Showing posts with label cosplay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosplay. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2011

Cosplay

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Well, this is something you probably thought you would never see on this blog, and it is something that surprises me too. Cosplay!

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Last week I went up to Enchoen, a huge Chinese garden in Tottori, and when I walked in I was surprised to see lots of kids dressed up in cosplay. Apparently I had stumbled in to the 11th Annual Pan-Asian Cosplay Competition.

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There were kids from China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and of course Japan. They all had tons of high-end camera equipment and spent their time posing and shooting....

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I dont read manga nor watch anime, so I have absolutely no idea who any of these characters are...

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Fake maiko.

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These 2 young ladies in Gion were being photographed by a whole gaggle of foreign tourists who most probably believed they were seeing maiko or geisha.

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In fact the 2 women were customers of one of the many "Maiko make-over" shops that are in Gion.

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With prices ranging from 6,000 up to more than 40,000 yen. you can get made up and wear the costume and then wander around Gion.

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So, how can you tell they are fake?

A simple rule of thumb is that if it is the daytime, then almost certainly they are cosplayers. Another thing to look for is how they walk. Very few non-maiko will be able to walk in the correct maiko way. The bags they carry and how they lift the kimono are also give-aways.

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