is a 6 episode series that was produced in Japan in 2005 and released on February 24, 2006. Each episode ran about 15 minutes, and took place in
Akihabara,
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
- the cyber city of Japan. The story begins when a woman named Saki, an ex-bar girl, tries to find a job to hide from a group of
yakuza
, also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the ter ...
. She ends up getting a job at a
Maid cafe
A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids ...
called ''Meido no miyage'' (''Maid's gift''). She is the third maid to be joining the cafe. She was homeless and starts living in a 24-hour
internet cafe
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
.
Cast
Meido
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Mako
, better known by the mononym name Mako (sometimes stylised MAKO), is a Japanese voice actress, singer and a member of the band Bon-Bon Blanco, in which her prominent role is as the maraca player. She has also performed in a Japanese television ...
- Saki Shinohara
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Risa Odagiri - Miyabi
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Mariko Fujita - Himeko
Others
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Kentaro Nakakura - 根岸肇
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Takeshi Yoshikoa - 前野貢
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Nakakura Kentaro - Hajime
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Yuuichi Koshimura - 銀角
* Andre - 金角
See also
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Cosplay restaurant
are theme restaurants and pubs that originated in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, around the late 1990s and early 2000s. They include and , where the service staff dress as elegant maids, or as butlers. The staff treat the customers as '' masters'' ...
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Akihabara
External links
Official website*
2006 Japanese television series debuts
2006 Japanese television series endings
Akihabara
Japanese drama television series
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