Cosplay at Petit Fancy 12

by Sander Tams 26. April 2010 09:18

Thank you for still reading my blog. I will now reward you with an article about cosplay during Petit Fancy 12 at National Taiwan University.

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Yeah, this what I came for! Look at all those people and hair colours already. And there's even a dude dressed up like Mio from K-ON.

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The impressive gym building at 台大. Inside this towering dome you can do anything from swimming to playing squash or buying doujinshi. Well. Last one was just for today. If you come on other days, you might catch a computer game tournament or some other awesome events.

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This Kagami dude doesn't look all that happy. I can't see why...

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Just before you despair completely, I can assure you there's a lot of girls dressed up like female characters too.

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But you know... I might actually have female readers anyway, so I'll not skip over the guys. (Actually I have a suspicion that most of my readers could be girls, hah. If I have any readers anymore...) ^^;

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So many people there...

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I wonder what kinds of characters these people are playing. Some sort of fighting series like Naruto or similar, perhaps?

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Chinese traditional clothes are awesome.

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I don't know if there were more cosplayers or photographers really. At the Taipei Game Show I wasn't in doubt, there were at least 20 times as many guys with big cameras as girls in those halls but here at petit fancy I'd say it's probably around 50-50. But then: Every cosplayer had their own camera too.

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More guys. I admire their open-mindedness.

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Most of the people seem to come here in groups or, at least, pairs. Few of them are brave enough to come all by themselves. I'm not entirely sure about this beauty, but she seemed a bit on her own, which just made her so much more cute.

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Taiwan is an awesome place. So many beautiful people around.

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That is a pretty big gun.

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Asians have mostly brown or black eye-colour. Even people that are half Caucasian are seldom to have another eye color since the genes for brown eyes are dominant. The use of coloured eye-lenses is very frequent here though, and not just for activities like this. Some young people will wear coloured lenses to school everyday as if it was any other accessory or clothing style.
Here, of course, the availability of these lenses come in quite handy. After all, manga characters just don't have natural eye and hair-colours.

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I think this guy looked pretty cool.

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And this is just a strange scene... I like it though.

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I especially like this girl. I think the lightning could have been a little better, though.

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A real, female Hatsune Miku at last.

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This girl looks just slightly like a teacher I have. She managed to get a lot of attention with those big fans of hers, but professional utilization of my structural benefits of being a foreigner allowed me to get this picture over the heads of everyone else.

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She's not the only one with big fans, though. These girls have fans too.

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Ah, hate to break it to you but all good things come to an end. There's just a few more eye candies on boonbot.com that you can find if you click the link in the beginning of this post that says "National Taiwan University". You could also just click one of the pictures to get to my boonbot site.

Hope you liked it. Please let me have some responses so I can see if I still have a few readers! :D

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Events | Photography | Taiwan

Goth Punk Catgirl

by Sander Tams 1. November 2009 15:39

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That's my cosplaying classmate up there. She calls herself Koru (that's what she put into my cellphone), but also goes under the alias akoru972077. The cat ears aren't a part of the outfit and also this is actually not really called cosplaying around these parts. I don't know the exact reason why but I think it has something to do with her dressing up like a real person in a japanese punk band (actually I think it's a metal band. After all punk is not a really appearing music genre anymore and the Taiwanese have a bad habit of mixing music genres up as with so many things.)

So this day I followed her around while she was hanging out with some of her friends. Some of them pierced in ways I wouldn't imagine and all wearing black goth/punk like clothes, most of them of which were probably acquired from the store in which the picture was taken and where we also hung out most of the time. It's called Kira Punk just by the way. Sells a lot of slightly expensive special wares.

Not much happened this day except that I saw a lot of interesting looking people which less open minded people would probably regard as dangerous looking rebels, emokids or even anarchists. They seemed almost more like normal people than everyone else to me, and I couldn't even understand a tenth of what they were saying. Well, almost that is.

But for reasons beyond my comprehension, this was the only picture I took during the time so you'll have to wait a bit more to see anything else on this. Is still interesting, eh?

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Travel | Taiwan

Kainan contest culture

by Sander Tams 21. October 2009 17:58

Did I perhaps mention the English singing contest I was in earlier in the year? That's for the second graders just so that you know - the English song contest.
Now there's another contest which is for the first graders. It's a lot harder in fact as you have to do a lot of complicated stuff apart from singing a not too easy song here's some pictures.

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People will dress up in pretty crazy ways since the decoration is a very big factor towards winning. This picture is quite far away, but don't worry, I went down there and up really close to people, actually.

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More...

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Dagligdag | Travel | Taiwan

Tja.. Jeg er nok lige lidt doven for tiden, men jeg har pissetravlt

by Sander Tams 28. January 2009 15:09

Tja...

 

Techgame kommer måske op og køre igen en af dagene. I alt fald ser serveren ud til at virke, når så bare techgame lige bliver kompatibelt med den.
Hvis det sker nemmere end forudset, så holder jeg måske en fest.
Samme gælder, hvis jeg bliver sendt til Japan. Kostume-fest måske?
Måske drikker jeg bare mig selv ihjel en af dagene?
Eller også tager jeg bare til Brazillien og lever et år med privatflyver eller hvad jeg nu ellers kan finde af overdrevet luksus blandt overklassen. xD Hvis de da ikke skyder mig over min ræverøde facismeideologi.

Regardless.. Home Made Kazuko rocks. (De synger "one piece of peace", så de er skam japanere, der har styr på det engelske sprog for en gangs skyld)



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