cosplay

what is cosplay?

Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), short for "costume play",^[ is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often  drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and Sci-Fi. Favourite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies. Any entity from the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched, with women playing male roles and vice versa. There is also a subset of cosplay culture centered around sex appeal, with cosplayers specifically choosing characters that are known for their attractiveness and/or revealing (even explicit) costumes.

Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centred around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

The term cosplay is a portmanteau of the English words costume and play. The term was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi of the Japanese studio Studio Hard while attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was impressed by the hall and the costumed fans and reported on both in Japanese science fiction magazines. The coinage reflects a common Japanese method of abbreviation in which the first two moras of a pair of words are used to form an independent compound.Costume becomes kosu (コス), and play becomes pure (プレ).

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ok, enough of this cosplay's history..so, finally, i get the chance to cosplay..haha..it's not for some event or anything but just to kill time..lmao...cosplaying has been my dream since i was little..seeing the models in magazine and mangas makes me feel really envious toward the cosplayer..so, that's it..i decided to be a cosplayer too.. so, for my 1st time cosplaying ever..i choose the character of ENMA AI from JIGOKU SHOUJO because her costumes didn't need much accessories,plus i'm a beginner..so, that's makes sense.

PLOT

Most episodes are self-contained short stories in which the series narrates the suffering of a different individual caused by one or more antagonists. In general during each arc, the protagonists' dramas are explained in detail from the start of their grudges, through the escalation of their torment until it becomes unbearable and they resort to accessing the Hell Correspondence website. Although in general, the client gives the antagonist a chance, he or she usually ends up pulling the string on his or her doll and sending the antagonist to hell. Once they have pulled the string, before taking the antagonist to hell, Ai Enma punishes the person for his or her sins with the help of her companions.

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So,I buy the costumes from TAOBAO.com and it takes me 10 days  for the goods to arrived... all cost me RM78.70, include the international shipping..pretty much cheap because i buy it directly from China and yea, China's currencies is low than Malaysia..so, that's good.

i asked my friends to do the photoshoot..and, this is it..

well, I wanted to participate in hobbycon this year, but.......maybe next time, i need to gather much info about this cosplay tournament thing..umm, maybe next year will do..haha..who knows.. 

i think i'm gonna do lolita for my next theme, and maybe i'll make my own costumes after this.. all is "MAYBE"..lol...let's just god decides.....