[sylphstarwind]

Some of it's cool, but some of it just seems weird to me... Like that kabuki style or whatever it's called, where they paint their face really brightly, and mess up their hair? I dunno, seems to diminish their beauty rather than help anything... What's the point of it, just the attention, or to be "different" and cast of the burden of caring about having a "nice" appearance?

Anyway, I do think some of their fashions and such are really interesting, and look great. There seems to be a lot of variety, like just walking in Tokyo or some big city, you could see people in random costumes, or kimonos, or just "regular clothes". You've got men in business suits walking next to cosplayers. Unless, the cosplayers just stick to a certain area? I'm not sure, actually. Well, either way, you go to a big city in the US (such as NYC), and you probably wouldn't see any of the odder stuff like in Japan.