{"id":139,"date":"2008-08-24T08:07:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-08-24T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:07:50","slug":"leipzig-fills-up-with-german-cosplayers-still-inferiour-to-japanese-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/24\/leipzig-fills-up-with-german-cosplayers-still-inferiour-to-japanese-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"leipzig fills up with german cosplayers. still inferiour to japanese ones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.kotaku.com\/assets\/images\/kotaku\/2008\/08\/worldendswithyou.jpg\" alt=\"German cosplayers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cosplayers have arrived in Leipzig for the Gamers Convention Leipzig event. But with exception of the above awesome example, the other outfits prove laudable. Perhaps Germans are simply too European and cool to pull off cosplay awesomeness? Or perhaps manga\/anime artists really do design their characters to be best suited for Japanese cosplaying. Hit the jump for a German Final Fantasy cosplay vs. Japanese Final Fantasy comparison smackdown.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.kotaku.com\/assets\/images\/gallery\/9\/2008\/08\/medium_2791368473_08e0dccbac_o.jpg\" alt=\"WHOA\" \/><\/p>\n<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_6tYIsAJP0M\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosplayers have arrived in Leipzig for the Gamers Convention Leipzig event. But with exception of the above awesome example, the other outfits prove laudable. Perhaps Germans are simply too European and cool to pull off cosplay awesomeness? Or perhaps manga\/anime artists really do design their characters to be best suited for Japanese cosplaying. Hit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}