Still, at least you apologize from you as the judge competiton and on behalf of I’ve anime. Hopefully, your convention (I’ve Anime Convention) will be better after you apologize.

Besides your definition, cosplay is oso used to promote anime, movies and games for free, no need to ask for payment mah, right?

Edit: I’m sorry to have to have editted this comment because I do not want to popularize the issue that was commented here, and it’s not my post to answer or clarify the situation. Thanks for your understanding.

“You want to cosplay as Bara Suishou from Rozen Maiden Traumend, you wear her dress and her eyepatch and wig and some makeup. She wears lolita but doesn’t mean that you can wear any lolita outfit and just go around telling people that you are cosplaying as her.” <– For those who keep on asking about Lolita Cosplay, here’s another answer to that big question.

“I cosplay too. I am not some idiot who will tell my other cosplay friends or newbies to wear t-shirt and jeans and just dye their hair silver if they want to be Sephiroth or other characters.” <– Ah, my example of Haruhi. This is one large misconception that I must explain. Sephiroth has his signature costume, I believe Haruhi has many of her own as well (serafuku, bunny girl, etc), and her normal clothing in the anime (albeit it ain’t so defining her character as her other costumes; yet it is still part of Haruhi’s character mannerisms, choosing to dress normally during outings) I think this should clear up your question about this as well: “You said a cosplayer need not dress like the character as long as he acts like the character. Have you even seen a cosplayer not wear a costume when he/she cosplays? Huh?! Huh?! Tell me. You see in those videos? Do I have to get you magnifying glasses to look at what they are wearing?”

About Danny Choo, I’m talking about cosplaying as Danny Choo’s idea, the Dancing Stormtrooper. The example is meant to point out that cosplay is not limited to tangible characters but to ideas such as the Dancing Stormtrooper.

Honestly, I’m defending my decisions as a judge during the competition, and this has got nothing to do with my alignment to any club. And there’s no such involvement from any club in the cosplay competition as competitors (as clearly stated), neither SAMS or I’ve Anime. But I’ll be kind to address the issue, apologize and bear responsibility for any misconceptions, misunderstandings, or mistakes that I have made, and the others or whoever else have done not right. Cheers!

Look here, rain! You are contradicting yourself. First you said this:

“I am talking about the character retaining its characteristics by itself not necessary by the way they dress, and if you are able to portray characteristics and mindset of a character, that’s certainly more than just donning an exact replica costume of the character.”

Then after watching the videos, you said this:

“Those are perfect examples of how a cosplayer understands and wears the character’s characteristics, and that’s certainly more than just donning an exact replica costume of the character. To put it much more simply: there is more than just external qualities to a character, inner qualities bring out the true character of the character.”

You said a cosplayer need not dress like the character as long as he acts like the character. Have you even seen a cosplayer not wear a costume when he/she cosplays? Huh?! Huh?! Tell me. You see in those videos? Do I have to get you magnifying glasses to look at what they are wearing?

You are just plain defending your club, isn’t it?! Don’t deny it. Everyone knows what is cosplay. Nobody is stupid. You really want to know what is cosplay?! Here:

# Cosplay|コスプレ|kosupure, short for “costume roleplay”, is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay

# A subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action …
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cosplay

# Dressing up as anime and manga characters. Cosplay competitions held at conventions allow fans (known as ‘cosplayers’) dress up as their …
http://www.animetion.co.uk/glossary.htm

# cosplay (costume play) is the fetish for dressing as Japanese anime or manga characters. Read more on cosplay [ ]
http://www.japanvisitor.com/index.php

# Costume play. This refers to fans who dress up as fictional characters at conventions.
alankistler.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/22/comicsci-fi-glossary.html

# (Costume Play): A very popular activity during anime conventions, also referred to as masquerading. It consists of dressing up as an anime or …
http://www.animeacademy.com/fut.php

# costume play. Like masquerades in comic and science fiction, anime, manga, and music fans dress as their favourite characters or musicians.
http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/aug01/art_0801_4.shtml

# Derived from “costume play”, cosplay refers to the practice of dressing up as a character from manga, anime, video games or tokusatsu, or live …
http://www.mangaka.co.uk/

Do I have to highlight the meaning? Urgh, this is driving me NUTS! You want some more? Here: http://www.reference.com/browse/Cosplay

You want me to put you with a bunch of pre-schoolers to learn the term? They will even say “Hey, those people wearing costumes are cosplaying.”

