‘Cosplay’ Kids Bring Anime to Life
By Maureen Ker |
August 5th, 2008 | Share This
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COSTUME PARY: Cosplay has attracted anime and manga fans who go out in public dressed as their favorite characters.
HERO WORSHIP: Markisha Montgomery as Kiba from Naruto, a manga and anime series.
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The scene seemed straight out of a Japanese comic book: a young maiden swathed in a kimono stood demurely under a row of blossoming cherry trees, her long hair flecked with pink petals. Next to her, a samurai warrior wielded a wooden sword.
But this was no manga page: The setting was Brooklyn.
“I’m playing Naminé from Kingdom Hearts!” declared college student Michelle Folvar, 19, as she strolled the Brooklyn Botanic Garden recently.
Folvar is not a performer or movie extra she’s a dedicated “cosplayer.”
August 6th, 2008 at 1:49 am
cosplay not only for kids actually….many age people join in cosplay, and it will be business in the near future.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:16 am
(Blush) hayaya! Such a nice picture of me,un!! Ahaha! ^////^ I had lots of fun at that matsuri!! I can’t wait to go to the next one,un!\(>w<)/
August 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I’m glad someone did a story on cosplay…if I had the money because costumes are costly… I would dress as a character from the anime bleach