The Otakuologist

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Playboy.com has begun a competition between 5 of it playmates to see if one of them can be considered the sexiest Bayonetta, which is a very playable game by Platinum Games in conjunction with Sega.

At first glance I thought “Playboy?  Bayonetta?  Lookalikes?  Oh yeah!”   My dudeness drooled at the thought of seeing a hot video game character in the flesh, so to speak.  Then I got to the site and realized that not only am I a dude, I am also an otaku.

Being an otaku comes with special dangers.  Dangers that the normies don’t have to deal with.  Normies don’t have to think about opinion or pride of culture.  Us otaku do.  And when I’m told that somebody is going to dress up as a video game character, my thoughts immediately go to ‘cosplay.’

To explain, look at the picture at the top of this post.  I’ll wait.

Now look at this video, featuring Playboy’s so called Bayonetta “lookalike,” Jillian.

Mirror image, right?

Sarcasm aside, even an otaku in training like myself would not call what Playboy is doing ‘cosplay.’  Look at the fishnet stockings.  Look at the high heeled boots with no guns attached.  Look at the red hair for chrissakes.  Look at the frickin’ hairstyle!  Nothing about this woman or any of the other four playmates is even remotely Bayonetta like except for the glasses and the guns.

And two of the playmates even have the wrong color glasses… sigh…

Now I understand that Playboy is not the center of the otaku universe.  It’s not even on the fringe.  I just hope that this wasn’t Playboys attempt to pander to otakus however, because it like they didn’t even try.

It’s as if they said, “Hey let’s get some gamers looking at the mag.  Someone go into wardrobe and see what we’ve got for these broads to wear.  No, no, don’t worry, nobody will be able to tell the difference.”

What do you think?  Is dressing up a model and saying she’s a lookalike for an established video game character valid?  To me it’s like putting a big red “S” on a blue t-shirt, getting a hot babe to wear it and nothing else and trying to tell me it’s Supergirl.  What’s your opinion?

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