Naruto Cosplay

Comiket 73 Catalog

The exhibition center is divided in East Exhibition Wing, West Exhibition Wing, and Conference Tower. The doujinshi circles (publishing groups) are housed in East Halls 1-6 and West Halls 1-2. The cosplay and corporate booths are located in the 4^th floor of the West Wing. Naruto Cosplay takes place here.

Open Hours – Doujinshis circles are operating  from 10 am to 4 pm, and corporate booths are open from 10 am to 5 pm (except last day of Comiket).

It is especially crowded in the mornings when tens of thousands of eager participants are standing in lines blocking traffic. The committee puts a lot of efforts into organizing these lines and guiding them in open spaces and nearby parks.

To cope with increased traffic most public transportation services in Tokyo change their schedule, it includes Yurkamome elevated train line, the Rinkaisen Train Line, Tokyo Metropolitan Bus Lines.

There is no entrance fee in the Comiket, yet you are strongly encouraged to buy the official catalog.

Each doujinshi circle gets half a desk (90 x 45 cm), a couple of chairs, and some little space for storing inventory. The cost of participation as a doujinshi circle is 7500 yen, or 65 USD per single space. The total number of circles who apply for space is 46 500, and a lottery is held, so that only 80 percent of those actually get a place in the Comiket.

Popular circles attract many people, so they are placed separately in such a way that lines could be extended out into the truck yards. These circles sell thousands of books in a single session of Comiket.

Corporate booths are located on the fourth floor of West Wing. There are about 150 booths housing 130 corporations. The corporations fall into following categories: PC game software manufacturers, comic book publishers, music content publishers, TV and radio stations, as well as retailers that specialize in novelty goods and other items.

There are many activities going on here like rock contests, lotteries, autograph signing with celebrities, and handshaking sessions.

Cosplay Appearances

Many attendees put clothes of their favorite personalities, including manga, anime and/or game characters. There is a special dressing room for cosplay that is setup at the 4^th floor, and the cost of registration is about 800 yen (7 USD). There are many restrictions and regulations regarding cosplay due to congestion. Naruto Cosplay appearances take place here.

For each male cosplay persons there are 4 or 5 females.

Doujinshi Circles Demographics

Usually it is believed that doujinshi are male dominated, yet statistics show that among participants of doujinshi there are 71 percent women, and only 29 percent are men. The average age of a circle organizer is 28 years, both for male and female.

For general attendees the demographics are different – 57 percent women, and 43 percent men.

The breakdown of circles’ genres is as such – 41 percent manga, 9 percent anime (since manga titles only gain fame following its adaptation into the animated medium, the manga genre is really larger), 30 percent games, and 20 percent other. Breakdown of other genres: 40 percent history, literature, novels, 35% music, celebrity related, sports, 18 percent live action monsters, science fiction, mechanics related, military related, trains and travel, 7 percent critiques and various information booklets.

The Comic Market Preparation Committee and Comiket Ideals

The total staff includes 2400 people, all volunteers. The Committee is a volunteer based organization that has no legal entity status. The Committee was incorporated in 1985, and changed to its present form in 1996.

There are no “customers” in the Comiket. It is operated, maintained and comprised by those who take part in the event.

All participants are treated equally, and the Comiket must always be a place where freedom of expression is maintained. So the Committee must make all possible effort toward securing as much freedom as possible.

So every side supports and ads to a concept of comic market as an open space. Participating circles provide works and concepts, general attendees are readers and supporters of the creative efforts, and staff participants provide the space. So in order to remain a space with the greatest freedoms possible, self-reliance of the participants is important, but the event cannot operate properly without individual moral awareness, mindfulness of manners, and invested interests toward up-keeping this space.

View this nice opening for Naruto Shippuuden:

The name Naruto Shippuuden (sometimes spelled Naruto Shippuden and Naruto Sippuden) literally means Hurrucane Chronicles of Naruto, and it is a continuing sequel of Naruto manga series, actually it starts from volume 28 and later.

Naruto is ninja, and everybody knows that. After two years of training with the toad sage Jiraya our hero Naruto returns to his village. His outward appearance has considerably changed, yet he is the same in his heart. Part of the innocence is gone, and there is a melancholy pathos, but his more mature behavior brings to the series something it lacked, seriousness.

The core moral is that the more danger the more responsibility and power. Naruto tries to find new ways of getting rid of his dependence on the nine-tailed demon fox for his power, thus risking his own health with a special Rasengan attack.

Now he encounters much more dangers, but there are friends to support him now. You know that damned Akatsuki team are in the constant search for tailed beasts, so it endangers Naruto and, accordingly, his close companions. Naruto is mostly concerned about his brother, Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto takes part in many fights where he shows his extraordinary power, so he learns a lot, and becomes stronger each time. He is pursuing his goals with the help of his friends. He can do virtually anything.

The series is released in Japan with four or five episodes per disc. Now there are four series of DVDs that are divided by story arc. The first American DVD release was on September 29, 2009. Aside from regular DVD series there will be one named Kakashi Chronicles, Boy’s Life in the Battlefield.

Starting from October 2009 Naruto Shippuuden with English dub will be broadcast weekly, so you can watch Naruto episodes on Disney XD.

Naruto Cosplay costumes are adjusted to this or that series according to circumstances.

Naruto Costume

Naruto is one of the main anime characters of modern society, with millions of fans all over the world, becoming a hit on both Cartoon Network and Shonen Jump. Many people would like to copy their favorite hero by dressing in similar clothes. This applies not only to children, but to adults, as well.

The author of Naruto manga is Masashi Kishimoto, an anime artist and creative writer.

This popular manga tells about exploits of a group of ninjas who want to become most prominent in their village. Naruto followers dress as their beloved character on parties, sewing clothes with great detail. These colorful manga enacting appearances are known as Naruto Cosplays. The cloth that adults and children use is called Naruto Cosplay Costumes.

When you create your own piece of Naruto Costume, you have to know that Naruto wears orange zip-up jacket and pants resembling a tracksuit. His short hair is yellow and spiky. We see a blue headband on his head. Three black whiskers are drawn on each of his cheeks. He has blue shoes.

With Sasuke you have medium-size black hair, white shorts and short-sleeve shirt with a big collar, like a turtleneck. His headband is blue, too. He has white wristbands and legwarmers with blue bands. His blue shoes have exposed toes.

Sakura’s dress is red and sleeveless, a long shirt and tight green shorts underneath. Her headband is green, and her hair is pink (hairstyle changes in course of the series). She wears green shoes with exposed toes.
Kakashi has dark blue pants, and long-sleeved shirt accompanied by fingerless gloves of about the same color, with metal bands. His green jacket is like a utility vest. A mask on his face extends his clothes and covers almost all of his face. His headband is blue. In the manga he is endowed with special mystic ability in his left eye, so sometimes he wears headband tilted to cover his left eye. When we see his eye, there is a large scar that is stretching from eyebrow to the edge of the mask. His hair is gray, and long bangs sweep forward above his head.

There are many other Naruto characters that you can take use of for your Naruto Cosplay Costumes appearance.

Headbands are a symbol of ninja clan, so everybody wears them in the manga. That is a wide strip of cloth with a metal rectangle in the center. There you see a logo of home village of the corresponding hero. It is not complicated to produce your own headband from a strip of fabric. Metal square can be replaced by silver paint.

If you want a nice Naruto Headband, you can buy it here: