Don’t Miss Your Big Chance To Experience A Host Club Without Traveling To Japan!
Welcome! If you’ve always wanted to spend an evening being wined & dined by hosts like these, head to Café Nocturne at Anime North 2015 in Toronto! (May 22-24)
I’ve never been so sorry to be geographically challenged! If you’re going to Anime North (May 22-24) or are lucky enough to live in Toronto, GET THEE TO CAFÉ NOCTURNE ON THE DOUBLE!
Experiencing a host club usually requires an expensive ticket to Tokyo and all kinds of special arrangements – not the least of which includes studying Japanese (>
Real hosts like these sport an androgynous look that’s hard for English-speaking Westerners to copy, so at Café Nocturne, female crossplayers who have seriously studied for their roles will play the parts of the hosts. But believe me: women who understand the dansou café scene will make you forget they’re not super-attractive guys in a hot nanosecond!
In case you don’t believe you’ll forget they’re girls beneath the stylin’ suits, here are a few pictures from actual dansou cafés in Japan.
Café Nocturne promises an evening of royal treatment and lively chat with the host of your dreams (you can choose your shimeisha from a bevy of suave entertainers), plus snacky snacks & special drinks. To help you decide which debonaire dude to choose, some of the hosts will offer special menu items and original drinks at their tables. You can even order a champagne call!
If one host isn’t enough for you: champagne call!
If you’re lucky enough to go, come here and tell me about it! I’m already DEEPLY ENVIOUS!
Kampai!
Of course, if you can’t make it to Toronto, you can always lose yourself in Fallen Angel, a murder mystery that’ll zip you to Tokyo and slip you behind Cub Nova’s closed doors…
Published by Penguin/Intermix.
…but if I’ve convinced you to head north so you don’t miss this great opportunity, there’s still time to book your tix for Anime North 2015 (May 22-24) and get yourself some Café Nocturne action.
If you want to know more about hosts & host clubs, here are answers to the top ten questions I’m often asked…
Why do women go to host clubs?
What kind of women go to host clubs?
What’s it like to visit a host club?
How expensive is it to go to a host club?
What is a host club “champagne call”?
Can foreigners get into a host club?
How do I find a good host club?
Why do hosts dress like that? Everything you always wanted to know about host fashion.
A Day In The Life: What’s it like to be a host?
Photos courtesy of the HostXHost website and the Japanese magazines, Men’s Knuckle & Men’s Spider.
Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix.
