Synopsis

A study, a ritual space, a school infirmary – the backdrop shifts as people clad in anime and game cosplay strike poses and capture images of one another. The cosplay building in Koto-ku boasts an impressive eighty thousand members, and its twenty-plus studios are frequented daily by women seeking to explore a transformed self through photography. Some articulate a desire to shed their everyday identities, to become the character they embody. Others cosplay as a memorial, honoring a lost love. W