Cosplay Molester ?
Oh great. We made the front cover.
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I hope both the guy and the girls (yes, the little girls too =_= )learnt their lesson. See how much negative impact their little ‘plays’ have done to our beloved hobby ?
The media just needs one small glitch to blow things to national level. And all the hard work previously pumped in to portray Cosplay as a positive hobby (in Singapore) has gone down the drain. I just hope this won’t turn into some big “Anti Otaku” phenomenon. *sigh
Apparently the local papershave so little gossip/news to dish out, they decided to repeat telecast the same material over at 3 different platforms
The other Platforms
Platform 2 http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201001261506-123227.html
Platform 3 http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100126-194651.html
Comments
At the same time, we must thanks the media cause now people know about cosplay in a negative way though. People will start to ask,
Person A: Girl got molested.... Btw,"What is cosplay huh?"
Person B: Oh. COsplay is a hobby where people dress up as anime characters
Person A: I see... Then Person A may or may not start research more about cosplay
Maybe I'm optismistic about this incident but more and more people get to know about cosplay in a bad way or another now..
i still feel that the girls should have been more aware themselves, and the matter should have been solved without having it brought up to the media for the whole of sg to see =_=. bring it up to the police, fine, but disgracing the community... *shakes head*
shame on the sg cosplay scene, both female victims and molestor(soon to be victim of the media) for not being able to handle with tact.