What should you do for summer cosplay?

If you’re interested in summer cosplay convention, get back to all that costume goodness you know and love. And some of the fans are working hard on their creations for all the big shows this year.

To help get everyone into the mood for some great Summer cosplay, let’s take a look at one of the traditional convention cosplay staples, the Masquerade! These events are held at most every anime convention and usually consist of a variety of cosplay walk-on and skit performances with fans dressed as their favorite characters. Sometimes the Masquerades are competitions where the winners can receive cash, gift certificates, or even trips! Prizes aside, even getting the chance to go on stage is pretty awesome.

To start us off, here’s a skit that I had the pleasure to see up close and in person. It was innovative how the cosplayers worked in a music video they created and poked a bit of fun at the source material.

Japanese cosplay of the economic and social benefits

The author in Japan during the official contact with many people like to visit Japan in the cosplay, and often found when the enterprise as the chairman of the executive desk is comic books, in the trolley, subway, street also often see different age paragraph the person holding comic books, there is a man. In addition, in Japan, cartoon applications are very wide, many products instruction, suggested that the contents, logo, advertising, cartoon animation language use almost became a Japanese language tools. In Tokyo Disneyland and universal studio more can feel the passion of Japanese cosplay, the inquiry found in Tokyo, through random under the age of 18 year of teenagers to Disneyland, not less than two times and paradise with cartoon figures and the brand of various derivatives is a young man of love.

More important is, many young people like cartoon figures to worship, imitate, even is a lifetime of. This effect prompt cartoon works not only present value creator market effect and economic benefits, pay more attention to the future work. The author in the animation art gallery in three hawks (i.e. ghibli came to visit the museum), a process that writers, cartoonist, animation director hayao miyazaki, in the cartoon image creation, write story, animated cartoon film making and later the promotion, etc., are meticulously, reflect a kind of "in the future", now my heart. From the master of works and influence of Japanese animation can feel, not only have the effect of social economic benefits, social benefits.