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As with other kinds of cosplay, many hobbyists have costumes of established characters from games or animations. The characters are usually female, and commonly human, although kigurumi characters of other species and genders do exist, including male (such as Kenshin Himura from Rurouni Kenshin), mechanical (such as Gundam Wing), elfin (such as Deedlit or Pirotess from Lodoss), and demonic ...
My Dress-Up Darling (Japanese: その 着せ替え人形 （ ビスク・ドール ） は恋をする, Hepburn: Sono Bisuku Dōru wa Koi o Suru, transl. "That Bisque Doll Falls in Love") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Fukuda.
Cosplay Complex (こすぷれCOMPLEX) is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) [1] series directed by Shinichiro Kimura and animated by TNK.It is centered on the after school cosplay club at East Oizumi Academy and follows the girls in the club as they practice so that one day they may be able to compete in cosplay competitions.
Animegao costumes are used both in professional stage shows and by cosplayers, sometimes called "dollers", who make custom masks of various characters. It is still a very minor part of the cosplay scene in Japan, though throughout the mid-2000s, it began attracting attention in other countries, including the United States, Canada , and various ...
The term "cosplay" is a Japanese blend word of the English terms costume and play. [1] The term was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi [] of Studio Hard [3] after he attended the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles [4] and saw costumed fans, which he later wrote about in an article for the Japanese magazine My Anime []. [3]
A second web anime titled Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top premiered in April 2023 and ran for four episodes. An anime film titled Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era premiered in Japan in May 2024. An anime television series adaptation of Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray is set to premiere in April 2025.
Love Live! School Idol Project Series [a] is a Japanese multimedia project created by Hajime Yatate and Sakurako Kimino and co-produced by Kadokawa through ASCII Media Works; Bandai Namco Music Live through music label Lantis; and animation studio Sunrise.
The first World Cosplay Summit was held in 2003 to highlight the international popularity of Japanese anime and manga through cosplay (costume play). [4] It was subsequently held as part of Expo 2005 in Nagoya, where it gathered considerable media attention. [5]