Bibicos in Wakamiya Square-The event called Bibicos is conducted once a month in the Tokai area. Cosplay events held at "Garden Wharf", "Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden", "Okazaki Castle" and "Nabana no Sato". Following the opening of Wakamiya Square on February 2, 2019, March will also be held at Wakamiya Square!
Outline of the event
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Time: 10:00 Reception start: 16:30 shooting end / 17: 00 Changing rooms closed
Venue: Wakamiya open space (3-10, Osu, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture)
There are two ways to enjoy Bibicos this time. The two are "Photographing" and "Cosplay Performance". This “cosplay performance” is now attracting attention! There is no doubt that 2019 will be!
Cosplay performance
In fact, the culture of cosplay is also diversifying. Among them, "Cosplay Performance" has recently started to be popular among cosplayers. Reading and doing "cosplay" and doing "performance" like a letter, but this is quite interesting! As far as I see, cosplay performance is roughly divided into two patterns.
And another pattern is the theater system. This pattern is also shown at the final round of the World Cosplay Summit. "Cosplay and play the original one scene", of course, the quality of the cosplay is required and various techniques such as "individual acting ability" and "script composition" are required, but the completed "work" is The masterpiece!
In Bibicos, it is difficult to perform a large-scale work as much as the World Cosplay Summit, but you can still see the finest works filled with the love of the cosplayers.
Of course, it is Bibicos' main plan to enjoy with "photograph photography" as usual! There are 4 places that can be photographed: "Wakamiya Square, Yaba Bridge, Hisaya Odori Garden Halirie, Miwa Shrine". In particular, “Kuya Odori Garden Farriage” is a recommended spot where seasonal flowers are lined up and you can shoot situations like medieval Europe!
Participation fee
Advance ticket
cosplayers / 1,500 yen (including locker room, cloakroom use fee)
cameraman / 1,000 yen
On the day ticket
cosplayers / 2,300 yen (including locker room, cloakroom use fee)
cameraman / 1,800 yen
Free for those who do neither cosplay nor shoot
Bibicos, where you can experience the culture of Subcar in Aichi Prefecture, is a highly recommended event! It's free if you just look, so let's visit Wakamiya Square on Saturday, March 30, 2019! !
Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), is a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage. Any entity that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject and it is not unusual to see genders switched. Favorite sources include anime, cartoons, comic books, manga, live-action films, television series, and video games.
The rapid growth in the number of people cosplaying as a hobby since 1990s has made the phenomenon a significant aspect of popular culture in Japan and some other parts of Asia and in the Western world. Cosplay events are common features of fan conventions and there are also dedicated conventions and local and international competitions, as well as social networks, websites and other forms of media centered on cosplay activities.
The term "cosplay" was coined in Japan in 1984. It was inspired by and grew out of the practice of fan costuming at science fiction conventions, beginning with Morojo's "futuristicostumes" created for the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in New York City in 1939.
The term "cosplay" is a Japanese portmanteau of the English terms costume and play.The term was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi of Studio Hard after he attended the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Los Angeles[3] and saw costumed fans, which he later wrote about in an article for the Japanese magazine My Anime. Takahashi chose to coin a new word rather than use the existing translation of the English term "masquerade" because that translates into Japanese as "an aristocratic costume", which did not match his experience of the WorldCon. The coinage reflects a common Japanese method of abbreviation in which the first two moras of a pair of words are used to form an independent compound: 'costume' becomes kosu (コス) and 'play' becomes pure (プレ).
In 1984, Nobuyuki Takahashi, founder of Studio Hard, attended the 42nd Worldcon in Los Angeles. He was impressed with the masquerade and reported on it in My Anime, coining the term kosupure (from which cosplay is derived) in the process. His report also encouraged Japanese fans to include more costuming in their own conventions. The initial report also used the terms "costume play" (コスチュームプレイ kosuchuumu purei) and the English "Hero Costume Operation" but kosupure was the term that caught on.
As stated above, costuming had been a fan activity in Japan from the 1970s, and it became much more popular in the wake of Takahashi's report. The new term did not catch on immediately, however. It was a year or two after the article was published before it was in common use among fans at conventions. It was in the 1990s, after exposure on television and in magazines, that the term and practice of cosplaying became common knowledge in Japan.
The first cosplay cafés appeared in the Akihabara area of Tokyo in the late 1990s.[3][39] A temporary maid café was set up at the Tokyo Character Collection event in August 1998 to promote the video game Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 (1997). An occasional Pia Carrot Restaurant was held at the shop Gamers in Akihabara in the years up to 2000. Being linked to specific intellectual properties limited the lifespan of these cafés, which was solved by using generic maids, leading to the first permanent establishment, Cure Maid Café, which opened in March 2001.
The first World Cosplay Summit was held on October 12, 2003 at the Rose Court Hotel in Nagoya, Japan, with five cosplayers invited from Germany, France and Italy. There was no contest until 2005, when the World Cosplay Championship began. The first winners were the Italian team of Giorgia Vecchini, Francesca Dani and Emilia Fata Livia.
Worldcon masquerade attendance peaked in the 1980s and started to fall thereafter. This trend was reversed when the concept of cosplay was re-imported from Japan.
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