tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351415695939218752024-03-05T03:12:27.561-08:00Cosplaying NifferAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-54777524992944947472014-08-03T03:11:00.000-07:002015-03-01T03:27:08.104-08:00Chansey Gijinka - Photographs<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When: March 2014</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where: Portland, OR</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Friends and I were looking through <a href="http://imgur.com/a/DDxvd">Cowslip's drawings of pokemon in human form</a> (called gijinka) when I fell in love with her Chansey design and had to give it a go. It was only for a small local event and I managed to get the costume done in a week. I loved making it but was sad that no one recognised the design, and even more depressed after because no one came to talk to me about the costume and the photos I got of it weren't very good.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I had to change the design a little because of time restraints and the fact that the proportions on the design compared to a real human body didn't quite work the same way. But I tried to get it as accurate as I could. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I also didn't have a sewing machine at the time so the entire thing was made by hand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/chansey-gijinka-cosplay-construction.html">You can see the construction for this costume here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where: Portland, OR</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Friends and I were looking through <a href="http://imgur.com/a/DDxvd">Cowslip's drawings of pokemon in human form</a> (called gijinka) when I fell in love with her Chansey design and had to give it a go. It was only for a small local event and I managed to get the costume done in a week. I loved making it but was sad that no one recognised the design, and even more depressed after because no one came to talk to me about the costume and the photos I got of it weren't very good.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I had to change the design a little because of time restraints and the fact that the proportions on the design compared to a real human body didn't quite work the same way. But I tried to get it as accurate as I could. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I also didn't have a sewing machine at the time so the entire thing was made by hand.</span></span><br />
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I bought the fabrics and got a dress pattern that was close enough to the original that it wouldn't need much tweaking.<br />
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I needed to put it on and off a lot in order to get the fitting just right.</div>
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The edging was finished with bias binding to stop fraying.<br />
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I added detail to the bow and pocket using bias binding.</div>
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I painted the design on using acrylic paint. It's really good for painting patters onto costumes (although not clothes you want to wear everyday). The only problem is that you need to be reeaaally careful because once acrylic goes onto a fabric it's really hard to get off. I accidentally let a few splodges wander here and there on the skirt >_<</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-46771294995487130112014-07-20T14:58:00.000-07:002015-02-28T15:13:04.214-08:00Lara Croft - Tomb Raider I - Photographs<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<b>When: March 2014</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This costume was so much fun to do! I really do prefer the smaller convention/parties as people just seem so much more friendlier and willing to chat about costumes. That and I know I'd get a lot of fat comments at large conventions >_< At least I fear I would.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-45944931380590545022014-07-13T14:53:00.000-07:002015-02-28T15:11:42.241-08:00Lara Croft - Tomb Raider I - Cosplay Construction<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<b>When: March 2014</b></div>
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I'd been wanting to cosplay Lara for a really long time because she's one of my all time favourite game characters. I played the original series when I was younger on the play station so of course I had to do the Tomb Raider I version of her.<br />
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However, there are always a bagillion Lara Crofts at conventions and I didn't want my costume to be just another Lara in the sea of Laras (especially with the recent release of Tomb Raider on PS3). So when local geek party Geekfest at my university in Kent came up this was the perfect chance for a Lara!<br />
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I don't have many pictures of the construction for this costume because I made it in literally a few days.<br />
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The top I made using a fabric I had lying around which was luckily the right shade of blue and was slightly stretchy. I used a tank top to create the pattern. I actually had to make the top twice because the first one was waaaaaay too small.<br />
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I made the shorts using the trouser pattern I use for all my costumes which involve trousers of some form. I adjusted the panels so I didn't have to deal with pockets. The shorts also needed a lot of wearing, adjusting, wearing, adjusting as I had to get them to fit and get them to the right length.<br />
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I made the gun holsers using black spare fabric and velcro. The holsters themselves were plastic covered in black fabric. Sewing through them worked up to a point until one decided to fly off. I think in the future I'd make them out of fabric and stiffener. I clipped the holders to a belt using buckles I'd taken off a broken violin case.</div>
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The guns are literally water pistols I got off amazon, spray pained silver and then painted black. Great for a one night event as the spay paint scratched off really easily. And I had to glue the triggers in place otherwise the paint would scratch off and show the luminous green and orange underneath.<br />
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I made the bag even faster than the others when I realised I'd need something to hold my purse and stuff through the night.<br />
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Then on the night I got friends to braid my wig. Not amazing but it didn't need to be. I think that if I were doing this for a convention a much longer wig and careful styling would be needed.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-77701684898078953762014-07-06T14:04:00.000-07:002015-02-28T14:16:33.408-08:00Shiki Ryougi - Kara no Kyoukai - Photographs<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<b>When: March 2014</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Photographs by <a href="http://www.manylemons.co.uk/nertcam/minamicon/20/studio?g2_page=5">ManyLemons</a> and Locke</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was actually really annoyed when I wore this costume. I was really unhappy with how the whole thing looked, and it was a really warm day, which meant I couldn't wear the juban otherwise I'd die. It was bad enough having to wear the jacket. I had also had a problem with the wig and it wouldn't go in the style that I wanted it to. So my first few shots in the studio taken by Nert were really bad. I just wasn't feeling the character or the costume and I looked soooo bad. So I didn't include the ones by Nert below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My friend Locke who is an amazing photograph took some great shots, and he was kind enough to edit them for me so they actually came out looking fairly decent. These are the photos below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't think I'll ever wear this costume again though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/shiki-ryogi-kara-no-kyoukai-construction.html">You can see the construction for it here.</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-13463706197003411142014-07-05T10:22:00.000-07:002015-02-28T14:17:05.717-08:00Shiki Ryogi - Kara no Kyoukai - Construction<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<b>When: February/March 2014</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I made this at the same time I made the <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/furisode-girl-lienna-pokemon-trainer.html">Furisode Girl cosplay</a>. Two VERY different character but both with kimono style costumes.</span></span></div>
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I only needed 3 different fabrics for this costume, one for the juban (the white part that goes under the kimono to stop the silk from getting sweaty), the kimono fabric, and the obi fabric.<br />
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I added stiffener to the band but I realised after that I really didn't need to. It made the kimono feel weird and move strangely. Not noticeable to most people but I noticed it because I was wearing it.</div>
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I made the juban in the exact same way as the kimono. It was a very thick white fabric and I realised after that a thinner cotton would have been more appropriate.</div>
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The character wears short sleeved kimono but because the costume would have the jacket over the top I chose not to add the sleeves. This would have made moving very difficult otherwise. Also it's important when wearing kimono to have the left side OVER the right making a Y shape. This is because wearing it backwards is how dead people wear them... It looks backwards in the photo because I'm taking it in a mirror, it's the right way round in the costume pics.</div>
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The jacket I got off amazon and then attached fake sheeps wool on the collar. The only problem was that because the jacket was REALLY cheap the red rubbed off onto EVERYTHING, including the wool, turning it slightly pink :/ I had to transport the jacket in a plastic bag.</div>
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<b>When: March 2014</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where: Minami Con 2014, Southampton, UK</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to admit I have never played Pokemon X or Y. This was because recently I've bought the games and then never had time to play them. But I loved the character design for this pokemon trainer and decided to try doing her costume as it seemed like a fun challenge!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I was a little annoyed because I didn't realise until after that my </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">fringe</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> was facing the wrong way. Also the lighting made my skin really shiny and the costume looked a lot brighter than it was. I wish I had photoshop -_-</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I wore a </span></span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">petticoat</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> under the skirt to give it some volume, and I tied the obi in a regular bow as there were no references for what her obi looks like in the pictures. I also made earrings using the same fabric for the obi.</span></span></span><br />
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<b>When: February/March 2014</b></div>
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I have to admit I have never played Pokemon X or Y. This was because recently I've bought the games and then never had time to play them. But I loved the character design for this pokemon trainer and decided to try doing her costume as it seemed like a fun challenge!<br />
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<a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/furisode-girl-lienna-pokemon-trainer.html">You can see the final cosplay here</a><br />
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There were practically NO reference pictures for this character and they were all very small with off colours.<br />
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How I saw it was this costume is made up of two parts. The Top and then the skirt. It's a Kimono style top with a modern skirt. This meant the top needed two elements, the Y shape of the front (DONT get this mixed up as wearing a kimono the wrong way means you're dead) and the long sleeves (furisode literally means long sleeve). But unlike normal kimonos the sleeves attach at the armpits.</div>
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The main body was fairly easy as I used a basic kimono pattern. The trimming I made from the same pink fabric I used to make the obi (not photos of the construction of the obi, sorry).</div>
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I used these patterns I got from a friend's book on kimono. She helped me map out the size of pannels I needed too.</div>
