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How to Cosplay Volume 5: Gothic and Lolita

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:03 +0000

Announcing a new stylebook from Japan, the birthplace of Gothic and Lolita fashion! “Gothic Fashion” is patterned after gothic novels set in medieval Europe and the costumes worn by nobility in the movies based on those novels, as well as the styles associated with demons, witches, and vampires. “Lolita Fashion” takes to extremes the classical girlish tastes of young girls and women – the Lolitas made famous in Literature. This book includes Gothic and Lolita fashion zones from all across Japan, and features numerous photos from famous streets, fashion shows, and “charisma” shops. Costumes, accessories, and tips on designing clothes, hair, and make-up are also detailed.

How To Cosplay Volume 1

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:10:04 +0000

There are a number of books out there on making the costumes for cosplaying, but until now, there have been none that specialize in cosplay make-up. Taking full advantage of the know-how amassed through its publication of various how-to books, Graphic-sha has produced a detailed and thorough book on how to do cosplay make-up. Graphic-sha has obtained the necessary authorization to use the popular (and copyrighted) anime, manga, and game characters featured in the book, and can present the actual make-up techniques needed to reproduce them accurately! Using familiar materials and items, professional make-up artists present complete lectures on such topics as Basics/Cross-dressing/Using face paint/Special wound and make-up/Covering facial faults! Also featured are exclusive reports on major cosplay events!

How to Cosplay Volume 6: Uniforms Arrangement

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:56:34 +0000

In this volume, Graphic-Sha tackles uniforms – popular costumes that appear with great frequency in anime, manga, and games. Photos and illustrations help explain clearly how to make basic uniform types, plus some of the props that complement them. Patterns for all of the uniforms are also included on the enclosed CD-ROM as PDF files.

Cosplay

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:23:55 +0000

Young Japanese girls and women inhabit the trendy areas of Harajuku and Shibuya in Tokyo. Here some dress and make in outlandish but beautiful styles, some too far out to want to duplicate. Why? Escape perhaps. Right in the middle of the crowds these girls are invisible … except perhaps to the photographer. Guy Vinciguerra is one such photographer and his stark disturbing pictures remind one of a modern version of Japan’s traditional kakubi theatre.

Cosplay Girls 2: Japan’s Live Action Heroines

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:36:29 +0000

Enter the wacky world of Cosplay, Japan’s underground costume scene. All over Japan hard-core fans of anime, video games and manga dress up in their latest costumes. This is a world where ordinary girls reinvent themselves as street-fighting chicks, emerald-haired princesses and faux-fur kittens. Why do they do it? Find out as Cosplayers explain their obsessions in their own words. • All new girls • All new costumes • All new format

Everybody Cosplay Volume 1 (v. 1)

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:35:27 +0000

Visit an anime convention anywhere in the North America and you’ll see them everywhere: fans dressed up in the costumes of their favorite characters, acting out their roles and assuming their personalities. In Japan, where cosplay was born, the scene is even hotter, with professional cosplayers modeling at events and selling their photo albums. Renowned cosplayer and beloved Newtype USA columnist Jan Kurotaki has been a fixture in the circuit for almost 10 years. Collected here are her photos and columns from Newtype USA, along with exclusive photos never published in the pages of the magazine. A true collector’s dream!

How to Cosplay Volume 7: Props Edition

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:46:47 +0000

Take your costume and cosplaying to the next level! No matter how much your costume looks like the real deal, no matter how perfect your hairstyle and make-up is – if the props for the character are rubbish, the effect of your costume will be ruined. In easy-to-comprehend terms, this book details how to use the same materials the pros use to create amazingly realistic props at home.

We Love Cosplay Girls: More Live Anime Heroines from Japan

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:05:19 +0000

When Cosplay Girls: Japan’s Live Animation Heroines was released in 2003, most of us thought anime equaled Pokemon, otaku was a type of noodle and cosplay was something that only happened in faraway Japan. How things have changed!

Cosplay today is a global phenomenon, with established conventions, fan sites, clubs and even cosplay celebrities strutting their stuff the world over. The planet, it would seem, can’t get enough of cosplay and the Japanese girls who started this craze.

We Love Cosplay Girls, the third volume in the cocoro books cosplay photobook series, continues this onslaught of deliciousness with hundreds of full-color photos of street-fighting chicks, fantasy femmes fatales, staff-spinning ninja, spandex-clad dominatrix, pig-tailed schoolgirls, hammer-wielding psychopaths and faux-fur kittens.

Why do they do it? How do they do it?! Buy this book and find out!!

All-new girls!! All-new costumes!! All-new format!!