Move over, Densha Otoko. There's a new goddess in town!
"Maid in Akihabara" is a live-action comedy/drama starring Mako-sama, the voice actress for Yurie-sama in Kamichu. She plays Saki, a girl in dire straits that needs to find a new job, fast! As luck would have it, she finds one... in a maid cafe in Akihabara that caters to anime-crazed otaku.
Yurie's voice actress in a French maid outfit... what's not to like? But Saki undergoes culture shock as she adjusts to the moe otaku's world, making mistakes along the way, but also finding friends and discovering her SECRET MOE POWER.
"Maid in Akihabara," a six episode series, coming soon from IIchan Translation Group.
WORK HAS BEGUN.
waho!
Sounds great!
Thank you! And I thought I would never see it subbed, thank you very much!
this will supplement my emma withdrawal quite nicely.
arigatou!
That means no summary of Chapter 51 from Emma....
::cries fanatically in my dark corner::
Mwahahahahahahah !!!
Thanks !
sorry you guys(if anyone) who miss IIran's traditional guides.
I'm not too otaku enough to make guides...even though i'm currently working in Akiba!
if you should have any questions, ask here, me or whispers would be happy to answer(ne, whispers?) . ^_^
anyway, hope you'll enjoy!
Ka~mi~chu!
Actually, since the show is packed full of otaku references, feel free to help everyone get them by pointing out what you get! I'm sure everybody got the Kamichu reference, but there's a lot more. Some things that I noticed were:
Does anyone recognize that "Sexy Commando" reference? Yes, I know it's an anime. But is that a catchphrase from the show?
Yay! I saw some episodes online. It looked very interesting.
You guys rock! Keep it coming with Maid in Akihabara!
There's some light background on maid cafes in this article but it may need some verification.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2004/06/20040625p2g00m0dm998000c.html
>Cafes devoted to "costume play," or cosplay as the Japanese call it, first appeared in Akihabara in 1998 as the opening of one store saw its employees clad in garb featured in the Tokyo Character Show, a convention for adults who like to play dress-ups.
>"The same company that opened that place set up a whole series of other cafes, running them for deliberately limited periods of time. They'd attract attention, but be forgotten again when the cafes stopped doing business," WC, an Akihabara-focused webmaster, tells Shukan Post. "Waitresses in maid costumes really came into their own in March 2001, with the opening of Cure Maid Cafe, which decked out all its waitresses in maid's gear."
There's probably more details here if anyone who knows japanese cares to get into it. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E7%B3%BB%E9%A3%B2%E9%A3%9F%E5%BA%97
On the walls of the staircase leading to the cafe:
Kamichu fan at the cash register and a Mahoro poster on a sheet hung up between walls.
The pose the leather guy does when ordering coffee is obviously from a sentai show. Going by the way he reaches for his belt and the slow arm sweep... maybe one of the Kamen Rider incarnations?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HdxfcaM9yX4
I just watched the first episode. It gave me a...creepy feeling. All those guys were...so yucky...shiver
i agree. its hard for me to comprehend how people can act like that.
ohhh, don't take all the japanese are like THAT!
they are, of course, (a bit) exagerating things(i hope)!
and >>16, good eyes! yes, i assume that pose is from Kamen Rider when he goes "Hen Shin!" :)
>>19
Oh no, of course I don't think all Japanese are like that; I never said that. In fact, it's probably just a really tiny portion of the population. Regardless, those guys were creepy. Did they have to be so sweaty? I’m getting grossed out even thinking about it...
And yet, isn't it a good thing that they are getting out of the house? They're taking baby steps towards socialization!
haha there was a article in a local Vancouver paper about the maid cafes of akihabara hehe.
Oh, man, this is hilarious!!! Please, please, please continue subbing the episodes. Seeing this "live" is so much better than just reading about it. And the Otakus are seemingly making fun of themselves more or less. Oh well...
Again, I think this series is hilarious and definitely made for gratuitous laughs for some who can take a step back and have fun, not to mention those who don't get it and just think it is funny as the guys are so inept etc.
So, please please please continue to sub this series!!!
With hopes they all have a fun time,
/Lindus
13:35 is a Gunbuster reference ("Toppu ni narimashite!") and I just exploded
I keep getting a "bad data from tracker" msg. Where else can I get the file?
The tracker's misbehaving. It'll be fixed soon, hopefully.
In the meantime, you can try #iitran on zirc, even though we don't do much in the way of IRC distro.
This is the best live action show I've watched since Densha, Please keep subbing it!!
how current is this series anyways? is it still on going or has it already finished?
It's finished. It's just six episodes. I think you can find some mentions of it around the time it started if you dig in the Kamichu thread.
hey, no more voices at all? xD
is this too intimidating?
