Convention: Leipziger Buchmesse 2010
Country: Germany
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this picture was taken during the LBM Leipziger Book Fair 2010
Name: Belphy
Age: 16
Profession: Student
What is the best thing about doing Cosplay?
Personally I think that the best about cosplay is being the anime character which you adore. I had lots of fun dressing and acting like the character which I like. It is great when you can meet people whom have the same interest as you. Seriously I found it easier to talk with Anime fans rather then other people.
Are you meeting friends in costumes in public. Are you wearing the costume at home?
Normally I won´t walk in public places in cosplay costumes. But if there is a convention then there would be an exception. Almost everyone there would be in cosplay. I won´t worry that much as long as my friends are going to be around me.
Convention: LBM = Lepziger Bookfair
Country: Germany, Leipzig
Visiting the first time a convention in germany….
A black-feathered bird with big yellow feet is stomping through the halls, being led through the overcrowded and narrow hallways to the Cosplay-area by wig-wearing warriors. Bars, swords – bigger then those who carry them – long sashes made of leaves and fabric do show their colorful play. Why do wig-wearing girls with rebuilt sewer pipes bigger then they are run around the Convention area? How does one transport those wings with more then four metres wingspan in a train? Questions, questions.
My first bigger Con outside Austria had been the LBF (Leipzig Book Fair) 2008 – I as civilian, right in the middle of it all, being tired from the long drive by bus. To the left, to the right, posing Cosplayers, pretending to be in the middle of a fight or battle, getting photographed by different people every single minute – hour after hour.
Why are there chocolate gold coins lying on the floor every few metres? Oh, a black ghost with a white mask – and then the quiz starts: “Which Chara from which series is this?” Youths in outworn clothes with red spots and headbands getting chased by Zombies – and what’s even more frightening: Why does this monster know me and says “Hello Eva”??? It’s not always immediately recognaziable who’s standing right in front of you.
Sometimes, visitors do utter comments like: “This wouldn’t have been possible in my time!” Or: “Lunatics, all lunatics!” It’s quite astonishing, that even in the 21st century the obvious wearing of costumes can so upset some people. The LBM is a place where Cosplayers and people who are into books are mixing up. Not everyone likes to be surrounded by people wearing colourful costumes. It´s overgrowded too, reminding me on my later traintravels in Mumbai or going by bus in India…
I would say that in germany and austria there are more then 77% female Cosplayers. Some are dressing up near their cars, some are travelling by public transport to the convention. Leipzig got used to it.
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