Posted by Saddletank on 03.21.2008, 07:19 AM: Cosplay Normally I avoid this like the plague because the people look plain embarrassing and the quality of photography and locations (in some school gym or something) is dire.
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Posted by Kazegami on 03.21.2008, 07:48 AM: Whoah that's brilliant! XD
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Posted by Saddletank on 03.21.2008, 08:21 AM: Yep, the whole crowd of OHSHC people together was very well done. Megan has the Vampire Knight manga so I know these costumes are quite close, and this guy just carries it off so well, he has the right face, the right expression, super-cool, everything. And a great costume. I love all this big buttons, big lapels, 17th century European/quasi military style stuff:
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Posted by arren18 on 03.21.2008, 08:28 AM: I've seen some pretty good cosplay actually... Unfortunately there is a lot that's just lame. And the photos on that particular site... I dunno, a lot of them didn't really impress me, but maybe I'm just not familiar with the series that did have especially good photos.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 03.21.2008, 11:34 AM: Unfortunately, a picture of a hairy hunky guy cosplaying as Chii has permanently put me off cosplay.
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Posted by Nausicaa_Cat on 03.21.2008, 12:05 PM: Some of them were pretty cool.
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Posted by Maho_Fushida on 03.21.2008, 12:28 PM: Thats the thing isn't it? Anime people are sooo skinny, like Barbie dolls with long thin necks. Normal shaped humans look weird, their eyes are too small for a start
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Posted by Atradius on 03.22.2008, 12:11 PM: Awww, that was cool
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Posted by T.C. on 03.22.2008, 07:19 PM:
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Posted by Loscil on 03.22.2008, 09:06 PM: Yeah, Haruko was the only one that I was really impressed with.
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Posted by Atradius on 03.23.2008, 08:43 AM: Thats kinda the point though JRR
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Posted by Maho_Fushida on 03.23.2008, 08:44 AM:
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Posted by Roarkiller on 03.23.2008, 10:18 AM: Because real men don't play dress up.
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Posted by Saddletank on 03.23.2008, 11:48 AM: Sure there are borderlines and much of cosplaying is near them if not over them but its easy to see the point in doing it. And no-ones MAKING you go to the web pages that have the fat hairy male sailor-moon cosplayers on.
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Posted by arren18 on 03.23.2008, 07:12 PM:
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Posted by Theowne on 03.23.2008, 08:48 PM: You have to understand that cosplay for a lot of people is about costumes and replication and not about trying to look like certain characters. For example, the people in Saddletank's link look absolutely nothing like their respective anime characters. And they can't really, because except for perhaps Miyazaki's films, anime characters don't have the characteristics of any human beings I have seen. Anime characters can have wavy blue hair that sticks up at one end and yet look completely normal, I have not seen this noble feat replicated anywhere on this planet as of yet. For most people it's more of a costume/hobby thing, and that's fine for them. I personally am not too interested in it. |
Posted by husky51 on 03.25.2008, 10:07 PM: The basic rules of cosplaying are 1) be very slim 2) be very good looking 3 ) have confidence to carry it off...
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Posted by Atradius on 03.26.2008, 10:39 AM: Some of my mates went to a sci-fi convention dressed as a bantha |
Posted by Saddletank on 03.26.2008, 12:20 PM: Phew! I can consider myself untained then since I haven't any idea what a bantha is. I pass the test!
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Posted by husky51 on 03.26.2008, 02:58 PM: a bantha is a 'Star Wars' critter, if I am not mistaken...
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