Growing Since 2011
Here are some group photos of our cafe staff over the years. Look how much we've grown and changed over time!
To kick off the new year, we had a Sanrio theme for the cafe. We brought back our cake dessert cups and our new backdrop was a hit for the polaroids!
Our booth sold art by our lovely artist Kumako. Since 2018 is the year of the Dog, we decided to sell milk teas as a way to raise funds to donate to local animal shelters! Our staff were wearing fuzzy cat and dog ears to represent our cause!
First time hosting a cafe in the staff dining area. We shared the room with the tournament gaming section. Our theme was casual saiyans. We offered our potted plant dessert and performed on Sunday.
First time we hosted an outdoor Our theme this time around was Sports Day! Several of our members dressed up in Sports Anime cosplay and others dressed in sports festival attire to feel more comfortable in the hot summery weather. Our cafe doubled as a lemonade stand also!
We were invited to be the staff of Crunchyroll's first Hime Cafe event! Our staff wore orange wigs to match the mascot Hime and we served almost 100 guests per hour session! It was our biggest event to date and our first real out of town event!
Our first Bakersfield based event! We helped out CSUB staff their maid cafe and it turned out to be a big hit! RowdyCon provided a full dessert bar and drinks while we provided table and stage entertainment!
Back at it again in our home of Fresno! This year we're starting off with a cute simplistic theme of SPRINGTIME! We all wore florals, bunny ears, and decorated with a lot of pastels. We even added a cute gummy worm to our potted plant desserts!
A big collaborative event at CSUFullteron! 3 maid cafes joined up to create an amazing interactive atmosphere for their guests. Arcane Maid Cafe x CSUFullterton Maid Cafe, and Kinu Cafe gave it their all at this event!
A small convention at the Fresno Fairgrounds where we used a springtime theme again because it is still May, and we only could attend 1 day due it being Mother's Day weekend.
Mini convention at the fairgrounds in the summer!.Our theme was summer school by the sea! Some of our staff dressed up in seifuku to be in the school spirit!
Second year Crunchyroll Expo in San Jose! Super packed sessions versus last year. This time we were outdoors and had triple sessions all Labor Day weekend long! We were able to entertain Hime's seiyuu Rian Tachibana!
A 1 day convention at UC Berkeley. We hosted our first ever panel and provided high quality cheki at our photo booth!
Our beginning! Ichiro and Hikaru created a group of 10 of us. Unfortunately, the boys aren't in the picture.
Nerd-Bomb's first convention! It was our first time working in a hotel setting and handling catering. Our first time playing Twister in the cafe also! photo credit : Steven Gerking
Nerd-Bomb and BB Gaming gave us an outdoor setting for our cafe! We had homemade foods and lemonade for sale. Somehow we acquired a lot of temporary maids and butlers at this event! photo credit : Holly Abney
A first ever summer silkroad event. Gorgeous decorations and an even bigger stage!
A table top gaming store owner asked us to host a cafe upstairs in the Manchester Mall for their first ever convention! It was our first Valentine's themed event and having our very own room dedicated to the cafe. We were able to sell homemade food and drink too! photo credit : Mike Dunn
Apparently we did such a good job, they called us back for a summer con event! This time we had an anime idol series theme. Love Live was very popular with the guests! photo credit : Metal Dub Studios
Our second year with Ani-Me and we had an event during Valentine's weekend! The cafe had a Sailor Moon theme so all the maids and butlers wore colorful wigs and tiaras to match their sailor senshi!
Kamikaze Gaming hosted it's first ever one day long convention! We kept our Sailor Moon theme and catered to a whole new crowd! It was amazing meeting people that have never been to a convention before or heard of cosplay! photo credit : Liquid Nitro CenCal
Our beloved Silkroad Gallery had us host the entire event! Our head butlers Hikaru and Ichiro were emcees throughout the day. We sang karaoke, performed new dances, and judged the cosplay contest!
Our second time hosting an event thanks to Silkroad! We had a hanami & Easter theme going for the event. The cafe staff wore bunny ears and glittery sakura pins. We had a fashion show, cosplay contest, and easter themed games!
Nitro Cen-Call & Kamikaze Games put on a mini tournament event for the evening! Kinu Cafe was set up to provide refreshments to all the players!
Ani-Me Con & Kamikaze Gaming teamed up to make a collaborative summer convention held at the Manchester Mall. We had a new room with an actual kitchen area! Our menu this time around had made to order cooked food! It was a big hit!
A new pop up event hosted by R3 Gaming. Our theme this time around was Nintendo! Maids and butlers dolled up as leading characters from big name titles from the Nintendo game family. photo credit : <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shaddoeENTERTAINMENT">ShaddoeEntertainment</a>
Ani-Me And Kamikaze games teamed up to hold an event at the Manchester Mall! Our theme this time around was the Chinese Zodiac!
Ani-Me held an event at the Manchester Mall for the holidays! We didn't have a cafe set up, but we did have a booth and held interviews!
First time hosting the cafe at the Fresno Fair Grounds! We decided to liven up the atmosphere with a crazy color candy theme. Desserts and polaroid sessions were super popular with our new venue along with a lot of new members joining us!
We decided to go with the hyped up game of the season, Overwatch as our theme!
First time hosting a cafe at the Fresno City Student Lounge! Our theme this time around was Eeveelutions.
Ani-Me Con dedicated a small event to International Sailor Moon Day. We hosted a Sailor Moon prize raffle and our staff members manned the booth as various Sailor Scouts!
Ani-Me teamed up with Madness the Party Shop to host a holiday event at the ever missed Manchester Mall! Using the food court area turned out to be a great experience. We went with a Christmas theme for our end of the year event so a bunch of staff were reindeer.
