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

Comments

4/26/2010 2:50:15 PM #

Teis

We're still reading youTong Brilliant pictures, it must be quite a decent cam you have^^ And damn what's with that gun of her's? xD

Teis Denmark | Reply

4/26/2010 4:45:40 PM #

My Kafkaesque life

Great photos! Laughing Actually my girlfriend asked me, if we could go to see the cosplayers, but I wasn't really into it. So now I know what I've missed. Well, still ok for me, haven't missed so much Smile I rather enjoy your photos Smile

Will tweet this post Smile

My Kafkaesque life Slovenia | Reply

4/26/2010 5:07:24 PM #

sander

Thanks!
I'd love to have as many people see it as possible. I really like this one.

In July 25 to 26 they have another event like this called Fancy Frontier 16 (which I originally confused this event with since it's so similar in both naming, day-of-the-month and arrangers). I think you should go there with your girlfriend. The event is just a few hours, or, at least this one time it was just from 2pm to 4pm - although I bet you could see a lot of cos players from early in the morning to way after they closed. (They cosplay outside the building where the doujinshi stands and talk-shows are, mostly.)

After you've seen the people there you could take a walk in the area around National Taiwan University where they have many nice restaurants and small stores too. It's an interesting area, I think, although I've only been able to stroll it myself. If I could have had someone show me around I think it could be more interesting.

sander Taiwan | Reply

4/27/2010 7:36:01 AM #

Lydom

Don't worry we still read you Wink

But the guy pictures were really fesen! Laughing And that gun must be a BFG, big fucking gun.

Lydom Denmark | Reply

9/3/2010 4:07:44 AM #

ケンジ

just past by accidentally. Nice article.

がんばってね~~~

ケンジ Japan | Reply

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