BLOG POST #4:Anime Cosplay

How anime character can affect a person's personality? How do you compare an anime character to a real life person? Can anime inspire the viewers and make them turn into anime themselves? How can you compare anime to real life?

Base on my observation cosplaying is one of the habits of a typical anime addict, why? Because there are many cosplayer in different countries like America, Australia, Japan, Philippines, and etc.. Meaning anime cosplayer are popular all over the world. And cosplaying is not limited to the girls, there are also some guy whose a cosplayer.

Base on this article entitled "The Life of a Cosplayer by Jessica Romero", Cosplay is a short term for costume play. It is a kind of activity that you need to use costume and accessories to be able to look like the anime character that you want to portray then go to an Anime Convention where you can showcase your anime looks. The cosplayer can get the character that he/she want to portray depending on the kind of manga, anime, comic books, video-games or films that he/she like. In her article she also mentioned three person whose been in the Cosplay industry for three years and how they know find they're passion in cosplaying.

The article also mentioned some bad effect of cosplaying. One of it is some cosplayer wear revealing clothes which invites some pervert that wants to harass them but the Cosplay industry has already taken action to avoid these things. 

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The internet has also greatly affected the life of the cosplayers because they can communicate easily using it, they can create social network groups, forum and post some events with a free website.

Watching an anime is really enjoying to the point that we want to copy the personality of the anime that we're watching. It inspired us to be like them because sometimes anime character are much cooler the real people. Like me, I like anime, and my favorite anime character is Naruto. Because of his funny attitude and also he is so cool I want to be like him. Other than that he can do impossible things like walking in the water, cloning himself and his line that can touch every mans heart. I really adore him because he's such a powerful ninja with a kind heart. I always wanted to be like him even though I know Naruto is just an anime character. And because I always wanted to be like him, I decided to join Cosplay! But I couldn't, why? It's because the costumes are too costly and it takes a lot of time to prepare and that disappoints me. But it is my dream and I believe that someday I would be able to portray Naruto in a Cosplay Convention and win some price because of it.

It is okay to like anime and even portray your favorite character but we must know to limit ourselves because to much liking can lead to addiction and once your addicted to something if will be hard to remove it. We must still know our priority and that studying. Study comes first then family and then our hobbies it can be watching anime or reading mangas.