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And, on top of that, somebody who is both dear to me and on my apartments lease will not shut up about it. So, to really level with him, I took my housemate to a Dragon Maid themed maid cafe in New Jersey. Each Wednesday for 1. Crunchyroll aired another Dragon Maid episode about an office worker who one day opened her door to a large, fiery dragon. Miraculously, the dragon transforms into a busty maid, whom the woman houses with some mixture of reluctance and curiosity. More of the dragon maids sexy cute dragon girl clan join them over time. Its as if some Japanese ad agency engineered an entire show out of trending search terms on anime sites. Theyre size D, for Dragon the dragon Tohru exclaims in episode one after Miss Kobayashi gifts her a new shirt. I despise Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid, but its been impossible to avoid. Anime blogs and forums glommed onto it. Throughout winter, screenshots of Tohru filled my Twitter feed. And, no, my home was not immune. Every Wednesday I would return from work to find my housemate sprawled out on the couch, eagerly absorbing that weeks iteration of human dragon fan service. For thirty minutes, infantilizing, breathy anime voices and my housemates excited giggles penetrated our thin walls. Dragon Maid has been a curse upon my apartment. Joe, Id say, I do not understand. The dragon maid has her own custom boob bouncing sound. It didnt faze him. In my weaker moments, Id emerge from my room to watch with him and scowl at the television. Once, he showed me an episode in which another dragon, this time with breasts the size of her torso, comes over for a dinner party. He explained that the episode was about experiencing the slower moments of human life through dragon eyes, but all I saw was lazy anime trope after lazy anime trope. Sometimes hed wait until right after I got home to put it on. He desperately wanted me to see Dragon Maids deeper themes through its thick smokescreen of fan service. Dragon Maid became a point of contention. I wanted Joe to see the show as I saw it as a cringy, alienating anime that wraps empty sexiness around an empty plot. So, when he told me about the pop up Moe Mahous Dragon Maid Cafe, a Dragon Maid themed maid cafe in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, I figured that it was my chance. My best friend, who watches no anime, came along as a referee. There, in the minefield of Dragon Maid fandom, he would surely understand where I was coming from. We purchased the tickets online. The cafes Facebook description read, With a flick of a wand, anyone who enters this castle transforms into royalty and is served the most delectable treats alongside wonderful performances. We are opening our doors this time to celebrate the land where Dragons co exist in harmony with humans Bring your loved ones and enjoy an afternoon tea filled with dragons magic That land, for one day, would exist in an innocuous Italian restaurant in New Jersey. On the bus to the cafe, I shot Joe some questions. Yes, he had been to a maid cafe before. Of course he was looking forward to this. As for what he saw in the show The theme of family and finding out your identity, he said. He went on, again, about loving people despite and because of their differences. Theres something really charming about it. My friend, who had only seen glimpses of Dragon Maid at my apartment, was nonplussed. Like me, the shows raunchiness made her uncomfortable. It was a gray Saturday. Buildings lining Ridgefield Parks main street were a bleak mud color, and the restaurant was no different. Inside the small room, a half dozen tables were set. Women in full skirted maid costumes, a few butlers and one android, all in anime styled wigs or outfits, roved around with trays. Tables in the back offered fan made chibi pins and buttons displaying the shows protagonists. Moments after we sat down, the android offered to play Lets Go Fishin, the childrens board game, with the table. The prize for most fish caught was a plastic dragon. Somebody served us a bowl of cherry tomatoes. We drank water. I was, a little vindictively, excited for Joe to confront what I saw the show for. It was easy to discern that folks in the room were ardent Dragon Maid fans. It wasnt just clear from their cosplayseveral showed up in cosplay from other anime, tooit was a vibe. The energy in the room was unabashedly enthusiastic, with a sort of starry eyed Im just happy to be here attitude. Tohru, the dragon maid herself, was the conduit for it. Dressed in a pink, frilly dress, a blonde wig and dragon horns, she eagerly called out winners of the drawing contest, danced while singing the Dragon Maid theme in Japanese and teased the upcoming dessert, a cake shaped like her dragon tail. Her smile, I admit, was infectious. She was lovely and charming, mirroring who many fans interpret Tohru to be. Fuck, I thought. This is too earnest. Instead of being the Google search optimized Frankenstein of anime protagonists I saw her for, this Tohru embodied the spirit that Joe loved. In between one maid singing Sailor Moon covers, another casting a spell on my food moe moe kyuuun and my begrudging, slow acceptance of what was happening, I tried to hang on to the things about Dragon Maid I found irredeemable. In the show, each dragon girl has her own plucky boob bouncing sound. In one episode, two children have a borderline sexual encounter. A bikini in what is literally called The Fan Service Episode was so over the top that a lifeguard in the show hauled the character wearing it away. But the cafe, on the other hand, was completely innocenta distillation of what the show could have been if not for its obsession with dragon breasts. Joe, whose heart is simply too big, was charmed by the Dragon Maid fandoms unselfconscious enthusiasm. One fan found this lack of fan service unacceptable. While the hosts were announcing winners of a drawing contest, a man in Naruto cosplay catcalled a maid You would be better if you were drunkEverything was silent for a moment. Watch The Green Berets Hindi Full Movie. It was painfully awkward. I can, vaguely, understand why somebody might expect adult themes at a Dragon Maid maid cafelarge breasts are a punchline basically every episode. The fans, however, didnt share his feelings. He was immediately pulled aside, and patrons and staff calmly explained why his outburst was inappropriate. It was then I recognized that these so earnest fans were doing what my housemate did sweeping aside, or good humoredly laughing at, the strange raunchiness of a show that they truly believed was about family. After a meal of hamburgers, on which maids drew ketchup hearts, we said our goodbyes and walked over to a Dunkin Donuts to debrief. I had cycled through a lot of emotions. Yes, the cafe was cringy. It was over earnest. But, with the shows sex appeal an afterthought, it was easier to see how the fandom understood Dragon Maid. Diary Of A Nymphomaniac Full Movie In English. While I admit that the show was more than Id given it credit for, I still didnt like the gross cuteness of the the accepting yourself and family is whoever you want it to be themes. Undoubtedly, they meant a lot to others. Still, I asked Joe, how could everyone just brush the shows fan service aside What do you see in thisFor sure, Dragon Maid has some glaring flaws, like the fan service, he said. I dont think thats its fandom. Later, when I asked about the one fans catcall in the cafe, he added, The show always felt like more of a story with isolated moments of fan service rather than fan service with a story. I think the dudes outburst wasnt linked to the stuff in Dragon Maid. It wasnt referencing anything from the show in particular.