| "Anime Moulin Rouge" |
| Katsucon marked the second foray for the Dark Muffins into the world of cosplay. For this con, we decided to do a humorous skit, and did an anime dance number to "Lady Maramalade" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Much hilarity and two judges awards ensued. |
| THE CAST Missy Elliot: Edward from Cowboy Bebop: Nicole Mya: Utena from Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Melanie Lil' Kim: Misty from Pokemon: Rose-Ann Pink: Mad Hatter from Angel Sanctuary: Patrick Christina: Sailor Venus: Steven "Man-Bitch": Props bitch: Philip |
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| Steven as Sailor Venus struts out at the beginning of the cosplay. Philip the props bitch stands ready, and Edward announces "For your fanservice delight, the Anime Moulin Rouge!" |
| Utena as Mya begins the dance. "We met Marmalade down at ole Moulin Rouge, struttin her stuff on the street...." Right: Close up of Melanie as Utena |
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| The Mad Hatter gets in on the action as Pink. "He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up...." |
| Sailor Venus channeled Christina for this number. V was the runaway hit of this cosplay, much to Mark the announcer's chagrin, it seems. |
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| Dance, Dance bishoujo! Dance Till Tomorrow! Wait, wrong manga. The Muffins strut their stuff for the cheering otaku in the audience. |
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| "Creole Lady Marmalaaade!" Ending poses by the group. The certainly look like they had a blast. I wish I could have gone. I would have loved to see this on more than a dinky realplayer screen. |
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| Steven works it. Yes, this is a boy, ladies and gents. He had quite a lot of fun doing Venus. And his skanktified costume is gorgeous! Far better than my skanked-up Uranus for AMA2. If you watch the clip of this on chocoborancher's web page, you can see Mark, the announcer, stumbling and blushing profusely as he reads out the cast list for this cosplay. "Steven Hi--hir...sh (giggles so the name is unintelligible), Marilyn, no, Melanie Darrow and Nicole Hill. (And Mark Blushes and Blushes). Hey, it got us another award, right? Oh so fun. |
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| And our faithful Man-Bitch Philip waits at the edge of the stage to perform his services: fetch Utena's rose, give Misty her wine.... |
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| Below: "Gitchie Gitchie ya ya da-da...." Below left: Sailor Venus poses with his back to the audience, awaiting his cue. |
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| Work it, V-chan! |
| Misty as Lil' Kim bounces it for the cosplay. |
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| And Venus finally reveals himself to the audience. Scary picture here, Steven! Love the skank though! |