
The maid cafe industry is apparently having a tough time of it, with Akiba cafe numbers halving in recent years, and some fearing the maid cafe bubble may have actually burst for good.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 28, 2013 17:34 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Crime, Fetish, Law, Maid Café, Otaku, Police, Prostitution, Schoolgirls

Police have raided 17 “JK reflexology” centres found to be offering patrons the chance to sleep with actual JKs rather than merely offering old women in school uniforms as elsewhere, alleging violations of child labour laws.
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The sight of creepy otaku holding hands with cute little girls around Comiket and Akiba has been causing a stir online – not least because they have now worked out how to get away with it every time.
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Any doubt about To Love-Ru’s popularity in the wake of its recent censorship debacle was erased by the huge crowds it managed to draw in Akihabara with only the promise of a free (and rather plain) mouse mat and a trio of cosplay maidens – according to one witness the queues “were even longer than the ones at the Wii U launch.”
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The prominent use of Madoka cosplayers at a political rally, and even on top of the campaign truck, has been attracting distaste from anime fans.
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The arrival of Hatsune Miku themed negi noodles on Akiba’s streets, dyed a suitably unappetising shade of green and hawked by a Miku-cosplayer, is once again reminding all just why otaku culinary creations are renowned for their ghastliness rather than their palatability.
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Police have arrested the manager of AKB162 for having his girls service patrons in Akihabara, after it emerged they were underage and he was improperly licensed.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 1, 2012 15:31 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Crime, Dating, Maid Café, Maids, Otaku, Prostitution, Schoolgirls, TV Tokyo

A TV Tokyo employee has been arrested for committing indecent acts with a 16-year-old maid he met working the streets of Akihabara, saying “she was my type.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: May 14, 2012 07:47 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Anime Goods, Bizarre, Crossdressing, Fetish, Fujoshi, Mouse Pads, Otaku

The “thinkopad,” a 3D mouse pad allowing users to rest their wrists on the scrotum and testes of a crossdressing bunnyboy, has lately been exercising the disgust and opprobrium (and in some cases, naturally, the desire) of Japanese online, being quite out there even by the standards of Akihabara and 3D mouse pads.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 27, 2012 05:45 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Akihabara, Arson, Crime, Idol, Maids, NEETs, Otaku, Tokyo

A gang of otaku who robbed and burnt dozens of properties in Tokyo have confessed that they committed their crimes so they could afford to attend AKB48 concerts and visit Akiba maid cafes.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 19, 2012 13:05 JST
- Tags: 3DS, Akihabara, Bukkake, Events, Fighting Games, Oppai, Oshiri, Pantsu, Seifuku

Notoriously sexy 3DS fighting game Senran Kagura’s “excessively sexy” art has been the subject of its own raunchy exhibition, with bursting bikinis, shredded tights and white liquids splattered aplenty.
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A recently published study on the “otaku” market finds that as many as 25% of Japanese may now consider themselves otaku, an increase of 5% on the previous year.
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