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.

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.

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.

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.

    

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!