Akihabara: “Baka Gaijin”
American cosplayers: Akiba hates you! Okay, maybe not all of you. Especially not the hawt girls (pics pls, kthx). But you know who you are!
Just take a look at these posters that have been found stuck to lamp posts along Akihabara. (Original post by Akiba-blog)
They all depict a cosplaying gaijin with the words “Baka Gaijin” over them. Baka bakka~
Image taken from Akiba-blog
I have to chalk this up as a fake: those fonts are nicely formatted and we all know that Japanese people can’t Photoshop for nuts! (Just take a look at 2ch, yuck) Those who can are probably too busy slaving away in office cubicles drawing the next episode of Naruto to find time to stick posters in Akihabara. :P
For those of you in Tokyo now, the lamp post in question is located right outside Gamers Honten. Go take more pics!!!
Interestingly, some other anonymous person has pasted replies to this with posters saying “I love Baka Gaijin“, ain’t that sweet. They love you!…
…but you are still stupid. XD
December 18th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
The post doesn’t say much actually. It just describes the stickers, the location where they were pasted and the characters depicted.
I need to do something to get myself posted on Akiba-blog the next time I’m in Japan… <_<
December 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
OK, thank you very much!
Now, does anyone know if any of them is still up?
I can send you some stickers to print if you want, so you can lead the second Baka Gaijin wave…
Go go power rangers!
January 5th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Hello!
Just saw the stickers, and…hahahahaha…I mean…wow!! u’re FANTASTIC!!
C’mon people, they’re GREAT!! I mean…they may not be the most fashionable and “perfect” cosplayers, but they had the bollocks to put their photos there, and saying “baka gaijin”!!! (AAAAAAAAaaaahahahahahahaha!! that was goooooooood…), and they even appear, BY CHANCE, in the internet!! I mean…if I, in one of my travels to China, would find anything that I put in a fucking post, commented on the internet…aaaaaaaaahahahahaha…
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
And as exaltdragon says, it is easy to be critic, bt it does take a long time and effort to do a just “acceptable” costume…and as ninpuukamui says, the most important thing is to have fun, no to be “ultraperfect”. Taking it so seriously just kills the funny part of cosplaying…I think those people are having reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaal fun, and I admire them.
By the way, ninpuukamui, is that really you?? Are they really your friends?
Oh my God…hahahaha…
March 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
what’s that?! cant you make your image bigger?!?!
December 16th, 2007 at 6:15 am
NinpuuKamui Wrote on December 18th, 2006 at 10:00 pm:
“Hello! I’m the one who made thos stickers, fore more info, I’m the guy in the middle here:
http://www.akibablog.net/archives/img/2006-09-25-206.html
All he “Baka Gaijin” are my friends, who also traveled to Japan with me. The “I love baka gaijin” stickers are also mine. I’m, of course, not trying to insult my friends or myself, so take the “cosplayer baka gaijin” thing with humour, please! We love cosplay, but I must say we mostly cosplay for the fun of it, we don’t need ultraperfection in our costumes! Subzero and the Saint Seya guys (You should have seen the boxes for the ormors) put more efort than others, though :)
FYI, the costumes are, from left to right:
Top: Subzero, Seiya, Superman in underware, and plain clothes (she have never cosplayed!!)
Bottom:Random vicking, Tifa from Advent Childres (in the box says “Final Fantasy” because nodoby knew what was she dressed as), random kung fu master, Shun.
I can’t read japanese, so if someone could please tell me what the original post in Akiba-blog, I’d be very glad. Thanks!
Also, anyone knows if the stickers are still there? We put a lot in Harajuku as well.
Ah! we are not american, we are spanish!”
Hm, just for fun, huh?
I can tell you, you’re very brave by doing this without thinking on all this flaming.
I thought cosplay was only for anime characters and never thought of Superman as one. Anyways, if you’re going to do it for fun, I guess it’s allright. No professional effort, but a lot of fun.
Then Have fun!
And all those who are flamin’: let’s see what you come up with instead of shallow criticism! Stop that “Thou shalt not” kind of thinking! Cosplay anyone of you? Who Dares?
Joey