As the New York Anime Festival attests, Japanese animation isn't all giant robots and schoolgirl panty-flashes. Turns out it's mostly giant robot panty-flashes. These days anime culture covers a broad spectrum, from Adult Swim to video games to that section of Waterstones where all the emo kids camp out.

Despite anime's rampant mainstreaming, one element remains intact -- scantily-clad action babes. Even the most tame anime series features at least one doe-eyed hottie who's prone to bending over for the flimsiest of reasons. Thankfully, events like the NY Anime Festival and the World Cosplay Summit inspire plenty of real-life ladies around the world to don tights, wigs and myriad paraphernalia to celebrate all that is anime.

Super high-jump into our gallery of anime and video game babes, expand your horizons and power up. Mighty Power Rocketship Team Asylum, go!

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Babes of NY Anime Festival
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Babes of NY Anime Festival

    "Code Geass" involves an America stand-in country conquering Japan. Please -- it'll clearly be the other way around.

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    No, she isn't just posing seductively. She's actually just exhausted from fighting off tentacled robots all day.

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    Sonic the Hedgehog's badass older sister, star of the new Sega game, Stay Out of My Room.

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    Good costumes, but sadly they lack the proper plumbing.

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    The Japanese Wii game this lovely lady hails from goes by the unwieldy title Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball. We'd say bases are pretty loaded.

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    Another anime con, another floor mermaid.

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    MiniRex are a band from Seattle, specializing in anime-influenced pop and doily-hat making

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    That's not a wig--her hair turned white from the sight of grown men purchasing Sailor Moon dolls.

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    Giant beads one of the lesser known tropes in the anime universe.

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    Behold, the after-effect of holding your breath all day to escape the over-powering musk of body-sweat and loneliness permeating the air.

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