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The sleeve was a bit of an experimentation. I compared the length of the sleeve on her proportions to myself and calculated how much needed to by tight around the arms and how much needed to be the long sleeve (furisode) part.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The skirt was a massive pain. I got a pattern for a circular skit through a google search. I then divided this pattern into 3 for each later of the skirt. This was a massive pain as my calculations were not very </span>accurate<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and I had to guesstimate a lot. I made a circular shape for the petals which would lye over the layer below it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I then hand stitched all of the edging to make sure the fabric on the </span>petals<span style="font-family: inherit;"> wouldn't fray before machine sewing around them and pulling out the hand stitching to make it much tidier.</span></span><br />
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Eden of the East was an anime that I was really looking forward to when it started. Then the ending happened...and then the movies... But the start of the series was a lot of fun and I really fell in love with the main female Saki.<br />
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I'd been wanting to do a cosplay of her for a while but didn't have the time to make all the stuff. This was the fist time I'd made a costume by buying all the components. <span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">You can't see in these pics but I actually got the pink turtleneck as well.</span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Unfortunately the coat I got was a really bright red where as her original is quite dark. I think if I wear this costume again I will dye the coat a darker red and re-take the photos.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">The great thing about this costume is that I can wear it out any time I want to and it won't look out of the ordinary. Yay closet cosplay!</span><br />
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Depending on the competition the following points will have more weight than others. Some competitions focus more on impressive techniques, others on props, and there are often prizes for amazing sewing skills alone. A good bet is, if you can't apply all of them to your costume, use a mix of the following points. </div>
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This is probably obvious but the costume needs to be made by you. No commissions, no items made by other people are allowed. A cosplay competition is to show off your own skills, <i>not </i>someone elses.</div>
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When the judges know what the character you're cosplaying is from the more likely it will stick out in their minds. But recognisable doesn't have to mean popular. For example, there are so many Frozen and Attack on Titan cosplays now that it's hard to pick any one from the crowd, and in a competition there is likely to be more than one of those entries. Avoid them because judges are less likely to pick out something they have seen 100 times before. But likewise a costume based on an original character might be impressive but it's less likely to stick out to someone compared to a character they recognise.</div>
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Sewing is the basics of cosplay so getting this right is important, but sewing alone won't be that impressive unless it's really something unexpected. A few things that are impressive is a lot of hand sewing. I know a few people who won honorary prizes for sewing 10,000 rinestone crafting bead onto a dress for a Blue Fairy costume (right), which made the costume sparkle on stage from the reflections of the photographer's flashes. Another girl who won a sewing award hand sewed an<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Amira Halgal from Otoyomegatari</span></span> by using traditional Eastern European sewing techniques to match the Turkish style of costume. Embroidery like this, or of designs on the costume, is another things that impress judges. You can easily put embroidery in when there is a design or pattern on the costume (rather than painting them on which a lot of people do).</div>
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Showing off your skills at making things that aren't made of fabric are a big boost. A lot of people do this through armour and prop making. Various techniques and materials can be used for these so what you create is limited only by your imagination. What's really impressive is if your prop or armour can do more than what it appears, such as having the ability to move on it's own or with puppet techniques. Another thing that people are using is adding lights and sounds to their costumes with electronics.</div>
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Accurate colours and making the details as exact to your reference pictures as possible is really important. But it's not just accurate colours, but think about how accurate you can make the fabrics. One person won a competition based on the amount of research she did on the kinds of fabric they would have had at the time of the show, making even the fabrics accurate to the period of the show.</div>
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Makeup is also a part of accuracy. Having good makeup can really make your costume pop. Even if your character doesn't wear make-up you can use tricks to make yourself look more masculine (if you're cosplaying a boy), skinnier or older (using contouring), and even using a base of foundation will help you look the part and make photographs look better.</div>
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Having a neat costume is important, not only on the outside but the inside as well. Many large costumes like fursuits and Warhammer 40k Space Marine costumes loose a lot of points when the judges look inside to see a messy finishing. Or even costumes that not have a neat lining on the inside. You might think that's not important because people only see the outside, but remember, judges want to see your entire costume and want to see the little things on the inside and outside.</div>
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If the contest you're entering in has a one-on-one with the judges it's the perfect chance to show off everything you've done. When you enter a contest you'll be asked to enter a reference picture, but it helps to prepare a portfolio of you reference pictures (not just the character but close-ups of certain details and parts) and detailed pictures of your progress. Hand this over asap as you won't have much time during the judging process.</div>
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Go over your entire costume in quick detail highlighting techniques used and show not only the outside but the inside of the costume. Being able to take off parts to give to the judges to look over helps too as they can see your skills and neatness up close.</div>
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When you perform in front of an audience you may or may not have to do a skit. I think that either way it's good to have some kind of entertaining performance. But a cosplay competition is designed to show off your costume, so having lots of on-stage props is too distracting from your costume, and just walking on and off the stage is too simple.</div>
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If you have to do a skit tell a story, you can do this using music or with pre-recorded voices. Try and work a way to show off the costume at the same time. It doesn't even have to be something complicated, such as taking off a jacket because your character's hot. The girl who did the <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Otoyomegatari</span> cosplay dressed on stage (from her character's underwear) because her costume had so many layers.</div>
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If you don't have to do a skit and it's just a walk-on-walk-off it's important to move slowly, pick and plan poses that show off various aspects of your costume, and try and hold your poses for 15-20 seconds, while counting in your head. This is for the benefit of photographers in the audience to adjust their cameras and get some good photos.</div>
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<b>When: October 2013</b><br />
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The London Expo has become very overcrowded the last few years as it's become more and more popular. One of the reasons for this is that they're trying to get on the same level of popularity as the Japan Expo in Paris (which is the largest geeky convention in Europe). So to compete with them and make more money they began running Euro Cosplay, it's only been going a few years but has become super popular. Each country runs its own competitions in various conventions and picks one or two entries for their country. The winner of those then gets flown to the UK for the competition in October where they get judged on their costume and skit.<br />
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Here's a video made as the introduction for the 2013 competition showing the entrees from the year before:<br />
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Video by ManyLemons who does photography and filming. Here are his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFOQXEbiXFMxS9X6ALZvEHg">Cosplay videos on YouTube</a></div>
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So because it's become so crowded and repetitive I decided to offer my services to help out. (I know Nert from ManyLemons and some of the other con event people who were involved in the EuroCosplay organisation) And after a few conversations I was asked to do the informal interviews of the contestants which was great because that's exactly what I did for my dissertation at Uni. Below are some of the photos of the contestants from the competition (unfortunately I couldn't get good ones of all of them):<br />
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You can see a full set of all the costumes from their performances <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxseye/sets/72157637103795055/">photographed by FoxyChan here</a>.<br />
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<b>When: October 2013</b></div>
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<b>Where: </b><b style="background-color: transparent;">London Expo / ComicCon</b></div>
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This costume didn't come out too bad, and I was surprised at how many people actually recognised it! I was a bit disappointed at the lack of pictures I have of it though.</div>
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If I were to do this again I'd improve the ears and make the gloves (I didn't have time to before the con)</div>
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<b>When: August 2013</b></div>
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<b>Where: Home, UK</b></div>
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<b>For What: London Expo Oct 2013</b></div>
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Tess is a character that a lot of people who have played the Jak games might not remember if they saw her on the street. She's a cool character though, a strong bubbly freedom fighter and spy who really, really likes guns. It was a shame I didn't have time to make a gun for her this time.</div>
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I had pretty much most parts of the costume but the main one was the top, so I started with that. I used the pattern for a work jacket (which you can see in the picture below) and altered it by shortening it and bringing it in to fit the original better.</div>
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As usual I hand sewed the top, folding together the edges of the fabric to create a hem so the edges wouldn't fray and to create a stronger hold.<br />
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When I was happy with it I machine stitched the whole thing and added the zip on the front. I got some purple fabric and wrapped it around a hairband, using some strong all-purpose fabric and wood glue to keep it in place. I had to be careful with the glue because it would seep through the fabric and show up when it dried.</div>
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The hardest part was the leather straps. I used an old leather coat and created them by cutting out the useful parts of the fabric into strips and folding the edges together an glueing them down with even stronger glue to get them to look tidy. I tried to pin them evenly onto the top and then hand stitched them in a few places to get them to stick as well as using some glue. But even though the leather was very soft it took a while to get the dewing part done because it was so thick.</div>
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Using some red fabric I had left over from my Ookami cosplay, I made her scarf pretty easily by hand stitching a tube and turning it inside out. I made it so it would be big enough to go over my head before I put the wig on.</div>
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The ears were a bit of a rushed job and I think I'd do them a different way next time. I got some foam and cute them into kind of squarish ear shapes (which you can see below). I then put wire around the edges and folded them down.</div>
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I covered the whole thing in masking tape before painting them with acrylic paint, adding shadowing and highlights to make them look like real ears. The problem was the wire kept coming loose, and the pain brought the masking tape off the ears. Next time I think I will have to buy a glue gun and use that to stick the edges down and then spend time paper macheing the ears before painting them. I attached them to the hairband which worked for a while but I had to get a glue gun and stick them in place on the day of the con because they kept slipping off and pointing in odd directions.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-32188673337783951832014-05-15T09:23:00.001-07:002014-05-15T09:39:06.465-07:00Horo Cosplay II - Photographs<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Horo from Spice and Wolf</span></b></div>
