Japan Anime

What is an anime? Anime are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation. There are lots of anime nowadays. There are Action, Horror, Romance, Conflict, Magic and etc. RPG or as known as Role Playing Game is also in anime. Anime is not only in japan but it's also watch by the whole world. Some people think that anime is just a waste of time but some don't think like that. Some are just hobbies and some watch it just for the fun. Anime is not only watch by kids but also by adults.

This is some images from some of the anime nowadays.

This video is the top 10 anime 2013.

Japan Cosplay

What is cosplay? Cosplay is people who dress up as an anime character that they like. Cosplay is short for "Costume Play", it is a performance art in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered on Role Play. a broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venue apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

Favorite sources include manga, anime, comic books, video games and films. Any entity form the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched with woman playing male roles and vice versa. There is also a subset of cosplay culture centered on sex appeal with cosplayers specifically choosing characters that are known fot their attractiveness and revealing costumes.

This is some of the people that do cosplay and they pick their own characters.

This cosplay is from the video game Final Fantasy.

This Video is from The expo in japan. 

Japan Akihabara

What does Japan have to offer? What so interesting in japan? There are so many question to ask and so little to answer. One entertainment that japan have is Anime and Cosplay that is rising nowadays not just japan but the whole world. To start it off there is one place in japan that sells anime and do cosplay. This place is called Akihabara.

Akihabara is district in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. The name Akihabara is shortening  of Akibagahara which is "Autumn Leaf Field" which comes from Akiba , a fire-controlling god and the local name for a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.

Akihabara gained a nickname Akihabara Electric Town (Akihabara Denki Gai) after the World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market. Nowadays, Akihabara is an Otaku culture center and a shopping district for computer goods, video games, anime and manga. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous Maid Cafes can be found throughout the district. Some people view Akihabara and Otaku in a general negative light based on the male-oriented depictions in anime and manga. 

This is some images some of the places in Akihabara.

This video about a girl strolling in Akihabara.