Discover Western Cosplay

Cosplay fans are in luck: from October 29th to November 1st 2021, will take place the 27th Barcelona’s Manga Show, and there will be an important space for the Cosplayers. This edition’ Show organizes parades, contests and shows from this Japanese art of costuming and performing a character, usually from a Manga comic, Anime series or videogames. 

And because western influence arrives everywhere, the anime and videogames world aren’t an exception:  Cowboy Bebop, Gun x Sword and Early Reins are some of the most famous western anime. What concerns to videogames, Red Dead Redemption, Gun, Darkwatch, Red Steel and Call of Juarez are other popular examples.

This means that, Cosplayers characterized as their favorite western characters won’t be missing on this year’s Manga Show edition. If you love the western style, whether you are cosplayer or not, it’s time to fully enjoy this attire, to the point of playing a character. And of course, no better place than Corbeto’s to find all necessary to give it live.

 

What differentiates Cosplay from a costume? 

 

There is who thinks that Cosplay consists on a costume, but there are details that make the difference. To understand, the term “Cosplay” gives us some clues: its first part, “Cos”, makes reference to the English world “costume”. And the other half, the world “play”, means in this case “interpretation”. 

This is because who does Cosplay, not only dresses like a fiction character, but also performs it by personifying all possible details: movements, gestures, attitude…

When we only talk about dress up, people can do it on one-off occasion and with a specific intention. For example: a costumes party organized by Friends, at work, or the typical Halloween celebration. These times, people dress up as some character, they don’t have to perform it: only dress the same way, but being themselves.

But when somebody do Cosplay from some character, as for example, Red Dead Redemption western videogame, will not only do it with intention of dressing up or look like somebody but will do a character’s detailed perform: movements, way of speaking and thinking… In other words: will transform in the character who performs. 

Cosplayers use to attend to comic shows, like the upcoming that will take place in Barcelona, to concerts, videogames premieres or cinemas. Some are spectacular and create a buzz!

There are people who lives cosplay in a very intense way, becoming an integral part of their lives and sometimes investing large amounts of money.

As you see, Cosplay is much more than a costume or creating community: is a way of life. Not all cosplayers have the same grade of involvement, but what do all have in common is their passion by putting themselves in the character that so much admire shoes.

 

 

Western cosplay characters

 

We previously mentioned Red Dead Redemption, the successful two installments western action-adventure videogame saga. Its two main characters are John Marston y Arthur Morgan, both members of a Far West gang. The history revolves around fights for keeping gang’s freedom, justice and equality ideals. Fascinating western characters that are worth a cosplay.

 

 

Another videogame to highlight is GUN, considered as the best western themed videogame until Red Dead Redemption appeared in 2010. The player immerses into a world full of missions with stagecoaches, Native Americans, saloons, gun fights, corrupt sheriffs, bandits… The main character is Colton White, that works in and out of the law, doing whatever is necessary to get the answers is looking for and take revenge.

 

 

Western is also very present in the anime, like Early Reins, starring Alice, daughter of a rich western family, and her five friends, among which is a renowned gunwoman, a doctor, and a diva princess that sings in a desert town. Feminine western characters worth making a cosplay in every way.

 

 

Or Cowboy Bebop, another anime based on the adventures, misfortunes and tragedies of a group of bounty hunters that travels aboard of the Bebop, their space ship, in the year 2071. Although this anime was created at the end of 90’s decade, is still considered a masterpiece. Its main characters, very appreciated by the Cosplayers, are Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Jet Black and Ed.

Gun x Sword, is another anime located on a planet with a similar technology to the Earth’s one, and in a town that resembles a Far West lawless village, where large plains aren’t missing. The main role is for Van, a mysterious slow and paused speaking tall man, that travels around the world searching for his girlfriend’s assassin, the Man of the metal claw. In his journey joins to other travelers who also search for the same assassin.

 

 

And you, do you dare to immerse in the western Cosplay world? There are more fascinating characters than you can imagine, and if you are already looking for characterizing like one of them, count on Corbeto’s to get most genuine western attire.

 

 

Image source: The Geek Chic Elite  y   Red Dead Fandom

 

 

 

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