Cosplay parade at the 2010 World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan…
Video via Hakuto0505@Youtube. Heaven for cosplay fans lol.
World Cosplay Summit 2008
August 7, 2008 1 Comment
The 6th annual World Cosplay Summit was held in Nagoya, Japan last weekend.
WSC is getting bigger every year with thousands of cosplayers from around the world joining the party; it’s becoming so popular that the Japanese government is officially endorsing it.
A cosplay contest was held in conjunction with the event since 2004. 14 teams from 13 countries participated in the 2008 contest; two teams from Japan and one each from Brazil, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and USA.
The Brazilians won the contest this year.
World Cosplay Summit 2007 presscon
August 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
Cosplay fans from around the world gathered at a news conference in Tokyo on August 1 ahead of the World Cosplay Summit 2007.
The annual event is moving into its fifth edition in 2007. The summit will be held in Nagoya, Japan, this weekend. More about the presscon on Reuters.
Cosplay, which originated in Japan, is a combination of the words “costume” and “play”. In cosplay, people dress mainly as characters from Japanese anime, as well as graphic manga novels and video games.