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<b>Where: London MCM Expo / London ComicCon</b><br />
<b>When: October 2011</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Horo (which some people pronounce Holo) is one of my favourite characters from the novel turned anime/manga Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料). She's a boisterous old wolf goddess who hires the help of a merchant to get back to her homelands. I love her because she's such a strong female character with her soft spot and she talks like an old Japanese lady, hahaha!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was the second time I did this costume and I mostly improved it by buying a new wig to match her fur and original hair colour. The annoying thing was I forgot her sack of wheat the second time, and I didn't get as many photogaphs taken. I would like to do this again at some point soon and get some good photographs with the complete costume.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.com/2014/02/horo-cosplay-photographs.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First set of Horo Photos</span></a></span><br />
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<b>When: May 2012</b><br />
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I mentioned that I had done this cosplay a few time in my <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/jade-cosplay-photographs.html">previous post</a> and this was the second, and most successful one. I decided to improve on the costume making the menu computer on her side look a little more real, and I completely re-did the trousers so the patter and fit would work better. The only thing was I didn't realise until after that I had the strap around the wrong way! Grrr. I'm hoping to loose some weight again and do this costume again, improving it even more! This is the one costume I want to get 100% correct! And I'm hoping one day to make a DomZ or Double H armour for my boyfriend.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-26201060250282279422014-05-09T16:38:00.002-07:002015-02-28T14:23:25.259-08:00Jade Cosplay - Photographs<b>Where: MinamiCon, Southampton, UK</b><br />
<b>When: March 2012</b><br />
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This character is from the game Beyond Good and Evil, which was developed in 2003 as a trilogy for the PS2 but due to lack to funding for advertising when it was released it didn't sell well. But it is an amazing game that now has cult status which means the game is perhaps getting its well deserved squeals made.<br />
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And I love the main character Jade (another strong female role), and this is one of my favourite costumes of all time. I love it so much I did twice! Well technically three times, but the third time was 2 years after I'd worn it the first time and I'd put on so much weight the costume didn't fit properly. Needless to say I have no photos for that one because it was such a train-wreck. These are the photographs from the first time at MinamiCon<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-88063970104362679472014-02-10T00:02:00.003-08:002015-02-28T14:25:02.894-08:00Ookami-san Cosplay - Photographs<div>
<b>When: August 2011</b><br />
<b>Where: AyaCon</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ookami-san from Ookami-san to shichinin no nakama-tachi (オオカミ</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝';">さんと七人の仲間たち</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">) is a strong interdependent character with a big temper. Even though not many people recognised the costume I loved making it and cosplaying her. </span><br />
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Photos taken by the awesome Nert at <a href="http://www.manylemons.co.uk/photos/">ManyLemons.co.uk</a></div>
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You can see the progress and construction images of this costume on <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ookami-cosplay-construction.html">Ookami Cosplay Construction</a>.</div>
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I like this screen cap ^-^ It signifies perfectly the relationship between the two of them at the beginning of the series. We also have Ryoushi (cosplayed by the amazing Steve -character in white shirt) and Tarou (cosplayed by the flouncy Andrew -character in black shirt).</div>
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Ryoushi actually stalks Ookami in the first ep to protect her from gang peoples. This is my favourite pic of it. It's like Where's Wally? :P<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-25338432545939304262014-02-06T03:10:00.000-08:002015-02-28T14:28:43.360-08:00Horo Cosplay - Spice and Wolf - Photographs<div>
<b>Where: AyaCon, UK</b><br />
<b>When: August 2011</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Horo (which some people pronounce Holo) is one of my favourite characters from the novel turned anime/manga Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料). She's a boisterous old wolf goddess who hires the help of a merchant to get back to her homelands. I love her because she's such a strong female character with her soft spot and she talks like an old Japanese lady, hahaha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put my foot in it for this costume though because I put it up for the masquerade and cosplay competition! It was the first time I'd ever entered a costume into a competition and although I didn't win anything the judges said it was a well done and accurate costume.</span></div>
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You can see the construction images of this costume on <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/horo-cosplay-construction.html">Horo Cosplay Construction</a>.<br />
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Photographs by <a href="http://www.manylemons.co.uk/photos/">Nert at ManyLemons</a>, who is a UK convention cosplay photographer.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">I entered the costume in the masquerade and was so scared, nervous, excited, it was awesome. My face on the pics was like "ooooh fuck" and the lighting was so bad it was difficult for people to get decent pics (except Nert cos he's awesome). And I can't thanks my friends enough for helping me work out what I was going to do on stage beforehand because I hadn't prepared at all! I ended up skipping and spinning on stage, and although people said I had the most energy the photographs came out a bit blurry.</span></div>
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Ookami from Ookami to Shichinin no Takama-tachi</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>For: <a href="http://www.ayacon.org.uk/">AyaCon 2011</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ookami-san from Ookami-san to shichinin no nakama-tachi (オオカミ</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝';">さんと七人の仲間たち</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">) is a strong interdependent character with a big temper. Even though not many people recognised the costume I loved making it and cosplaying her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So this was my progress with 1 day of making time left before the convention.</span> </div>
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Ookami's top was the very first thing I got started on. I used a pattern for a jacket but...well to be honest, I was a bit worried that there were spare panels with no where to put them...It was a bit like constructing Ikea furniture. Oh well. The parts I used worked out nicely in the end.</div>
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It seems to be the way I make cosplay is by look for reference pics and "how to's" online and then just do it my own way based on that. I did it with Ookami's neck-tie sailor fuku style and it didn't come out too bad.<br />
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I ended up glueing the red strips on because it was easier, and the glue stopped the edges from fraying. It doesn't look fantastic, but only if get a close look at it. Luckily it looks not that bad from a distance. FYI be careful with PVA and wood glue, don't get too much on the fabric, it shows :P<br />
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Machine~~~ This is the only reference pic I took of my machine sewing. I tend to make everything by hand and then when I'm sure it all fits machine sew and then cut out the hand stitching. Takes aaaaaaaaaaaages, but worth it...I think. (PS, I LOVE my sewing machine, well it's nanny's but I love it anyway).<br />
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Ookami's red scarf was another thing I did by looking at how NOT to do it. You can tell the store bought cosplays because they had her scarf with a straight flat bottom to it, and was often bright red and silky. *Pfft* You think Ookami would wear SILK!?<br />
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I made her broach out of salt dough. Really wish I had had silver spray paint for it.<br />
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Yes there are some pins in this pic, I hadn't finished sewing it, but this is basically what the whole top part of the costume looks like put together. Not as accurate as I'd hoped it would be but not too bad either. The only annoying thing is, is that the zip doesn't open all the way and it's a pain to climb into :P<br />
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Ookami's skirt may look easy but it was SUCH A PAIN!!! I can't do pleats that well and ontop of that I had to attach it to a pair of shorts while trying not to show off too much leg and making it look like it does in the reference pics...ARG such a pain! And it still doesn't look right :(<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-22533071494512461492014-02-01T05:08:00.000-08:002014-02-06T03:10:51.041-08:00Horo Cosplay - Construction<div style="text-align: center;">
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Horo from Spice and Wolf</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>When: August 2011</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Where: Home, UK</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>For: <a href="http://www.ayacon.org.uk/">AyaCon 2011</a></b></span></div>
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Horo (which some people pronounce Holo) is one of my favourite characters from the novel turned anime/manga Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料). She's a boisterous old wolf goddess who hires the help of a merchant to get back to her homelands. I love her because she's such a strong female character with her soft spot and she talks like an old Japanese lady, hahaha!</div>
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I put my foot in it for this costume though because I put it up for the masquerade and cosplay competition! It was the first time I'd ever entered a costume into a competition and although I didn't win anything the judges said it was a well done and accurate costume.<br />
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When I was out buying the fabric I spent a good hour hunting down the right shade of pink for her dress. I am a big stickler for finding the right fabric for a costume, otherwise the costume just doesn't look as good.</div>
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So the first thing I ended up making was one of the smallest pieces of the costume: Horo's wheat purse. I started with this because while I was searching for reference pics online I found some cosplay pics of how NOT to do it. So I got the idea of making the purse like a patchwork quilt. Dug out various shades of appropriate fabric from my box of fabric and just stitched it together. It was really a random idea which I didn't expect to work as well as it did, but it did! Took 4 hours to make the main part of the purse. Worth it though.</div>
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One thing one of the judges asked was if the pouch opened and did it have any wheat in it. Sadly no, but I realised that small details like that can make a costume go a long way and make an impact in a costume competition.<br />
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I realised, looking at other Horo cosplays, that her red scarf around her waist often turns out looking not that great. People don't seem to realise it has 3 plates and a slightly different shaded end. The original fabric I was going to use for this wasn't the right shade of red (it's the one I used for Ookami's scarf), but luckily I had the perfect shade in my toy box (I keep fabric in there, not toys...they stay under my bed). The funny thing was, was that the fabric was part of a failed Minorin (Toraora) jacket and I was originally going to us it just as an experiment for the scarf, but it worked so well I kept it!<br />
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I found an old broach among my pile of stuff I don't throw out (which is basically all the crap in my room) which gave me the idea for Horo's broach. I used salt dough to make it, spray painted it gold with acrylic blue centre.</div>
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These, would you believe it, are beads. I wanted to make Horo's pouch complete with the bead but couldn't right the right ones anywhere, so I make them out of salt dough and spray painted them blue.<br />
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The top I make with a generic long top pattern that I've used for previous cosplays like Nausicaa and Simca. Dead easy to use now that I'm used to using it. And even easier to modify.</div>
