Yesterday afternoon, i went with Jac and my sister to Downtown East to have a look at the Cosfest happening over there. Cosfest meaning Cosplay Fest; in other words, a festival where lots of people dress up as anime/manga/game characters and there're booths set up selling anime stuff, etc.
And, well, we didn't get anything while we were there (except for a KFC meal lol), but my sister and i left the festival with an amazing discovery...we're not exactly anime-otakus yet!
Like woah huh. We watch plenty of anime at home and i, personally, can discuss episodes for hours online with the proper people, but over at the festival, we felt completely out of place. Like there were crowds of people looking through anime collectibles, souvenirs and posters that i had no interest in buying, and i had zero interest in taking photographs of anime characters "coming to life". And, well...i don't know how to put it nicely, but a lot of the people there seemed like they didn't have much of a social life. Erps. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (And yes, that was my lame attempt at trying to be nice about it. :|)
Well, there were lots of people cosplaying yesterday in a great variety of characters. However, i only took one photograph of this woman cosplaying as a Suikoden V character, because not many people have played the game before and this woman decided to cosplay as Zerase from the game anyway. Pretty cool of her. The picture seems a little blurry, however, so i won't be uploading it. Apart from that, i can only think of a couple of cosplayers who looked decent. Most of the rest had like costumes and wigs that weren't properly done, had the wrong physiques (oops), were of the wrong race (oooops), and weren't good looking enough too (oooooops). All very superficial qualities, sad to say. But, let's be honest; you can't cover up those superficial qualities no matter how well you get into character. As American Idol's Simon would say: "It just wasn't good enough. Sorry!"
But i do know about the cosplaying scene a LITTLE bit, and i do know that cosplayers often have problems with their budgets. And, hey, as they always say, the most important thing about cosplaying is to have fun while doing it, right? And i COULD at least tell where most of the characters were from, in any case.
So maybe my sister and i ARE otakus after all. Otakus with a social life, a better dress sense, and a tighter control over our purse strings. Or something like that.
Anyway i'm stopping here for today! I caught the flu from a friend who was ill while driving him back from a party yesterday. So i'm going to take a piss and a long water break hahaha. Damn, but i never knew that driving a friend home would come with an EXTRA sacrifice. *Sigh*...
