WCS Communicationstag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2010:/blog/wcs_e//102010-02-03T16:42:34ZMovable Type 3.32-jaTeam Mexico 2010 Selectedtag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2010:/blog/wcs_e//10.146702010-02-03T09:31:12Z2010-02-03T16:42:34ZOver the weekend the pair to represent M...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
They are Tanya Valentina Hernández Gutiérrez and José Alfredo Medina Lazarini who performed from the manga Trinity Blood.
This is José (aka Alsqual) performing as Abel Nightroad
Here is Tanya (aka Valentina) as Ion Fortuna
Congratulations and see you in Japan!]]>
61 Teams!!tag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2010:/blog/wcs_e//10.146362010-01-26T11:46:59Z2010-01-27T11:56:23Z Mexico has already announced their line...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Mexico has already announced their line up for cosplay performances at TNT GT4. They have a total of 61 teams! I am presuming that is only for the doubles WCS prize to Japan. I was there last year and including singles, groups and robots there was well over 200 performances. I have great memories from the event, there quite a few entries about the event from 2009. You can take a look at how things went last year here!]]>
WCS Alumni in Mexicotag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2010:/blog/wcs_e//10.145972010-01-18T11:17:34Z2010-01-19T16:24:08ZThe preliminaries in Mexico has regular ...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Here is Yunnale and Linamoon from Mexico 2007
Here we have Alin and Tersa from 2008
And from last year we have Maskerpa and Wabisabi
Nice work on the posters as always Mario!]]>
Mexico Gearing Uptag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2010:/blog/wcs_e//10.145432010-01-10T11:34:03Z2010-01-10T17:57:00ZHappy New Year everyone! After a holiday...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
here!
Its only in Spanish but have a click around.
Here is an awesome poster they have put together for the event.
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Regarding WCS2010 New Participating Countries Selectiontag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.144272009-12-17T10:55:14Z2010-02-15T01:02:59ZJust in case you didn't catch it on the ...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Just in case you didn't catch it on the news reel:
We have received quality participation applications from many countries this year.
The World Cosplay Summit Executive Committee has been in deep deliberation over the decision.
The selections were to be announced at the end of November 2009 and we apologize for the delay in the announcement. We ask for your patience as the results will be announced very soon.
There have to be around 80 to 90 countries around the world with organized events that have cosplay stages and each year many countries apply to participate in the WCS. Its a tough decision to make, I personally would like to see all applicants be able to participate and I believe one day not too far off that may be a reality. For now all we can do is wait, we'll get the news soon.
WCS 2010 Denmark Representatives Settag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.142042009-11-09T05:15:59Z2009-11-19T14:50:40Z This weekend J-popcon took place near C...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
This weekend J-popcon took place near Copenhagen and the cosplay duo to represent Denmark were selected on Saturday. Congratulations to Line Maria Eriksen and Louise Eriksen! They did an awesome rendition of Sora and Kairi from Kingdom Hearts: Halloween Town.
The tough job of judging went to a star studded line up of WCS alumni: Nadia Baiardi from Italy 2008, Andrea Tan from Singapore 2009, Iris Herrman and Annabell Huwig from Germany 2009. Its awesome that people can get around so easily in Europe, it would have been great to be there, hopefully that can become a reality sometime in the future...
A big thanks to Adrian and Patrick for the information and picture!
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Reperesentatives for Spain 2010 Chosen!tag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141792009-11-03T10:21:14Z2009-11-03T12:23:41Z Above are the representatives for Spain...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Above are the representatives for Spain at WCS 2010 next year Narcis Ferri and Vanessa Figueras. The pair did a classic Ghost in the Shell cosplay, Vanessa was Mokoto Kusanagi and Narcis was the Puppet Master. The WCS 2009 Champions Yurie were actually in Spain this year for the the Ficomic event and were on the judging panel. Congratulations!
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Finland Representatives for WCS 2010 Selected!!tag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141222009-10-26T08:16:25Z2009-10-30T04:13:10Z The WCS representative selection for Fi...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
The WCS representative selection for Finland took place this weekend at the Cosplay Finland Tour event. The winning pair are Sami and Riina Saltiola, a brother and sister team. Their performance was from Final Fantasy 7. Congratulations! ]]>
WCS Italy Preliminary Competitorstag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141082009-10-22T10:29:48Z2009-11-09T06:28:34ZHere are some shots of the teams for the...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
This pair put together some excellent Trinity Blood costumes.
This was a nice touch pulling out the Japan and Britannian flags in a Code Geass performance.
This is a shot of Nadia on the right from Italy 2008, you cant really tell as she is wearing a mask and standing on a 1 meter high platform.
This was a very creative Naruto performance you can see the monstrous tails and appendages that were a part of their costume.
This pair put together a creative battle drama with plenty of surprises like the balloons you can see in the picture.
Here is another shot of the winning pair.
As I mentioned before, the list of performers is not complete but thanks to some caring cosplayers I do have a shot of the first pair who competed in the WCS competition. They performed Final Fantasy IV and the picture does not do their spectacular costumes justice.
