Cosplay Podcast-20131208

Cosplay Sharing-20131201

If you are crazy about video game, you must know Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix. 

The Final Fantasy series are role-playing video games, which we called RPGs. This series includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise. The first game of this series was published in 1987. Now there are 31 games in this series, from Final Fantasy 1 to 15, and 16 unofficial episodes.
One of my favorite is Final Fantasy 13 (FF13). This game is for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It released in Japan in December 2009 and worldwide in March 2010.

The game takes place in the fictional floating world of Cocoon, whose government, the Sanctum, is ordering a purge of civilians who have supposedly come into contact with Pulse, the much-feared world below. The former soldier Lightning begins her fight against the government in order to save her sister who has been branded as an unwilling servant to a god-like being from Pulse, making her an enemy of Cocoon. Lightning is soon joined by a band of allies, and together the group also becomes marked by the same Pulse creature. They rally against the Sanctum while trying to discover their assigned task and whether they can avoid being turned into monsters or crystals at the completion.


Lightning is my favorite character in this game. Lightning is a young woman with long, light pink hair, and pale aqua-colored eyes. Lightning is determined, concentrated and independent. Initially, she is cold and standoffish, distancing herself from her companions. She does everything to rescue her little sister Serah. 

Here’s a cosplay work of Lightning. I have to say it’s amazing. Myself also did cosplay of Lightning. Which one do you think is better :)?

Cosplay Industry-20131201

The first Cosplayer is Nobuyuki Takahashi. He attended the world science fiction convention in Los Angeles in 1983. At that time people just thought cosplay is a bunch of geeks dress in wired costumes. 

Why does Cosplay become a pop culture in recent years? It’s not only because people notice cosplay more, and find that this is a great way to be entertained and relaxed, but also because cosplay make a lot of money. 
For example, this year, San Diego’s comic cons and cosplay events are worth 180 million dollars. Among that, 67.8 million dollars are directly spending by the attendees.


Firstly, the Cosplayers would like to buy the comic books, DVDs or video games, So that they can study their characters before cosplay. Sometimes, Cosplayers buy all the versions of one work just because they want to figure out the exactly look of the outfit. If the character has more than one look, the Cosplayers might spend much more money to see all the costumes.

Second, some Cosplayers buy costumes because they don’t know how to make clothes. For other Cosplayers, they might buy some materials to make their clothes or armors.

Third, the characters from fictional world always have colorful hair and eyes. That requires the Cosplayers to buy wigs and contacts. A friend of mine has an online store selling wigs and contacts. Her monthly income is around 3,000 dollars. She also sells some costumes.

Cosplay products have become an industry already. That’s the main reason why everyone wants to take a bite of cosplay.