PLEASE let us hear something to encourage us to keep us doing!
p.s. sorry for posting at the wrong thread.... i think i deleted it, but if it stays there, forgive me.
haha, this series is very good
i have introduced to all my friends who all liked it
keep up the good work!
lol i missed 2 ep grrrrrrrrr
Maid rocks! And Anon, I'm seeding Akihabara eps 1-4 but the tracker here is, um, doesn't seem to feel well. My kids are (were?) watching this, but the brief closup of the hentai figurine in Ep3 means I need to do some AVI editing to bring it back to a Y7 rating before I can continue. :-(
(side note-That's why we liked Emma though, good story and nothing really bad for the kiddies. We're up to ch8, and really appreciate the work done on it. Story without adult content is why we liked the "glass mask" remake but it seems the sub project's been dropped. I've got 6.)
Arrg, I've been unable to get new ones since Ep 2 because of hardware problems. Withdrawal symptoms are setting in! >_<
My boyfriend downloaded Maid and made me watch it with him. During the second episode, I'm like, "It's like an afterschool special on local cable."
Then he says, "No, it's like a porno without the sex!"
Hey IIChan translation group. This is a great show that I found out from an Anime FX member at SF State. I almost passed out over how cute and pretty MAKO the voice actress of Yurie (Kamichu!) is. How do these voice actresses make their voice high and very cute and moe? I almost lost 4 pints of blood after watching the first 4 eps of the TV comedy/drama. Please finish the series because its very rare to find a funny yet good Japanese Comedy.
Is there any particular reason why eps 1 and 2 aren't listed on http://cerealandmilk.net/iichan/torrents.html
It's possible to download these eps but as it stands it looks like only eps 3 and 4 have been fansubbed and this may put some people off from downloading them.
Ep 1
http://cerealandmilk.net/torrents/%5biichan%5d_Maid_in_Akihabara_Episode_1.avi.torrent
Ep 2
http://cerealandmilk.net/torrents/%5biichan%5d_Maid_in_Akihabara_Episode_2.avi.torrent
thanks as always!
is there any place that can clue us in on the "quotes" that the otaku use?
They are invariably quotes from some flavor of Gundam.
wait a sec... does that means that you can download that, but it's japanese only?
what a shame! i would really love to watch this series, but... i just dont want to start with eps 3...
No, they're translated, squeeks just hasn't relisted them yet.
Please see http://cerealandmilk.net/torrents/ for an inelegant but much more complete listing of torrents.
Oh, note that the guy with the bandana (Madarame) seems to speak almost exclusively in Gundam quotes.
Apparently everybody forgot to link http://cerealandmilk.net/torrents/%5biichan%5d_Maid_in_Akihabara_Episode_6_%5bEND%5d.avi.torrent here.
thank you for translating this series! i enjoyed it a lot
Thank you for translating yet another great series!
oh yea, what the heck is the "King game" ?
and why did saki cause so much trouble through it?
The "King Game" is a game of chance in which one person among the players is chosen the "King," and that person gets to order one of the other players to do anything he asks, such as "kiss the person on your left" or some such. NOT a good game to have rival gangleaders play, don't you think?
Just dropped by to say thanks for bringing this 6-pack to us. Enjoyed it a lot!
Ah, I can finally start catching up. ;_;
The Sakura vs Otome line in ep 3 probably refers to the Sakura Gumi and Otome Gumi subgroups of Morning Musume.
Where´s Emma manga? I can´t download them, because I don´t find it yet... Sorry. ^^
>>62
Emma manga is licensed, so no downloads from here.
>>62
There are downloads around, but you sort of need to know where to look. It'd sort of be unethical to point you straight to downloads here, but I can tell you that you might find some hints in the other old threads around here, somewhere...
Could someone seed the episodes 5 and 6? I'm stuck around 80% And there haven't been any seeds for couple of days. Thanks.
Likewise, if anyone can seed 5 and 6 of Maid in Akihabara would be much appreciated. I'm stuck around 66% for ep. 5 and 1% for ep. 6. Thanks.
I just want to say a quick thanks for your hard work on "Maid in Akihabara".
I'm downloading episode #4 as we speak and I'm really enjoying this series.
Thank you once again! You guys have my complete my respect. ^^
Finally managed to get around and downloaded 'Maid in Akihabara' and showed it to my housemate. Needless to say, he loved it to. Thanks again for subbing this wonderful series...
Please please can some one seed Maid in Akihabara Eps:1&2 I really want to watch this mini series so please help a fellow anime fan out. Domo ^_^.
There's a bunch of people downloading ep 1 with only 2mb to go, so if someone could seed it for just a few minutes that would be great :D
FYI -- Mako-san was also the VA for Nanoha in the two Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.
I just started d/l the episodes off of your site. KAWAII!!!!!
I think I spent 1/3 of the episode squealing over the cute outfits, 1/3 in jealousy that I couldn't look as cute in the same outfit, and 1/3 wondering where the otaku got those wonderful toys.
http://torak.no-ip.info/tracker/torrents/%5biichan%5d_Maid_in_Akihabara_Episode_3.avi.torrent
http://torak.no-ip.info/tracker/torrents/%5biichan%5d_Maid_in_Akihabara_Episode_4.avi.torrent
Would someone please reseed 3 & 4 please?
I've been stick at 90% for 2 days.
hi, would someone plz seed the series again? i would really like to watch it in better quality than on that crunchyroll page. please help o(^_^)/