World Cosplay Summit
[3] The WCS incorporated in 2012, by which time it had grown to include two weeks of activities, chief of which are a parade and championship held in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, on Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend of August.
[not verified in body] The WCS relies heavily on corporate sponsorship rather than ticket sales to fund its activities.
Five cosplayers were invited from Germany, France and Italy; "International Common Language" (MANGAは世界の共通語), a television programme dealing with the contemporary situation of anime and manga in Frankfurt, Paris and Rome, was produced and broadcast on November 24.
Nine countries competed: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, China, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Japan, with a total of 22 cosplayers.
The grand prize was won by brother-and-sister team Maurisio and Monica Somenzari L. Olivas, representing Brazil.
(Dressed respectively as Hughes de Watteau and Augusta Vradica from Trinity Blood, they made their costumes by hand with help from their parents.)
The first international symposium was held at Nagoya University entitled "Outward Minded: Worldwide Impact of Cosplay and Interpretations in Japan".
[7] In 2012, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Russia entered competitively at WCS, with Hong Kong and Taiwan participating under observer status, bringing the total number of represented countries to 22.
WCS expanded to 12 days for its 10th anniversary, with official visits paid to Gifu, Mie, Tottori and Aichi Prefectural offices, and a second parade was held in Ichinomiya during the Tanabata Festival.
It was later found that the votes were miscounted, with Germany and South Korea having the same score as some of the nations with the fewest points to qualify.
In The Second Stage held on Sunday All teams qualified in the afternoon before the start of the main event in the Championship round.
This was the first year of the World Cosplay Summit has become available used backscreen for enhance abilities representative's performance.The number of visitors during the periad exceeded 300,000.
",[8] the official WCS theme song, sung by Tōru Furuya WCS senior judges, was first sung during closing ceremonies on stage and later became the theme song during WCS events, including used in the closing ceremony on stage until now In 2017, 15th anniversary of the WCS.Nagoya city declared ”Cosplay Host Town”.Belgium, Chile, Myanmar, Puerto Rico, and United Arab Emirates joined, while Kuwait withdrew, bringing the number of participating nations/region to 34.
The Taiwanese cosplayers who became engaged during the 2017 championship held their wedding ceremony in the Wedding Hall Photo Party event;after the cake cutting ceremony, there was another surprise as the male WCS representative from Singapore made an unexpected marriage proposal.A night parade event was held for the first time at Central Park underground street.
On 31 August, A bridal cosplay party was held in Wedding Hall Bleu Leman, where the male WCS Alumni 2018 from Chile made an unexpected marriage proposal during the event.
WCS 2021 was planned to utilize a combination of recorded, online and in-person events.A large mosaic mural of the Oasis 21 complex depicting cosplay images of many of the campaign backers was hung at Chubu International Airport.
In 2022 will the 20th anniversary of the WCS but COVID-19 pandemic are continues including 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of countries/regions were unable to send teams.
The WCS organizing committee stipulates that there will be competitions in two categories by WCS representatives are coming to Japan with 11 nations for participate in Stage division (6 August) and 17 nations who cannot send representatives come to Japan will send video for participate in Video Division (7 August).
Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Egypt, Lebanon and Poland joined the WCSxGamers8 event (not as WCS member countries).
In 2023, Austria, Malaysia and Portugal returned to participate after being absent in 2021.The WCS organizing committee had set the competition to be just Stage performance as before.It was announced that there were 34 countries/regions, but later the Philippines withdrew from the competition bringing the number of participating nations/regions to 33 only.Later August 28-28, the WCS exhibition will be held again in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia called "Gamers8 Cosplay Cup supported by World Cosplay Summit".
Argentina, Bangladesh, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Iraq, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Serbia and Slovakia joined the WCSxGamers8 event (not as WCS member countries).
which is different from the normal that it has to be a media from Japanese only.And this is the first time that WCS official YouTube channel has broadcast live competition in Saudi Arabia.
In 2024,The WCS organizing committee has announced that the video division will return and renamed the World Cinematic Cosplay Summit and change to online event competition on June 8–9 and broadcast live on officially on Facebook, Twitch, X (Twitter) and YouTube, while the WCS Championship will remain on its original schedule in August.The participating countries include 19 original member nations.The first day was a competition to select the top 5 representatives from the wild card group to compete with the 19 member nations in the next day.
Prospective entrants must be able to travel to Japan for about one week from the end of July to early August for the World Cosplay Summit Championship.
After the World Cosplay Summit, images, photographs, footage, programs broadcast, Internet homepages and DVDs, etc.
In the Cosplay Championship, the costumes of the characters must be from the same Japanese manga, anime, video game or tokusatsu series.
All large props set on stage before the Cosplay Championship performance begins are limited to a maximum weight of 10 kg (22 lb).
Dimensions of hand held props carried onto the stage must be relayed to WCS head office in written form and accompanied by photographs.
The use of copyrighted background music or the voices of voice actors from original works and the copying or tracing of scenes or images appearing in original works for use in the videos, and sources, where the copyright holder is someone other than the representative team, is not permitted The Semi-final judges are a panel of usually organizer from participating nations/region, selected so that they are not judging the same group that contains their own team.
Attending countries in bold indicate first attendance for that year: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia (Observer), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam Australia (S&V), Belgium (S&V), Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France (S&V), Germany (S&V), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands (S&V), Philippines (S&V), Saudi Arabia (Withdraw in 1/8/2022), South Korea, Spain (S&V), Sweden, Switzerland (S&V), Taiwan, Thailand (S&V), Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Vietnam (S&V) Cosplay Cup
