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Here is the SDK. All cosplayers are female. All characters are male. I am just grateful there was no Kyo. Or Bontenmaru. Kotaro is scarily good, though.
Here is the Bleach, though there is some debate about the Ishida, I think all cosplayers are gender appropriate here. (Includes a character who hasn't shown up in the US releases yet, but I don't think that's an issue for anyone here.)
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Date: 2008-01-21 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 07:51 pm (UTC)I like the Shuheei(or howver you spell it) myself.
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Date: 2008-01-21 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 07:49 pm (UTC)I think the Ichigo is more feminine looking, myself.
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Date: 2008-01-21 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 07:46 pm (UTC)Oddly, I like the crossdressing aspect in fiction canon, but not outside of it.
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Date: 2008-01-21 10:35 pm (UTC)for me, it's odd seeing a female dressed up as a male character I'm attracted to because I'm not attracted to females
Ah, for me there's no real cognitive dissonance there as I'm bi and just interested in general in crossdressing and other forms of more playfully fluid, performative approaches to gender. But I'm also one of those girls who's just as likely to identify with male characters as well as female ones -- some of that probably goes with the territory of having been a somewhat tomboyish girl in a generation when there were relatively slim pickings for girl characters that I could see myself in. I got in the habit of identifying with boy characters since they were usually the ones with interests and adventures that I could put myself into, and while it's much easier these days to find female characters that do click with me, I've still never gotten out of the habit. If there's a story I love and the female characters are unappealing, or just too different from me, or just barely there to begin with, and there's a male character who is more in synch with my personality, I'll still glom onto the guy character without a second thought.
(Mind you, Saiyuki has brought me an entirely new sort of cognitive dissonance, because this is the first time I can think of in a lifetime's worth of fangirling where the character I perv on the most is *also* the one I identify with the most strongly. That's never happened to me before and it really, really hurts my brain if I try to think about it too much...)
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Date: 2008-01-22 03:41 pm (UTC)Now my Saiyuki hang-up doesn't bother me at all ... they're both my boys, and it's only right that they're into each other ... .
XD
Cross-dressing for theatrical purposes is as old as the hills. I just sit back and enjoy it in terms of aesthetics ... and sometimes in terms of gender-bending, depending on the exact presentation.
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Date: 2008-01-23 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 08:32 pm (UTC)The Yachiru has the bright, sparkly eyes down.
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