WCS South Africa
WCS In South Africa
As the WCS representative in South Africa, Joannah Stewart, will be working towards sending a two man team to Japan in the year 2014. We are working our hardest to make a teams dreams come true and to get recognition in the global market as a land of Otaku.
For SA to be able to send a team, the competitors will have to battle it out in the prelims first. That is where the WCS representative, Joannah Stewart, will come in. With the help of the UCT anime society, Genshiken, the editor of All Otaku Magazine will host a convention big enough for the prelims to be held at. But first funds need to be collected for us to host an event and pay for the teams to go to Japan. This will require help from the community and from you, our readers.
If you want to see what the SA cosplay scene is up to, you can visit our website cosplaysouthafrica.co.za. This website is filled with useful links related to the booming cosplay community of South Africa, such as event information, cosplayer features, tutorials, etc.
We also recently had a public Facebook page started up for this community.
If you love this form of art and think you have what it takes to compete in the WCS one day, bring it on!
Africa is the only continent in the world to have not yet sent a team to this event to represent their country.
But what is the World Cosplay Summit?
The WCS is the annual international cosplay championship held in Japan. With over forty cosplayers from around the globe this has got to be one of the biggest cosplay competitions of the year. The first WCS was held in 2003 to highlight the international popularity of Japanese anime and manga through cosplay, and to brighten up Expo 2005 in Nagoya.The event has grown year by year and has come to include 20 countries with 40 cosplay representatives and encompasses several events including the Osu Cosplay Parade and Cosplay Championship."
Not only is this a huge opportunity for the young cosplay community in South Africa but also a big opportunity for South Africa to broaden our horizons and be recognised in a global coppacity. The cosplay community is growing at a rapid pace. We have a lot of local raw talent waiting to be developed in the cosplay scene but it is going go require a lot of hard work from all involved. That is why we have developed this site. It will act both as a place for us to raise funds for teams and as an information platform for those who wish to know more about the WSC in SA.
