Now it's everywhere. The Animanga culture has reached a point that Cosplay is buried into the minds of fanatics as something Japanesey and cool and a must-do whenever there is any geek-o convention of that niche.
How is that? A DC-Comic convention receives cosplay of game characters, anime-and-other, forgetting-- Hullo, it's a DC comic convention, can't tell the difference? I expected to see a cornucopia of poseurs topping each other off with the better costume (hero or villain) to be in. Call me a "big bang theory" fan but we need real geeks, not the wannabe's who recycled last year's hard work to represent a community that didn't belong there. One might even accept a Marvel character in the scene borrowing the vibe of a 'cross-over'. Wouldn't you sooner beat up an anime Cosplayer than your favorite DC nemesis in a DC comic convention? It's fun to see however that Amerimanga is at least a little more tolerable to look at now than 10 years ago.
I respect the illustration style that Warner brought on when they showed Batman Squarejaw. It's too bad that eventually they caved and allowed Teen Titans to have the Samurai-X superderformed cutesy humor. I loved it, but 'tsk-d' at their having to follow a trend. No excuses, the character development team were influenced by anime and manga from the start.
Saturation my friends. Too much of too much.
Me and my inner Gemini were having this train of thought that which Capoeira is starting to receive certain hype and attention as the 'sport to do to look cool'. Soon this might be a familiar scene:
Yea I know, super fast forward much. We hardly have any Martial Arts Conventions going around. I suppose all the testosterone in one Conference Room would be too much to contain... what with um sponsors of like mind... possibly free-flowing fountains of Gatorade, Pocari and powerbars galore.
Gee wouldn't it be fun to step in there in your favorite superman outfit?
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