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Shorts...shorts...I've never made shorts before and was going to alter a bought pair but because the costume's for a competition I couldn't do that. In the end I made them 2 sizes too big and had to do some serious alterations! Well it's always better to make these things bigger then small I guess.<br />
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So here's the costume beginning to come together(ish).<br />
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I then attached the purple edgings on which took ages because I didn't want to muck it up. I still have some more to make and need to get the right colour cotton to machine sew it tomorrow.<br />
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So now onto the tail. I got the fur off ebay, costing a grand total of £15 for 1m of chestnut brown and 1/2m of long white. I honestly thought the quality would be really poor but was pleasantly surprised! Yes, it's probably not as good as some furs that people like to get for costumes but it's not bad and it's so fluffy! ^o^ TBH this is the first time I've worked with fur. It was very daunting. I ended up making the WHOLE tail in a DAY. Today to be precise...my floor needs SERIOUS hoovering!</div>
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After looking at other cosplays (again to see how not to do it) I found that they just had straight lines from the white to the brown fur, but if you look at her original drawings that's no the case. I decided to make it so that the ginger parts were jagged and bleed more into the white. I was also VERY careful about making sure the fur went DOWN the tail rather than at weird angles.<br />
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I have to say though getting the length and width just right took aaaaages and was really daunting because I was terrified I would muck it up! I ended up mucking it up in the end :( I'm so worried it's going to be too big and bulky and not like Horo's beautiful tail at all! Another problem was that the brown is a different colour to the wig, which isn't goo because Horo's hair and fur are all the same colour. OH and I didn't have any stuffing...so I just used bubble-wrap (hahaha). It actually worked a treat and is REALLY light!</div>
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The ears were difficult. People make them in so many different ways! I found that I had to do careful experimenting and ended up making two pairs.<br />
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I didn't have much time once I'd finished the ear so I had to attach them to a cat ears head band.<br />
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I did this costume again a year later and bought a new wig and carefully safety pinned the ears to the wig which looked MUCH better. But sadly I forgot the pouch! So it didn't look quite the same in the end...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/horo-cosplay-photographs.html">You can see the final costume here</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-36842318361871534532014-01-31T03:46:00.003-08:002014-01-31T03:46:56.837-08:00Interviewing a Japanese Cosplayer [RAW Interviews]<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">These interviews were conducted in 2010 and 2011, the first was a face to face interview, where as later ones had to be done via e-mail because she moved away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">The difficult thing about interviewing a Japanese person compared to a Westerner is that they're a lot more reluctant to talk about themselves and their opinions, especially if you don't know them too well. A lot of the time I got one word answers and when we were doing the face to face interview I had to prob her further to get more detailed responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">You can see a summary of the interviews and an analysis on Japanese Cosplayers on <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/interviewing-japanese-cosplayer-article.html">Interviewing a Japanese Cosplayer</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span><b><u>Cosplay Interview with Reiko 1</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Me: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">始めてコスプレをすることはいつですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[When was the first time you
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Reiko: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">始めて?えっと。。。大学二年生のとき。二十歳の時かな。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[The first time? Erm…the
second year of university. When I was 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうやって興味がありましたか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[How did you become interested?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">大学の一年生の時同人誌のイベントに行ってそこにコスプレヤさんがいってかこよかったからやりたいと思った。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[In my first year of
university I went to a <i>doujinshi</i> event where there were cosplayers.
There were so cool I wanted to try it.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">その同人誌イベントは友達の紹介で見つけましたか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Did your friends introduce
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">自分で見つけて行きました。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I found it by myself]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">その前に同人誌の興味がありましたか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Before that event did you
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ありました。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I did]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いつからですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Since when?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いつからかな。。。高校の二年生、十七歳ぐらいから。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I wonder since when…second
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">そのイベントは初めてイベントですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had ever been to?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">十七歳の?うん、そう、十七歳の時初めて行った。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[When I was 17? Yes, I went
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">買ってちょっと直す。たまに少し違うの。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I buy and normally adjust
it. Occasionally it’s a little different.] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうやってコスプレを選びますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[How do you choose your
cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">私が好きなアニメとかゲームの好きなキャラクターをしたい、やりたい。私が好きなキャラクターを選ぶ。でも時々友達と一緒にやりたい時はその友達のキャラクターに関係知っている?仲がよくてとか、ライバルなんてするキャラクターを選ぶこともある。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I want to do characters from
animes and games that I like. I choose characters I like. But sometimes when I
want to do one with my friends, I do a character which has a relationship to my
friends character (know what I mean)? I choose a character who’s close, or a
rival.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレの他にどんな趣味がありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Aside from cosplay, what
other hobbies do you have?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">マンガ読んだり、アニメ見たり、カラオケ、ゲームしたり。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I read manga, watch anime,
karaoke, and play games.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いつコスプレをしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[When do you cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">一ヶ月に三回ぐらい。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Roughly three times a month]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">たいていどこコスプレをしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Where do you normally
cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">大阪の</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">ATC</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">というショッピングマールみたいな所で毎週コスプレイベントがある。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[ATC, a place that looks like
a shopping mall, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Osaka</st1:place></st1:city>
has cosplay events every week.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">このイベントはどうですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[How is this event?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あのね、普通の人もいっぱいいって、普通の買い物をしてる人とかもいっぱいいってからちょっといっぱい見られる。外でもとれるから、写真がとれるから面白い。中だけじゃなくて外にも行ける。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Well, there are also lots of
normal people, people who are doing normal shopping, so there’s a bit of a lot
of people looking. You can also cosplay outside so the photos are really
interesting. You don’t have to go inside you can also go outside.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをする時友達が多いですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[When you cosplay so you have
a lot of friends?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">友達?うん、イベントで友達ができるから友達の家族が多くなってくる。行くために友達が増える。「撮らしてください」とか撮ったりして、カード、めいし、交換して、名前をして、コスプレの</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">SNS</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">とか言って、メッセージ送ったら友達ができる。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Friends? Yes, you can make
friends at events so my family of friends has become really big. I go for the
sake of increasing my friends. You can request photos and take pictures, and
exchanging cards, business cards, which have their names and cosplay SNS
(social network sites), so you can send them messages and become friends.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレのめいしを交換するですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[You exchange cosplay
business cards?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">うん、自分の名前と写真があるカード</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Yep, they’re cards which
have your name and photo.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうしてこのカードがありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Why do you have those
cards?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">例えば、その人はかこうよくて皆困難だろその人写真をもっと見たかったりか連絡がメッセージとかしたいと思ったら、その人の名前と顔がすぐ忘れちゃうからめいしを見てもらって</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Number</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">とかサイトが分かったら、あの、ホームページとか行けるからまた連絡後で。友達なる方法。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[For example, someone’s
really cool and awesome with everyone that would be a problem. So you want to
see more of that persons photos or contact them, but you’re probably going to
forget their name and face so you receive their card with their number and
sites, erm, so you can go to their homepage and contact them later. It’s the
way to become friends.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">誰とコスプレをしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Who do you cosplay with?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">初めは大学の友達と行ったけどもうその子はやめちゃったから今はイベントで会った始めてできた友達とかと一緒にして行く。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[At first I went with my
university friends but they’ve stopped now, so now I go with the friends that I
first met at events.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">今コスプレとする友達と仲がいいですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Are you close with the
friends who cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">実際その人の名前とかどこで住んでいるとか</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">personal information</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">は殆ど知らない。マナーとしてあまり聞いちゃうだめ、その</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">private</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">のこと。なんでかわからないけど聞いちゃうだめで。。。何もその人知らないけどアニメとかそのキャラクター話で仲がよくなれるから。。。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Well the truth is I don’t
know things like their names, where they live, personal information. It’s not
polite to ask people, about private things. I don’t know why but you’re not
allowed to ask…but although you don’t know anything about the people, you can
talk about anime and characters and get really close to them…]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">じゃ、皆はキャラクターの名前を呼びますか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[So everyone calls each other
by their character’s names?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">そう、コスネームを使う。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Yes, you use your Cosname]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスネームですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Cosname?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">私は別の漢字の「あや」。私はちょっとかいたくなかっただって</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">weird</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">だから、なんか、その人が別の名前で呼んでもわからないかもしれない。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">日本のコスプレはそういう、そのマナーがある。ちょっとめどくさい。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I use a use a different
kanji to “Aya”. I want to socialise but it’s weird…erm…say someone calls me by
a different name I probably wouldn’t understand! Japanese cosplay has a lot of
cases like that, we have that mannerism. It’s a bit annoying] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうしてですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Why’s that?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">何でかなあ?何ででしょうね。多分イベントで「写真撮らしてください」って言うてその人は。。。なんだろ。。。その人の態度が悪かったら多分、「2ちゃうねる」知ってる?めちゃな有名な</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">PBS</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">でネットやってそういう所にこの人あほうだとか書き困れて。。。なんだろ。。。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">bad reputation</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">なちゃうからちょっと怖い、ちょっと怖い。だから親切にしないといけないというのは色々のある。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I wonder why? I wonder why.
