"Leaving Mundania" cosplay documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Leaving Mundania explores the colourful lives of "cosplayers" who express their fandom through costuming and roleplay.
Through candid footage and in-depth interviews, Leaving Mundania offers an intimate view of this colorful fan culture, revealing how cosplayers stand apart from the "mundanes" of the everyday world.
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one of my favourite documentaries of all time and i just noticed i haven't left a comment. i love watching this every year before con season starts up again. thank you for filming this!
This is a really wonderful documentary! I love that the personal stories are interspersed with the more intellectual aspects of the culture and how it works with identity issues, etc. :D
come home and go into withdraw well theres drugs but anime conventions are cheaper XD
I enjoyed this film very much. I identified with Sue and Vlad and Featherweight, plus, at different phases of my life. I started costuming at cons in 1976 and after coming in first at a couple around 90 I dropped out, but this film is beginning to rekindle my interest. Thank you for making it, LOVE the People and Very Well Made. It was so accessible and normal, not talking heads or lecturing, just immersive "fly on the wall". Congratulations, I'll link to it on FB community.
This video was nothing less then amazing, great work!
Awesome video. I'm just starting out in cosplay, so stuff like this is really motivational. Go fellow Torontonians!
All of the people in this documentary seem very real and likable and I'm glad I got a chance to know a little bit about them.
Sachie sent me here ^_^
me to ^^
"whats art?" hahah :)
I nearly just had a heart attack when I saw myself and my boyfriend as Katara and Aang at the Avatar photoshoot XD
Absolute great job on the documentary guys!
You guys were so cute!
I love the way she laughs so much.
What an awesome documentary I had a lot of fun watching it ~
That was a great documentary ! Thank you for sharing
. I think Sue look like such an amazing person.
There I AM. @ 29min in. Yay!
@ 1:41... I am currently watching the Naruto: Shippuden Ep.20 from 5/18's Toonami... Ha Hargh! Coincidence
Great documentary! It's great 'cause I'm sitting here working on my cosplay for Anime Central in May. XD I'm still new to the scene and only fully cosplayed once but I really wanna get more into it. This really portrayed the concept of cosplaying beautifully.
Love it!!!! the songs are well picked and perfect. the people are interesting and I actually know some of them!!! Im really glad to see im not the only person with the same opions as the some of the people in the video. it was also very cool to see the different levels of people you got in the video, from a long time costume to a first year newb to Featherweight!!!
Im linking to my friends. i really enjoyed this!
Hands down my fav anime video EVER!!! I was in it!!! I WAS SO HAPP TO SEE ME IN IT!!!! LOL!! GO DARK LINK!!!!!!!!!! LOL!! Anywas hope to see you again!! I am excsided for this up comeing anime north! I hope you do another video this one was awesome and funny and just all around great! Keep up the awesome work and outfits!! =D
well i have to say i know people who do cosplay, i like comics, anime, manga i am a rapper that has nothing to but im also write novel in spanish and many times i stop by on a anime convention just to see the impact what you imagine has the impact on people... and you guy are artits.
oh my god i know you guys! i met you the one year i went to Dotcon years and years ago when i first started cosplaying....i was dressed as Hinata Hyuuga, i remember standing and talking to Vlad.....and talking to Sue while she was in Choji....blast from the past wow. great documentary guys!
Epic documentary! Ive been looking for a cosplay documentary to show my parents what its about. dont you just hate it when you want to cosplay as fun male character and your mom questions your sexuality? anybody?okay.....
No problem :) Umm, the characters I was thinking of were Lelouch Lamperouge & Suzaku Kururugi [Code Geass], Setsuna F. Seiei & Tieria Erde [Gundam 00], and Yurippe [from Angel Beats]. I admire how individualistic these characters are in how they're prepared to stand alone for the sake of their ideals, even in the face of rejection or being misunderstood by most others. Yet, they can still be deeply sensitive, considerate, & even sentimental (yes, even Setsuna, lol). I understand these qualities.
Great Documentary!! What I loved most was that the opinions expressed were all very positive and emphasized the fun in this hobby, as well as the fact that many cosplayers really do see cosplay as a form of Identification that goes deeper than just crafting/wearing an outfit. I mean, ultimately everyone cosplays for their own reasons, but it makes me really happy that the 'identifying with the character' reason is acknowledged here :) cause personally, that's my biggest motivation to cosplay.
I really have to admit - a couple years ago - I thought people who did this were kinda losers.
Is it weird that now I REALLY wanna play dress up?????
So going to one of these things this year.
Aww. This just.. I'm sorry, I just started crying. I plan to go to AN this year and I am also going to Con-G for it's their last year. I hope that I can meet you guys, It'll be a great honour ; 3 ;
Tell me about it. I don't think it took me any less than two hours to get from one end of the building to the other. That's like a 3min walk, max. 2hrs....craziness. But so much fun.
Hey, I'm the bald girl Aang in the orange toga (from The Last Airbender series) at 28:09. I did a complete double-take, didn't realize I'd be in this documentary! Can't wait for AN 2013!
Thanks for being in the film, Silent Bob!! I still get a kick out of those people who were seriously thought you were "the real one". =)
Awesome documentary! Also, at 30:49 is where you can see a girl holding a BJD (the back of one but whatever). I didn't think I'd see one in this video haha!
There are alot of people out there who have no clue what 'anime' is. Up til 7yrs back I had no clue, til my son who was into anime n manga shows showed me. lol It all depends on the world they are in as to if they know this type of fun exists. I'd find it absolutely fun to stumble on a convention, where as a art lover, I see cosplay as a walking breathing form of art given life.
