Cosplay

I only figured out what cosplay was a few years ago. Is that lame? Ignorant? Even now, I only have a vague idea of what a comic con is. The two are related, right? If not, I'm probably making myself look even more lame and ignorant.

Hmm, I'm not even sure why I brought this up. Where do I want to go with this topic?

I think Disney had a relatively recent-ish convention. How awesome would it be to go to one of those? To dress up like one of the characters, especially in a big ole hoop-skirted ball gown?

And what about anime conventions? To be a ninja for a day, or a Japanese schoolgirl? Or one of those mythical human-looking anime/manga creatures?

I guess this is sort of on my mind because of my brother. His high school is having a day where the students can dress up in stuff like this as part of School Spirit Week, and they okay'ed anime characters as well.

My brother was very nearly my hero by dressing up as one of my favorite ninja, but our parents were highly discouraging of him spending so much money on something he may wear only once. They convinced him to try first the mall, then a local party store, for a discounted version before being okay with him ordering the real thing online.

Problem being, by the time they would have let him order it online, the costume wouldn't get to him in time. So instead, he dressed up as everyone's favorite non-aging Pokémon trainer Ash by buying a hat, buying gloves he could cut the fingers from, and raiding his closet for the other supplies.

He doesn't look half bad, and he succeeded in making me jealous. I went to the same high school he did, but it never let the students do anything like this before. Why did they have to wait until the year I wasn't there to allow the students to attempt cosplay?

Oh well, I suppose. Maybe I'll have a chance to do something similar later. One can only hope.

Shall I invite you to make me jealous again by commenting anything you've done? I believe I shall.