PSU has an interesting feature about cosplay Camparing between East and West. The articles concludes that the "Americans" are bad at cosplaying when compared to the Japanese.
The only issue revolving around this pop culture happening is the blatant disregard of actually mimicking a character you can pull off. Due to this, America has been home to some of the worst, funniest, and even saddest forms of cosplay worldwide.
Having been to various conventions both in Japan, Singapore and Australia I noticed that the most anime characters are actually based on Asian physique rather then western ones, thus most asians can pull off the cosplay better. Not a cosplayer myself, but those are some of my observations as a designer.
However disagree with PSU statement and I have see some rather good western cosplay before. And don’t be discourage western readers with PSU comments!!! I Guess the author had to deal with all the bad cosplay on his eyes as he goes to those Western Anime Conferences. ^^;
ABanzai! some nice photos of Cosplay around this site.
[External links]
http://www.psu.com/Cosplay–The-good,-the-bad,-and-the-ugly-Feature–a0003228-p0.php
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April 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am #bakaneko
Amazing! Especially the FF cosplayers. But come on, those are most likely models. Average asian physique is nowhere like that. Those are more the cream of the crop than the average girl on the street.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:09 am #Theowne
Yeah, I call BS on this one…I’ve been to conventions in both the US and in Japan…..in the US, anime geeks (who aren’t really the best example of physique) dress up…in Japan, they hire models to do it because the otakus will drool and spend more cash and keep returning. If you banned models and restricted the cosplay to anime fans, we’d see a very different trend. You don’t honestly believe every girl you’ll see in Japan is going to look like that, do you?
April 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am #Omohide1
I call BS on this one…I’ve been to conventions in both the US and in Japan…..in the US, anime geeks (who aren’t really the best example of physique) dress up…in Japan, they hire models to do it because the otakus will drool and spend more cash and keep returning. If you banned models and restricted the cosplay to anime fans, we’d see a very different trend. You don’t honestly believe every girl you’ll see in Japan is going to look like that, do you?
April 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am #Ryan A
Lotta fail! Well, I wouldn’t doubt the physique representation of the West, specifically the US has widespread health issues in the population (mostly stemming from denatured foods habits), so until we clean that up there’s not way we’d have good representation.
EAT MOAR VEGETABLES AMERICA!
April 14th, 2008 at 2:44 am #blauereiter
Well..gotta give them points for trying. That TIFA looks amazin !
April 14th, 2008 at 8:24 am #bluemist
Most of these cosplay are comparing the best of Japan with the worst of the US, so that’s kinda unfair. I’ve seen pretty weird cosplay in Japan too.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:24 am #nutcase23
omg… that gundam cosplay is PHAIL.
Singapore has it’s share of good cosplayers. Just check out my Matsuri 2008 post ^^.