Perhaps at events people who ask “Can I take your picture?” are…erm…those
people have a bad attitude perhaps. Do
you know “2 Channel”? Really famous PBS (public broadcasting service) on the
net, the people there can be idiots and write troublesome stuff…erm…you can get
a bad reputation so it’s a little scary, a little scary. So you have to be kind
in a lot of ways.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしなかったら友達と会いましたか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[If you had never cosplayed
do you think you would have met your friends?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">会わないと思う。たまに本当に仲のいいコスプレの友達と普通に遊びに行ったりするけど、もしでもコスプレずっとしなかったらもう会わないと思う。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[I don’t think I would have.
Occasionally I go out and play with the cosplay friends I’m really close to, so
if I had never done cosplay I don’t think I would have met them.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あやさんがコスプレをしているかどうか知らない人がいますか。家族とか友達ですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Is there anyone who doesn’t
know that you do cosplay? Your family or friends?] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[Friends…It’s hard to tell my
high school friends, a little troublesome. I don’t want to tell them.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうしてですか?</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ちょっと恥ずかしい。あの、オタクってやっぱりマイナー、オタクって、特にコスプレはちょっとマイナーな文化だから、もうかしたらその人はそういう嫌いかもしてないし、キャラクターのイメージだから。。。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">[It’s a bit embarrassing.
Erm, it’s defiantly the manner towards otaku, otaku are, especially cosplayers,
it’s a part of manner culture. So if you were to tell someone then they might
hate you, because of the character’s image…]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">大学の友達はどうですか。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">知っている人多いかな。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">気にしてないと思う。最初は驚いたけど今別に、普通、何も、大丈夫。</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first they were surprised but now it doesn’t matter, it’s normal, nothing, it’s
all fine.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ダイエットとか?そういうの?ダイエットにもかうし、</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">skin care</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">もちょっと使うし、コスメのチェックとか、お金貯めたり、あと<span class="apple-style-span">スケジュールをちゃんとあわせるようにしたりとか、色々な。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Like diet? That kind of thing? I diet, use some skin care, have
cosmetic checks, save money, as well as make sure my schedule works, all kinds
of things.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">うん、話す、話す。私はいつもコスプレヤの</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SNS</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">にいるからそこで皆の日記、イベントしたりとか、しているよ。ネットで</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cosplay Archive</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">というサイト。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with everyone’s diaries, and at events. Cosplay Archive’s the site.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">そういう時もある。時々、時々。でも私は何回も同じ衣装を使いたい、着たいから、大切にしたいから、あまり新しいの買わないようにしてる。衣装を一回着てすぐ捨てる人もいる。私はあまりしたくない。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[There are times when I do. Now and then, now and then. But I also
want to use the same costume over and over again, I want to wear it, because I
want to make it special. I don’t really have to buy a new one. There are people
who will wear a costume once and then throw it away. I don’t really like doing
that.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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person now?]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">違うかもね。違うかもね。あの、コスプレをしてると自分に自信がつく。自分の自信になる。例えばイベントに何回か行くうちにカメラマンさんが話してきてくれて「撮らしてください」とか言ってきてすごくいい写真、すごくきれいな写真に写真を撮ってくれたりするから、なんか、すごく自信になる。私のレベルがあがるみたいかなあ。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[I would probably be different. I would probably be different.
Erm, When I do cosplay I get confidence. I get more confident. For example,
whenever I go to an event a cameraman will come up to me and ask “can I take a
picture?” and make really good photos, really pretty photos, so, erm, really
quickly I get confident. I can see I have a high level I guess.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">何してるんね。ただのマンガずき、ただのマンガオタクかな。でも昔からしてみたかった、コスプレ、したみたかったから。。。ま、</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anyway,</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">なんだろかな。考えられない。考えられない。多分絶対やってる。うん、考えられない。していなかったらただのオタク。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[What I’d be doing now. Just a normal manga lover, a normal manga
otaku I guess. But since long ago I wanted to do it, cosplay, I wanted to try
it so…well, anyway, I wonder what. I don’t know. I don’t know. Perhaps I would
have defiantly done it. Yeah, I don’t know. If I hadn’t I would probably just
be a normal otaku.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 11pt;">どうしてかな。最初はかこうい人がいたから憧れたけど、今は。。。なんだろ。。。そのキャラクターが好きていうもあるけど、変わる自分、自分の顔とか、変えるとか面白いと思う。例えばまつげがこんなことになったり、ダブルなひいたりとしたら顔が全然違う。自信見たら面白い。後、今若いから、若いうちに自分の。。。いい。。。なんだろ。。。いい自分を、若い自分を写真にちゃんとのごとしたい。だって年を撮ったら無理でしょ。コスプレは年を撮ったらできない。趣味だから今日がないもできない。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[I wonder why. At first it was because there were cool people so I
really wanted to try it. Now…I wonder…there are characters that I like but
also, I can change myself. My face and things I can change, it’s fun I think.
For example, you make your eyelashes like this, double the size of your face so it looks completely different. If I see myself it’s fun. Also, now I’m
young so while I’m young myself…well…erm…a good me, a young me, I want proper
photos of myself. Because when I’m old it’s probably impossible to take. You
can’t do cosplay when you’re old. It’s a hobby so even now there are days when
I can’t cosplay.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Comments? Let’s go do
Japanese cosplay. Let’s go have fun.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b> <u>Cosplay Interview with </u></b><u><o:p></o:p></u></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"><u>Reiko 2</u></b></div>
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a preliminary informant in the Autumn. Because she graduated and moved cities
there was no longer an opportune time to meet. As a result the questions were
sent to her which she filled in and sent back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the times I’ve spoken to her and in both interviews she refers to herself as
“cosplayer/layer” or “otaku”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "ヒラギノ角ゴ ProN W3";">These interviews were split into different sections based on different aspects of cosplay culture I was studying at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Me: What can you can
tell me about cosplay? (Anything that comes to mind first)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレについて何か教えてくれますか。(考えことができるものです。)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Reiko: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレは、好きなキャラクターになりきってその世界を表現することだと思います。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">その作品を好きな人がそのキャラのコスプレをするので、作品を知ってからコスプレするほうがキャラの特徴もわかるし、一緒にあわせをする人とも話しやすいと思うので望ましいです。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">最近は、マナーが悪くなってきてると聞きます。(幼い人が増えた)公衆の面前で</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">BL</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">的な絡みをしたり騒いだり・・・・。衣装もお金がかかるので、アルバイトができる年齢になってから始めたほうがいいと思います。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think cosplay is a world
where you can turn into a character. People who like the product do character
cosplay, and so I understand that because you know the product cosplay is more
then a character’s characteristics, I think it’s easy to talk to people who
join together to do cosplay, or so I hope. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Lately, I hear people’s
manners have gotten bad. (The number of immature people has been increasing).
In the public eye involvement in BL [boys love] has become more noisy….It also
costs money to do costumes but I’ve reached the age you can do a job at so I
think [doing cosplay] is better at first.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Me: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あなたの趣味(しゅみ)や興味</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">きょうみ</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">)</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">は何ですか</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What are interests/hobbies?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Reiko: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">カラオケ、アニメ、漫画を読む、ゲーム、旅行、ショッピング</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Karaoke, anime, reading
manga, games, travelling, shopping]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Cosplay: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうしてコスプレに興味がわきましたか?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(何がげんいんで興味がわきましたか?)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Why did you become interested
in cosplay? </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">What drew you into this originally?</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">]</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">イベントで、すごく有名な格好いいレイヤーを見てからです。ずっと会いたかったキャラクターが目の前にいるようでドキドキしました。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">たいていコスプレをした時何をしますか</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> [What happens when you normally cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">写真を撮影。あとはほかのレイヤーと交流。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Take photos. Also exchange
with other Layers]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いつコスプレをしますか。どのくらいしますか。誰としますか。たいていどこでしますか。たいてい何をしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[When do you normally cosplay? How often? Who with?
Where normally go? What normally do?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">R: 土日。でも平日でもスタジオやロケで撮影をしたりします。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">レイヤー友達</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">今はスタジオとロケが中心です。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">マクロスとボカロが最近はよくしてます。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">でも好きな作品は何でもしたい!</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Sundays. But during the week
I also do photographing at Stadio, or Roke. I do [cosplay] 2 -3 times a month.
Go with Layer friends. Right now, I’m in the middle of Sadio and Roke. I’ve
been doing a lot of Macross and Vocaloid lately. But I can do the products I
like over and over again!]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ぜんかい、コスプレをした時、しょうさいで何をしたか教えてくれませんか</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[Can you tell me in detail what happened the last time you cosplayed?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">R: VOCALOID</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">の</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MEIKO</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">!!!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">KAITO</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">とあわせました。ノーマルバージョンです。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[MEIKO FROM VOCALOID!!! I met up with KAITO. Normal versions.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをした時何か感じますか。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[How do you feel when you cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">好きなキャラの服を着られて嬉しいです。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I get happy when I can wear
the clothes of characters that I like.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをする時しめいとかをかくしますか。どんなふうににかくしますか。どうしてですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[When you cosplay do you normally
keep your real identity a secret? How do you do that? Why?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">はい。コスプレネームを作ります。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレはまだ一般的に受け入れられていない趣味なので。またネットで世界中に見られる可能性があるので隠します。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Yes. I make a cosplay name.
