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Life As A Soul Calibur Model

Posted by Zonk on from the sexy-ninja-man dept.

Tim Grube writes "Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a model at E3? The process is long and very tiring. Just think, what if you had to prepare to be a character from a videogame on stage that involves a sword fight. Professional stuntman and actor Ilram Choi has been in multiple commercials for Nike and Mountain Dew. At this year's E3 Ilram was cast as Soul Calibur III's Mitsurugi. Ilram wrote a diary on the days leading up to E3."

26 comments

  1. Hm... No... by Seumas · · Score: 4, Funny

    No... No... I've never really wondered, actually.

    Is the next article going to expose us to the life of wannabe starlets who think trade shows are their step to fame and aging strippers who need to keep putting cash in the kitty to afford their "habit"? Maybe we'll get to find out what it takes to be a food vendor at E3. Or how harrowing it is to be part of the janitorial crew...

    1. Re:Hm... No... by krymsin01 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Knowing most of geeks I know, I'd be willing to say the food vendor at E3 could claim hazardous duty pay.

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    2. Re:Hm... No... by Negatyfus · · Score: 1

      Exactly. However, I'd very much like to know more about those Namco girls. Preferably first hand.

  2. Be honest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many people thought the article would be about a female model?

    I haven't played Soul Calibur so I didn't know Mitsurugi is a guy.

    1. Re:Be honest by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      How many people named "Mitsurugi" do you know? I haven't met a single one and japanese names follow a different convention for men and women than what most westerners are used to.

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    2. Re:Be honest by Mycroft_VIII · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That's a local cultural thing, names and thier genders that is.
      Anyone with the Name mitsurugi would get some odd reactions here (USA-Midwest) as it's not exactly Bob or Sue or Timmothy.
      I could see where it might sound more or less feminin or masculin depending one the cultural norms, or even era.
      I had Neighbor whoes middle name was Laverne. Currently that would be thought of us someones aunt, yet when he was named (around 1900!) it was o.k. to give a boy the name Laverne, at least for a middle name.

      Mycroft

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    3. Re:Be honest by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2271.html
      a guide to japanese naming conventions
      "Not seldomly, the gender of a person can be guessed by the ending of his/her first name. First names ending with -ro, -shi, -ya, or -o are typically male first names, while names ending in -ko, -mi, -e and -yo are typically female first names."

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    4. Re:Be honest by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 1

      I've always thought it was a reference to Rurouni Kenshin, which is a somewhat successful anime about a former samurai. In the anime, Kenshin fights with a style known as hiten mitsurugi-ryu. I've always just assumed that it was a reference, but I've never known for sure.

    5. Re:Be honest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've always thought it was a reference to Rurouni Kenshin,

      Bakayaro!

  3. Model? by borg1238 · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be fair, this guy's job wasn't really as a model. He performed an on stage fight sequence.

  4. Can't make this shit up... by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's nothing! I was reading the newspaper today... The local honor roll list. Some loving parents named their daughter Shiteria Nachelle Pissdale. Shiteria!?! WTF do you call her for short? Gee forever! I could hardly believe it. Man, I think I might just kill my parents in their sleep over something like that. Someone at the hospital shoulda intervened. I'm in eastern NC, FWIW.

    1. Re:Can't make this shit up... by Zemrec · · Score: 1

      Hey, I'm gonna go to the shiteria after that huge lunch in the cafeteria...

      God! That's awful. Someone should put the smack down on those parents. WTF?

      Times like this I think Congress should do something useful for a change, enact a law of approved names. Nobody gets to pick anything off the list else there be banination.

    2. Re:Can't make this shit up... by FidelCatsro · · Score: 1

      Id rather have some odd exceptions of children name jobbie wanksalot than have everyone name William jefferson X or MArtha X or so on. State aproved names just seems incredibly dodgy to me . ;) though a psychological examination of the parents may be in order.

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    3. Re:Can't make this shit up... by Mycroft_VIII · · Score: 1

      I seem to recall somewhere an emperor did something like that, required everyone to pick a family name by choosing from the words of ONE poem he liked.
      IIRC it was China or Japan, but I'm honestly not shure.

      Mycroft

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    4. Re:Can't make this shit up... by MagicDude · · Score: 1

      It reminds me of a story I heard from a professor I heard a few weeks ago. He went to medical school about 50 years ago in the deep south (Georgia I think). He worked his way through school by working at the county register office (or whatever you call it) where birth cirtificates for babies were filed. He would notice that from time to time, poor uneducated black families would name their babies things like "Clitoris" or "Ghonorrea". It was obvious that these families didn't know what those words meant, but heard them in the hospital and though they sounded pretty. What was even more asenine was that the doctors and nurses in the hospital didn't try to change their mind, even though they knew very well what was happening, but rather they found it funny. And it wasn't that they didn't know what was happening, because they would have to sign off on the documentation before it was filed. So my professor would refuse to accept the certificates on some kind of technicality until the names were more appropriate. One day he got a call from the a hospital administrator saying that if he didn't stop poking his nose where it didn't belong, he would report him to his superiors and perhaps make trouble from him at his medical school too. My prof replied that if the administrator wanted to go down that route, he would go visit the newspaper editor at the printing plant across the street and give him some material for some interesting stories on the matter. He said he didn't run into any trouble after that.

    5. Re:Can't make this shit up... by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 2, Informative

      don't believe your prof:
      http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

      i've had people tell me this one too, gotta love those friend-of-a-friend kind of deals

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  5. Seung-Mina versus Xianghua by MiceHead · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a model at E3?"

    Have you ever wondered what it is like to watch Seung-Mina and Xianghua fight in a live action performance on stage? Sure you have! But wonder no more: Kali-Yuga will show you the way (mirror) in a short, but entertaining video clip.
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    1. Re:Seung-Mina versus Xianghua by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      how is a post about performers performing soul calibur that's posted in a thread about a performer performing soul calibur moderated as off-topic?

    2. Re:Seung-Mina versus Xianghua by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Moderation requires no justification. Submit to the will of the collective. You are being watched.

    3. Re:Seung-Mina versus Xianghua by mink · · Score: 1

      I wonder how many players of SC know what Kali Yuga is?

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  6. Just say no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to Booth Beef.

    Yes, on Booth Babes.

  7. I would've found it interesting if... by Moo+Moo+Cow+of+Death · · Score: 1

    I would've found more entertainment in that diary if it were to include say...how to bang a supermodel or if they tried to roleplay while in bed. I mean, the guy repeatedly states that he's doing this gig to get near hot nerdy chicks, so at least include something about them eh?

    1. Re:I would've found it interesting if... by djdavetrouble · · Score: 1

      Amazed I even skimmed through, but I did manage to catch this gem of deep thought and reflection on my way to vomiting:

      During my solo performance I had trouble putting the sword back into the scabbard. Why are there such things as mistakes? I can't seem to get away from mistakes. Well, can't do anything about it now. It's over, back to normal life.

      A regula philophoser!

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  8. Looks like Namco's costume budget was on the cheap by Webapprentice · · Score: 2, Funny

    The stuntman's costume seems pretty mediocre quality compared some cosplayers' interpretations of Mitsurugi's 1P outfit.