Berhubung aku lagi cinta ama cosplay dan lg semangat2nya mau cosplay, aku mau sharing ttg cosplay aja deh ^^

Menurut wikipedia Indonesia

Cosplay ( kosupure^?) berasal dari kata “costume” dan “play”, yang berarti suatu hobi untuk berdandan dan berperan menjadi serupa karakter anime, manga, video games, jrock, jpop. Seseorang yang melakukan Cosplay disebut Cosplayer.

Para penggemar cosplay termasuk cosplayer maupun bukan cosplayer sudah tersebar di seluruh penjuru dunia, yaitu Amerika, RRC, Eropa, Filipina, maupun Indonesia sendiri. Di Internet komunitas Cosplay dapat ditemui di berbagai situs dengan topik meluas seperti Cosplay.com yang membahas Cosplay secara garis besar, maupun situs bertopik spesifik seperti AnimeTwin.com sebagai ajang “nilai dan pamer foto” para Cosplayer di seluruh dunia.

Kalau aku sendiri sih ikutan http://lautan.indosiar.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=144 buat acara cosplay2an ^^

Kalau mau lihat org2 Indo cosplay, bisa lihat di gallery fotoku di http://album.kapanlagi.com/FotoShirei

Tanggal 8 July nanti aku akan cosplay di WTC Mangga 2 di acara J-Vo ( http://jvo.nipponclub.net ). Tanggal 7 aku wisuda, tanggal 10 aku Ultah, tapi aku malah jauh lbh mikir “Gimana cosplayku nanti”

Aku akan berpasangan 2 temanku (ini gambar dan foto2 characterku).

Yang pertama namanya dasawarsa dan akan menjadi ‘mahluk 1 ini (lady Ghost)’. wahahahah

Sedangkan satunya lagi (napster Ori) akan jadi

Kalau aku sendiri mau jadi cewek yg ada di video ini. Aku bener2 mohon doa dr semua. Kalau ad yg mau datang, datang aja dan jangan lupa vote buat aku yah

Sedang Cosplay menurut mbah wiki versi Inggris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CosplayCosplay (????, kosupure^?), a portmanteau of the English words “costume” and “roleplay”, 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, or Japanese pop music bands. 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 he 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 (????, Pokémon^? short for ?????????, or “Pocket Monsters”) and puroresu (????, puroresu^? short for ???????, or “professional wrestling“).

Cosplay venues

Cosplay can be seen at public events such as video game shows, as well as at dedicated cosplay parties at nightclubs or amusement parks. It is not unusual for Japanese teenagers to gather with like-minded friends in places like Tokyo’s Harajuku district to engage in cosplay. Since 1998, Tokyo’s Akihabara district has contained a large number of cosplay cafés, catering to devoted anime and cosplay fans. The waitresses at such cafés dress as game or anime characters; maid costumes are particularly popular.

Possibly the single largest and most famous event attended by cosplayers is the semiannual doujinshi market, Comiket. This event, held in summer and winter, attracts hundreds of thousands of manga otaku and many thousands of cosplayers who congregate on the roof of the exhibition center, often in unbearably hot or cold conditions.

Cosplayers in Japan refer to themselves as reyazu; pronounced layers (by writing the word cosplayers in Katakana, it is possible to shorten it in this way, although it makes no sense in English). Those who photograph players are called cameko, short for “Camera Kozo” or “Camera Boy”. The cameko give prints of their photos to the players as gifts. Tensions between players and cameko have increased due to perceived stalker-like behaviour among some obsessive males who push female cosplayers to exchange personal email addresses or do private photo sessions. One result of this has been a tightening of restrictions on photography at events such as Comiket.

Cosplay trends

A recent trend at Japanese cosplay events is an increase in the popularity of non-Japanese fantasy and science fiction movie characters, perhaps due to the international success of such films as The Matrix, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Characters from the Harry Potter films have a particularly high number of female fans in Japan, with female cosplayers playing either male or female characters, Draco Malfoy being an extremely popular choice.

The act of cosplaying as characters of the opposite sex is called “crossplay” (cross-dressing cosplay). A small niche group in this field are dollers, a subset of kigurumi cosplayers; usually male, they wear bodysuits and masks to fully transform into female characters.

Another recent trend in cosplay is a blurring of the distinction between costumes based on characters from games and anime, and “original” costumes based upon a general theme or existing fashions. In particular, the Tokyo teen-fashion trend of Gothic Lolita has attracted some cosplayers who might not have the inclination (or possibly courage) to wear such distinctive clothes around town, but who would like to dress in such a manner on some occasions.