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UK Paper on Maid Cafes, Otaku Boom

posted on 2006-05-20 10:32 EDT by Jonathan Mays

The Telegraph's Benjamin Secher chronicles his visit to a maid cafe in central Tokyo, tracing the "otaku boom" in Japan to 2004's Train Man.

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