Lucky Star Cosplay Café Opens in Washinomiya
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 22, 2008 08:57 JST
- Tags: Cosplay, Lucky Star, Maid Café, Marketing, Saitama, Washinomiya
Washinomiya, a site held sacred for being the real-life location of the Lucky Star‘s Hiiragi twins family temple, has seen the official opening of a Lucky Star themed cosplay cafe.
Washinomiya has seen its small economy boom due to its relation with Lucky Star, and has become a sort of Mecca for otaku pilgrims to celebrate and honor the show’s moe cast of female high school students, but previous Lucky Star themed businesses were more along the lines of trinket shops – this is the first Akiba-style cafe to open there.
The らき☆かふぇ / Lucky☆Café is situated only 3 minutes away from the Washinomiya shrine; more details are available at the official website, but as things still seem to be in the process of being set up the site is still fairly incomplete, unfortunately lacking a substantial number of photos of the main attraction – girls dressed up Lucky Star characters.
They are apparently still on the look out for more female employees – specifically 10 women between the ages of 1st year high school grade and 29 years old, but already have 5 cosplay girls ready for service, identified only by such amusing stage names such as “Ichigo” (Strawberry), “Soba” (as in Soba noodles), and even “Moe”.
Lucky Star pilgrims celebrating the Hajisai festival at Washinomiya last September with a Lucky Star themed mikoshi (mikoshi are believed to serve as vehicle for the gods during a parade of deities.) See more of the festival here.
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why are they so expressionless?
is that a Japanese type of thing to do?
The girls or the pilgrims?
If it's about Japanese girls...not particularly so, even though older Japanese men are known for doing their best impression of a stone statute for picture poses.
oh gawd. i love lucky star. but wtf? it's just weird. i'm a girl, so i probably shouldn't go to a cosplay cafe.
she can suck the cream out of my cornette any day
We need cute girls cosplaying Lucky Star girls cosplaying other characters.
Santa Claus?
Wow. Lucky Star fans are kinda scary. I wonder what the locals in Washinomiya think of all this.
Good luck to the cafe tho'.
i think them think "what a freaks stay away from them" for that sort of thing everyone despised otakus
and cause the japanese otakus are abominations.
I believe Lucky Cafe is just written in hiragana, not half katakana and half hiragana. The first picture says so too. Still nice article nonetheless.
Right, thanks. That darned Lucky Star star icon thing was causing some weird encoding issues on my browser...
wish that i could go and try it out!
Quick, someone fund one in The States.
Canadians need lucky cafes too D:
Malaysia also need one too
I agree, Malaysia also needs one, too bad Malaysia is an islamic country, I doubt that would do the cafe any good
oh u washinomiya...still milking Lucky Star i see lol