‘Boys Love’ maid cafe for for Japanese women
A while back I reported on the, ”Princess Heart” a Japanese ‘maid cafe’ for women,
is a womens’ answer to the frilly maids for anime-addled otaku.
These Maid Cafes have charming Japanese women dressed in exotic maid uniforms pour coffee for their male customers, whom they address as “Master.” Now women who are interested in yaoi comics, anime and PC gaming culture can enjoy Japan’s first “BL Cafe”— that is “Boys Love” — male/male erotic manga comics made for women from Japan.
According to the 3Yen’s sponsor, Peter Payne, on his JList blog of Monday, October 29, 2007:
In Tokyo’s bustling commercial district known as Ikebukuro there’s a street called Otome Road (Maiden Road), fast becoming the yaoi answer to the more traditional otaku culture found in Akihabara. On that street is a restaurant called Lily Rose, staffed with incredibly attractive men who look like they stepped out of a BL comic.
Oops, scratch that — the staff is actually all women who are dressed as yaoi-esque males, complete with male names like Keisuke-kun. The employees of the restaurant are known as “gyaru-son,” which combines the word “gal” (i.e. hip young Tokyo girl) with “son” to make “garcon.” Why would women want to eat in a restaurant staffed by women dressed as effeminate men? One patron said: “Because the staff are really women, I can eat without fear of a man trying to pick me up, allowing me to take in the beauty of the ‘men’ around me as I enjoy my food.”
To see more of the Boys Love / yaoi check out the many offerings from JList.com such as BL Style—a bishounen (boy’s love) compilation BL manga featuring the works of eight (a mixture of male and female) top artists, including Yoichiro Kohga, Rie Honju, Aki Senooo, Kumi Yoshimori, and more. Features stories of good, solid yaoi love with lighter themes. It shows the model for the slim men with long hair, or the well dressed intellectual type that inspired BL restaurants.
Or if you dare, check out the interactive Yaoi game on CD-ROM called Absolute Obedience - Zettai Fukuju Meirei. Watch a demo movie (12MB, MPG format) of the kinky game here….
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