Visit an anime convention anywhere in the North America and you'll see them everywhere: fans dressed up in the costumes of their favorite characters, acting out their roles and assuming their personalities. In Japan, where cosplay was born, the scene is even hotter, with professional cosplayers modeling at events and selling their photo albums. Renowned cosplayer and beloved Newtype USA columnist Jan Kurotaki has been a fixture in the circuit for almost 10 years. Collected here are her photos and columns from Newtype USA, along with exclusive photos never published in the pages of the magazine. A true collector's dream!
Everybody Cosplay!: v. 1
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By Amber-lee
Format:Paperback
If you are a cosplayer yourself or are just a fan of it then I highly recommend this book! Full of bright pictures that fill up most of the page and each cosplay has a description about the character and the costume itself. All the cosplays are by Jan Kurotaki, so it is her seen throughout and not random cosplayers.
Whenever I need some inspiration for cosplay I refer back to this book and it always makes me eager to do more!
If I counted right there are 62 cosplays in total in the book! So you definitely wont get bored of it quickly!
Whenever I need some inspiration for cosplay I refer back to this book and it always makes me eager to do more!
If I counted right there are 62 cosplays in total in the book! So you definitely wont get bored of it quickly!
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3.1 out of 5 stars
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Kind of useless
17 Feb 2009
By H. Jenkins
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Nice photography thanks to a professional photographer. As for the content itself... Ms. Kurotaki left me wondering exactly why I bothered buying this book. When the description said the book contained columns and photos I figured it would have a decent amount of information. I am a costume designer and enjoy checking out other people's work to expand horizons.
However, when the book arrived I was quite disappointed. Each costume has 2 short paragraphs of text with it. The first is information about the character and why she likes her/him. The second paragraph is about "making the costume" which contains vague phrases like, "This costume required a lot of fabric," (about her Chun Li costume).
Furthermore, some of the costumes failed to impress me. Some she made, some she bought, some she did not make at all (just modeled). Don't be expecting her to provide tips and tricks on how she made certain things or even what fabric she used.
Bottomline: If you're looking for a photobook of Jan Kurotaki in costumes, go for it. If you're looking for a helpful book for cosplay... pass this by.
However, when the book arrived I was quite disappointed. Each costume has 2 short paragraphs of text with it. The first is information about the character and why she likes her/him. The second paragraph is about "making the costume" which contains vague phrases like, "This costume required a lot of fabric," (about her Chun Li costume).
Furthermore, some of the costumes failed to impress me. Some she made, some she bought, some she did not make at all (just modeled). Don't be expecting her to provide tips and tricks on how she made certain things or even what fabric she used.
Bottomline: If you're looking for a photobook of Jan Kurotaki in costumes, go for it. If you're looking for a helpful book for cosplay... pass this by.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cosplay!
30 Dec 2007
By Michael Valdivielso
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
The book cover says it all. Jan Kurotaki, cosplayer, Newtype USA columnist, manga author, video game designer, and fashion model, has been cosplaying for ten years. In this book is many of the photos and columns from Newstype USA. Each section has a few pages of photos of the same costume and two paragraphs, one explaining the costume and one explaining the characters. She gives tips of keeping down the costs, what material to use and how to wear the outfits. Note: Some outfits you don't want to move too fast in, you may flash somebody. Some of the outfits are cute, some are sexy, some she is even crossplaying - cosplaying as a male character. Some of the outfits she wears JUST for fun. A must for any manga, cosplay, anime library.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
not really "EVERYBODY" Cosplay
9 Mar 2010
By Aimee Steinberger
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book is mainly just a reprint of Jan Kurotaki's articles from the now defunct NewType USA Magazine. There are a few that weren't published in the magazine, but not many.
The articles aren't really even articles though, each costume has about one or two paragraphs about why Jan likes the character and how she made the costume... but she doesn't really truly get into how she made the costume at all. She may gloss over how she chose a fabric or how she picked out some tights, but that's about it. The title of the book really should be Jan Kurotaki's Cosplay... not "Everybody Cosplay". It doesn't help others cosplay in the text and it really only focuses on photos of her. She didn't even make a lot of the costumes. She's a pretty girl, seems nice, many of the costumes are pretty and the photos nice enough. But even there the book fails a little as some of the photo resolution is too low and some of the photos show up grainy.
If you're looking for a book with a variety of cosplay pinup-style photos, then you might enjoy this. But I think you'd be better off just surfing online or picking up a copy of COSMODE.
If you're a cosplayer looking to learn more about how to cosplay well... you'll be very disappointed with this book.
The articles aren't really even articles though, each costume has about one or two paragraphs about why Jan likes the character and how she made the costume... but she doesn't really truly get into how she made the costume at all. She may gloss over how she chose a fabric or how she picked out some tights, but that's about it. The title of the book really should be Jan Kurotaki's Cosplay... not "Everybody Cosplay". It doesn't help others cosplay in the text and it really only focuses on photos of her. She didn't even make a lot of the costumes. She's a pretty girl, seems nice, many of the costumes are pretty and the photos nice enough. But even there the book fails a little as some of the photo resolution is too low and some of the photos show up grainy.
If you're looking for a book with a variety of cosplay pinup-style photos, then you might enjoy this. But I think you'd be better off just surfing online or picking up a copy of COSMODE.
If you're a cosplayer looking to learn more about how to cosplay well... you'll be very disappointed with this book.
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