Wherever people are, their selection of cosplay costume is often influenced by the anime and manga that is prevalent in everyones home country. There are many different titles of manga or anime that can be found in Japan and from time to time I will try to cast a spotlight on them and discuss what role they play in daily life in Japan. Many are very knowledgable about manga and anime and perhaps you could provide feedback about how you know the characters or your feeling about the series.

Today I would like to present Golgo 13:

Golgo 13 is considered an adult manga because of how it deals with complicated topics, has some violence and mild nudity. It is a very long running series and can always be found in convenience stores or older coffee and barber shops. The topics that it deals with shows the era that each book was created in with such topics as US and Soviet Union interrelations in the 80s or international terrorism today. He is supposed to be a mystery figure of undetermined origin but people who I have spoken to think that he is half Japanese half Russian. His role is that of a vigilante hit man who takes out those who may not be guilty in the eyes of the law but may "deserve" to be done away with in his eyes. Golgo 13 may be a questionable character for cosplay but is a prevalent character in contemporary manga here in Japan.