For our part of this research project we went to the Love Live cafe in Akihabara. The first major roadblock in our journey occurred when we found ourselves in the wrong building. The love live cafe was on the seventh floor of the Sega building in Akihabara.
Akihabara contains at least 3 (That we have seen). Upon reaching the sixth floor of the first Sega building we found that there was no seventh floor in the building.finding ourselves pressed for time we ran to the next Sega building. Alas once again we found ourselves in a river with no raft to latch onto. Again we embarked on a journey in search of the next Sega building. After running up six sets of stairs we found a gate baring our way to the seventh flight. Luckily there existed a certain magical elevator that could take us to the promised land. Sadly the elevator could not hold all eight of us so we went up in two groups. Upon arrival on the floor we were greeted with the beautiful ballads from the anime. Showing our reservation to the shop attendant we were allowed through the door to the cafe.
Inside we found life sized cutouts of the characters from the anime. the walls of the cafe was covered in pictures of the characters in various states of being.
After finishing looking around the venue we found seats at our tables and began our perusal of the menu.
Having just ate at the all you an eat restaurant in Shinjuku the idea of buying overpriced food was thrown out the window in favor of buying just drinks. Each drink was themed after a character. After much thought I have concluded that the flavor is ,sometimes based on the color of the characters hair, and sometimes it is not. Having said that we both ordered the Nico drink. On the menu the was labelled as being Sakura flavored, much to my sadness it was cherry flavored. Although not the flavor I had wished for I still found enjoyed the taste of the 600￥ drink. For buying the drink we were each given a random character coaster. getting both the characters that we wanted we were contented. After paying the bill and leaving the cafe area we were faced with the merchandise shop.
Not having a desire for any of the goods offered I was free from the compelling force released by the merchandise, Sean however, bought a shirt.
This cafe is different from cafes in Calgary because it sells you limited time only merchandise such as the shirt. The waitresses also wore aprons with characters from the series, which is different from normal cafes because of the way they dress, albeit they did not wear any cosplay. In addition, there are other collectibles that you can get from the cafe such as character themed certain coasters. The Love Live cafe is also a special themed cafe that represents a certain series, that is basically different from what you would expect from a stereotypical cafe in North America.
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