You think you are being exasperate?! Nobody accepts your retarded definition of it. You want me to educate you?! I will, with an iron fist for your stubborn mindset. You want me to ask those international cosplayers to define cosplay for you?! What, don’t start preaching that you are being neutral because your PR (public relations) skills are being focused at defending the club and your vague ideology of cosplaying.

I cosplay too. I am not some idiot who will tell my other cosplay friends or newbies to wear t-shirt and jeans and just dye their hair silver if they want to be Sephiroth or other characters.

If you think you are so right, why don’t you just wear t-shirt and jeans and go around acting and telling people that you are Kratos from God of War. Isn’t that what you said? “Cosplay is mainly about acting as the character and having their mindset, ditching the costume” right, to summarise?

Though I’m a punk, don’t friggin’ go around telling those Goths and Lolitas that they are wearing costumes. You know how to differentiate fashion and cosplay, right? Okay, Cosplay Basics:

You want to cosplay as Bara Suishou from Rozen Maiden Traumend, you wear her dress and her eyepatch and wig and some makeup. She wears lolita but doesn’t mean that you can wear any lolita outfit and just go around telling people that you are cosplaying as her.

Stop misleading people already with your definition. Otherwise why would people ask you about it repeatedly. Even the club members define cosplay wrongly. Or maybe you are giving the wrong definition just to protect the club and the winners of the skit competition. Huh?! Huh?! Don’t start lying or preaching your false ideology again. I’ve had enough of it and I can see it perfectly through like a laser beam.

You want to talk about Danny Choo? He wears a Stormtrooper costume, I repeat: HE WEARS A STORMTROOPER COSTUME. He is cosplaying. You don’t get it? Let’s go e-mail Danny Choo and ask him to define cosplay for us.

Anyone wish to object?! Before you say so, I suggest you read my comment PROPERLY not as rain’s friend or the club member but as a normal person.

rain, you are killing me.

Let me teach you guys what an organisation will do. They will look into the matter, not defend or remain adamant on it because they know it will make things worse and they will remain neutral because the truth can be anything. You guys were in the wrong, non-club members agree on it and we know the truth. We know what’s going on here. Stop lying to all of us and just tell us what really happen and apologise to everyone!

You want to argue with the public?! There are millions of us out there. Your ideology of cosplaying is just polluting the new generation and budding cosplayers. So stop it, okay? Stop it.

I’m starting to sound exasperated answering the defining of cosplay questions (since I’ve said all I want to say about what I think cosplay is about), so if anyone has no better questions than just cosplay definitions, I will stop replying to comments such as this.

EXCUSE ME?

Care to explain these then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQsK_ii9Zk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycoAouqsCSw

@just_curious:
Thanks for your comments and your understanding. I do have to clarify that SAMS or I’ve Anime! did not involve ourselves (But, we bear responsibility over all our members’ actions) in the cosplay competition as competitors (only putting up the display and me and Carol being invited to assist in the judging), rather, some members from SAMS (+ friends they knew) joined the competition out of their own good will and desire to compete. I think they were aware that they have been marked down for their faults, and they have confided, even on the night, that they did not believe they would win. That’s the situation that I am aware of.

Rumours being rumours, I hope this post clarifies my decisions as a judge for the Boulevard competition.

Serene & TeddyTales: Too bad I didn’t take a close shot of the sword, haih.

I just hope this controversial event won’t happen again because SAMS and I’ve anime already give a bad impression. It’s best if you could somehow fix the problem quickly for it may also affect your convention (that you have delayed) later on. The least you could do for everyone is that just tell everybody and make sure (including those cosplayers who are not from SAMS and yours) that this kind of thing won’t happen again.

Please tell the SAMS and your members to stop making this two issues worst and try to be more reasonable because people are sentitive and try not to be too sombong, be humble because I have heard rumours that SAMS is a sombong club and due to the photography exploitation, they will think the club ruins cosplaying or anything related to anime and games. In worst case, the club will have to close. I hope you could understand. The rumours are word of mouth.

If you don’t understand anything in this post. Let me know, just post it up here. I’ll get back to you. I’m always honest with my comments.

1. Lolita is Cosplay? Lolita is Costume? gothic is Costume?

2. Why can enter the contest and won since break the contest rules?

3. Should all contestant follow the rules? Why set the rule?

4. Did you “really” understand cosplay is?

>>”For example, Haruhi could wear normal everyday clothes, and still be Haruhi. ”
From your point of view, I have gold hair, but without spiky, i wear a normal clothing, then i said hey, i am cosplaying cloud! i am still cloud
thats sound weird.