Japanese Otaku Lambasts Foreign Failplay
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 31, 2009 21:17 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Cosplay, Crossdressing, Fail, Gaikokujin, Otaku
Cosplay is one element of Japan’s otaku culture that has spread precipitously through most corners of the world, with most anime related conventions in the last 15 years or so sporting flocks of cosplaying attendees, many of which have near perfected the art, although countless photos of cosplay fail are still in abundance.
If you have ever wondered what some native Japanese otaku make of those photos, here we have some pictures of less than successful cosplay attempts, along with “expert” commentary by a Japanese blogger:
“Umu…this is a guy I just can’t bare to look at…”
“Nagato, Haruhi and Mikuru Asahina, right? Am I wrong?”
“In Japan we call things like you, ‘boneless hams’.”
“YES!! YOU ARE BADMAN!!”
“Study more! Review Japan’s examples a bit more!
If possible, do it like this! (example below)”
“If you don’t have the energy to even try just don’t do it.”
“No matter which way you look at it, this has got to be the villain.”
For more examples of cosplay gone awry, the Finnish Failplay Gallery may be of interest, or of course there are the Cosplay Elite and Cosplay Elect galleries for examples of cosplay done right.
Of course, Japan is still indisputably the birthplace of and probable leader in bad and deranged cosplay…
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He should be holding da bomb...
I want to hear more of this Otaku's comments on failplays.
Boneless Ham...Lol...
Well, a lot of those were gag cosplay anyway. Meant to be funny instead of accurate. Maybe he oaughta lighten up a bit.
the batman and gundum ones were epic
nice comments, it's so true XD
“In Japan we call things like you, ‘boneless hams’.”<------ notice the skillful use of "things"
Actually, those comments seem awfully restrained given the pictures.. Even after taking the restrained nature of the Japanese language into account...
*Fatality*
Doublefacepalm
GG good game.....
Total failure.
The male Haruhi crossplayers were at Acen 08 and 09.
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7220/hpim0702.jpg
God forbid that commenter ever lay eyes on one of the many, many Sailor Goons out there.
People only seem to focus their attention on the horrible foreign cosplays, acting like Japan is the only country with good ones. I've seen really amazingly well done cosplays here in America, they exist.
http://malindachan.deviantart.com/ <-great example.
The Haruhi one is actually well done...
for a tall unshaven white male...
At least these people don't have murderous yandere eyes.
There's a difference between having an ugly costume and being ugly.
These are ugly in both ways (-.-#)
FAIL!GAME OVER!
KILL YOURSELF!
wow i just went to JACON last weekend and saw some extremely ill-advised cosplay, too. i mean, it's like... i'm kinda fat, right? i am not going to try to cosplay as lelouch or some bishonen dude. itz almost an insult to the source material.
faceplant
Disgusting.
Though not disgusting as the man-boob video. That was just plain sick...
FAILURE HUMANS! SHOULD DO BETTER THAN THIS!
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/41325__468x_cosplay_fail_international_07.jpg
Benjamin Button's first cosplay
That superman guy kinda looks like Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister
Damn it not Shinku too
that good rozen cosplay looks deadly shopped.
My eyes! Dear lord my eyes!
Why Sankaku?! Why have you done this to meeeeeeeeeeee?!!!!!!
I contest the poster's assertion that Cosplay was, quote unquote "born" in Japan. Making costumes of your favorite characters and wearing them at conventions has a long history in the U.S. that stretches back to the first Star Trek and Comic Book conventions in the 1960s.
However, Japan can definitely take the credit for taking costuming, which was a periphery activity at Us conventions and making it into a full blown subculture in it's own right.
I, of course, had merely the act of donning costumes at anime-related functions, such as conventions, in mind.
It would be hard to imagine modern anime conventions having such a preponderance of cosplayers were it not for pre-existing subculture of cosplay in Japan, as you mentioned.
I didn't ctually mean to imply that the Japanese were the first to invent this sort of costume play, although that might have been unclear.
one word BASEBALL BAT!!!
.......are they delusional......are just don't care?
GIGA PUNCH FACE SO HARD IT WILL BREAK DIMENSIONS... dammit
lol I wouldn't take a lot of these too seriously. They seem so funny.
OK, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ON:
PEOPLE DO COSPLAYS LIKE THAT FOR LULZ, FFS.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ACCURATE DESCRIPTION, MORE LIKE EXTREME PARODY.
I mean, big guy cosplayng as little, cute kawaii character, you would really think that's enough of a giveaway?
Also, people who willingly put themselves in costumes like that are usually really fun to be around.
So yeah, jap who wrote this = EXTREMELY DUMB JAP.
^ The fugly woman in the first pic...
Owned
wtf, those people have no shame!!
Yuck nobody told me hairless chewbacca is on final fantasy! final fatsy pants
Damn, thats nasssty!!
Those we're probably people that got kicked out of Conventions.
I would love to accidentally trip and M2A that Yuna.
Who the hell let the whale out!? Seriously for the Yuna one, I'd have to say, "Eww 3D disgusting pig!"
"...otaku..." "...blogger..." I stopped reading there.
For all those who thought the Gundam cosplayer was funny, that is a transformer, unless I missed something, which, with this being the internet and all, is just as likely as I could hope for. Some people have frightening stories indeed...
I take it successful cosplay trolls were successful then.
damn....
Box Gundam Guy still owns...
That is the only actual fail cosplay that wins in Japan i think.
What's so bad about the ''bad and deranged cosplay'' you linked to?
Some people seem to be disturbed by it, as the comments there show.
I personally think it looks swell...
You have weird tastes, Quen. Haha.
OMFG! Arrgghh.. Nightmares will haunt me forever!