Entered to the world of costume playing, where ninjas are everywhere to be seen, pocket monsters come to life, Darth Vader chats enthusiastically with Sailor Moon and now, on Jan. 27, a small costume playing competition was held in Cilandak Town Square (CITOS), Jakarta, Indonesia to promote the popular Japanese animation Naruto. Children and grownups alike turned out for the event dressed as their favorite characters.
Costume playing or cosplay is a hobby born out of the Japanese youth subculture on the streets outside of Harajuku station and around the district of Akihabara, a neighborhood in Tokyo where the teenagers wear wild and outrageous clothing. Sometimes they depict fictional characters and sometimes they wear over-the-top clothing just to express themselves. Costume playing has become more than just dressing up. In anime and sci-fi conventions around the world, the cosplay competition is the most awaited event.
This then became a tradition for devoted fans of Japanese animation, video games, and sci-fi and fantasy movies to dress up as their favorite fictional characters. They call themselves cosplayers, short for costume players.
How it's works? Cosplayers come in narutocharacter and are given two to 10 minutes on stage to perform a skit or cabaret for the judges and the audience. The winner will receive some sort of a prize, usually money and a selection of goodies
Twenty-one-year-old medical student Annora Thoeng can't get enough of anime and manga. She lists Nana and Naruto as her favorite series. Annora, however, is not a big fan of costume playing.
Franky, 30, is new to the cosplay world. Shamelessly standing in the middle of the busy Cilandak Town Square as the cool yet perverted copy ninja Kakashi from the anime Naruto he also think that cosplay is not reserved specially for the geeks.
Costume playing or cosplay is a hobby born out of the Japanese youth subculture on the streets outside of Harajuku station and around the district of Akihabara, a neighborhood in Tokyo where the teenagers wear wild and outrageous clothing. Sometimes they depict fictional characters and sometimes they wear over-the-top clothing just to express themselves. Costume playing has become more than just dressing up. In anime and sci-fi conventions around the world, the cosplay competition is the most awaited event.
This then became a tradition for devoted fans of Japanese animation, video games, and sci-fi and fantasy movies to dress up as their favorite fictional characters. They call themselves cosplayers, short for costume players.
How it's works? Cosplayers come in narutocharacter and are given two to 10 minutes on stage to perform a skit or cabaret for the judges and the audience. The winner will receive some sort of a prize, usually money and a selection of goodies
Twenty-one-year-old medical student Annora Thoeng can't get enough of anime and manga. She lists Nana and Naruto as her favorite series. Annora, however, is not a big fan of costume playing.
Franky, 30, is new to the cosplay world. Shamelessly standing in the middle of the busy Cilandak Town Square as the cool yet perverted copy ninja Kakashi from the anime Naruto he also think that cosplay is not reserved specially for the geeks.
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