The Father of Cosplay

By: Charz

Aug 06 2009

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Category: Funny, Japan

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Onigiri cosplay (Om nom nom nom)

Nobuyuki Takahashi

Looking contentedly over the fantasy carnival was Nobuyuki Takahashi, 52, the pop-culture writer and designer credited with being the “father of Cosplay.”

Takahashi, who dramatically stood out from the crowd in a plain black T-shirt, said he first coined the term Cosplay while attending a 1984 Los Angeles sci-fi convention, figuring that the term “masquerade” suggested something as pedestrian as a Venetian style costume ball.

Takahashi, who grew up on American sci-fi classics like “Barbarella,” said the Japanese trend has its roots in the 1970s when teenagers started wearing face masks and T-shirts with Godzilla scales to emulate their comic heroes.

Fantasy rules at Japan ‘Cosplay’ world summit, AFP, ‎Aug 5, 2009‎

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