Because cosplay isn’t popular yet, it’s an unaccepted interest. It’s still
possible to still see our world on the net so we hide.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしている間にどうでしゃべますか。(自分でかキャラクターで)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[When you do cosplay how do
you interact with others? (As yourself or as your character?)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">自分です。キャラクターのまねをすると、気持ち悪いと思われるのがふつうです。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Myself. If I behaved like
the character then it’s normal to think that it would be gross*.] <br />
(*feels bad)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">たいてい何に自分のお金と時間をかけますか。たとえば一週間、一ヶ月にのあいだです。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[How much time and money do
you normally spend on cosplay? (In a week or month)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: 2</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">万以内</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[At least 20,000 yen*] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">(*£150)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうやって趣味のことのためにお金をためますか。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[How do you save money for your hobby?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">仕事</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレを買うか手作りしますか。どう選びますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you normally buy costumes
or make them? How do you choose what costumes to do?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">不器用なので買います</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">なぜこんなにコスプレのことが好きですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why are you so interested in
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">好きなキャラに近づける気がするし、普段着れない服が着れて嬉しいから。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[I can feel close to the character, I feel happy when can wear clothes I
can’t normally wear.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしないとしたらこっかはどう違うと思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you didn’t do cosplay how
do you think the present would be different?]</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">刺激が足らないと思います。でもなくても生きていけるかも</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think I wouldn’t have any
motivation. But even if I didn’t [do cosplay] I’d still be alive.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしている人はどんな人だと思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">オタク笑 または人から注目されたい人</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attention from others.]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">他のコスプレを見るとはんだんしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(何か悪い、いいコスプレですか)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do you judge other cosplay
when you see them?]</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">やっぱりしてしまいます。見た目(スタイル)ですね。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Of course I have. Their
looks (style).]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Social Relations: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">分かち合う友達はどんな人と思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What are your friends who
cosplay like?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">オタク笑</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> [Otaku haha.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしない人はどんな人と思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[How about the friends who
don’t cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">??ふつうの人か、オタクでもコスプレに興味のない人。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Normal people? Otaku but
they don’t have interest in cosplay.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">友達とコスプレをしている友達はこべつですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Are your cosplaying friends
separate from these friends?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">別です。でも同じ友達もいます。(仕事場の友達がレイヤー)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Separate. But I also have
the same friends. (Work friends are also Layer’s)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いつか両方と会いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do they ever meet?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">会うときもあるけど今は忙しい。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[There times when they meet
but now they’re/I’m busy.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしない友達もいますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you have friends who
don’t cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">R: もちろん。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Of course]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">この友達はあんなたがコスプレをしているかどうか知っていますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do non-cosplayer friends
know you cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">知ってます。でも知らない人もいます。言う人を選らんで言ってます。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[They know. But there are
also people who don’t know. I choose the people I tell.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">インターネットじょうの友達もいますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you have friends online?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">はい</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">
[Yes]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">家族はあなたの趣味を理解(りかい)してくれますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Does your family support you
hobbies? ]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">はい</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Yes]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">彼氏・彼女がいますか?いたことがありますか。欲しいのですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you have a partner? Have
you had a partner? Do you want one?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">R: いました。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">今はどちらでもいいです。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I had one. Now I don’t mind]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> If yes: Do/did they share your hobbies?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 同じ趣味を分かち合いたいですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレはしてなくても、何か同じ漫画とかゲームで話ができたら十分</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Doesn’t have to do cosplay,
but it would be nice to talk about the same manga or games.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> If no: would/did you look for a partner who shares/shared
your hobbies?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 同じ趣味を持っている彼氏・彼女と付き合い(つきあい)たいですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">男のレイヤーはあまりすごくないから、コスプレイヤーの彼氏は別にいらない。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">でも漫画とゲームとかの話はしたい。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Male cosplayers aren’t
really that amazing so I don’t really need a boyfriend who does cosplay. But I
want to be able to talk about games and manga.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうコスプレをしている友達に連絡しますか。(インタネットや会いますか)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[How do you contact/interact
with cosplay friends when not cosplaying (internet, meet in person)?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">アーカイブ</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> [Archive]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">メール</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> [Mail]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしない時その友達に会いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you meet them when you
are not cosplaying?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">たまに</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Occasionally]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">会ったらたいてい何をしますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What do you normally do?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ショッピング、オタクの買い物</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Shopping, otaku shopping]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Identity</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><i><b>-Appearance: </b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしなかったらどんな服を着るのが好きですか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What do you normally wear
when you are not cosplaying?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">なんでも。自分の好きな服を着ます。スタイルはその時の気分</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Anything. I wear my own
clothes that I like. My style is what I feel at the time.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あなたの趣味はあなたの服のスタイルにえいきょう(影響)をおよぼしますか?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do your hobbies/interests
affect the way you dress?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">いいえ。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[No]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">服を選ぶ時に何かイメージはありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Is there an image that you
identify with/like to dress as?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">少しタイトでバランスがいい感じが好き。カラフルよりもモノトーンが好き</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I like to have a balance. I
like monotone more then colourful.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">服で何かあなたの興味を伝えるものがありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Is there anything you wear
which shows your interests? (Symbols e.g characters on keychains)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">服はないです。明らかなオタクファッションは嫌い</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[On my clothes no. I don’t
have any obvious otaku fashion.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あなたの見た目のためが<span class="apple-style-span">こていかんねん(</span>固定観念)にとらわれた事がありますか?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Have you ever been
stereotyped because of your appearance?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">よくわからないけど、ないと思います。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I don’t really understand
but I don’t think so.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">知らない人を見たらどうやって同じ趣味が持つがどうか見分けられますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[If you see someone on the
street how can you tell if they have the same interests as you?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">話し方、持ち物、メイク</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[The way they talk, the
things they have, make up.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Self identity: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">自分自身の趣味に関して、どのような単語で自分自身を説明しますか?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(自分の</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">アイデンティティはどう説明しますか。)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">How would you describe yourself in terms of your
hobbies?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">変身</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
[Disguise/transformation]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">どうしてこの単語を選びましたか?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Why did you choose this term
over the others?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレは本来の自分とは違う自分になることだと思うから。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think it’s because cosplay
is essentially when I can turn myself into a different me.] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">この<span class="syljap">アイデンティティをかくしますか。</span></span><span class="syljap"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="syljap"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Do you keep this identity hidden?]<span class="syljap"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="syljap"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span></span><span class="syljap"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">そんなに隠しません</span></span><span class="syljap"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="syljap"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I don’t
really hide it.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Labelled identity: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">他のひとから「オタク」か他の言葉と呼ばれたことがありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Have other people called you
“otaku” or something else? ]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">オタク はあります。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">I have been called ‘otaku’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">呼ばれたら何を感じますか</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[How do you feel when/if they
do?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">最近はオタクって世間に知られてきているからあまり気にならない</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Lately ‘otaku’ is something
the world is beginning to know so I don’t mind.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Perspective<o:p></o:p></b></span></u></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Otaku: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「オタク」ということは何だと思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What do you think “otaku”
is?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">何かをすごく好きでお金も時間もかけられること</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Something which you really,
really like so you spend a lot of money and time on it.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">外国人は「オタク」になれますか</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Can foreigners be “otaku”?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">なってる人はいっぱいいます。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[There are loads of people
who have become otaku]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">何か日本と外国の「オタク」は違いがありますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Is there a/what is the
difference?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">あまりないかも</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Not really.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Foreign vs Japanese