Thank you DarkMisa!
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Romics Selections - Sat and Suntag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141072009-10-22T04:24:41Z2009-10-22T18:28:57ZThere were over 200 cosplay teams to sel...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
I have a much better idea of the passion cosplayers have for their hobby in Italy. I don't like having to cut people from performing, but it would be logistically impossible to see 200 performances on stage.
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Emilia and Elena Say Hi!tag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141062009-10-21T07:16:44Z2009-10-22T18:23:57ZI ran into Emilia and Elena Fata Livia o...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
I also saw Alessandro Leuti and Alessia de Magistris from Italy 2006 but I did not get a picture of them :( They called out to me while I was judging and they were looking great. Also Nadia from Italy 2008 competed on stage, I have a picture of her which I will put in the WCS competition post.
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Maids, Schoolgirls and Gothlolitag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.141042009-10-21T04:08:56Z2009-10-22T18:15:34ZHere are some shots around the event hal...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
A maid being pushed around on a trolley
A girl standing in front of an accessory booth dressed in gothloli
2 girls dressed in casual high school clothes.
Particularly gothloli is something that I saw very little of when I was in New York, since 2008 in Europe it has become pretty popular at conventions and in the otaku community. ]]>
Around the Romics Event Floortag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.140532009-10-12T06:14:43Z2009-10-13T04:22:07ZI found the Romics event to be overall s...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
This is a shot of the event hall from above to give you an idea of the size of the event. With 75,000 people attending over 4 days Saturday and Sunday were absolutely packed. Unlike many events in the US, Sunday was the day with the highest numbers.
This is one of the booths selling manga, there was a vast selection most of them written in Italian but some could be found in English or Japanese.
I found one booth selling dojinshi. Actually these guys had come out from Seattle with their manga to test the waters for the first time in Italy. Considering there were no other booths selling dojinshi (as far as I could see) they had their work cut out for them but it looked like the crowds on Saturday and Sunday made the trip worth their while.
As the events name was Romics naturally they also had comics. Here is one of the comic booths.
There was a fair number of comic booths with a great selection of special high quality comic anthologies as you can see here.
I found the Gundam Italian Club, they had displays layed out and were discussing Gundam with guests.
This is a mideaval armory club. It sounds like there are groups throughout Europe and along with some pretty cool armour on display they had pictures layed out of some of their battles.
Speaking of battles I found a sword fight area like in NYAF except here they were using soft swords instead of complete foam ones. There weren't attracting the crowds like in the US but that might have been because of the time of day that I was there.
There were about 10 to 15 tables laid out for card gaming.
Finally here was a neet booth of a group from Japan that had made the trip out selling girls highschool uniforms. They had a variety of colorful skirts, cardigans, ties and bows laid out. The girl on the left is actually a real live school girl from Japan! Pretty cool work considering she's still in school, I hope they did well, I did see a few people dressed up in casual school uniforms for fun around the event hall. I'll have more about casual school uniforms in an upcoming post.
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Cosplay Parade in Rome!tag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.140522009-10-12T03:52:52Z2009-10-13T03:54:25ZOn Friday night Romics tried out somethi...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Here you can see a couple of Michael Jackson impersonators displaying their moves at the starting point.
All together there was about 50 cosplayers, smaller than the numbers we have now in Nagoya but considering this was the first year there is plenty of room for growth.
In this picture you can see the "Ambassador of Kawaii" in the gothloli dress up front in the middle and the high school uniform model beside her.
The parade ended at the Piazza d'Espanga and we tood a commemorative photo on the famous steps. There was plenty of room on the 1 km parade route and police blocked off the streets for us. Above all the beautiful architecture and buildings that Rome has to offer made for a spectacular event.
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Italian Representatives for 2010 Selectedtag:www.tv-aichi.co.jp,2009:/blog/wcs_e//10.140502009-10-11T08:51:53Z2009-10-12T09:08:11ZThe cosplayers from Italy who will be re...WCS_Ehttp://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs
Here they are as Taurus and Pegasus from Saint Seiya. I have plenty of pictures of cosplay, parade, and the event itself that I'll update for you in the coming days.
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They are Tanya Valentina Hernández Gutiérrez and José Alfredo Medina Lazarini who performed from the manga Trinity Blood.
This is José (aka Alsqual) performing as Abel Nightroad
Here is Tanya (aka Valentina) as Ion Fortuna
Congratulations and see you in Japan!]]>
Mexico has already announced their line up for cosplay performances at TNT GT4. They have a total of 61 teams! I am presuming that is only for the doubles WCS prize to Japan. I was there last year and including singles, groups and robots there was well over 200 performances. I have great memories from the event, there quite a few entries about the event from 2009. You can take a look at how things went last year here!]]>
Here is Yunnale and Linamoon from Mexico 2007
Here we have Alin and Tersa from 2008
And from last year we have Maskerpa and Wabisabi
Nice work on the posters as always Mario!]]>
Here is an awesome poster they have put together for the event.
