Cosplay or Fanservice? Cosplayers about “girls in linen” (and without it)
Cosplay or Fanservice? Cosplayers about "girls in linen" (and without it)
Every year cosplay is becoming more popular and more and more people get acquainted with this phenomenon. And there is also an entertaining concept of Fanservice as a subspecies of a cosplay, aimed at flirting with the desires of the audience. What is the first, and what is the second, today we will be a little more and we will analyze. We asked several popular cosplayers – and not only girls, but also guys. And this is what they answered.
Anya Erlstram AKA ICHIOS
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
For me, cosplay has long become more than a conventional hobby. Reincarnation into your favorite heroes, the process of creating a costume, a make -up, playing out, thinking over history in photo shoots – all this is an insanely creative process: cosplay allows you to choose and engage in what you like the most, improve in different directions, and even motivates to maintain health, beauty and exercise. And working or speaking on conventions, you always get a lot of vivid positive emotions from other people, their smiles and admiration truly inspires!
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I love feminine and sexual images in games, comics, films and other pop culture, and when they are truly high quality! But, unfortunately, now more and more companies are “covering” their characters. Perhaps this was affected by the fact that the Fanervice and the "naked" cosplay are becoming more and more.
You can be inspired by a popular Title, but it is not necessary to call it cosplay, as this can mislead people with cosplay not familiar. However, the line is very thin-high-quality photo historians, albeit with the exposure of the body, can tell about the character and fully match his background.
Anna Molieva
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
This question is equal to the questions “What means to be a veterinarian for you?"," To be a psychologist?"," To be a gamer?". Just be just me. Just my life and what makes me who I am. After all, what a person does and how exactly he does it, speaks a lot about him.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I strictly share the sexual characters “In Carne”, so to speak, when the neckline, open parts of the body and other buns were created by developers as an official model used in the general access (directly in games, comics, films, etc.D.) and the fan service, when the scientific girls deliberately undress and create photos “based on”, usually in our time, for sale. Let's not be deceived: we all know why young people buy such photos. Selling your body in order to provide intimate services is prostitution 🙂 Even if the service is not straight, and the body on digital media. Of course, I exaggerate and, do not think, I do not judge anyone: any occupation is a personal matter and the right of everyone. The case of Ustevs, the rules and motives that a person is guided. But this is not cosplay. There is no place for your editing in the cosplay if you take the image for the embodiment that you do not invented. I do not think that there are an official skin of an Ash from Overwatch In underwear or scene with a dinked busty Hermione on the bed. Now it is popular and encouraged by currency (the consumer votes himself), sex has been sold at all times, but my opinion is that it is high time to allocate it from cosplay and assign your own name, because it has nothing to do with the first. Just as nobody calls fanfiction books, or at least their “additions” or “continuation”.
Maria Hanna
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
Get high from the implementation of your favorite characters.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I will say that there are works in which there is aesthetics and compliance with the original, but there are few of them, and this is sad.
Mikhalych Nazarov
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
I think that I will not say anything original here. This is an opportunity to realize the heroes of your favorite games. Merge with them, so to speak, in creative symbiosis. Bring something to your image. As a child, I always wanted to play cinema, work on radio or television. Since this did not work out with this, cosplay is a great way to share creative energy with the outside world. Well, in general, a great way to beautifully diversify everyday life.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
In general, as well as cosplay as a whole, since now the line between these concepts is becoming too transparent. It is necessary to consider each case of the manifestation of the fanservice individually. Now there is so much in abundance that it is very difficult to surprise anyone.
This is especially true for the fan service. Many are looking for simple paths, calling, so to speak, to primitive human instincts. The attitude to the preparation of such a material is appropriate: from the series “and so will it”, there are tits – “people are cheating”. Or they create outright game from the series "Black PR – the best PR".
But everything should have its own aesthetics and beauty. If the same fan service is made with the soul, it did not work beautifully, the fandom is recognizable and the desired atmosphere is given – then why not? I know cases when labor went to Fanservice almost more than on a full -fledged cosplay of the same character.
Lada Lumos
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
Show yourself creatively, do something with your own hands, expand your favorite universes, put your vision in them, play completely different roles in your pleasure.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I have a positive attitude to erotica. Even when it was far from this, she was completely normal. And in the end – it is not for me to judge the degree of alien ribality.
Natasha Kochetkova AKA NARGA
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
This frequent question always drives me into bewilderment, because I cannot answer something inspired and elevated. Nothing special cosplay does not mean to me. I just like to make “things”, I like to change into costumes that you can’t meet in real life, I am a cosplayer. Someone made a suit for six months and participated at the competition at the festival-that means cosplayer. Took a picture in a suit that I ordered on the Internet, is also a cosplayer.
