Week 7 [05-11.06.2017] World of cosplay

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Cosplay is one of the most known kind of entertainment, but not everyone likes it. That’s because it is unconventional kind of entertainment. You wear special outfits, and go through town to meet people who like it, just like you.

Once I made my own cosplay and went to a special event called convention. That one was called “Balticon”. When I was walking through the town a stranger came to me and said “Nice cosplay, I admire you, I’m not so brave to do it”. Some strangers stared at me in a special, negative way. That’s my story of cosplay and I want to show you why it is so popular.

To start with, you may think, that cosplay comes from Japan, but you are wrong. It has some elements which come from Japanese culture, but it was officiall invented in the 1980s, by fan cultures from the United States.

To start with, a Japanese artist Junichi Nakahara, who had been inspired by Yumeji Takehisa (an artist, who made his own brand of clothes) had an idea to design clothes in the manga style. Thanks to him young girls could buy outfits of the characters, which they liked the most.

The first cosplay was created in USA in the 1960s. Fans created costumes from the movie called “Star Trek” and showed in the science convention. In 1984 the Japanese style and American style merged and were named “cosplay”. Nobuyuki, the founder of Studio Hard – anime studio, attended to the science fiction event called WorldCOn he was impressed by costumes of the participants. When he returned to Japan, he tried to promote that style and named it “kospure”.

Nowadays there are enormous number of conventions. Some of them have also competitions of the best cosplay with big money prize. Most of cosplayers made costumes by themselves, sew step by step and learn how to make good and real-looked makeup. It cost many time but effects are worth that lost time. Some of them do it for fun others for money and fame. There are lists of best cosplayers.

Here you have 2 famous Europe cosplayers: Italian Leon Chiro and LittleJem from Great Britain

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Here is Julia Cosplayer – girl from Asia

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Sources:

https://www.japanpowered.com/otaku-culture/the-history-of-cosplay