JAPANESE ANIME ART

Anime wigs give that defining look to an anime character, browse further for more info!

One very interesting aspect of anime is the hair styles of the characters. Actually, this is another major defining factor in anime. So for the sake of cosplaying, such have been used.

Just as in any movie or cartoon, the hair styles of the characters can be either very "normal", conventional styles or they can be a completely off the wall, impossible to do arrangement. In many ways and in many different anime, the hairstyle of the character is used to define what type of person that character is and so there are various anime artificial hair for various anime characters.




By no means are all anime charactes bound by these observations. There are plenty of manga and OAV characters who don't fit these molds, but I am talking in general about character hairstyles.

Sometimes, the different style of anime wigs say something about the character of a cosplayer he's portraying. Here are some examples:

Short = Conservative or military.
Bald = Aged or religious.
Spiky = Engergetic or youthful.
Long Bangs = Something to hide.
Trimmed wedge = Cool or futuristic.
Long, straight = Down-to-earth.
Large Spikes = Powerful and maybe supernatural.
Pony tails = Cute and ditzy.
Short and slick = Professional, may also show pride.

So, if you want to choose some wig, you might want to consider reading it so you may have an idea what sort of emotion you will be showing while costume role playing.

Here's also an additional fact in choosing a particular color for anime wigs. General colors and what they may say about the character.

Red = Goodfighter,outspoken,energetic,stubborn.
Blonde = Youthful, somewhat ditzy.
White or Silver = Magical or very powerful. Dignified.
Violet = Smart and/or secretive.
Green = Outsider, good-natured.
Brown or Black = Traditional and normal.
Pink = Naive,innocent,sickeningly cute and bubbly
Blue = Energetic, introverted.

Anime contact lens gives that realistic portrayal of anime characters and here's why..

In every anime and manga characters, large eyes are often featured. Actually, Osamu Tezuka pioneered this idea because he was inspired by the exaggerated features of American cartoon characters such as Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Disney's Bambi.




This is often a prominent feature in every anime character because eyes allow the characters to show particular and specific emotions. To add for aesthetics, coloring has been added particularly to the cornea to add some depth to the eyes. The depth is accomplished by applying variable color shading. Generally, a mixture of a light shade, the tone color, and a dark shade is used.

Thus, cosplayers deem the idea of changing their eyes for the sake of cosplaying necessary for that believable effect. That is why, they use a particular contact for a particular anime character they want to portray.

These type of lenses are one of the latest trends among Japanese anime lovers.Contact lens manufacturers have developed several colors and types of contacts similar to different Anime characters.

The colors vary greatly, from deep dark green, violet to light blue and black. They increase the size of the iris because of their extra width. The majority of these contact lenses are for daily use only and they can only be worn 30 different times.

These lenses look absolutely adorable and by making the iris appear larger, they create a cute and innocent look. Since there are several types of extra wide contact lenses, you can choose one similar to your favorite Anime character or you can choose one which has the color you always wanted your eyes to have and you can have one while doing cosplay.

If you love Anime and want to look like them especially during anime cosplay conventions, these Anime contacts will offer you the occasion to look Anime, even if temporarily.Since there is no other way you can change the width of your iris, Anime contact lenses are the only available solution for you.

Costume role play facts for cosplayers are things that we want to over deliver just for you.




For starters, Naruto Cosplay would probably make the crowd notice you more because of its popularity.



I bet if you’re a fan of it, or worse, if you’re an otaku then you might have had dreams about being your favorite character. A typical fan would dig for any of those things. Just I have mentioned earlier.

But for some die-hard fans, it’s a normal fantasy that they find themselves realize that – the anime world’s always better than the real world, right? But unfortunately, you’re there stuck with that Algebra homework and living high school life still without a girlfriend. Okay, let’s not make recluses out of you guys here, ha-ha. What I’m trying to get at here is the magic.

Sure, you can never be your favorite anime character, but nothing in the rule book says that you can’t look like them or wear what they’re wearing – it’s a free world after all! And so, costume role playing was born.



The term can be squashed up word forming C O S P L A Y. We had made some small research about this phenomenon in our thesis paper during our college days about the popularity of anime media and found out that fans do this as a form of escapism and identification, not to mention doing this for simple enjoyment and exercising fandom. It makes sense ‘cause anyone who dons the outfits of an idolized character would have that sense of being more than reality – a chance to stand out from the crowd.

It has become popular not only in Japan but in other Asian countries like China and Taiwan – and even in Western countries. You would usually expect to see fans wearing anime outfits around gaming conventions, animation fairs – stuff like that.



In our place, there isn’t much of that scene here. I bet it’s because of the lack of events revolving around anime or gaming, maybe even a lack of interest. Fans here only focused on other fandom and even if there are a few here who are into such a thing, there isn’t any venue for them to get into. But I do remember some sort of cosplaying here in our place. During my grade school years, the predominant anime series was Sailormoon. As we all know, this anime features school girls that get into long, nicely animated transformation scenes and metamorphose into sexy warriors in sailor suits (I always wonder why the enemy doesn’t attack them during their ridiculously long transformation scene).

Anyways, during special events like parties, girls in Sailormoon suits suddenly pop out of nowhere – kinda’ like the way you make your kid wear a Spiderman suit during birthday parties. And that’s just about it. I’m a bit jealous of one of my friends who actually got into an otaku convention and he got to meet and take pictures with some pretty good Japanese looking movie anime characters.



I myself have no intentions of doing such. Not only do I not have the resources, I also am not a pretty boy bishounen. Yeah, I bet this art of costume role playing would only work if the person has “looks”. Curse you, gene pool! Anyway, you don’t have to listen more to my rants about it. You could always check Wikipedia. Heck, anyone can find anything in that site. I’m just here to give you some small info about the fun of cosplaying and let you know about the almost non existence of it here in our city.

It is, by the way, not only limited to the art of dress-up. By anime custome role playing, I mean "full" custom role playing so it encompasses even the dress up of the eyes, the hair, and other accessories. Anime eyes are very prominent in every cosplayers' portrayal of their anime character and so cosplayers go to the extent of "animating" their eyes for that extra effect and so they use