Forum - View topicINTEREST: 'Anime Babes' Burlesque Show Staged in Los Angeles
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littlegreenwolf
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You people are nuts - this is awesome. As a lover a burlesque, and creative cosplay, I'm hoping they come to Boston as some point. They'll have me giggling like there's no tomorrow. Boston would welcome them with open arms since they have a fantastic Burlesque scene.
The Pikachu is my favorite I think. Loved the uses of pokeballs. |
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egoist
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It was pretty funny. If intended to be sexually appealing, then a major fail because their performers were too old to be a babe.
Favorites: Pokeball tits, and Sailor Moon Eyes. The Rei cosplay was just awful in a funny way. 
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Satiety
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That was kinda interesting... Lust caught my attention as a regular character while the others were pretty..."unique" in their own sense of way. Sailor Moon's eyes were "lol" out there
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tuxedocat
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Part of the point of burlesque is that it is not just a strip show, but a comedy act with actual sketches. You may complain about the women being "old", but these are not the regular sad, college-age strippers you see in most sex clubs. These women actually have to deliver lines and be funny. Plus, the clubs they perform in usually serve alchohol, so the age restriction to get in is 21, not the median age of your usual con attendee. |
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wizardz199
Posts: 112 Location: Hayward, CA |
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No thanks.
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BorgmanJayce
 Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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I don't usually agree with a lot of what Zac usually has to say, but he's got a point when he says that if you can't be civil, then he will lock this thread!
On another note, I'm a subscriber to a nude modelling cosplay site where a lot of the females who pose there are good enough to do burlesque; in fact, I believe one or two of them actually do burlesque themselves. Also, to all the trolls complaining, please kindly go back to the dark, dank caves that you came from (in other words, your parents' basements) and let decent conversation take place. Personally, I think the women that took part in this burlesque show are quite sexy (especially the Rei and Ichigo performers), and anyone who thinks otherwise should need a new pair of glasses if they're not wearing any already. |
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Richard J.
 Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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Also, if you know one of the women, why not tell us some positive trait of hers that you think we're not getting from the pictures? Is she a great dancer? Is she a loving mom? Is she an actual anime fan? Is she a charity worker on weekends? All we've got to respond to are pictures of women taking their clothes off, said clothes being cosplay ranging from decent to kinda bad, in my opinion. If there's something beyond what can be seen in these pictures you'd like to share, then share it.
Also, as part of the job is taking the clothes off, I think looking good would be at least a slight factor in the hiring process. People have eyes for a reason.
No one's opinion is going to change what these women look like. If you think they're better looking than others posting think they are, then point out why. Express your own opinion.
The linked article gives very little descripition of the routines. It overall describes them as "camp" with bits of more serious fair, mainly the Lust and Rei segments. Going by the vague information in that article, those would have been my perfered acts, but I already complimented them. (Though I think I neglected to bring up how impressed I was by the Rei performer using red contacts.) And you're disparaging college-age strippers? How is working to support themselves in getting a better education so they don't have to keep using their bodies to make money "sad?" Strippers can make a lot of money and if those girls use that money to get an education and a more personally preferable job, that seems rather happy to me.
Has it occured to some of the people who posted in response to the negative comments about the women's appearances that few of you actually COMPLIMENTED any of the performers? You brought up other things that might matter, you made your own disparaging comments about the posters but how many of you directly and expressly stated a positive opinion about these women? Despite the fact you were responding to negative comments about their appearances and ages, you failed to express a positive opinion about the subject. |
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madlaxNoir2001
Posts: 49 Location: Anacortes,Washington |
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i thought this was odd.
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Beryl7
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Well I was just simply trying to stick up for the performers. I thought people were being unnecessarily rude and unfair. Like they say, "if you can't say something nice..." But I forgot--this is the internet... |
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poisondusk
 Posts: 64 Location: Brighton, UK |
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I tried to keep my comment generally neutral on the burlesque itself (I think the costumes were awkward and some of the characters were poorly chosen, but I don't have any particular objection to the idea of an anime-themed burlesque show). I didn't post my opinion of what the women look like because I don't really feel that whether I personally find them hot or not is relevant to anything. I mean, should those women feel better because hey, at least I, a random internet user, don't think they're ugly? I'd feel little better than those posting disparaging comments about these women if I ended up in a back-and-forth over how attractive they are, which is subjective anyway. I realise it happens all over the internet and offline as well, but I find discussions like that tacky, and I don't see any reason to criticise a person's looks because I don't personally find them appealing. |
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championferret
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yeahno
Not gonna say anything about the girls themselves but man those costumes are just...bad. They're not even well made or anything. You see better-made costumes that look more like the characters on your average con day. I dont expect 100% character accuracy from a Burleque show, but I do expect the costumes themselves to at least look good. also that sailor moon is going to give me nightmares... |
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tuxedocat
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*facepalm* I meant "sad" as in "sad to have to take off her clothes in front of creepy men to pay for school." puhleez. Those girls in the strip shop that you frequent only appear "happy" to you because you are their mark. They will spin you a happy story for tips. I went to school with a few of them. They are not happy. Good nerd-ragin' though.
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rinmackie
 Posts: 1040 Location: in a van! down by the river! |
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tuxedocat, I don't think he meant that they were happy doing it; just that it is good that they're at least trying to get ahead so they won't have to spend the rest of their lives stripping.
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tuxedocat
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Yeah. whatev. Nice of him to condescend...
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Brent Allison
 Posts: 2444 Location: Athens-Clarke County, GA, USA |
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I think we may have found a new litmus test for whether fans put their hobby at the level of the sacred. "How comfortable are you with a burlesque performance that uses characters from your favorite medium, genre, or title?"
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