World Cosplay Summit Parade 2011

I was browsing my news feed in facebook when I saw pictures of this event, World Cosplay Summit Parade 2011. The pictures were so nice and uhm, pretty? haha.I wanted to blog about it but I needed to ask the owner of the pictures if I could use it. And luckily, he agreed! Yay. I have asked 2 friend photographers if I could use their pictures, taken of course, here in Japan for our blog. They both said yes! That’s good news right?

To start of, I know nothing about this event. I had to look it up over the internet!

Here’s what I got from http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs/e/what/index.html

The "World Cosplay Summit" was created to promote international exchange through the Japanese youth culture of manga and anime.
The free and dynamic nature of manga was instrumental in the birth of cosplay. Nowadays youth from around the world find this as a common language and a dynamic new form of global interaction. The World Cosplay Summit began in Osu, Nagoya and has grown to include 15 countries from around the world. If you count audience and participants at each preliminary event, the number of people involved is now in the 100s of thousands.

For youth who have discovered Japan through manga and experienced Japanese culture through the medium of the World Cosplay Summit, we endeavor to continue the development of this new form of international exchange.

I won’t be writing much about the event. I just wanted to share the pictures. And oh, this year, it was held at Nagoya, Japan.

(Photos by Jon Nuza)