This was very sweet. I loved it.
Thanks! Glad you felt that the film was an accurate portrayal of cosplaying. What characters do you identify with?
I like how you didn't even make it out of the parking lot before you got locked down doing photo ops. :)
US watcher here, now that the first episode of "Heroes of Cosplay" has aired in the US, I want to thank you for making this documentary, which really does the hard work of communicating the human-side of the hobby. Again, thank you for giving these cosplayers a voice.
By far the best documentary I have ever seen about cosplay! I love this so much. It's very inspiring and awesome! :D
Escaping from reality.. nothing wrong with that, and Cosplay is cool, i would love to get into it.
This has inspired me even more took even harder on my first cosplays and Halloween costume!
So glad to see this online, and just in time for me to plug in my daily vlog! ^_^
- the Triana cosplayer
Juat a thought for a Vash cosplayer, but having the insurence agents in the audience and un announced to the judges... have them run up with doughnuts as a suprise!!!
This was amazing, I can't wait to start putting my costume together next year! I'm gonna be Cell.
I miss con life so much!!!!! I got my first fauci ouchie yesterday, and I can't wait to go to another con. I will be wearing the free hugs sign when we get to go back.
very cool. I posted to my page. See you this year at AN :)
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She really loves the sound of her own voice. Aside from that, she's a brilliant costumer.
Great documentary. It was awesome that it featured my hometown convention too.
Love this would love to meet ya I'm a massive cosplay fan and artist
36:43 - OMG MONSTER RANCHER
I LOVE YOU GUY
MONSTER RANCHER
MONSTER FARM
IS THE BEST
Nice doc! Thanks for making it.
this is a wonderful documentary
Beautiful! This portrays the cosplay/con life so perfectly.
I love cosplay ❤😁, is my life and what i live for 😁❤☺
36:18 was that a belly dancing miku? That's awesome!
I've watched this three times. Can I be besties with Soo?
Cosplaying sound like fun.
That Totoro cosplayer is awesome!
Oh, and thanks for BEING IN THE DOC! haha
I just say "Japanese Cartoon" to outsiders.
YARGH!!! Crimson Binome!
great, great, great documentary!
That mini gaara was soooooooooooooo cute!!
cool - what is your page URL ? ^__^
AH! The nostalgia IT BURNS!
well done - i'll pass this on ^__^
I love the commitment and dedication of ALL YOU COSPLAYERS! Such innovative CREATIVE thinking! Your love of something mundanes think as juvenile, is something this world needs more of!
15:50 - Very sweet of his parents to do, but one thing... It's not Japanese themed. Those dragons are most definitely Chinese.
Also, the name is spelled wrong... ^^; The proper writing of Vladmir is "ウラジミール," not ヴゥラディミル." That's almost unpronouncable...
Do you feel better about yourself now?
Wonderful!!! ::wild applause::
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That last line was perfect
everything is adjustable!
Thanks for the plug!! =)
23:30 this guy has skills
With all the "fake geek girl" drama and "cosplay =/ consent" drama in the community lately this is SOOOO nice to remind us WHY most of us started cosplaying. Thank you sooooo much for making this.
Thanks for watching!
this is fantastic!
*to work. Lol
Good documentary! My only thing is just that everything was anime. .....I'm a cosplayer and I dont necessarily like anime! Haha. To each their own! I think it would have been good to show maybe that variety of how anything and everything can and is cosplayed! But really, I did enjoy it. And yes......coming to a convention does feel like your coming home!
Cosplay's origin is Japan and anime. The word's origin is Japan and anime. If anything, the word is now borrowed by the US for American properties.
The name cosplay was coined by a Japanese (takahashi) but the modern day cosplay conventions originate from the US sci fi conventions of the early 19th century known at the time as just costuming. Look up the first world con which was held in new York around 1939. You'll find the first modern cosplay couple there (Forrest ackerman and myrtle Douglas),which later caught on and inspired the cosplay movement in Japan and around the globe.interestingly,the awesome Japanese reporter (takahashi) that coined the now famous word "cosplay" was attending a convention in Los Angeles when he came up with the word.he was so taken aback by western convention and it's costume masquerades that he invented the word to suit what he was witnessing.cos = costume and play = performance hence cosplay
ないないない
It's from コスプレ (kosupure or cosplay)
The modern cosplay is absolutely from Japanese culture.
Anyway.
Iris in a Bottle to each their own.figured I'd just add my two cents. As much as I like the cosplay community and Japanese culture, the origins of cosplay are documented like I roughly stated up top despite your disagreements. I suggest looking up the history of cosplay here on TH-cam or on google.good day miss :)
Iris in a Bottle "Modern" cosplay? So there's "ancient" cosplay? The notion that cosplay started in Japan is a misconception. There are tons of academic articles readily available online that contradict this belief and point to the origins of cosplay as stated by R. Tasi. As they said, the term was coined by a Japanese journalist. The term is Japanese in origin but not the practice.
omg who dosent know anime like wtf
I have a lot of Friends who are a fan of Anime while im big into comic book charectors i m gonna start co splaying for me the big thing im preparing for making sure my 3 day pass ordered my costume gets done and get my money to buy my favorite Superhero/Villain stuff is Montreal Comic Con im Canadian it s the best part of the year even better then Christmas.
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Cool
this is wonderful. a true image of our lifestyle.