How To Expand Your Character Choices in Doing Cosplay? Read Manga!

I started to become an anime fan by watching them on our local TV station and the earliest anime I could recall was Voltes V.  I was watching it every time I could and was hoping to know how it would end, but to my dismay the TV station was replaying it.  That time I didn’t know Manga existed.

Just a quick recap of what a Manga is before getting started.

"Manga" are Japanese comic books/graphic novels. The word literally means "whimsical pictures" in Japanese

-urbandictionary.com

By now, especially with the aid of the internet, Manga is now more accessible and more known as ever. Why would I emphasize on a thing that’s already known mostly to anime fanatics out there? Well, if I experienced not knowing the thing before I’m sure I’m not alone and of course as  much as I love watching the anime on  television, there are still perks in reading from the real source.

Keeping up with the storyline. Yes, most of the time the Japanese comics come first than the animation. I remember watching the animated version of “Soul Eater” and followed it until the episode where they meet the big  evil boss and defeat him.  I was somewhat not satisfied probably because I wanted more  of the stuff, so  I checked  the  Manga to see if it really ended there, and to my surprise  it’s still  ongoing and of course a different story twist. (You have to read to find out, lol)

Updated with what’s the latest on your favourite anime. Aside from keeping on track, you actually have a firsthand advantage of knowing with what’s the most current happening on your favourite characters, in other words you have the Spoiler’s Knowledge. I have this best friend who doesn’t seem to be much of a reader but more of a watcher so he gets all excited when new episodes are posted up online. To him, he may have the latest scoop when it comes to people who don’t watch online, but behold, I got the power to spoil him even more!

No fillers. As much as I love watching my favourite characters boost into action kicking the butts of the enemies, the series tries to slip in a few filler episodes (episodes out of  the Manga) to give space for the  release of its Manga counterpart, and let’s admit it, not all of those fillers are that  great  especially when it’s going on for too  long.

Imagination fun time. Alright, one of the things why some people don’t read the “komiku” is because they want to see most fighting scenes in actual action.  It’s actually fun to use that power of imagination of yours to  create the battle scene within the realms of your thought.

It  keeps THEM alive. When I say “them” of course I mean the authors  and their  team  that made it possible to create the  characters  who we adore  now.  I also encourage  buying the  actual reading material itself  and not just be satisfied with the ones  being seen online. It helps  them plus if we keep it long enough we might  turn out to have a collector’s item.

There are more perks to read coming from the original source. Please comment if you have more ideas on the positive things about Manga. Let’s share ideas!

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Animetrocity: Are You Looking For A Supportive Cosplay Community?

Animetrocity is a cosplay community that will take new levels of  socializing with anime-lovers and the like. 

Everywhere I looked there was thick eyeliner, backcombed hair, jewelry and incredibly dressed anime lovers, but there was a strange feeling of resentment in the air as everyone knew that soon they would have to go home and back to their normal boring world. And the biggest problem of all was that as they vetured out into the “normal” world, people stare at us and think we are weird.

We are not!

This all came up when I attended a cosplay convention when I was in my college days and it was so cool. I got to see fans being the characters that they grown to love and the best thing about it is that the more identical one’s look is (regardless of the genre they chose to portray) the cooler they get to be.

One of my friends there said to me: “I wish we had somewhere we could go each week to hang out and just be ourselves”

And then it came to me, why not create a place where everyone can be who as they are where we create a welcoming atmosphere. Thus Animetrocity was born.

Animetrocity is a community for people who loves anime at heart. It aims for people to gather from different areas to bond with each other tagging to accomplish the following for you:

• Connect anime friends with the same interests,

• A venue to share ideas,

• A club environment where we can exploring new things,

• A Members area where we can update what’s hot inside the anime world.

• But more importantly it’s where you can have fun expressing the Otaku within you.

Being a fan of anime since childhood a random thought came into my mind saying “what if I could meet different people who has the same love for anime as I am and yet not just being bound by friendship online and at the same time have that venue where everyone can dress up with their cosplay clothes on a casual basis?” 


Joining the words of Anime, Metro, and City is a perfect way to describe Otakus to gather around the area and not just have our expression brought out during special events. This would create not only a venue for gathering but as well as a new addition to your home.

I asked my friends of what I thought, and they actually knew some people that would like the idea. Not everybody has accepted wearing cosplay clothes as casual enough to be worn on a regular basis because it’s still a growing culture. But having a certain place to be themselves would surely spark the acceptance of our expression and shows true reasons why we do the way we are.

Us Otakus are not limited by age, race, gender, or culture. Everybody can be an Otaku whether you’re from the rural areas, the metro, or within the city and the love for it just grows. Some of us maybe Mangakas, Cosplayers, CGI Animators, or just a plain Otaku and more. Here in Animetrocity we’re going to break the barriers that will show the world who we are and create an impact that would be fresh to everyone’s eyes.

We are building an online community to update each other of the current happenings and at the same time we will fully support a live social community for gatherings. As of the moment venues are still being planned but we are aiming to have a permanent “hang-out” place within the Metro/City for the benefit of everyone.

Join my free members area right now by simple entering your name and email address into the space below and also get a free dose of Anime-inspired quotations daily. Do it right now and unleash more of the Otaku within and be inspired with Animetrocity.

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