cosplayers: </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">コスプレをしている日本人はどうと思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What do you think of
Japanese cosplayers?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">日本人はアイメイクがとてもうまいと思う。でもすぐになんでも買えるから、</span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">クオリティが平均的になる。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think Japanese people’s
makeup is amazing. But even though it’s amazing you can buy anything so the
quality is average.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">コスプレをしている外国人をどうとおもいますか。</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[What do you think of foreign
cosplayers?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">R: 楽しそう。でもちょっとウィッグとかが適当だったりする。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">でもすごい人は本当にすごい!武器とか・・・・。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Looks fun. But the wigs etc
aren’t really proper. But amazing people are really amazing! The armour/weapons
etc…]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>-Other people:</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人々はコスプレのことについて何を<span class="apple-style-span">考えると思いますか。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">What do you think
other people think of cosplayers?]<span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">むちゃくちゃオタクな趣味だと思ってるとおもう。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">すごい綺麗な写真を撮るように努力してることを分かってもらえない。</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ただの変な人と思われてる(説明するまで)</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think they think that it’s a messy otaku hobby. They don’t
understand it when amazingly pretty photos which are taken with a lot of
effort. They just think they’re weird people.]</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">M: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人々はコスプレを見るとその人をはんだんするかどうかと思いますか。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[Do you think people will
judge you if they find out, or see that you cosplay?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">R: </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS 明朝","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">すると思う。それは一般人でもすると思う。</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[I think they will. I think
that’s what ordinary people do.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-91276665185174967312014-01-30T09:53:00.000-08:002014-01-31T03:48:05.005-08:00Interviewing a Japanese Cosplayer -Article<div class="MsoNormal">
This was a result of an interview with a Japanese cosplayer back in 2011 for an essay for a class at University in Japan. I haven't used her real name.<br />
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If you're interested in Japanese geek culture I also wrote an article after <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/interview-with-japanese-otaku.html">interviewing a Japanese Otaku</a>.</div>
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Or if you'd like to read the raw interview with Reiko I have put the transcript on <a href="http://cosplaying-niffer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/interviewing-japanese-cosplayer-raw.html">Interviewing a Japanese Cosplayer [RAW Interviews]</a>.<br />
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<b><u>Cosplayers in Japan: People Who Are Close but Not Close</u></b></div>
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<i>Kosupure</i> (or cosplay), is a combination of ‘costume’ and ‘play’ and consists of the practice of expressing ones fandom through the dressing up of fictional characters from various medias; mainly anime, manga and games. It’s seen within Japan as a sub-genre of the <i>otaku</i> subculture, which describes people who are avid fans and consumers of various mediums but mostly linked to the consumers of “useless things” such as anime, manga and games (Grassmuck 1990). There is an argument as to whether cosplay started with costumed role-play in American in the 60s and taken to Japan, or whether it was important from Japan along with the practice of anime and manga fan clubs (Winge 2006). Either way it is now a common practice in Japan especially among the young female otaku, such as 22 year old Reiko (for the purpose of anonymity this is not her real name). This essay will look at Reiko’s involvement within the cosplay community, her consumption practices, how it fits in with her social life, and how it contributes to her self identity.<br />
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You wouldn’t expect Reiko to be more then an average young Japanese woman but she is an avid cosplayer who was first interested in cosplay at 17 when she went to her first <i>doujinshi</i> (self published fan comics) event. She said that she had an interest in doujinshi before and when she went to her first event in Osaka there were a group of people doing cosplay. “I thought they looked cool and wanted to try”, but it wasn’t until a year later at the age of 18 when she was in university and was able to try cosplay for the first time. Her interest in doujinshi and cosplay developed on their own but when she got to University she was able to go to cosplay events for the first time with a group of friends. These university friends have stopped cosplaying now but she has formed a new group of cosplaying friends through the cosplay community.<br />
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Reiko decides which cosplay to do based on her favourite characters from anime, manga and games, but if a friend wants to do a group cosplay (all characters from the same show or game) then they will do that. Hers and her friend’s interests in the latest anime, manga and games is the fuel for their creative cosplaying passion. She said that, like many cosplayers, she normally buys her cosplay and then adjusts it to fit her body shape. She will normally spend about 8000yen on a single cosplay including the costume, wig, and accessories. I asked her if she bought a new cosplay every time; “Sometimes, but I use the same favourite cosplay a lot. There are people who buy new cosplay each time, but I don’t”. Aside from buying anime, manga and games which fuel her love of cosplay, and the cosplay itself, Reiko also spends time and money on dieting, skin products, but more importantly saves money from her part time job, which is based around the events at the weekend.<br />
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Reiko will go cosplaying about three times a month, normally at “ATC” a shopping store in Osaka which holds weekly cosplay events. There are normally normal people doing their shopping at the store, so they will often get stared at a lot. The cosplayers go to have photo shoots which are shot inside and outside the building itself, but they don’t just go to have the photos as keepsakes. What I found particularly interesting was the way the cosplayers interact at events like these: Reiko told me that a cosplayer will have a <i>meishi</i>, a business card, with their “cos-name”, photo, mail address, and cosplay website etc. People use these cards to look up the cosplayer or photographer on sites like an SNS (Social Network Service) and they normally keep in contact via the internet and sites like these. “You can make lots of friends” she said, but when I asked if she was close with her cosplay friends she said “Hmm, sort of. Real life names, where they live, contact details and personal information you normally don’t know”. To keep their identity there is a social taboo to asked or give out personal information, as a result Reiko knows the people by their ‘cos-names’ and characters, and is close to them as cosplayers, but outside of the events and cosplay community she knows nothing about them. Cosplayers who meet in the cosplay event normally don’t meet outside of it. There is anonymity within the cosplay circles due to its links with the otaku image, which is normally perceived as being very strange, and has very negative connotations linked with it (Grassmuck 1990), not only that but people prefer to keep their normal and cosplay lives separate for fear of what their friends and family might think of them.<br />
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Reiko is an unusual case, I think. She uses a cos-name which is the same as her real life name, but she uses different kanji so that when people say her name she doesn’t get confused. Not only that but most of her friends and her family knows that she cosplays. I asked her what her family thought and she said that at first they thought it was strange but now it’s normal. The only people who don’t know are her friends from high school, before she started cosplay. When I probed her to see why she doesn’t tell them she replied “It would be troublesome, embarrassing, because they might think I'm otaku and maybe that characters image is bad.”<br />
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Thinking up questions related to identity I figured that asking ‘how does cosplay make your identity’ would give me an answer from Reiko that she would think I wanted. Instead I asked her “If you’d never got into cosplay, do you think you’d be the same person?” She paused for a moment and replied “Different, defiantly different. When I cosplay I make myself, I become myself. For example, when I do cosplay and a man comes and asks me ‘Can I take a photo’ and he makes really good photo it makes me. My level of cosplay increases.” I pushed the question if she’d never done cosplay then what would she be doing now; “I don’t know…but long ago I was also interested…I can’t think of not doing it.” So I asked why she cosplays; “At first I saw a lot of cool people who did it, so I wanted to do it too. I like those characters and when peoples faces change to become those characters, it’s fun. When I see photos it’s interesting, fun. I’m young now and I have a lot of good photos of when I’m young. When I get older…because now it’s a hobby, but it’ll be impossible to do when I’m older.”<br />
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From what I understood cosplay gives Reiko her confidence in her image as a young woman. She is able to ‘make herself’ and at the same time create new persona and ‘new faces’ through the acting of the characters she enjoys. Cosplay is a central aspect of her life that she can’t imagine being without. Her part-time job funds her passion and is scheduled around events. She not only buys cosplay and the necessary accessories, but also anime, manga and games which inspires her cosplay. She socialises with her friends in real life, who know she cosplays as well as with her friends online, whom she always makes new ones through the introduction of events. Ironically, although she’s close to a lot of people who cosplay, she is only close as a cosplayer to them as cosplayers and none of them know who they are or what they are like outside of the cosplaying world. It is a practice which is done in the open with a lot of interaction between cosplayers, but is a closed circle where real identities are kept private. As Winge (2006) states “Japanese culture values community above the individual, cosplayers exist as a subculture, outside the acceptable norms of the dominant culture…[a]s a result, Japanese cosplayers have a negative reputation as individuals”. Because of this discrimination, areas for ‘safe cosplay’, such at official events like the ones held at ATC.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-31132970713333502092014-01-29T10:21:00.003-08:002014-01-29T10:21:40.956-08:00Cosplay at Comiket - Photographs<b>When: January 2011</b><br />
<b>Location: Tokyo, Japan</b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Comiket, one of the most famous otaku spots in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">, and one of the main reasons I went to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Tokyo</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> over the winter break while I was studying in Osaka in 2011. It was so long ago now but still I can remember it clearly. I wish I could have taken photos inside but you're not allowed in order to protect the identity of people who go. So the best representation I could find of what it is like was from the anime Genshiken (just imagine it being even more crowded, so much so that you can hardly move) :</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">But you are allowed to photograph outside including the cosplayers. Here is at least one photos of every Cosplayer I took at Comiket over the three days I went.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-435141569593921875.post-41635631196398228212014-01-27T11:47:00.002-08:002014-01-27T11:49:01.762-08:00Macross Frontier Cosplay - Photographs<b>When: November 2010</b><br />
<b>Location: Osaka, Japan</b><br />
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This was my first time in Japan cosplaying, not only that but <i>cross</i>playing (cosplaying someone of the opposite gender). I did Alto from Macross Frontier while my friends did Ranka and Sheryl. These photos were taken by Kuro-Hitsuji-san who is an ammeter Cosplay photographer with awesome professional who made even my bad cosplay look awesome! Needless to say I won't try cosplaying a guy ever again.<br />
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Funny story about the wig actually. I almost got one the right colour and for some reason I let the shop assistant convince me otherwise! And then when I tried to cut the wig and style it it went horribly wrong. I almost didn't cosplay at all. But I'm really glad I did. Even if I look aweful it was a great day out.<br />
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An Otaku in 2010<br />
– The new generation of ‘otakuness’ -<br />
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Within this interview I wanted to look at a normal Japanese person and find out ‘what makes them otaku’, how they think other people view this identify and how it is expressed in their everyday life.<br />
