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What about this page?

This page, is dedicated to the fine arts of Cosplay, and to us Scandinavian Cosplayers. I have yet to come across such an page. Due to requests, I decided to gather the troops and open this page. It´s not professional looking, but I want it to look like a cozy fanpage, just like most of the webpages I´ve created. If YOU don´t like my ideas of fanpages, I´m sorry.

The name of this site, came from the Final Fantasy 5 arranged soundtrack, Dear Friends. Yepp, I'm a HUGE FF fan, and I ADORE the arranged soundtracks for FF^_^ also, Dear Friends was partly recorded in Finland, the songs sung by Finish vocalists a.so.

Please notice: All you Scandinavian cosplayers out there, Don´t Hestitate to Send in your pictures^_^!!! Also, I´ve created a form of questions to be answered what you should include in your e-mail with the photos!!! I`ll Gladly cheer on everyone to send in their photos!!!! Ganbatte!!!

Cosplay consists of the two english words Costume and Play. It was "invented" by the Japanese people, hence people cosplaying always does such as anime or manga or videogame characters. When you Cosplay it´s favored if you "play" as the character you try to be. To become like the character and put fully spirit in becoming this chracter. If your character is a womanizer, then you should behave like that^^; If he/she´s a cold kinda person, or a funny joking kinda person, then there you´ve got it. Start playing!

Where you cosplay, is decided by yourself. You can do it at home if you wish, but most people does this on CONVENTS (con´s) and other events regarding japanese film, games and comics! But you can cosplay as Musicians aswell. J-rock and Visual Kei groups are very popular to cosplay as^^ (Visual Kei are guys that´s dressed up, often in women clothes!! Lovely). In Japan the largest Con is Comic Market. In USA there´s tons of cons, such as Anime Expo and Otakon, and in Europe there are some such Animazement in Germany.

Well, I find it hard to believe that you found this page, without having a clue what this is...a short introduction to the words thou:

Anime - from english ANIMATION. It´s what the japanese people call animated movies, and what we who don´t live in Japan knows as JAPANESE animated movies.