Have you ever wondered why cosplaying is still in trend and popular? Some of the reasons are the countless anime and manga being featured and releases every time, but the most popular cosplaying nowadays are imitation of music idols.
Music influences a lot of people in the world. And sometimes, music pop icons also influence the fashion sense of people and became the turning point that cosplayers also imitate artists. Since cosplaying is popular in Japan, J-POP music became one of the inspirations of cosplayers.
One of the poplar J-Rock band is Versailles. It is known for its unusual costume and elaborate make-up that is known as visual-kei. But the newest and popular trend nowadays is vocaloids. Vocaloids is actually a voice synthesizer, but it is more known as an anime singing icon.
According to an article, The Synthesized Rythm of a Costume, written by Ruxandra Tarca, she said that, Vocaloid has already become a turning point not only in music as such, but also in cosplay. In a very short time, it succeeded in attracting the attention of so many cosplayers, that presently there is almost none without at least a version of a Vocaloid costume. Maybe the most interesting of its features is its limitless versatility and its power of perpetual transformation.
ocaloid
has already become a turning point not only in music as such, but also
in cosplay. In a very short time, it succeeded in attracting the
attention of so many cosplayers, that presently there is almost none
without at least a version of a Vocaloid costume. Maybe the most
interesting of its features is its limitless versatility and its power
of perpetual transformation. - See more at:
http://www.cosplaygen.com/how-to-bring-a-vocaloid-to-life/#sthash.to3IMrD0.dpuf
ocaloid
has already become a turning point not only in music as such, but also
in cosplay. In a very short time, it succeeded in attracting the
attention of so many cosplayers, that presently there is almost none
without at least a version of a Vocaloid costume. Maybe the most
interesting of its features is its limitless versatility and its power
of perpetual transformation. - See more at:
http://www.cosplaygen.com/how-to-bring-a-vocaloid-to-life/#sthash.to3IMrD0.dpuf
ocaloid
has already become a turning point not only in music as such, but also
in cosplay. In a very short time, it succeeded in attracting the
attention of so many cosplayers, that presently there is almost none
without at least a version of a Vocaloid costume. Maybe the most
interesting of its features is its limitless versatility and its power
of perpetual transformation. - See more at:
http://www.cosplaygen.com/how-to-bring-a-vocaloid-to-life/#sthash.to3IMrD0.dpuf
She interviewed Aki, a cosplayer playing as Kaito, as to why she chose vocaloids to cosplay. She said that she was not drawn to Vocaloid due to the songs or the beautiful artwork usually associated with the virtual characters, but due to the feeling of their belonging to one big happy family – It gave me a feeling of warmth when they interacted with each other, and I thought it was very cute!
In that article where she interviewed other cosplayers, they said that chose to cosplay vocaloids because it fits into their personality. They are being drawn to the music and into the characters that'swhy they loved cosplaying it. The mood and the song itself as well as the projection of the characters are the main points as to why they started cosplaying it. It also offers a lot of variations in the character and sometimes new characters are being intoduced so it offers a lot of choices to choose from. Indeed, music is one of the reasons as to why they chose it.
Artists cosplaying is very popular in Japan. Since some J-POP bands and groups have different sense of fashion which they call visual-kei and they preserve it. At first, visual-kei is used to refer to some music genre but later on it was categorized as the artist's fashion and one of Japanese subculture. But since music has influenced a lot of people in the world, artists cosplaying has become popular in K-pop and even in westernized style.
Now, there is another factor that influences cosplayers. It seems like music unite all of us and through it, we may discover another hobby, cosplaying. Cosplay has now became more known in the world and sometimes we are being drawn to it, especially now that music has conquered the world of cosplay.
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was not drawn to Vocaloid due to the songs or the beautiful artwork
usually associated with the virtual characters, but due to the feeling
of their belonging to one big happy family – It gave me a feeling of
warmth when they interacted with each other, and I thought it was very
cute! - See more at:
http://www.cosplaygen.com/how-to-bring-a-vocaloid-to-life/#sthash.to3IMrD0.dpuf
Versailles has become an icon
Versailles has become an icon
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