Cross-dressing Chinese Otaku

Japan’s TBS news visits a gathering of otaku in China to report on how there is now a “boom” in the number of male fans who dress up like female anime and manga characters:

The cross-dressers were apparently influenced by television shows about otaku who do the same kind of thing in Japan. The publication of a Chinese cross-dressing cosplay manual is cited as evidence of this being a trend. It is also mentioned that a lot of Chinese netizens have criticized the weird activities of these otaku.

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19 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 15, 2010 at 9:20 am

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Dave

o_O
yokakashi

wow one more thing for the chinese to blame japan for
LOL
Tony D

How long until it’s banned because it causes decay in the morality of society, like violent video games and ~~free thought~~ dissident lies?
Vonskippy

And the world wonders at the cause of Japan’s declining population.
hoihoi

all world would be Japanized LOL
Rob A

危ない！

わなです！
chris

China : Were not as weird as Japan but were getting there. . . .
http://www.japannewbie.com Harvey

I just attended a CosPlay convention in Kunming China last weekend! I noticed the same thing… I had never been to a CosPlay convention before.. not in Japan or the States or anywhere… but from the photos I had seen around the Internet I didn’t remember seeing so many guys dressed up as girls!

Some photos of guy girls here where I blogged about the Chinese cosplay event.

http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/08/13/cosplay-in-kunming-china/

Montsan

You remember those less-attractive girls? Those were guys.

They’re having fun and as long as they’re not being overly obnoxious about it, cross-dressing cosplayers are A-OK in my book.

Leith

My eyes! MY EYES!!! It burns!!
ita-man

My eyes. They’re burn.
RMilner

This reminds me of the British tradition of pantomime, in which the principal boy is traditionally played by a girl, and the dame is played by a man.
Kalinin

I vomited! =X disgusting!!!! =X
shane

I often sit around my flat in womens clothes.

Dev

Fail for not properly using a Monty Python reference.

変態な痴漢

可愛い！
Alex

See earlier JP bit about the schoolgirl-groper.
sendaicam

There has been a history of men playing women in the theater so perhaps this is not as “strange” as it may appear.

Kalinin

A real man would NEVER wear women clothes it doesn’t matter his job!!!!!

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