January 26, 2024
Tami (Azi Acosta) was an introvert college girl who loved her anime and had a hobby of writing sex-flavored fan fiction about her favorite anime characters. To improve Tami's social life, her best friend Jhona (Zia Zamora) invited Tami to attend an anime convention in cosplay costume in order to meet more boys with similar interests. The cute Cammy Lee costume Jhona designed won Tami the Best Costume first prize that night.
Because her father Noli (Rey PJ Abellana) and stepmother Ellen (Shirley Fuentes) thought that there was no money in cosplay, Tami asked advise from popular cosplayer Coleen (Shiena Yu) and her photographer Ken (Jiad Arroyo) for tips. Ken convinced Tami to try being a gravure photography model for him and earn extra cash by selling her sexy photographs. Tami soon became very popular with anime fans, like nerdy Gelo (Ali Asistio).
Azi Acosta had some good dramatic moments, but she can really do much better than this. Her best erotic scene was her first photoshoot, and she was not nude there. Yu, Zamora and Erica Balagtas (as Tami's fantasy persona Chibi Tami) turned in shallow performances. With that resting wicked smirk, Arroyo was a natural movie villain. Asistio fared better playing his role restrained. Meanwhile, seniors Abellana and Fuentes were lividly overacting.
The screenplay of Don Ramirez Santella gave only a cursory introduction of the anime and cosplay which can be interesting for those who have no prior knowledge of these colorful activities borne out of Japanese pop culture. There is a difference between Japanese pornography and Japanese gravure photography (with its implied sensuality), but here, that distinction is practically obliterated without due respect to the culture it appropriates.
As merely the backdrop of a Vivamax film directed jointly by Topel Lee and Easy Ferrer, this rich cosplay subculture became secondary to interminable poorly-staged nude sex scenes, and this was unfortunate. It was even more unfortunate when in reality, most of the members of these cosplay communities are minors. Their parents may now be worried about their children engaging in the various unsavory activities depicted in this film. 2/10.
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