FOE in Gaming Cosplay

Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure?), short for "costume play",is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan. Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies. Role play includes portrayals of J-pop and J-rock stars, Taiwanese puppet characters, science fiction characters, characters from musical stories, classic novels, and entertainment software. Any entity from the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched, with women playing male roles and vice versa.

Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies it to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

(source: wikipedia)

Take note, cosplayers are not mascots!

There are lots of cosplayer nowadays but only a few them cosplay just for hobby. It doesn't matter if you don't really look like the character you are portraying as long as you are having fun with what you are doing that's what matters most. Plus add the factor that you really made your own costume. ^_~

Just be yourself!

I got some pics from the net, we may find it fun though looking at them cosplaying those anime but hey its a hobby and they really have that spirit to face the world that they too can do it. 

Best of Anime 2010 Convention!

Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Venue: Function Room 5, 3rd Level SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia

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Update: Metro Comic Convention 2010

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

DAY 1 – August 21, Saturday

10:00 Gates open

12:00-1:00pm – Band Performance – WETT DOGG

1:00pm-2:00pm – Game Developer’s Association Panel

Get an in-depth scoop on the Video Gaming industry in the Philippines, and find out more about how involved Pinoy Talents are in the development and production of your favorite games!

Top 5 Best Game Cosplayers

(The list is made only by me, they are arrange in no particular order so we can't say who's number one or not. They're just one of my favorite cosplayers around the world.)

I really wanted to have this kind of topic here in my blog that's why I'm on my deviant page most of the time browsing, looking for some great game cosplayer. I was lucky enough to spot some of them :). I did not make it TOP 10 coz it was hard to find cosplayers that really look like a game character. You would only see a few of them. I don't judge the looks of a cosplayer but on the way they carry their costume and the effort they have on making it. I like what maridah says on her journal when she was invited as a judge on the cosplay competition at the AX 2010.