Forum - View topicINTEREST: Team Italy Wins Cosplay World Summit 2013
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Beltane70
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Anyone expecting our "Westerners are damaging anime" troll to pop up at any moment?
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Panzer Vor
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That's an interesting pattern. Brazil, then Japan, then Italy, then back to Brazil, then Japan again, and now Italy.
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v1cious
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This has been discussed before. Supposedly the WCS has a tight relationship with Italy. Can't say on Brazil: animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17078 |
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Faiga_Raisa
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Brazil has a strong connection to Japan in general. Majority of new immigrants come from Bazil and China (along with South Korea--they account for 70% of immigrants in Japan). But since Japan and China are kinda butts to each other--I can totally see ass kissing with Brazil. I read somewhere there's an increase of eldery Japanese people retiring to Brazil (wish I could find the source) in little Japanesey communities. Might be a way for them to offset the social security stress on the country? |
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Nayu
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Hasn't it been proven that this is fixed anyways? Its a PR stunt for Cospa-like outfits.
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kgw
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Yup, that Mazinkaiser cosplay seems easily marketable. {sarcasm off} |
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vallum
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Yeah, they come to work at... factories. Well, most of them, anyway. Usually, the tough job that Japanese people don't want to do, and of course, Brazilians are paid less. How's this ass kissing? 
And how can this have anything to do with WCS? |
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Ignatz
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My thoughts exacly! He was a fun guy... 
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Dessa
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My roommate (who I'd told about Mr. "Western cosplayers are racist") told me who won, in a "take that" manner toward him. |
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Sariachan
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Please remember that both Italy and Brazil have a strong Carnival tradition, so both our people are quite used at cosplaying even before this word was used for activities like that.
And Japan is where cosplay was born, so it's quite normal having skilled Japanese cosplayers, isn't it? |
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Megiddo
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I had no idea people cosplayed for Carnival. From what I could tell for Brazil at least, it was an excuse to wear as little clothing as possible, some not even wearing clothes at all.
How does that compare to something like Halloween which actually has involves people dressing up in variety of costumes? |
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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I thought extravagant costume displays were the norm for Carnival. Are a lot of them embellished bikinis? Yeah, but so is a lot of cosplay. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=770&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=carnival+costumes&btnG= |
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enurtsol
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Actually seems cosplay was first coined after the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Los Angeles. |
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Sariachan
Posts: 1507 Location: Italy |
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At least for the Italian Carnival, take Halloween and multiply it for at least five. Of course not all people actually cosplay, but many people still wear outfits of any kind, masks and so on... The variety is much greater than Halloween, for what I can tell (however, please consider that the latter is an "imported" festivity here in Italy, so it's celebrated less than Carnival here). |
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TsunaReborn!
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I think we will all miss his wise words of wisdom, who is now going to educate me on everything Japanese 
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