Even if there were, there just wouldn't be any girls to fit the "moe" likeness.
Meido cleaning services is exclusively Japanese idea, so it would never work here.
teacher
Im fascinated by the maids, school girls and cat girl related businesses!
They're so adorable :3
There's a maid cafe in Toronto, but that's the only one of know of in that area.
Recording Engineer, Musician, IT Technician
I wish there was something maid related here in Princeton, but no luck. That's what trips to Japan are for.
Student.
http://hanamerhi.deviantart.com/
TOO CUTE~
I think I should start up a maid girl laundromat in my area. I have a feeling it would be PRETTY popular. *snicker*
Full Time Student, Part Time Anime Lover, Half Time Lurker
http://hiro307.blogspot.com
maid related business??? i think not in here but i not to sure
writing mini thesises
http://kazenomise.net/
so is it still worth visiting? O~O