Pyromaniac Cosplay

mani writes "This is truly taking cosplay to the next level. Not only are they dressing and acting out characters from SNK/Playmore's King of Fighters series, but using actual fire to truly simulate the 2d fighting experience. Pictures and video included. Warning: site is most definately not in english."

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Take caution

[Anonymous Coward]

"Warning: site is most definately not in english."

Warning: post is most definitely not in English

For those who don't know

[Suicide]

Cosplay (cohs'puhleh) noun. the Japanese word for masquerading, generally done at anime and gaming events (including the unique Comic Market events in Japan)

Cosplay

[Anonymous Coward]

What is Cosplay?

Cosplay is a Japanese fan term for Costume Play; it's equivalent to the Western fan term Masquerade. In Japan cosplay covers pretty much the spread that convention masquerades in the West cover, from SF to fantasy, from medieval to military uniforms. It's basically a time for fans to dress up in their favourite garb or as their favourite character and have a bit of fun. There is a condition though; most fans insist that you not only play the character in dress, you also play the character's nature. In other words, whilst you're in costume, you must be the character, in thoughts, words and action.

Poetry?

[mikeophile]

Translated from the box at the bottom of the page, entitled "Today's Damage"

A burn slight to a face
Some hair burned.
A burn slight in both hands
A burn slight to the bosom
Both hands are burned.
Costume play clothes ... In both, every place burned.
Fire-resistant glove ... Both are total losses
Costume play clothes ... In both, every place burned.
Fire-resistant glove ... Both are total losses

Re:Disclaimer: (pic)

[$$$$$exyGal]

I had no idea what any of this was, so I did a search for Blanka. Here's all the stats on this fighter, and a pic: here.

--naked

Site explanation

[Rolman]

I'm quite a fan of KOF and fighting games and understand some Japanese, so I have a fair knowledge of what's going on.

In the first photos, you see these guys "Kyochin Yuzawa" and "Iorin Yamagi" facing off like their video game counterparts, Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, respectively.

Kyo and Iori are fierce rivals, descendants of clans that have fought each other over the power of a god-like entity called Orochi (the Kusanagi to seal it, the Yagami to harness it).

In the game, choosing these two will produce the same taunt that's written below their pics: "Honou ga omae o yonderuze!" ("You called for this fire") says Kyo, "nara, moetsukiro, isagiyokuna!" ("Let's see if it's good enough") answers Iori.

The first animated GIF shows Kyo using his most powerful move (Orochinagi), which requires great reflexes and strategy to pull off and hit the enemy with it in the real game. Kyo executes it while shouting "kuraiyagaree!" (something along the lines as "take this!") and burn Iori.

The second GIF shows Iori performing his second most powerful move (Yaotome), Iori perfoms it while shouting "Raku ni shinenzo!", (something like "just die!") but they make fun when the flame comes short of reaching Kyo.

Then it begins to get weird. Kyo uses his second most powerful move (Mu Shiki), which has Kyo performing a series of flaming punches in the game. But this time, Iori actually blocks the punch (!) and counters it with his most powerful move (Saku Tsumagushi) in his greatest form, which ends with Iori pounding the opponent on the floor amidst purple flames.

But the funny thing is, Kyochin's hands were actually burning beyond the fireproof gloves, so he tries to put the fire off on the sea water, while he shouts "I'm gonna dieee!".

sheesh these guys are crazy!

[zioncat]

they also have tried choping apple thats been taped to guy's forehead using samurai sword among other crazy stunts.

what people would do for their 15 minutes of fame...

Re:What exactly is cosplay?

[An Ominous Cow Erred]

It's a contraction of "Costume Play". It basically just means having fun dressing up as your favorite character/archtype/profession/whatever.

It doesn't necessarily mean you have a "fetish" (depending on what you mean with that term) but people who practice cosplay do enjoy costumes.

Re:wheres uncle darwin when we need him?

[floydigus]

To qualify for a Darwin, they would have to actually kill themselves, or burn their gonads off at least.

Esperanto != Espa�ol

[yerricde]

I've never discovered the reason why Esperanto is supposed to be so good. I have a suspicion it's based soley on Mexico's proximity to the US. For countries with few spanish speakers, it doesn't make much sense at all...

You're confusing Esperanto with Español, the language of Mexico and Latin America (excluding Brazil). Esperanto is based on a mixture of several Western and Eastern European languages. Think Italian mixed with Polish mixed with the agglutinative structure of languages such as Finnish, Japanese, or Turkish.