Cosplay

and wearing something completely weird, but it isn’t weird to them, in fact it’s their style. You have the anime lovers, known as Otakus, dressing up as their favorite characters, this is known as Cosplay. Cosplay has actually happened here in Hawaii as well, but not as frequently as the Japanese, cosplay sometimes takes thousands of dollars to make, and sometimes you make it by yourself, but it’s a style a lot of people are proud of and are happy to make and invest in. Harajuku people dressed…

Nowadays, we see a lot more geek culture and it’s become a cool, social aspect to embrace that quirky side of being a geek. It’s now cool to strut in our amazing cosplays—cosplay, not costume—and enjoy the fascination of comic cons. Because of comic con, geeks are now taking over and it’s awesome to see what geeks can do. Usually, with cosplays, we think of the superhero costumes, the weird anime girls or the Star Wars characters with their plastic light sabers. Well,…

The Key Critical Term I choose is gesture and the two research topics are courtesy in Atlanta and Georgia RenFest. I think they both have a strong connection to the term gesture. From the essay by Carol Robinson, gestures are socially codified movements of body parts or vocalized sounds that, even in a formal setting, can send a uniquely personal message. Also, gestures can have different meanings in different time which provide us with a unique angle to observe and research into certain…

Let’s take “costume play” (cosplay) as an example; according to Freud psychoanalysis theory we develop a sense of desire towards our three forces within us whereby the id has a form of sexual desire towards a character in order to be release from this desire then came superego to decide whether is it ethically right or wrong from the moral values you gain before being apart of the cosplay community. Therefore ego would be the one making the decision on being…

of; imagined identities, again a strong sense of belonging to a community and modesty and authenticity. Something that had been brought to the attention of the researcher during an interview was another Muslim youth subculture, linked closely to cosplay, referred to as Hijabi Lolita. Lolita as a word was first used by Vladimir Nabokov in his novel Lolita, published in 1955. While the word Lolita carried meanings of sexualisation in Nabokov’s novel, the same cannot be said for Lolita as a…

example is Lindsay Elyse. Elyse is one of the few full time professional cosplayers in the world, and made it as a career for over ten years now, according to Zara Stone from The Hustle. She has appeared in many convention events as the official cosplay model for a lot of characters. Jessica Nigri is another professional cosplayer. She became popular when someone posted her in picachu costume, on the internet. Since then, she has been getting paid doing photoshoots for different…

I once went to a cosplay convention in Washington D.C with my boyfriend at the time and I couldn’t help but take notice of how gorgeous the state’s scenery was. It’s a beautiful place, especially the outskirts of the city. It was a warm august day when we had first arrived, the warm hues of the leaves were vibrant with orange, brown, and reds, the sunset was basking everything in a soft, orange glow, setting a nice, tranquil atmosphere. When we arrived in the inner city of Washington D.C, it…

draw is too good to be forgotten! Y’know, with handsome guys in waistcoats and cute girls in skirts and all that. Those designs are pretty much impossible to do in real life. And I would know because I cosplay - that is, I wear costumes to look like anime characters. I have over a dozen official cosplays. I’m the best…

Cosplay is a term adapted from the combination of “costume” and “play” where people essentially dress up as his or her favorite character from any two-dimensional realm (video games, animations, comics, and TV shows). In the article "Cosplay": Imaginative Self and Performing Identity, written by Osmud Rahman, he described this culture as “ a theatrical performance with…

Japanese society that plenty of Japanese people want to find a way to release and transportation on trains and subways that gives an opportunity for Japanese people to read Manga and use their mobile phone to watch cosplay shows. In the western countries, Japanese pop culture such as cosplay is the mainstream of society and the increasing number of people get involved into these pop culture activities, which can boost the development of Japanese pop culture. Moreover, it is widely believed that…