Ahoy-hoy Internet-Land! So this afternoon I completed the anime series Cosplay Complex, a three part anime (four if you include the 'special episode') focussing on the training session of the cosplay club at East Oizumi College, Japan. The series really offers very little in terms of what anybody could call a cohesive story; the "focus" of the series seems to be the various situations that the girls get themselves into whilst training to better their cosplay abilities.
The training sequences however, seem to be used simply as an excuse to show the girls in a variety of skimpy outfits (admittedly all pulled from various anime/game series), and for quite a bit of yuri fan-service to be pumped out (pun totally intended) to keep the predominantly male audience salivating. Why, then, did I keep watching so intently? Well, Internet-Land, I must confess that I found myself completely engrossed in attempting to determine the characters that the cosplayers were attempting to emulate - a feat made quite difficult by the fact that none of the characters ever change their hair.
Over-all I'd probably recommend giving Cosplay Complex a miss, unless you fall into one of the two categories:
a. You're really into cosplaying, are looking for some good ideas
b. You're a horny male in your teenage years, or early twenties, and you're only able to get off by watching surreal, soft-core henai.
Final Rating: 2/5 (it was uplifed by the 'weird factor', and the fact that they showed me what each of the cosplay attempts were meant to be in the final "special" episode.)
For those of you wondering about the finer details of the series (which I will be providing for everything I watch) it was brought to us by Wonder Farm (the same company responsible for Hand Maid May), and was brought out all at once on the 25th of May, 2002.
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