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Animegao

12 June 06

From Wikipedia:

By wearing a body suit or mask, kigurumi cosplayers are able to get closer to the appearance of the original character, especially in the case of animal characters or highly stylised characters. Non-professional animal kigurumi cosplayers painstakingly make detailed heads and bodies from plastic, wire and artificial fur. In animegao kigurumi, the actor playing a humanoid anime character will wear a flesh-coloured body suit and matching facemask usually made from clay.

Some of these cosplayers are male; it is pretty hard to determine what exactly lies beneath these elaborate costumes.

Many people are under the impression that this sort of weirdness is uniquely Japanese, but elaborate costume play and cross-dressing can be found in many cultures. In the United States, for example, we have furries.

[Via MeFi]

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