Cosplay restaurants in Japan

In Japan theme cafés and restaurants are very popular not only among teenagers. Certainly there are many types of those cafés which amaze with its uniqueness and ingenuity. Typically the themes of restaurants are related to the characters from the manga and anime, or other well-known forms of pop culture, like Hello Kitty or robots. In Japan there are also many cafés with live animals, or waiters and waitresses dress  in a certain way to attract customers. Although this type of untypical cafes and restaurants is becoming more and more present in other countries, only in Japan it is so popular and often visited. The reason of course lays in the Japanese mentality. Most types of those dining places can be regrouped under a common name - cosplay restaurants, it means restaurants where the waitresses are dressed in a suitable manner to the satisfaction of the otaku ( maniacal fans of the world of manga and anime). They are usually dressed as characters from manga, sometimes their clothes resemble animal (they look like cats or bunnies). In Japan there are a lot of cafés related to Alice in Wonderland. Food and drinks at those cosplay restaurants always refer to the theme of the restaurant which along with the waitresses create a unique atmosphere. The staff treats the customers as masters and mistresses in a private home rather than merely as a café customers. The main objective is to give an impression that waitresses are "kawaii", it means really cute. The young Japanese girls, to please the tastes of men, lower the tone of voice and imitate the behavior of little girls to be seen as  sweet, clumsy girls.Waitresses in some of the cosplay restaurants can play with customers games such as cards or rock paper scissors, bot not only... It is true that they do not provide any sexual pleasures, because prostitution is prohibited in Japan, but it happens that the customers can arrange with a date with waitress (for example after winning special competition), or sometimes even massage of feet or hands. As in many other issues related to Japan it is hard to tell where is the border of morality that should not be overstepped.  But as I have previously written - in Japan there are a lot of different types of maid cafes but the waitresses do not offer a sexual benefits to customers. However, there are also cafes where waitresses wear skimpy clothes specifically allowing to peep on their underwear. Categorically I want to underline once again: this type of cafes are not used to hide illegal prostitution, as in the case of the Japanese, soap houses, but the fact is that the waitresses are supposed to seduce thier clustomers to make them come back again. For us - Europeans, this behavior can be scandalous and shameful, but in Japan it is tolerated.