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'WELCOME home, master!'' is the typical greeting at Maidolce cafe.

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In a country with no shortage of concept cafes, Maidolce in Osaka's Nipponbashi district, strives to create the concept of ''home''. That is, if your home happens to be staffed by teenage Japanese girls dressed as French maids (''meidos''), eager to wait on you hand and foot.

Japan is estimated to have more than 100 meido cafes. About 20 of them are in Nipponbashi, Osaka's equivalent of Akihabara Electric Town in Tokyo, which has about 30. These inner-city districts cater to the obsessions of ''otaku'' (Japanese geeks).
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The maid has been popularised in otaku culture through anime, manga and computer games. In part, the meido phenomenon taps into the importance of politeness and ritual within Japanese culture, as well as ''moe'' - an adoration or fetish for anime, manga and computer game characters.

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