i just don't get it. Video game characters or anime characters have very rarely been designed to look like real-life humans. well, until recently where people have tried to make everyone look as realistic as possible.
But in anime, the characters are supposed to be japanese, but i don't think they ever particularly look japanese, nor do they look particularly English or American or anything else.
So i've personally never seen anyone who looks convincingly like a videogame/anime character, thats including this
This is just the reason why i would never cosplay, because the main purpose of it is to dress up, look like and act like a particular videogame/anime character. I have not yet been convinced this is achievable, and i know there is no way i would ever look like any character, no matter how i dressed.
Obviously though, i'm now going to be told that "not everyone dresses up to be a convincing character, most people just do it for fun"... and to be honest, what can i argue against that? That bearded sailor-moon-girl guy was definatly not focusing on looking like that character, he was doing that because he thought it would make people laugh (or cringe). But i can't say everyone is like that... I think a lot of people are pretty serious about it; but then when they get mocked or see someone who they think looks better at being that character than they-themselves do, claim it was just for fun.
Or maybe its more underlying than that, maybe the dislike stems from my brother calling me "sad" (as in the geeky way) from ordering a gaming t-shirt, then weeks later he himself went out cosplaying as 3 different resident evi 4 characters, refusing to accept it as anything other than "cool" (and he meant in the 'popular' way, not the geeky awe way). I guess i've changed since then and tell people off for using the word "sad" as an insult, recalling an event when they themselves could have been percieved as "sadder"
Oh, and if you haven't understood my point or it got lost somewhere. I don't think Cosplayers look like the characters they are mimicking and thus see it as a little bit pointless. However, i'm not going to rage at people for that, because its their money and time and if they enjoyed themselves at the end of the day, then who am i to try say "it wasn't worth it".(rhetorical questions don't deserve question marks)
But in anime, the characters are supposed to be japanese, but i don't think they ever particularly look japanese, nor do they look particularly English or American or anything else.
So i've personally never seen anyone who looks convincingly like a videogame/anime character, thats including this
neither of them look like Rikku from Final Fantasy X-2 in my opinion. they are both wearing clothes that look like her clothes, but neither of them possess the correct facial features nor body to look like a convincing rikku. i still think the Japanese girl looks very attractive in that clothing, and could even get away wearing it just for fashion purposes.Hazy said:
This is just the reason why i would never cosplay, because the main purpose of it is to dress up, look like and act like a particular videogame/anime character. I have not yet been convinced this is achievable, and i know there is no way i would ever look like any character, no matter how i dressed.
Obviously though, i'm now going to be told that "not everyone dresses up to be a convincing character, most people just do it for fun"... and to be honest, what can i argue against that? That bearded sailor-moon-girl guy was definatly not focusing on looking like that character, he was doing that because he thought it would make people laugh (or cringe). But i can't say everyone is like that... I think a lot of people are pretty serious about it; but then when they get mocked or see someone who they think looks better at being that character than they-themselves do, claim it was just for fun.
Or maybe its more underlying than that, maybe the dislike stems from my brother calling me "sad" (as in the geeky way) from ordering a gaming t-shirt, then weeks later he himself went out cosplaying as 3 different resident evi 4 characters, refusing to accept it as anything other than "cool" (and he meant in the 'popular' way, not the geeky awe way). I guess i've changed since then and tell people off for using the word "sad" as an insult, recalling an event when they themselves could have been percieved as "sadder"
Oh, and if you haven't understood my point or it got lost somewhere. I don't think Cosplayers look like the characters they are mimicking and thus see it as a little bit pointless. However, i'm not going to rage at people for that, because its their money and time and if they enjoyed themselves at the end of the day, then who am i to try say "it wasn't worth it".(rhetorical questions don't deserve question marks)
