didn't expect to find that there!

[anotheranon]

D. has tuned me in to the newest path to celebrity: booth babes, who are apparently the cute girls staffing booths at video game trade shows to attract.. well, whoever, I guess. Enough, certainly, as some of the pictures at the site show the women signing autographs, so someone pays attention to this.

Most of the girls seem to go for this standard t & a sell, so I didn't expect to find cool costumes!

Check it out: anime-like Slinka/YoYo getups (Lexx viewers will know the characters I speak of), baroque plastic armor, winged things, future-Lara Crofts and even vampires (though I suspect you could find women for whom that isn't a costume in any major urban center :P).

So... cool. Didn't expect that.

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[gblake.livejournal.com]

It doesn't surprise me actually. The japanese game conventions have had them for a while. I think it gets all tied with the whole cosplay thing over there, which can be insanely huge. Some of it is pretty stunning as to how well they do characters.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there IS costuming; a lot of the characters are colorful and that IS what they are advertising, after all - it just seems like an awful lot of work for what is, after all, a trade show and not a strictly social event.

I think what surprised me most is that some of these women seem to be gaining a kind of "celebrity status" - their own website, lots of the women listed by name, some signing autographs, etc.

Can you tell me more about this "cosplay" trend? What little I've seen in the way of costumes are truly astonishing, and seems to be another big trend that I've missed.

[gblake.livejournal.com]

I think cosplay is mostly just the japanese equivilant to the various costume stuff you see at scifi cons. It's just targetted around anime and video games. But like many trends in Japan when they do something they go all-out. There's a lot of people in the states who do really good cosplay too these days. There's www.cosplay.com (check out http://images.cosplay.com/list.php?exhibition=28&u=202|40|... for stuff from the last Anime Expo, there's some amazing stuff in there amidst a lot of okay and mediocre stuff :)).

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

There is some truly amazing stuff there, thank you for posting the link!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

I think what surprised me most is that some of these women seem to be gaining a kind of "celebrity status" - their own website, lots of the women listed by name, some signing autographs, etc.

Makes sense ... kind of like the more popular pinup girls (I mean the ones who weren't also actresses) who had their own fanclubs (which, in some cases, have now evolved into tribute Web pages ***grin***)