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‘Cosplay’ Kids Bring Anime to Life

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.”

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3 Responses to “‘Cosplay’ Kids Bring Anime to Life”

  1. alice Says:

    cosplay not only for kids actually….many age people join in cosplay, and it will be business in the near future.

  2. markisha Says:

    (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<)/

  3. Candice Johnson Says:

    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

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