Well today I think I'm going to clear out some of the tabs on my net
since I think I've built up enough for this blog post now. First I'm
going to comment and say that there is a lot of mixed feelings in the
cosplay community about a new Cosplay Show
that's going to start airing on TV in the near future. Some think that
it is great because it should hopefully put the community in a better
light than was first thought while others think that it will just ruin
the image of what cosplay and cosplayers really are. I know that right
after the Aurora Shooting all pages and accounts with the word cosplay
were terminated (not deactivated but removed forever) from Facebook
almost overnight. The few that survived were ones like Pikmin Link who
didn't have cosplay in their name. I don't know why Facebook would
associate cosplay (originally a "Japanese" thing) with a crazed gunman,
let alone destroy a section of their userbase that wasn't breaking the
rules and regulations.
Then, I was doing some research for a final paper in my literary criticism class and I found This.
It is what is prompting me to do a cross-cultural analysis paper on
little red riding hood's portrayal in western cultures versus in Japan. I
knew the story of the "Ants and the Grasshopper" versus Japan's "The
Ants and the Cicada" where everyone's happily ever after, but I didn't
realize that major shift probably applies to more than just one tale
until recently. I know that Japan loves Little Red Riding Hood and since
that is the most prevalent of all western tales in Japanese media,
that's the one I'm going to be working on.
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