Cosplay at Taylor’s Anime Fest

I am no fan of cosplay but I just love to see the fans dressed up in costumes of their favourite characters (from video games, animated films, Japanese graphic novels) acting out their roles and assuming their personalities for the day.

So this is the place at Taylor’s Anime Fest 2008, the place to see the talents of our young people, something that probably the government should be looking at. Here the place is full of cute young girls and boys dressing up to be lookalike of anime, manga, video games characters and acting out their fantasies. There's no harm dressing up which I think is good clean fun that encourages creativity.

I don't know some of those manga characters they're dressed as. But I'm sure I would like pictures taken of them.

The event held on Saturday 26th July 2008 was organised by Taylor’s Anime Society of Taylor’s University College in Subang Jaya. It attracted quite a crowd and entrance was RM5.00 per head.

Besides stalls selling figurines and food; the events lined-up included stepmania, fan art competition, painting competition, computer games challenge and lucky draw but the main attraction was the Cosplay Competition where cosplayers demonstrated their skills in creating costumes, putting on skits, and techinical skills.

Note:
Cosplay is short for “Costume Play”. It’s an act of dressing up to be lookalike of anime, manga and video games character. It's cosplay is called Cosplayer. Cosplay originate from Japan and is popular outside Japan because of Japanese animation, movies, and pop culture influence in those countries.