I shall declare here. Your body shall serve under me. Your fate shall be with my sword. Submit to the beckoning of the Holy Grail. If you will submit to this will and this reason…… then answer!
Ah, sorry, I got a bit lost in the moment. As part of our mission to bring JAV to the West, we're also bringing ero-cosplay. With August being the time of the summer Comiket in Japan (Comiket itself being something of an excuse to have a cosplay festival), it's a good time to contemplate why cosplay is so much fun. This goes beyond the unabashedly sexy costumes that many cosplayers create by hand, spending dozens of hours and hundreds of dollars on acquiring materials and crafting their outfits.
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| Saotome Love |
A little education: the term originated back in 1983 and 1984, when a Japanese fellow first used the term. As a result, Japan gets the credit for the origin, even though it's more likely that it's a practice that transcended borders. A fairer assessment would be that since the 1990s, Japan has helped create and drive the growth of cosplay as a hobby and industry. Cosplay outfits, just like the characters they are meant to convey, vary greatly and can range from simple to intricately detailed costumes. It's completely different from Halloween costumes, since cosplay aims to become a chosen character.
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| Tanaka Hitomi |
It's not much of a leap for people to move toward the pervert potential in cosplay. Many of the costumes are skimpy and only the most confident pursue the hobby. For many people, the fantasy roleplay is a huge turn-on. Cosplay is often about borrowing the power of another character, if only for a few short hours, and making it the cosplayer's own. To go one step further, to successfully move the presentation of the character into sexual play, places everything on a new level of achievement.
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| Mizuna Rei |
Let's spend August exploring what works, what doesn't, and what makes for great JAV ero-cosplay.
All images sourced from http://ero-cosplay.tumblr.com/
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