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    Cosplay A Japanese pastime brought to the US... (thank god!) Rate Topic: -----

    #1 User is offline   Savana 

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    Posted 24 December 2007 - 04:45 AM

    Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure?), or "costume play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, Japanese pop music bands, Visual Kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), and novels. However, in some circles, "cosplay" has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume.

    In Japan, "cosplay" as a hobby is usually an end unto itself. Like-minded people gather to see others' costumes, show off their own elaborate handmade creations, take lots of pictures, and possibly participate in best costume contests.

    The most specific anecdote about the origin of the word "cosplay" was that Nov Takahashi (from a Japanese studio called Studio Hard) coined the term "cosplay" as a contraction of the English-language words "costume play" while she was attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was so impressed by the hall and masquerade costuming there that he reported about it frequently in Japanese science fiction magazines. This point is debatable, however, as the word fits in with a common Japanese method of abbreviation: combining the first two syllables of one word with the first two syllables of a second word (or, more precisely, the first two moras of each). Other examples of this include Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokémon? short for ポケットモンスター, or "Pocket Monsters") and puroresu (プロレス, puroresu? short for プロレスリング, or "professional wrestling").


    http://zelda-fans.com/blog/wp-content/images/Cosplay_Zelda_1.jpg

    http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11151095/Cosplay_Garments.jpg



    Learn more about the wide world of Cosplay! :D Much more soon.
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    #2 User is offline   Mysterium 

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    Posted 25 December 2007 - 03:59 PM

    Here are some more pics and plenty more to come!

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/01.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/2edb81t.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/10165Lei_Fang_cosp.jpg
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    Posted 26 December 2007 - 12:07 PM

    View PostTheDarkFae, on Dec 25 2007, 02:59 PM, said:

    Here are some more pics and plenty more to come!
    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/10165Lei_Fang_cosp.jpg

    Damn ! I wish she'd come and play with ME !
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    Posted 26 December 2007 - 12:27 PM

    No kidding right?! She is fucking sexy as hell!


    More PICS!


    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/016tr.jpg

    This one rocks! Awesome Squall!

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/13-1862-3.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/13-143-3.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/7fc6cf52.jpg

    God Kidja makes me horny

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/2zodv1k.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/2hmog1j.jpg
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    #5 User is offline   Mysterium 

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    Posted 27 December 2007 - 04:38 PM

    Yes MORE Pics. Prepare for a very visual thread

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/18eh2.jpg

    This one is freaking awesome....also KAWAII

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/18xc1.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/21ft8507xf6.jpg
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    Posted 27 December 2007 - 07:55 PM

    So the secret to being a good CosPlayer is.........Be unapproachabley attractive.

    Wow.

    They'd be great CosPlayers naked!

    Oh wait...I've just realized that the 'Cos' bit doesn't even matter here.
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    Posted 29 December 2007 - 12:24 PM

    That Lei Fang chick is fucking hot

    This post has been edited by Crypt: 29 December 2007 - 12:25 PM

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    #8 User is offline   Savana 

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    Posted 09 January 2008 - 11:40 AM

    Been a while since we added some pictures...

    http://images.cosplay.com/i/costumes/200/117394.jpg

    Creepy Headless Nurses from Silent Hill.... O.O

    http://images.cosplay.com/i/costumes/200/123431.jpg

    If you're curious and want to poke around more cosplaying photos, check here for tons and tons of photos from all over the world.

    This post has been edited by Athena: 09 January 2008 - 11:48 AM

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    Posted 10 January 2008 - 02:01 AM

    Pyramid Head FTW:

    http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5373/omghotmm3.jpg
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    Posted 10 January 2008 - 10:48 PM

    Some more lovely ones

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/21ft9334lo3.jpg

    Awesome Jupiter. This is not an easy outfit to pull off, trust me.


    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/21FT9422_medium.jpg


    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/21FT9465.jpg
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    Posted 11 January 2008 - 12:09 AM

    Adella is such a great cosplayer.
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    Posted 11 January 2008 - 12:59 AM

    Yes she really is quite amazing. One of the best I have seen on the net recently.
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    Posted 11 January 2008 - 05:15 AM

    Lord Masamune is great too:

    Sephiroth!

    http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5360/sephirothcosplaybylillyol7.jpg

    Full body:

    http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7867/onicon17mr8.jpg

    Holy crap!
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    Posted 11 January 2008 - 05:22 PM

    I love him!!! I have all his Sephiroth pics saved! Amazing.
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    Posted 18 January 2008 - 01:08 PM

    http://www.hachemuda.com/imagenes/cosplay11.jpg

    Kingdom Hearts FTW.

    http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/boku_baka/cosplay_tifa012.jpg

    Tifa FTW.
    http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/wp-content/uploads/ntu-cosplay-3.jpg


    http://images.mmosite.com/news/2006/09/07/wow_cosplay.jpg


    The background for this last one is photoshopped... but the costume is amazing.


    http://lawrarashop.com/images/glolita.jpg


    I wish I could buy this. O.O

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    Posted 18 January 2008 - 05:25 PM

    That vincent cosplayer looks terribly farmiliar O.O

    I believe he attended Sakuracon last year O.O
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    Posted 19 January 2008 - 10:56 PM

    Way weird. O.O

    More images....

    http://www.samuraisoapbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cosplay102.jpg

    http://www.junosora.com/wp/tigerscrane/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/final%20fantasy%20cosplay.jpg

    http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/boku_baka/cosplay_tifa01.jpg

    http://www.ironmaidends.blogger.com.br/Cosplay%20-%20Mestre%20Kame.jpg
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    Posted 20 January 2008 - 08:28 PM

    This last one of the Tifa is one of the best Cosplays Ive seen. I had that picture saved from a previous site and it got me really going back into Cosplay after I saw it. Spectacular.

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/35n08s0.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/25FT0856.jpg

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/219b2585.jpg

    Utterly wonderful!

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/275e7ed4.jpg

    Amazing Serenity....enchanting.

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/315eg6b.jpg

    Don't even know who it is..but HOT

    http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/TheDarkFae/547.jpg

    X/1999 FTW
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    Posted 24 January 2008 - 10:59 AM

    http://photoblog.eztools.com/f/9/4/8/4274948/55.jpg


    http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/xacur/cosplay/Kipi/KipiCosplay_0057.jpg


    http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs18/300W/f/2007/134/2/2/DN_Cosplay__Near___Misa_by_Crissey.jpg

    http://motleycrow.com/imagehost/Ff%20Hentai%20-%20Lulu%20Cosplay(1).jpg
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    Posted 13 April 2008 - 06:24 PM

    COSPLAY IS AMAZING

    if i had the money i soooooooooooooo would or the talent to make the costumes

    Vincet and all the other guys in this thread are gorgeous
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