Formal dress required
Japan has a great fascination with technology and for movies and cartoons that involve monsters (Godzilla) and robots (Transformers). They love their toys and put their favorite characters on the sewer lids and in the cereal bowls. In Japan, wedding festivities come in three stages. First, there’s the shiki, or ceremony. This is followed by a hiroen, or reception, often held at a hotel or banquet hall. Finally, since wedding reception venues in Japan typically only rent out the hall for two or three hours, there’s the nijikai, which translates to “second party,” where more celebrating takes place at a different location. The reception/hiroen tends to be a formal affair, with family members and professional colleagues included among the guests. The nijikai, though, is usually just for close friends and personal acquaintances, and sometime might not even take place on the same day as the ceremony and reception. This can put guests in a quandary as to what to wear, though, since it’s not always clear if the nijikai is going to be as formal a gathering as the reception. Luckily for Mr. Kuroboshi though, when his friend recently got married and invited him to the nijikai (second party) he included the helpful instruction “Please wear a suit.” So Kuroboshi wore a suit…a mobile robot suit.
Kuroboshi showed up dressed head to toe in cosplay of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, the RX-78-2, with a name card hanging around his neck so that people would know who he was. In the above photo which he shared from the event, the only uncostumed bit of skin showing is his right hand, as he temporarily removed the covering so that he could raise a glass of wine. So Kuroboshi was far from the only one who attended the celebration in costume. There was another Yu-Gi-Oh duelist visible in the background, (anther transformer like character) and at some point during the party Gundam and Eva Unit-01 found time to face off against one another. “I love how the people in the background are just acting like this is completely normal.” That last comment is a hint to the full context of the scene. See, you might be thinking that it’s poor form to show up for a wedding celebration dressed in a way that’s going to pull the focus from the newlywed couple. However, in this case the newlywed couple was Ryuryu and Ruby who prior to getting married represented Japan at the 2019 World Cosplay Summit (“costume play”) dressing up like characters from cartoons and movies.
The picture here shows another couple acting out their cake cutting with a giant sword from one of the cartoons of the day. RyuRyu himself (the groom above) even replied to Kuroboshi’s tweet, saying “I was super happy to have Gundam at the party” and thanking Kuroboshi for going to all the trouble of transporting the elaborate outfit all the way to the venue. So while there are some parts of Japanese weddings that not everyone is happy about, there are still plenty of ways to put a smile on everyone’s face during the special day.
Formal dress required:
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Transparents.
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