What Is Cosplay?

17 responses to “What Is Cosplay?”

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   Akra

   January 23, 2012 at 3:26 pm

   It’s tribal.

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   Chuloopa

   January 23, 2012 at 3:43 pm

   I’ve always wanted to give cosplay a shot… it looks like fun.

   Bee would disown me, though… lol

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      Chuloopa

      January 23, 2012 at 3:46 pm

      Also, ‘Cosplay and Lovestains’ would be an awesome band name..

      Just throwing that out there…

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         Morf

         January 23, 2012 at 4:31 pm

         Bee shows common sense far too much (you should keep her)

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   Telextial

   January 23, 2012 at 3:46 pm

   It’s not exactly like wearing a jersey or a printed shirt. These are accepted affiliations in Australian society. Wear a Link costume and walk in the city and you’ll be considered weird, whereas in some parts of Japan you’ll see countless people doing just that.

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      Chuloopa

      January 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm

      I get your point, but that’s not ENTIRELY correct.
      Tee-shirts can still be very much un-accepted in some cases, depending on the content

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         Chuloopa

         January 23, 2012 at 3:54 pm

         i should probably elaborate slightly by saying that t-shirts can create the same sort of stigma

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         Supersomething

         January 23, 2012 at 4:16 pm

         That is the sole reason I don’t wear my starcraft shirt the fIrst time I wore it my mum gave me a weird look.

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            Chuloopa

            January 23, 2012 at 4:19 pm

            What about the dudes that wear gindcore teeshirts?

            Like Analc***, or the likes lol

            Can’t tell me that peopel look at them the same as somone wearing a tee from roger david or something 😛

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               Morf

               January 23, 2012 at 4:32 pm

               What about those “almost video game” shirts
               I think most of us would be able to get away with it, but then of course we would take an arrow in the knee.

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            Lone Wolf

            January 23, 2012 at 4:46 pm

            I got random kudos for wearing a starcraft shirt with a zealot and “My life for Aiur” on it.

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      3. 

         PlasmaDavid

         January 23, 2012 at 6:07 pm

         “Wear a Link costume and walk in the city..”

         Did that through Perth, had random come up to me OMG YOU’RE FROM ZELDA etc. This was at night time too…

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4. 

   Benny

   January 23, 2012 at 4:24 pm

   The gathering of weird. Most definitely.

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5. 

   Jacka

   January 23, 2012 at 4:55 pm

   It’s the creative side of it that interests me. Now I’m old and crusty and am not about to get out and parade around in a costume, but I can see a lot of appeal in building a suit of armour or a monster mask or some such out of bits and pieces.

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6. 

   Brendan

   January 23, 2012 at 8:22 pm

   For a short reel on cosplay the camera seemed to focus mostly on the scenery and not the actual subject of the piece.

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7. 

   Hayden

   January 23, 2012 at 8:40 pm

   I’ve been a cosplay photographer in Melbourne since 2007. Here are some of my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianiceboy/sets/72157625093059344

   There are a lot of things I like about cosplay. As with a t-shirt, it’s a way to start a conversation with a stranger about something that you both love. I might have little in common with the cosplayer in the video, but she was cosplaying Eureka from the Eureka Seven anime, so we could start there. And I love seeing members of the public react to cosplay. In my experience, it is almost always positive or neutral.

   As a photographer, I love the colour and variety of most cosplays. Also, the fact that one can share the photos with the internet (and the internet will care) is a big plus. Neither my family nor the internet wants me to put my family photos up there.

   Perhaps this is four and a half years talking, but it doesn’t seem weird to me at all.

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8. 

   Ben

   January 23, 2012 at 10:38 pm

   Compare to ladies that wear thigns like “Pornstar” and “Bitch” on their tops, this is much more sensible.

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