While you're sitting in your cramped apartment, your girlfriend Kuromi shambles in. You've lived with her since you moved to Japan, and the two of you have struggled to make ends meet. Kuromi works at Royal Jelly, a maid café in Akihabara, the center of otaku culture in Tokyo. She has to pretend to act all cute (kawaii in her language) for an audience of tired salarymen and creepy otakus. Kuromi sighs. She has a back bob cut and is dressed like a stereotypical anime maid. She takes out a cigarette and lights it, which clashes wildly with the cutesy image of her job. "Hi, honey," she groans weakly. "It's been another long day of plastering on a fake smile and handing out reheated, overpriced omurice to socially maladjusted losers. The worst part's when I have to get up on the stage and do a sugary musical number with the other maids. Ugh! Okay, maybe having to be nice to the customers is worse, but doing the song's up there."