World Cosplay Summit Memories

After posting these few pictures on Instagram I felt like sharing more here with you.

Lately I have been looking at my past with sadness a lot. It's probabely a bad idea but I think everybody in my condition would end up doing the same after a moment.
I feel like I'm grieving. I'm grieving a life that is not mine anymore. And grief is necessary to move forward. Today I don't have the strength to get out of bed , this morning I felt like doing nothing, having non stop dizziness , zero strength and zero motivation  so I shaked myself up to at least make this post ( but the truth is that I just want to sleep even right now)

World Cosplay Summit 2003


These pictures were taken in 2003 during the very first World Cosplay Summit. I was just a newborn cosplayer ( I started cosplay in 2002).

This experience has been since in the top 3 of my best cosplay memories. I will always , always remember it .


How I ended up there? Well at the time it wasn't yet a contest. I remember walking around during Japan Expo 2003 con and my roomate telling me to follow with her and chat with a Japanese guy from TV Aichi. I don't remember how she got to knew him and how she new he was looking for cosplayers but I guess I have to thank her for these beautiful memories.

We talked and well once again my memory is a bit blurry but I remember the guy telling me he wanted to invite european cosplayers for a festival and if I was interested.  Obviously I was .

So, with Emilie, who was cosplayed as Pain  from our Final Fantasy X2 group ( and whose cosplay was made by her aunt , one of my dearest long term friend), were invited to go to Nagoya for 5 days.



Look at that fake blond head XD

One of our first mission was to accompany  the other 3 girls to a cosplay shop. ( the girls were Anja from...well apparently I also forgot this detail , Cindy from Germany and Sonia from Italia. Look at this picture^^,
Now,  I'm almost embarrassed ^^,,,

we had reunion and press meetings:

Yes I agree, a lot of fan service ! After an early polemic , the WCS changed their view on cosplay and now ask for high quality costumes and all sexes wearing them.

I was so young  and full of life!

We launched the first Osu parade

How cute we were^^,,

-^^- I have no souvenir of what they were asking us ^^,,,

I remember feeling a bit awkward with how we were displayed like in a dog grooming show XD and I also remember 2003's japanese mobile phones. They were ahead of us and all of them had small clasping mobile phone when we had nokia 3310 looking phones.  When I came back home I purchased my first mobile, besides,  I was working for a phone mobile video games company so it was about time XD)

During the parade we were invited to sit down to watch... a parade ^^:

I want what's in your plate !

On the WCS special night we took part in a conference and then we had a photobooth.

They were filming all the time to make a small documentary so after the WCS meeting they took us  sightseeing ...still in costume^^

Judging by our faces, we were all tasting Tofu specialities for the first time XD:

They even offered us a Maiko make over. yes it's us XD

I was so ugly with this makeup . XD ( well to say the truth, aside from the japanese girl, we all were XD)

And then, it was all over ! ( happy and tired^^)

And here is a link to TV Aichi 2003 documentary ( 4 parts)^^ Now I can go and hide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhfU5a1mw8Y&t=183s

Should I make a Patreon post with my World Cosplay summit 2005 memories also?

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Clef