ICGP & WCS - English

Indonesian l Japanese

The "Indonesia Cosplay grand Prix" is an event which selects a representation cosplayer as an Indonesia Organizer of WCS and we take the champion cosplayer of Indonesia to the WCS(World championship) of Japan.

Furthermore, ICGP cooperates with WCS and educates Japanese comics and anime culture.

WHAT IS THE ICGP?

The ICGP is a cosplay event sponsored by PT. FKB JAPAN. It stands for the Indonesia Cosplay Grand Prix.

Indonesia Cosplay Grand Prix will begin in 2012 and is designed to determine a Grand Champion through stage performances by representative teams from all indonesia.

This event is held to "Little Tokyo Brok-M Ennichisai" in June, 2012.

WHAT IS THE ENNICHISAI?

The "Ennichisai" started in 2010 for the purpose of activation of the blok-M, and the cultural exchanges with Japan. It also means Japan cultual fair or celebration.It grew up to be a big event for which more than 170,000 spectators gathered in 2011.

WHAT IS THE WORLD COSPLAY SUMMIT?

The "World Cosplay Summit" was created to promote international exchange through the Japanese youth culture of manga and anime.
The free and dynamic nature of manga was instrumental in the birth of cosplay. Nowadays youth from around the world find this as a common language and a dynamic new form of global interaction.

The World Cosplay Summit began in Osu, Nagoya and has grown to include 17 countries from around the world. If you count audience and participants at each preliminary event, the number of people involved is now in the 100s of thousands.

For youth who have discovered Japan through manga and experienced Japanese culture through the medium of the World Cosplay Summit, we endeavor to continue the development of this new form of international exchange.

The WCS is a cosplay event sponsored by TV Aichi. It stands for the World Cosplay Summit.

WHAT IS THE WORLD COSPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP?

The World Cosplay championship has begun in 2005 and is designed to determine a Grand Champion through stage performances by represen-tative teams from each participating country. The championship is graded on the finish of the costume design and the teams performance on stage.

Grand Champions from previous years are as follows:
2005: Italy / 2006: Brazil / 2007: France / 2008: Brazil / 2009: Japan / 2010: Italy / 2011: Brazil