The World Cosplay Summit Executive is pleased to announce that the 17th country to participate in WCS 2011 is Malaysia! I do believe that will be all for new countries joining for this year. Details regarding which event, where and when will be announced in coming days but for now it is official, a pair of Malaysian cosplayers will be representing their country at the event this summer.

By now you have already seen the terrible images of the earthquake that struck Northern Japan. As far as I know everyone in the WCS organization - cosplayers, organizers and media - are all safe. Osaka and Nagoya received only a good shake but friends in Tokyo suffered a serious shock and the disruptions to transportation and electricity have made life hard. Some friends had to walk home 5 or 6 hours the night of the quake.

The north of Japan was hit severely by the quake and tsunami. We pray for survivors and evacuees who go without essential medicines or knowing about the safety of loved ones.

Please keep them in your thoughts and even if our lives were not directly touched by the catastrophe think of anything that you can do to help.

Edo