A photo and video exhibition of the Japanese cosplay team YuRiE will
open at the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam in
Hanoi on September 11.
YuRiE, formed by two young Japanese
cosplayers: YuRi and RiE, won the cosplay champion at the World Cosplay
Summit 2009 held annually in Japan ’s Nagoya city.
“Cosplay”
or the dressings & makings up to be characters from various
animations, manga and games are the art of the visualisation of two
dimensional images into three dimensional figures. Not only making and
sewing the cloths, wigs, accessories, but also setting the location,
shooting and posing for photographs, videos, are all done by cosplayers
themselves.
Apart from the exhibition, which will run till
September 23, YuRiE will participate in Acctive Expo 2010 that will open
at the Children Palace on September 12.
They will perform
and will be the jury of “Cos’Night” during which five selected groups
of Vietnamese cosplayers will make performances for competition.
YuRiE
will be present at the booth of the Japan Foundation Centre for
Cultural Exchange in Vietnam to communicate and take photographs
with Vietnamese friends.
YuRiE cosplay and performance being
Sanada Hiroyuki & Date Masamune, the characters from the game
software named Sengoku BASARA, were highly acclaimed by both the juries
and the audience in the World Cosplay Summit which is held annually in
Nagoya , Japan .
The creativeness and reality
of portraying the selected characters are essential to be admired
cosplayers, and YuRiE is one of such highly revered cosplayers in the
world./.
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