Tokyo’s new Robot Girls Restaurant for the cyber-fetishist!

[Cornelius]

Oh ... your ... gawd.

Tokyo’s new Robot Girls Restaurant will bring out your inner cyber-fetishist
http://io9.com/5926964/tokyos-new-robot ... +fetishist



Business owners in Tokyo's racey Shinjuku Kabukicho district are constantly having to push the limits in order to stay ahead of the competition. And now, a new neon-lit "robot restaurant" that combines fembots with real flesh-and-blood cabaret girls promises to do exactly that. Built at the impossible-to-believe cost of 10 billion yen (about $130 million), the establishment will surely warp your sense of reality.

A recent blog post by Patrick Macias, editor-in-chief of Crunchyroll News, offers some vivid descriptions:

For an entrance fee of around US$37.00, patrons can stare slack-jawed as enormous Cutey Honey-esque robots roll around controlled by comely "pilots".


Army girls patrol the allies of smiles for enemy robots on armored vehicles that would shame anything in Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade!


They also zip around through technicolor LED landscapes on actual motorbikes!


There's even musical shows and revues performed by the girls, including Japanese taiko drumming and a marching band!


And should any of this phantasmagorical spectacle fail to entertain, you can always lose your mind on cheap whiskey and chain smoke like a chimney while staring at the otherworldly décor!


Macias concludes:

In truth, the joint is more like a kyabakura, or "cabaret club", than an actual restaurant. Three measly food items in all are listed on the menu, a perfunctory measure probably because it's easier to get a license for food service than to apply for a "giant robots plus army girls and marching bands and motorcycles" license. Either way, here's wishing the Shinjuku Kabukicho Robot Restaurant the very best of luck as it awkward rolls the human race one step closer to a well-deserved Robopocalypse.

Head on over to Macias's site where there are many more photos:
http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/er/2012/ ... tokyo.html

Or go to the restaurant's official site:
http://www.shinjuku-robot.com

[Rotwang]

The colours, they make my eyes bleed !!!

[Brytestar]

That is fascinating!

[wjbaines]

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You know, come to think of it, I may have actually unwittingly realized my techno-fetishism at Disneyland. Or Disneyworld. Whichever one is in Florida. I'm not joking. I was probably around nine or ten. It's tough to remember. But I seem to recall really shying away from the costumed "Imagineers." There was some kind of princess or something (alongside all the Goofies and Mickeys... actually it may have even been a Minnie that I'm thinking of... When I see a "furry," perhaps I should think to myself: "there, but for the grace of the Celestial Circuitbreaker, go I...")... She made me feel uncomfortable because those "feelings" were new to me then. But she/it was SUPER cute: all waves and pageantry and the literally plastic smile. Photos are taken. She is a "character." Because of her one-dimensionality and her task, her behaviour may as well be programmed, and programmed to be pretty and friendly, to boot.

The point I'm trying to articulate is more difficult to get across than I expected...

Take the cabaret girls at this Tokyo joint. There's a "programme" for the evening. They march in their rows. They're told to smile. They bring you drinks, take the empties, and bring back more. During that time, they're on the floor, on display, following directions... in a sense, they ARE being robots. Whatever the costume.

I guess all jobs are kinda like that.

The infinitive form of the Russian word for "to work" is, roughly transliterated, "raboatats." Some guys way back in the day made a movie about mechanical workers that overthrew their human masters... I think it might have been Czech? In any case, a slavic language, from which the whole world has gained this beautiful word. "Robot." Those chicks at this place in Tokyo may not even know how "robotic" they are when they are at work!

P.S. I guess I drank too much Luksusova Vodka this evening... I also recommend "Hot For Words" youtube entry on the term "robot," even though it's kind of from a long time ago.

[Stephaniebot]

Try working in a call centre sometime, if you want another job where you might as well be a robot!

And I should know...we even get a headset, if not a helmet with electrodes...yet!

[Yosuke]

Mother of god...

[darkbutflashy]

Is it really new? I had the impression I've seen the fembot-vehicles once before.