http://kipi.rack111.com/ Kipi Cosplay en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:58:29 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Kipi Cosplay http://backend.userland.com/rss http://kipi.rack111.com/images/logo.gif http://kipi.rack111.com/ http://kipi.rack111.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&p=20#20 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:58:29 GMT http://kipi.rack111.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&p=10#10 Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure?), short for "costume play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, Japanese pop music bands, Visual Kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), novels, and anything in the real world being unique and dramatic (or their moe anthropomorphic form). However, in some circles, "cosplay" has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume. The most specific anecdote about the origin of the word "cosplay" was that Nov Takahashi (from a Japanese studio called Studio Hard) coined the term "cosplay" as a contraction of the English-language words "costume play" while attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was so impressed by the hall and masquerade costuming there that he reported about it frequently in Japanese science fiction magazines. This point is debatable, however, as the word fits in with a common Japanese method of abbreviation: combining the first two moras of each word. Both "cos" and "play" are long syllables, counting for two moras each. Wed, 14 May 2008 14:51:37 GMT