This is a website hosted by Kigurumi Europe for the sole purpose of helping to aid in the long term hosting and sharing of pictures of people in animegao kigurumi cosplay within Europe as well as for assisting with event hosting.
After a meet up has happened, the pictures can be added to this website and all of the people from the meet up can be given permission to view the pictures which they were involved in. You can also find a download button and a button to upload directly to facebook and as time goes on we do not plan to remove the older pictures so every time you return you can find all of the past meet up's you have attended and not just the most recent ones.
If you are in charge of a meet up and wish to host your pictures here or you have attended a meet up and know the pictures are hosted here but yet don't have access to them then do not be afraid to discuss it with us through our facebook page and we will try to be of assistance.
(It is not our job to sort through pictures or to tell others to sort through them quicker, so any enquiries about unsorted pictures will fall on deaf ears)
From Wikipedia:
"Animegao (アニメ顔, anime face) is a type of kigurumi used to portray anime or cartoon characters. The face of the performer is fully covered with a stylized mask, and the costume of the character is worn. Animegao costumes are used both in professional stage shows and by cosplayers, sometimes called "dollers", who make custom masks of various characters. It is still a very minor part of the cosplay scene in Japan, though around 2005, it began attracting attention in other countries, including the United States, Canada, and European countries.
As with other kinds of cosplay, many hobbyists have costumes of established characters from games or animations. The characters are usually female, and commonly human, although kigurumi characters of other races and genders do exist, including male (such as Kenshin Himura from Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X), mechanical (such as Gundam Wing), elfin (such as Deedlit or Pirotess from Lodoss), and demonic (such as Inuyasha from the anime of the same name). Some kigurumi are original characters created by the performer.
To be called animegao, the costume must include not only a mask, usually molded from clay or fiberglass composites, but also a zentai that matches the mask's color, typically with an open face. This is because the simplified features of the mask would otherwise not match the wearer's actual skin, breaking the illusion."
Kigurumi Europe is a independant promotional group that is set up to promote kigs within all of Europe and aims to regurally highlight different cosplayers and gatherings from around all of Europe while creating its own meet up's at the same time. The main objective is to show that Europe has got some good cosplayers within it and that you can find good and active kigs outside of Japan and in the western world, to do this for now the most effective method is through a facebook page that people can follow and events will be hosted through that page (but orgnized in private).
In addidion to this, Kigurumi Europe aims to support the kigs in the area where possible and as part of that this picture sharing service has been set up.
This project focuses on mapping the locations of different kigs and kig fans around the entire world and not just within europe. To be added to the map someone needs to message Cloud with the required details for an entry to be made including a rough location and you should be added as soon as they have time to do so.
The aim of this project is to make it easier for people to arrange meet up's and find out who is close to them without needing to search around different profiles and has its benfits for both kigs and kig fans alike.