There are no rules here, there is no “worldwide cosplayer legislation”, therefore, it is easier to treat cosplay as a phenomenon.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
And how does it relate, for example, a landscape painter to a commander? Probably as a colleague-artist working in another genre. Any cosplay has the right to exist. I personally know several girls who earn an erotic photograph, and I can’t say anything bad about them as people. This is their personal choice, which does not violate anyone's freedoms and does not harm other people.
Irina Meier
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
-I have been interested in cosplay for more than ten years, and the first cosplay event in my life was in 2009. During all this time, my attitude towards cosplay has changed, like cosplay itself. From a children's hobby, this has long grown into something much more serious, and now cosplay is one of the most significant parts of my life. One way or another, all my work is connected with the Hyk Industry, video games and cosplay. But one remains unchanged all these years. Cosplay is a fun (sometimes through tears and nervous breakdowns, when something does not work out, but still fun).
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I am convinced that everyone can cosplay the way he wants. Someone makes detailed closed armor, someone chooses sexual characters, and someone generally prefers the fan service in linen and wigs. I judge the cosplay of other people only within the framework of cosplaying, where I am a member of the jury and I have clear evaluation criteria. In all other cases, I don't care what and how other people do.
Fanservice is a delicate matter. There is a line between Cosplay and Role-Play (that in the bedroom), which few people can withstand and present the female body beautifully, and not gone.
If we are talking about the cosplay of characters who wear open costumes in the original and very skilled girls themselves, then I often encounter double standards. If the girl Plus-Size grows large characters, everyone is delighted and put the cosplayer as an example, the same with androgynic girls, cosplaying anime-part, everything is delighted again.
If someone looks like an actress from a film-the reaction is also positive, but if suddenly a girl with forms will cosplay a sexual character from a game with an open costume, it is often replaced by a wave of hatred and caustic comments towards cosplayer. At the same time, a commenting person can even be unfamiliar with the original and has no idea how much Cosplayer spent time and effort on this image, the main thing for him is to express his no need for anyone that “this is not cosplay, but simply boobs; Take any model with a figure, put on a suit on it, and it will be no worse. ".
Sincerely sorry for such people. I believe that each person should remember that not all cosplayers have the opportunity to crash ten hours a day, not everyone can afford expensive materials, not everyone has workshops and not everyone wants to make huge armor!
But every cosplayer is first of all a person who has the right to choose what to cosplay him, and does not deserve insults. Be kinder.
Nikita Nicella
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
I do not consider cosplay something supernoordinar, just a hobby.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
Just like the rest of the other cosplay in general. It has its positive and negative aspects. Personally, I believe that everything has the right to be, if only people are satisfied with their results.
Maria Karpenko
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
For me, the very essence of the cosplayer does not go beyond the scope of artistic party, this is its full -fledged participant. The only thing that distinguishes him from any other artist is a very clear prototype. If, for example, stylists, costumers, designers are inspired and create some of their author’s images, then cosplayer always has a clear prototype. Everything else can differ – there are those guys that make cosplay one to one, there are those who are working or processing the original images and recreating them almost from zero.
But in principle, cosplay for me is a performance based on creating an image that has a very specific source, and for me this is the main definition. To be cosplayer – this means to be those who recreate the images of existing heroes, guided by existing sources. Everything else is already details.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
I am good about any cosplay. I like a good fan service, like any other good job. The only problem I see is that cosplayers operating in other areas do not know how to promote themselves. If the algorithm is in principle understandable in the Fan Service, it simply requires very painstaking work-to constantly attend and constantly do content everywhere, then other cosplayers have problems with this. A full -fledged cosplay as such is a lot of time, it cannot be issued once a week, for this you just need more time. And this problem of the speed of the emergence of new content does not make it possible to swing to other people, for them there are no algorithms.
And with the fan service, everything is much easier, easier and faster. And in beautiful girls in linen there is no problem – it is awesome, it even motivates.
Christina Rivi
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
For me to be a cosplayer is to be a model and creator. Because thanks to the cosplay, I am learning to create, creating various things, but in addition to this, it is important to capture my work on a professional camera. These are very important components for me personally, without which the meaning of this hobby is lost.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
A very difficult question. On the one hand, there are https://sister-site.org/space-wins/ canonical characters, bright, sexy, and cool. And it's great when you can stay like that. On the other hand, when they undress any character, often doing it tastelessly, it is giving me away. High-quality erotica and cheap ero-fanservice are different things, and it is the latter that would like less, because in our society it is this that people consider the face of cosplay, alas. And this is not so! After all, cosplay is costumes, and laying complex hairstyles, and creating cool weapons, performances at festivals, fabulous photographs … I would like people to know this.
Anastasia Vvedenskaya
– What does it mean to be a cosplayer for you?
Recreate the image, follow the canon, delight people.
– How do you feel about Fanservice?
Positively. There is something to show – show me. Just do high quality.