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Sent by Kristi |
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Kana III From David M. |
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From Chris |
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Rowen:
"The character is an 'OS-Tan'. These are the
female cartoon embodiments of operating systems. One of the most popular
girl is Windows ME, who's always in frilly maid's gear."
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Nancy N. provides this picture of a CosPlayer channeling Alice Elliot; Alice is a role playing character from the Shadow Hearts game. |
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Harajuku Fashion From Misha
'Harajuku' is a
location in Japan where the young and teenagers dress |
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Julie Christine:
"Just have to love the
Japanese. They know cute and girlie.
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(above) Unusual CosPlay: This a member (Mana)
of a Visual Kei band in Japan named
Malice Mizer
Below--a CosPlay tribute to Petticoat Pond!
(below) Three disrobed CosPlayers [Kind of subtracts from their charm,
no?]
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Newspaper article mentioning CosPlay restaurants:
... Los Angeles Times Staff Writer: SHE'S wearing white knee socks
and black
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A couple of CosCuties from David M., along with these terms: Manga are essentially illustrated story books or comics. Anime are animated cartoons with similar characters.
Kigurumi
is dressing up as cartoon characters, complete with mask
Cosplay is mainly carried out by girls and can be for either imitating cartoon characters or heroes. (There are a lot of odd characters in the Paper Moon or Sailor Moon series.) Girls more recently have adopted CosPlay as an image creation e.g., Gothic, Lolita, Kawai (cute) Fluffy or Maids. The maid-look can vary from complete Victorian housemaids with long aprons over prim uniforms which extend across the skirt-length spectrum into ‘downright dangerous.’ I understand that there are ‘Maid in Japan’ tea-houses for all those workaholics who don’t have time to go home and see their wives and kids in the evenings. Any other information will be in Wikipedia or such like.
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