Cosplaying can be lots of fun – especially when you see a really talented cosplayer dressed up as one of your favorite characters!
I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! Rachel and I were fortunate enough to catch a great (but brief) dance performance by a DOMO cosplayer! Here’s the clip of DOMO breaking out some slick moves:
There are plenty of things to discuss on the patio of an L.A. nightclub: music; politics; film; and, of course, those random stores that only make sense because you and everyone else around you has a few drinks in the system. Typically, though, anime is not fodder for nightclub conversation. That is, unless you happened [...]
Later this year, Japan will host the World Cosplay Summit 2008. This will be the sixth Summit, which began in 2003. Last year’s event featured 14 teams (28 cosplayers) from 12 countries (Japan had 3 teams) with an estimated 10,000 people watching the championship. The winners were the French team with Japan [...]
The World Cosplay Summit 2007 was held in Nagoya, Japan earlier this month (August 5, 2007). A few days before the competition, the 14 teams from 12 different countries (Japan had 3 teams) attended a press conference at Akihabara’s Tokyo Anime Center. Also attending was singing idol Shoko “Shokotan” Nakagawa who was this [...]
Anime Expo is the nation’s largest (some argue it’s second only to the Tokyo International Anime Fair) anime convention and it’s growing larger every year. With the huge and diverse amount of attendees who cosplay at AX, there are bound to be some truly phenomenal costumes on display. While we couldn’t be everywhere [...]
It’s that time of year again folks! It’s that time when those of us who choose not to (or can’t) cosplay have a chance to shine and not be labelled freak-show’s by “normal†society…Oh yeah baby, it’s Halloween time again!!!
Halloween for Dave and me is like Christmas, birthdays, Easter and the Fourth of July [...]
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Here’s a group of anime fans at the 2006 Japanese Festival that Rachel and I met. They’re posed in front of the lily pond at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
The St. Louis Japanese Festival at MoBot is just around the corner and I was feeling the pressure about a week ago to purchase my zori and tabi for the Bon Odori. To my dismay, I couldn’t find economically priced zori for my fat-American-size-9-feet. The only zori I could find that fit the [...]
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