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This weekend J-popcon took place near Copenhagen and the cosplay duo to represent Denmark were selected on Saturday. Congratulations to Line Maria Eriksen and Louise Eriksen! They did an awesome rendition of Sora and Kairi from Kingdom Hearts: Halloween Town.
The tough job of judging went to a star studded line up of WCS alumni: Nadia Baiardi from Italy 2008, Andrea Tan from Singapore 2009, Iris Herrman and Annabell Huwig from Germany 2009. Its awesome that people can get around so easily in Europe, it would have been great to be there, hopefully that can become a reality sometime in the future...
A big thanks to Adrian and Patrick for the information and picture!
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Above are the representatives for Spain at WCS 2010 next year Narcis Ferri and Vanessa Figueras. The pair did a classic Ghost in the Shell cosplay, Vanessa was Mokoto Kusanagi and Narcis was the Puppet Master. The WCS 2009 Champions Yurie were actually in Spain this year for the the Ficomic event and were on the judging panel. Congratulations!
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The WCS representative selection for Finland took place this weekend at the Cosplay Finland Tour event. The winning pair are Sami and Riina Saltiola, a brother and sister team. Their performance was from Final Fantasy 7. Congratulations! ]]>
This pair put together some excellent Trinity Blood costumes.
This was a nice touch pulling out the Japan and Britannian flags in a Code Geass performance.
This is a shot of Nadia on the right from Italy 2008, you cant really tell as she is wearing a mask and standing on a 1 meter high platform.
This was a very creative Naruto performance you can see the monstrous tails and appendages that were a part of their costume.
This pair put together a creative battle drama with plenty of surprises like the balloons you can see in the picture.
Here is another shot of the winning pair.
As I mentioned before, the list of performers is not complete but thanks to some caring cosplayers I do have a shot of the first pair who competed in the WCS competition. They performed Final Fantasy IV and the picture does not do their spectacular costumes justice.
Thank you DarkMisa!
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I have a much better idea of the passion cosplayers have for their hobby in Italy. I don't like having to cut people from performing, but it would be logistically impossible to see 200 performances on stage.
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I also saw Alessandro Leuti and Alessia de Magistris from Italy 2006 but I did not get a picture of them :( They called out to me while I was judging and they were looking great. Also Nadia from Italy 2008 competed on stage, I have a picture of her which I will put in the WCS competition post.
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A maid being pushed around on a trolley
A girl standing in front of an accessory booth dressed in gothloli
2 girls dressed in casual high school clothes.
Particularly gothloli is something that I saw very little of when I was in New York, since 2008 in Europe it has become pretty popular at conventions and in the otaku community. ]]>
This is a shot of the event hall from above to give you an idea of the size of the event. With 75,000 people attending over 4 days Saturday and Sunday were absolutely packed. Unlike many events in the US, Sunday was the day with the highest numbers.
This is one of the booths selling manga, there was a vast selection most of them written in Italian but some could be found in English or Japanese.
I found one booth selling dojinshi. Actually these guys had come out from Seattle with their manga to test the waters for the first time in Italy. Considering there were no other booths selling dojinshi (as far as I could see) they had their work cut out for them but it looked like the crowds on Saturday and Sunday made the trip worth their while.
As the events name was Romics naturally they also had comics. Here is one of the comic booths.
There was a fair number of comic booths with a great selection of special high quality comic anthologies as you can see here.
I found the Gundam Italian Club, they had displays layed out and were discussing Gundam with guests.
This is a mideaval armory club. It sounds like there are groups throughout Europe and along with some pretty cool armour on display they had pictures layed out of some of their battles.
Speaking of battles I found a sword fight area like in NYAF except here they were using soft swords instead of complete foam ones. There weren't attracting the crowds like in the US but that might have been because of the time of day that I was there.
There were about 10 to 15 tables laid out for card gaming.
Finally here was a neet booth of a group from Japan that had made the trip out selling girls highschool uniforms. They had a variety of colorful skirts, cardigans, ties and bows laid out. The girl on the left is actually a real live school girl from Japan! Pretty cool work considering she's still in school, I hope they did well, I did see a few people dressed up in casual school uniforms for fun around the event hall. I'll have more about casual school uniforms in an upcoming post.
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Here you can see a couple of Michael Jackson impersonators displaying their moves at the starting point.
All together there was about 50 cosplayers, smaller than the numbers we have now in Nagoya but considering this was the first year there is plenty of room for growth.
In this picture you can see the "Ambassador of Kawaii" in the gothloli dress up front in the middle and the high school uniform model beside her.
The parade ended at the Piazza d'Espanga and we tood a commemorative photo on the famous steps. There was plenty of room on the 1 km parade route and police blocked off the streets for us. Above all the beautiful architecture and buildings that Rome has to offer made for a spectacular event.
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Here they are as Taurus and Pegasus from Saint Seiya. I have plenty of pictures of cosplay, parade, and the event itself that I'll update for you in the coming days.
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