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The Wall Street Journal today (July 30, 2008) noted that a popular cartoon series has become a shrine for fans. The devotees are4 described as young men, who dress like the female characters, in miniskirts.

The article follows in brief (no pun):

For many years Washinomiya Shrine has been a quiet place of worship, attracting just a trickle of sightseers to this sleepy town outside Tokyo. Thenl ast summer priests started noticing a new kind of visitor. Young men, some clad in mini-skirts, stockings and pastel-colored wigs, were lining up for photographs at the shrine's vermillion gate. Over the big New Year's holiday in January, nearly 300,000 such visitors - almost ten times the town's population - showed up, scores of them clad in outfits resembling schoolgirl uniforms. Discerning fans had figured out that Washinomiya Shrine is regularly featured in "Lucky Star", a wildly popular animated comicthat aired as a televisionseries last year. Like the fans of other comics, Lucky Star's most ardent followers - often men in their 20s and 30s - demonstrate their commitment to the show by engaging in "costume play" or "cosplay" the popular pastime of dressing up as various characters.

Now let's see...what television show should we demonstrate our devotion to? Sex and the City? America's Top Model? What do you think?

Sandianne

How about Donna Reed Show, Lucy, or Leave it to Beaver (June, that is!)
rikki

I vote for "That Girl", Marlo Thomas

Jennifer Love Hewitt has some nice outfits in the Gost Whisperer

My vote is for Charmed- loved those three witches.

Another Japanese idea that I just ran across:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMdOMrOQXc

Gotta love those folks!!

rikki

Oh my, why can we not have a TV program like that here in the states. I may go to Japan

Hi girls
I sent a demo tape to the cooking channel pitching my new idea for a cooking show. " In the kitchen with Auntie Jeannie." When they call and OK a pilot I'll take care of you ladies. Every episode I'll feature one of you gals with your favorite recipes.
Carol Ann's killer sauteed fresh baby rabbit in Pabst Blue Ribbon, MS Joann's world famous penne pasta with fresh garlic,basil and Johnnie Walker Black. Of course how could I forget Virginia,with her fabulous microwaved hot dogs and Velveeta.
Don't worry GGs,you will not be left out. You could all come on and make your favorite dinner. Reservations. Hugs.

Love
Auntie Jeannie

Hope you get commissioned Jeannie.

As a fan of Doctor Who I'd like to be one of the Doctors assistants failing that Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Well, Cosplay seems to be popular here also now...no wonder. A local university, FIU, is hosting an Anime convention this weekend, last year had 2300 attendees. It seems the "maid cafe" is a huge part of this all, as evidenced by earlier posts..so I reprint part of the article here
Yasumicon, in the interest of keeping our con attendants happy is proud

to bring back a great event that was premiered last year. However we

need staff for it. Sounds interesting? Great!

This year a lot of work will be put into place to ensure our

Maids/Butlers/Hosts are top notch. We're looking for able bodied

volunteers for this event. Here's a description of our positions in

greater detail:

Maids/Butler: Maids will be dressed in matched uniforms for this year's

Yasumicon. A typical requirement of the maids in the maid cafe is to

enjoy yourself there. Being happy and full of moe charm helps us

improve the experience for this year's Yasumicon. Butlers will be

dressed in matched uniforms as well. Their job is the same as their

female counterpart. Though butlers are usually more stoic, kindness is

key.

Those who haven't experience in restaurants are fine as we'll have

training sessions for those involved.

Hosts/Hostess: Hosts take care of the cafe area during their shift.

This involves seating guests as well as ensuring the quality of

enjoyment for our patrons. There will also be a couple of events that

will provide our con attendants with complimentary tea. We'll work with

the hosts to arrange these times that you'll be assisting in those

panels.

Yasumicon fully endorses crossplayers as well. We don't discriminate so

if you're a guy and you wanna be a maid, it's absolutely fine, so long

as you go get fitted.

The maid cafe will run for about 6 hours. We'd like to have a rotation

of men and women so that our maid staff can enjoy the rest of the con.

Maid/Butler/Host/ess will all count as Y Volunteers, which includes a

complimentary T Shirt for 2008 as well as a free 3 meal lunch plan for

the duration of the convention.

To apply, please send an email to yplanning@gmail.com with the subject

line "Maid Cafe Application" without quotation marks. This will get it

to the appropriate section. Thanks!????
http://www.yasumicon.com

chaosmeika

I loved this part "Yasumicon fully endorses crossplayers as well. We don't discriminate so

if you're a guy and you wanna be a maid, it's absolutely fine, so long

as you go get fitted"

Darn.... I'm always a day late, they filled the quota. Thats also a new term for me "crossplayer"...hmm
anyway hugs all
DeeDee

One thing I love about Japan:
Anything goes as long as it's for entertainment.

I really would love to afford a trip there sometime.

I've always wanted to try crossplay, but I couldn't pull off a lot of the characters I like without some serious figure-training. My favorite female characters are Motoko Kusanagi from the "Ghost in the Shell" series and Faye Valentine from "Cowboy Bebop". I'd love to do Faye sometime, but I am determined that I'll not attempt it until I can look 1000 times better than the Man-Faye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Faye

My vote would be for Bosum Buddies. Tom Hanks really looked cute in a dress.

Another sly way to crossdress in Japan would be to become a Kabuki actor and train to be an onnagata, actor specialzing in playing female roles.

Hello all: Cute video-- I wonder why CDing is so popular (and publicly accepted?) in Japan?
(I wonder if a restaurant/service like that would be successful in the U.S.?)
Myself-- I'd like to get one or two of those adorable Japanese school girl uniforms... (they are similar to cheerleader/"preppie" outfits).
Anybody know a good source for Japanese school girl uniforms?
Peace-- Kendra Lynn ("hippie cheerleader").