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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. Hi, Brad.
Hey, Lulu.
Usually I would ask what are we gonna talk about today, Brad. But I thought you have been coming up with very technical topics. So today let me propose one that is not so much geeky but nerdy, cosplay.
All right, sounds good. I like cosplay.
I mean you're into comic books, you're into all of these and animation, so I thought this would be a topic for you as well.
Yeah, I'm definitely into comic books, animate all that so I'm definitely into the cosplay.
OK, so let's start with the definition. What is cosplay?
If you just look at like the basic definition as nowadays people often see it as dressing up as a character from anime or comic books, but it doesn't have to be just limited to that.
It could be just about any fictional character out there.
Actually cosplay this word as we know it is from Japanese and I know, Brad, you're in Japan right now. How would you pronounce it in Japanese?
コスプレ/ kosupure.
It's from two words costume and play.
Well, it can't make this clearer, it’s just you dress up in costume and you play.
Yeah.
But like you said it's basically now it can be any type of fictional characters right like movie, for example, now they're showing drastic world three so technically I can dress up as a dinosaur and call that cosplay.
You definitely could, that would be a very difficult costume to put together but could definitely you go for it.
And although some people are doing it professionally, they’re probably get paid for it or they can sell the end products like a finished film or finished photos, but most people do it for fun.
Yeah. Like nowadays especially I would say the vast majority of people are doing it just for fun. There's a very small group of people that do it professionally and get paid to go to conventions.
But the vast majority of people are just creating costumes and doing it for themselves.
Let’s do a very simple step by step Guide how to do it say if you don’t have anything, don’t have any experience how to start cosplay.
Well, if you don't have any experience making a costume, one of the things you can do is just go online and buy a costume. They're usually pretty cheap and depending upon where you buy them, the quality can be decent.
There are a lot of cheaper costumes, so you have to watch out because some of them might fall apart after like a use or two. But you can definitely buy them online or you can make them yourself.
The really shoddy ones. But you gotta have tailoring skills, that’s not something that everyone can do really to make your own costume, especially considering some of the costumes are hugely elaborate, usually complex.
Yeah, people usually when they first start out, they'll choose a costume that's much easier to make where they can like maybe buy a shirt and then just make some modifications to the shirt to look like that anime character.
Like if you look at Charlie Brown, for example, he's got a yellow shirt with a black stripe on it and some people will just buy yellow T-shirt and then use a marker or paint dye or something to put that diagonal on it, yeah.
I'm just thinking who's gonna cosplay Charlie Brown.
I brought up Charlie Brown because I've seen Charlie Brown cosplay before.
Wow, that is strange. Anyhow but I mean in China it has been getting bigger this whole trend this cosplay trend. So you see some professional quite professional studios on for example Taobao. So you can send them pictures or tell them which character you want and for quite relatively high price they can make it as close to the original costume as possible.
So it's kind of like customized or even bespoke costume.
For sure.
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