I came back from the last cosplay event of the year, and with some negative feelings attached. It may not be anyone’s fault, and just that people who are not cosplayers do not understand the ettiquette. In events like these, it is necessary to have hosts, and due to a lack of human resources, you would expect that the hosts may not be someone who is not interested in anime and cosplay at all. The MCs may be just someone who is there to earn money. Of course, because they are there, they have to dress up similiarily to look like they fit in. Still, some behaviours are unacceptable.
Behaviours such as pulling the wigs of cosplayers when they come out to answer questions and then pulling the real hair of others to check if they are wearing wigs – these are unacceptable. The first action shocked me, and the second put me into utter disgust.
You may not be cosplaying, but imagine if someone pulls your hair. What will happen then? Don’t you feel weird? How will you respond? What if you are a cosplayer? You spent a lot of effort to put the wig on, and all your other costumes, and bear in mind this – all cosplayers and even non-cosplayers know that costumes are very fragile; we handle them with care, no matter what they are. Just imagine if there is the hair pins and everything to make sure your hair is in the right position, and subsequently, your wig. What happens when someone pulls that wig and removes it slightly?
If you are unable to imagine that, then let me use another example. Do you pull the wig of a random stranger who is bald? I don’t believe you would do that! Not even to people who are not bald, you would NOT do it. So why would you pull the wig of a cosplayer? You should have walked around the event already. If you did not, you have already seen all the cosplayers in their various coloured wig. So what is your problem here? Are you going to pull all the wigs of the cosplayers?
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