Cosplay Costumes in the Changing Room

About

Cosplay Costumes in the Changing Room, known as “It looks as if a character is taking a bath by putting his/her outfits in the changing room” (Japanese: コスプレ衣装を風呂場に置くとキャラが入浴してるように見える) in Japan, is a photo fad of putting cosplay costumes in the changing room (or bath room) and dreaming characters bath scenes.

This revolutionary cosplay costumes usage that could be enjoyed without wearing, is spreading among Japanese internet users via Twitter.

Origin

The trigger of this fad was a photo posted by a Japanese female twitter user Kyouya (恭也) on October 30th, 2012^[1] (shown below, left). Because she was inspired by an other user’s delusional tweet of the same effect on her timeline, she put it into an actual practice by cosplay costumes and glasses of her favorite character, or Husbando, Shintaro Midorima from a Japanese manga Kuroko’s Basketball^[2] (shown below, right).

This tweet had scored 3500+ retweets and 1300+ favorites in its first week due to the reversal idea of enjoying cosplay without wearing costumes and its inspiring aspect.

Spread

As of November 8th, 2012, many people inspired by Kyouya’s photo are posting photos to Twitter by the same style.

Those images and people’s activities are listed in Naver Matome archives^[3][4] and Togetter entry^[5]. Besides, this online phenomena is reported by Japanese online news sites J-CAST News^[6] and ITmedia.^[7]

Notable Examples

Hatsune Miku
Yuyuko Saigyouji from Touhou Project
Hisashi Mitsui from Slam Dunk
Madoka Kaname /w Kyubey
from Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Beach Restaurant Lemon’s T-shirt
/w Ikamusume
Star Wars

Search Interest

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