"The first time I came here, it was purely in an ironic fashion,because there was no way, in my mind, that I thought anyone in America, let alone Michigan, let alone Detroit, could make the necessary conversion to make it [a maid café] work in America... It needed to be authentic without being off-putting. I came here with incredibly low expectations and I was incredibly impressed." -- a patron who traveled 40 miles to hang out in Chou Anime Cafe, in an interview with The Detroit News