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For those of you who attended Anime USA 2006, I’m sure you’re all familiar with this inspirational figure.

Pooh Bear the Pimp.

What is so inspirational about this manbear? Some say it is his majestic pimp cane; others say his awe-inspiring girth. Perhaps it is his pimp cup, brimming with intoxicating (no, literally) sapience.

Personally, I think it is the unconventional words of wisdom he offers to all those who cross his path.

After walking around in 5-inch heels all day, he said, “Girl, if you can pull them heels off, you can be anything you wanna be, honey!”

Remarkable words– from a remarkable manbear.

Although he sounded more like a robust black woman preaching about “shoclate cake”, I took these words to heart and set out to fulfill my lifelong dream: to create a site to poke fun of some subculture that the average human being has no knowledge of.

And so the dream lives on.

It’s just a shame that his importance in the Cosplay community has been undermined, or even at times, made fun of.

Well we here at Cosplazy will do no such thing!

Show your support for PBTP by replying to this quote with horrible pick-up lines!
IE: “Are those astronaut pants? because you are OUT OF THIS WORLD.”

That is all.

I was browsing acparadise.com for fun things to do the other day and came across something that angered me, and actually has been angering me since Anime USA last November.

“Whats wrong with them? They look okay to me.”

Sure, they look OKAY— if you’ve never been to a con before. Since Silent Hill hit the big screen, the amount of demon nurses/bobblehead nurses making appearances at cons has skyrocketed. And, in the fashion of all cosplay surges, most of them are just… not right. So I know I made bobblehead nurses and went a little blood crazy, and should maybe have used papier mache instead of masks, but they looked pretty cool anyway. One thing the above nurses forgot was DIRT. They’re supposed to be DIRTY. I also seem to remember the heads aren’t wrapped with gauze but swollen. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that I’m not. Now, here’s an example of a bad one:

Okay, ma’am? Have you ever seen the movie or played the games? Because you just look like an elementary school nurse who had a bad run-in with some kid who was violently spewing Kool-Aid. What’s worse is that it’s all over your mouth and eyes.

Kids, if you’re going to make a Silent Hill nurse please don’t assume it’s easy and go for any old pseudo-nurse getup. Also, don’t forget the blood, ash, and dirt. And for the LOVE of GOD, do not wear your sneakers in place of those little white heels. I might just have beat you with a lead pipe.

Personally, I think it’s about time for Cosplazy to even out the criticisms with some advice. You can’t stop bad cosplaying you don’t acknowledge, but at the same time you need to point those people in the right direction.

The following question was asked by Chivon (Dark Snake) on our myspace profile.

I think it’s great you make not only your costumes but others too. Do you think it’s better to make your own or buy one from a store?

Well Chivon, you could own this genuine Final Fantasy X-2 Paine costume for the extra low price of $379.00 (including shipping) excluding the boots, the wig, the necklace, and the sword!

Oh, and did I mention it would take about 4 weeks for the costume to arrive from Shanghai, China?

Now, personally it looks to me as if the sweat shop workers in China have run out of quality material. Although the item description claims the costume is made of leather, it fails to mention that ‘’leather” in chinese actually means “plastic garbage bags.”

Last time I checked, Paine’s costume was sexy. Now her shorts are large enough to accomodate her Depends(TM) undergarments. The leg pieces look as if they are falling down into the boots and are awkwardly uneven.

Cosplay costumes are hard to find and usually very expensive. Oftentimes they’re produced in mass quantities and thus not very good. Even if they are decent, the fact remains that you could make one of your own at less than a quarter of the price, half the time of the 4 weeks it would take for the manufactured one to be shipped, and you could rest assured that no one else in the world owns the same exact costume.

Now, Chivon, to further demonstrate my point, I will finally finish MY Paine costume and compile a list of all the materials I used with the total cost of the costume. Be sure to check back at a later time for an update!

Hey. I hope all you out there are looking at these and taking this stuff seriously.

Unfortunately, some people just never listen, and those people deserve to be ridiculed.

Take, for instance, “Cloud” and “Sephiroth” here.

There’s…wow. Okay. There’s absolutely NO justice for this picture. I am in fact stumped at what to say. I mean, where can I start? May I start with the obvious, it being that the guy under the white grandma wig resembles more the Indian doctor I used to babysit for? That Cloud apparently has gained a thyroid problem…and now can’t wear his belt correctly? (God help me, if the belt over the shoulder becomes a fashion statement in the next Versache show… Or that Inuyasha in the background there seems more interested talking to his mother than paying attention to the massacre behind him?

Oh well. Like I said, I’m frickin’ stumped here. It’s almost too easy, but I’ll let you make up your own jokes.

Thanks to 4chan!