Creating
the world of Cosplay Fashion
by: Rona Guevara
Cosplay is short for “costume play”. Cosplay
involves wearing a costume that is exactly like that of a character from manga,
anime, or video games, making your hair and make-up as the character’s
appearance as possible. Cosplayer is the term used for those people who love
and portray the character. It is the responsibility of cosplayers in creating
their own hair stles, make-ups, costumes and the props in portraying a
character. Cosplay is growing in popularity especially among young people all
over the world. Because, teenagers are more exposed in todays generation where
anime characters are more popular and more important for them than the
characters in books where there are many lessons and discoveries are found.
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| Alodia Gosiengfiao |
Cosplay fashion may be considered a
blurring of the distinction between fiction and reality. It is believed that it
was originated in the SF and comic conventions that take place in America and
Europe. But, in todays generation cosplay is more popular in Japan than other
countries simply because daily life in Japan was filled with manga, anime,
video games and other works upon which cosplay can be based. Also, they have a
comic market in their country where most of the young people are devoted of
that kind of life.
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| Lenie Nierves Aycardo |
The cosplay fever is growing in
popularity here in the Philippines where the cosplayer joined in cosplay conventions
or even the student who joined the cosplay event in their schools. Alodia Gosiengfiao is the most popular Cosplayer in the
Philippines. She’s also known as the Cosplay
Queen of the Philippines.
She likes to do Anime Cosplay, play console and PC games, play with
synthesizers and many many more. In Antipolo National High School, the
cosplay convention in portraying movie characters, anime characters and
characters from greek mythology was held in that school every year as a part of
high school day’s life. That event was part of English organization that was
organized by English teachers and head of the department.
Meet Lenie Nierves Aycardo, a member
of ANHS dance troupe, who portrayed the character of Leukothea, the godess of
water in greek mythology. During first year high school, she started to join in
cosplay events and to portray a different characters. She and her friends create
her costume by recycled materials such as card boards, paint, floral wire,
fabrics sequins, woods and other materials thatare useful for creating her
costume. She was the title holder for “cosplayer of the year 2013” and she
received a certificate during the recognition day.
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| Kathleen Mae Balaoro |
Meet Kathleen Mae Balaoro, also a
member of ANHS dance troupe, who portrayed the character of Princess Jasmine of
Alladin. She won in the qualifying round but lose in the final round. She looks
adorable with her sexy costumeand her classmates became her no.1 supporter.
Rona Guevara also joined the cosplay event
in Antipolo National High School in the year 2012 during her third year high
school. She portrayed the character of Barbie and even she is a shy type
person, she have done her best to show what she have.
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| Rona Guevara |
You can see cosplayers wearing realistic
costumes and wigs and posing in front of cameras performing as the characters
they are dressed up and cooperating with other cosplayers to faithfully
re-create scenes from the fictitious works that feature their characters. They say
that there are many different ways to enjoy cosplay like:
1. You
enjoy the way you create costumes
2. You
enhance your creative skills in arts
3.
You
will meet other cosplayers and other
But, the key point is to get as close as
possible to truly becoming the character that you are dress up. Cosplay fashion
is a way of expressing arts through creativity and through cosplay you will
enhance your language and diction. Because, when you are a cosplayer you are
not only wearing creative costumes but you will introduce yourself by a
creative speech, correct diction and language as the character you portray. Cosplay
is a performance art in which participants called
cosplayer wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Cosplay costumes vary greatly and
can range from simple themed clothing to highly detailed costumes. It is
generally considered different from halloween costume wear, as the intention is
to replicate a specific character, rather than to reflect the culture and
symbolism of a holiday event.
Welcome to the world of cosplay fashion!
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