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The term otaku originated from the word meaning ‘your home’ which was used to refer to someone whose position to oneself was unclear. It carries the connotation of being equal but also being distant from them. In the 1980s the term began to be used largely between fans of anime, manga and computer games. The media then began to use this term to describe people (mostly teenage men) who were socially inept, who did not care about their looks and who were into “collecting useless things” such as anime, manga and computer games (Grassmuck 1990); a negative image which grew to be connected to an incident, know as “The Miyazaki incident”, in 1989 where a man whom the media labelled as being otaku killed 3 little girls in horrific ways (Grassmuck 1990; Schodt 1996, p.45). This negative image was predominant in the 1990s and so I was particularly interested in seeing how things have changed in the last decade from the perspective of a modern day otaku.<br />
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Yuuki (for the sake of anonymity this is not her real name) was hardly the unclean anti-social image associated to otaku when I met up with her one lunch time. She seemed like an average 19 year old Japanese girl with her tights, short shirt, smart top and a big grin across her face, although she looked quite nervous she seemed happy to talk to me. When I first met her she appeared to be an average Japanese girl but after a few months she mentioned off hand that she was an otaku. This had caught me completely off-guard because her outward image was not what I had expected, and considering she was the first otaku to ‘come out’ to me, I asked her if I could interview her. She agreed and we met a few days later. I told her that the interview was anonymous and she seemed to relax a bit.<br />
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At the beginning of the interview I wanted to know what she thought made her otaku and how it was different to other people. She said that she was familiar with otaku culture and knew that otaku are otaku to their fandom’s, such as train-otaku, computer-otaku, and in her case she was an anime-otaku. There are people who just watch anime but otaku get involved more, and in her case she does so by going to events and enjoys watching cosplay (although she herself does not partake in cosplay). Other otaku also spend a lot of time on the internet browsing sites of their interests such as anime sites, but she said she does too sometimes but hasn’t had much time for recently. Considering that the image of otaku is associated with men I found it interesting that she made the comment that a while ago otaku is only men, but now it’s also women. “There are many woman but they don’t say as much as men. Women take care of their fashion, but boys don’t, so it’s hard to tell if woman is otaku”. But when I asked her why it was now also women she did not know.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical image of "typical" otaku in Japanese popular media</td></tr>
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I then wanted to know how she became an otaku. When she was in elementary school she got into anime that was on TV such as Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Mezon Ikoku. It was an interest she developed on her own, which was normal among elementary school children. What was not normal was that she maintained her interest in anime through junior and high school until the present day. It was not normal for her to be interested in anime after elementary school and that was when she knew she was otaku.<br />
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She had one friend who was otaku in high school, who did not appear to be otaku and she knew her for a long time in junior high before she found out. One day after they had graduated from junior high her friend went up to her one day and said “why don’t you go to an event with me?” and since then she has gone to events in Osaka every year and one time she and her friend wrote a manga and tried to sell it as Comiket (a large doujinshi event in Tokyo). Although her friend has now moved away they still sometimes talk online. I asked if she had any other friends online and she said that although many otaku might because it is easier to be yourself online, she does not and prefers to talk to people face to face.<br />
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Her other friends in high school were not otaku though, and although they knew in high school that she was an otaku her university friends do not. I asked her why not and she said was embarrassing and that there’s a ‘bad feeling’ associated with being otaku. In general anime-otaku are seen as being very anti-social and get this bad impression. Although there are some ‘good’ impressions of otaku such as history-otaku or animal-otaku, where being otaku is a profession. I asked if she was ever bullied for being otaku and she said although there is a bad feeling she was never bullied. If people were not interested in the same things they either tended to not get to know that person or can get along despite different interests.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "typical" fashionable girl in Japan</td></tr>
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As she had mentioned her university friends did not know she was otaku I decided to expand on why that was. She said that Kansai Gaidai was famous for its fashionable girls, and her friends here are all fashionable. She thinks that they would not be surprised and would understand if she told them she was otaku, but “real otaku don’t say they are otaku”. This statement I found interesting and when I asked her why that was she replied that “if people go round telling everyone they are otaku then people don’t think they are otaku. Otaku are shy and quiet and don’t say they are otaku. That is why it is difficult to know if a person is otaku.” She said that she did not think there were any otaku at Kansai Gaidai because of this.<br />
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I asked her why clothes were linked with otaku. She said that a person who is not interested in fashion shows that they are not interested in sanjiken or the 3D. They prefer 2D girls and are not interested in attracting real girls, so they do not need to pay attention to their looks. She said that personally she is not as fashionable as her friends and usually wears Uniqulo clothes (a brand of cheap clothes) and because of that her friends sometimes joke that she is otaku (that is why they would not be surprised if she told them she was an otaku). She prefers cheap and reasonable clothes where her friends prefer expensive fashion. This is because she likes to save money to spend on anime and manga, although she will also spend her money on trips, music and concerts.<br />
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I wanted to gauge her experience of the media and otaku. She said that before 2005 otaku did not appear in the media but since Densha Otoko became popular then the image of otaku has been one that is strange but acceptable. Densha Otoko or “Train Man” was a drama based on a manga which revolves around the story of an otaku trying to fit in with society and his love story with a normal woman (Pena 2006 p.12-14). It portrays otaku as being the socially inept anime obsessed image that people are used to seeing in the media, but also as being harmless people who have friends and can get girlfriends. Although Yuuki did say that the show portrayed a good image to some people, other people still think the obsession with anime, manga and game characters as being too weird. The media now broadcast otaku as being strange all the time, but at the same time show that many Japanese people are otaku so it is not unusual. I asked her what she thought of this ‘bad’ image of otaku, to which she replied “it can’t be helped if people think that way”.<br />
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My final question was if she would stop being otaku when she started full time work. She said that she didn’t know. If she stops being interested in anime and manga then she would give up on being otaku, but now, although she’s very busy she still spends her free time watching anime, and she’s been drawing manga since junior school, so she doesn’t think she will ever give that up. She said that although people have bad impressions being otaku is always fun. When she sold her comics in high school she got a lot of good feedback and the event was a lot of fun. “Almost all otaku are quiet, not energetic, but if they gather they can be energetic, excited, crazy.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miyazaki of the "Miyazaki Incident"</td></tr>
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One thing which struck me in my conversation with Yuuki was that she never mentioned the Miyazaki incident from 1989 and when I asked her if there had been anything about otaku in the media before 2005 she said “not really” and that she had never heard of Miyazaki. Although most of the definitions linked to otaku mention this incident as being a key aspect in the negative images of otaku, I think I can understand why she did not make the connection. Yuuki was, like most of current teenager otaku generation, born in the late 80s/early 90s, so they would not have been conscious of the increasingly negative image associated with otaku. Their parents and the elder generation would and this negative feeling seems to have been passed down into the generation without any context. I think this is why shows like Densha Otoko and the modern media are able to portray the image of otaku as being ‘strange’ but overall harmless, because it is directed to a generation outside of the ‘dangerous otaku’ image.<br />
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Overall the interview went well. At the beginning I explained to her that she could speak in Japanese if she felt more comfortable doing so and to ask me any questions if she didn’t understand anything. I asked her to explain her details in as much detail as she could and to tell me about her experiences and feelings. As the conversation went on I adjusted my questions to fit in with what she was telling and now and then had to probe to get her to expand on a previous statement. She was fine for the most part apart from seeming very nervous, which I found out was due to the fact that she had never spoken about her otakuness in as much detail to anyone before. One problem I had with the interview was that she spoke mostly in English, and although this was helpful for me I felt like she could not explain herself as well in English. There were times where I asked her to explain it in Japanese but she would slip back in to English again.<br />
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In conclusion Yuuki’s ‘otakuness’ derives from her love of anime since a young age and had carried on through school, expressed through her hobby of drawing manga. She is a female otaku, showing that otaku does not necessarily equal men. Her identity as otaku is a central part to her and although she does not appear to be otaku in the way the media portrays them to be, she still hides this aspect of her from her friends. She is a generation born outside of the Miyazaki incident yet the negative connotations giving people a ‘bad feeling’ of otaku remain. I think hiding their identity is common among many modern day otaku who do not want to be associated with the negative images of being unclean, anti-social and strange, despite the fact that they are also portrayed as being common and harmless. Due to this many otaku do not know about other otaku that might be close to them which is why, as Yuuki explained, “when otaku gather at events they become different to how they are on their own”.<br />
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References<br />
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Grassmuck, Volker (1990) “’I’m Alone but Not Lonely’: Japanese Otaku-Kids Colonize the Realm of Information and Media, A Tale of Sex and Crime from a Faraway Place.” Retrieved from http://www.cjas.org/~leng/otaku-e.htm, 1st November 2010<br />
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Pena, Joseph (2006) “Otaku: Images and Identity in Flux” Retrieved from http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&amp;context=curej, 1st November 2010<br />
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Schodt, Frederik (1996) “The Doujinshi World”/”Otaku” from Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley: Stone Brige Press, pp. 36-49<br />
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Interview Guide<br />
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1. What makes him/her otaku<br />
-Why/How do you define yourself as ‘otaku’?<br />
-How do you think this is different to other people?<br />
-Do you think there’s a good/bad image of otaku in Japan? Why?<br />
-Have you ever been bullied because of this?<br />
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2. How they became an otaku<br />
-When did you start becoming interested in anime/manga/computer games etc?<br />
-Did your friends introduce you or was it something you did on your own?<br />
-Are many of your friends otaku? Why/Why not?<br />
-Do you discuss your interests with your friends? Why/Why not?<br />
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3. The Media<br />
-How does the media portray otaku? Good/Bad?<br />
-Did you notice a difference in the past?<br />
-What do you think of this image?<br />
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4. The Future and General Thoughts<br />
-Do you think you will stop being otaku when you start full-time work?<br />
-Any comments he/she wants to expand on?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15139018254167240413noreply@blogger.com0