Cosplay Today: February 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Cosplay

Cosplay, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants wears costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and Sci-Fi as well as other pop-culture. Favorite sources include Manga, Anime, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Video Games and Fantasy Movies. Any entity from the real or cirtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched, with women playing male roles and vice versa.

Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies it to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

Naruto cosplay, the cosplayers was a girl, and Naruto is really was a boy!

Taiga Aisaka from Toradora!, cute?

From "trans-gender" to cute and beautiful cosplayers, some even goes to the extreme!

Yes... the beautiful girls of SailorMoon has become nightmare!

Well.. uh.. cosplaying as a book?

There is more hilarious, beautiful, cute, scary and tragedy coplayers if you ever been to an event that involves cosplaying. Malaysia too has this kind of things, in events such as Comic Fiesta and such, don't really know because its still not that popular yet.

Well, this is just an interesting part of "Anime Fan", it can be real-life hahaha!