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Cosplay Girls: Japan's Live Animation Heroines

by Jennifer Cahill

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All over Japan, hard-core fans of animation, video games and manga comics are hitting the streets in their latest cosplay (short for costume play) outfits - especially women Devotees spend hours transforming themselves into their favourite characters.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Art & Design, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 746 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Fashion Design / Weaving, Knitting, Embroidery
LCC: NC1766 .J3 .C835 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 3

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Published: 2003
Genres: Nonfiction, Art & Design, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 746
LCC: NC1766 .J3 .C835

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