Harajuku couple 

You always have such interesting people on your photos, that is amazing. So what does HARAJUKU mean?

It's the place in Tokyo where you can find this young people, so called cosplayer.

Is it easy to take a photograph from them?

Extremely easy, cause being photograph is one of the things they are doing this for. They also take photos from each other, the older ones are posing for the youngsters :)

Wunderschön fotografiert. Die sehen so zerbrechlich aus, fast wie aus Porzellan. :)

bad english for me
could you explain me why they are doing this ?
what is cosplayer ?
thanks
shine on
nice pix you have here

Yes, of course I can. You know anime and manga, the japanese comic films and books? This young people are wearing costumes like their heroes from the films and books. It's a little bit like the Star Wars or Star Trek fans do on their conventions.

In Harajuku there is something like an every weekend open air convention. So about 50 young people you can find in wonderful colorful costumes. One part of this game is posing for the people and with the people. It's nowadays something like tourist spot in Tokyo.

But it's just a weekend event. Most of them look rather normal during the week.

Meanwhile it's getting more and more popular in Germany. Few weeks ago there was Japanese day in Düsseldorf, so many German cosplayer were also there. But, I must say, it's not worth shooting them, they not bit as cool as the Japanese ;)

By the way, cosplay means costume play. It's an artificial jenglish word...

Asia, Germany ?
would it be the reason why Fluckr censr the two countries ?
ah ah ah
anyway
thanks for explanations !
Might be interesting to cross them each week end !
is there a huge event once a year ?

I think there are conventions for cosplay, but I don't know details. I saw pictures from such events on flickr, but never joined one by myself.

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thanks
Shine on

*lol* @bigoode // Wallace

(i once had the same hair color as the one on the right...)

Trop mimi :)