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2013 Kigurumi Chronicle

The 2014-2025 volumes are complete. Following the rule to avoid completed years and move backward one year at a time, this edition covers 2013 only. Accessible first-party material is concentrated in Tokyo Game Show 2013's organizer rules. Specialist gatherings without a reliable date, place, and outcome are not converted into facts.

1. Evidence boundary

This volume uses the Japanese and English cosplay guidance retained in Tokyo Game Show 2013's official archive. The pages establish the event dates and venue and the costume, changing, movement, photography, and image-publication conditions announced by the organizer.1

Tokyo Game Show is a general game exhibition, not a specialist animegao kigurumi event. The Japanese rules directly refer to “large kigurumi” (大きな着ぐるみ), but identify no animegao participant, specialist gathering, or participant count. This volume therefore records how a public convention governed large kigurumi and adjacent cosplay infrastructure. Ordinary cosplay, total attendance, and the existence of a rule are not treated as evidence that animegao participants attended.

2. Verified nodes

September 19-22: large kigurumi enter a public convention's costume boundary

The Tokyo Game Show 2013 archive lists September 19-20 as Business Days and September 21-22 as Public Days at Makuhari Messe. Its cosplayer rules classify large kigurumi, large papier-mache forms, and floor-dragging skirts or mantles as costumes that could obstruct others. Skirts and mantles could be extended for photography only and had to be folded while moving. The English edition renders the relevant category as “large size full-body suits.”1

This did not ban every kigurumi and does not identify what mask characters appeared. The narrower verified fact is that, by 2013, a major public game exhibition explicitly treated large kigurumi as a costume-governance issue involving circulation space and effects on nearby visitors.

The same page limits changing to the cosplay changing rooms in Hall 9, forbids changing in restrooms or elsewhere, and prohibits eating, resting, and photography in the changing rooms. It also announces early changing from the first train at Kaihin-Makuhari Station until 08:00, cloakroom conditions, and a ban on arriving or leaving in costume.1

Photography was limited to designated areas inside and outside Hall 9 and in a specified parking area. Photographers had to obtain permission from the subject, and publishing an image on a personal website required the relevant person's approval. The organizer archive proves that these conditions were published. It is not a post-event report and cannot by itself prove that every facility operated as planned or that a kigurumi participant used it.

3. Domain decisions

Domain Verifiable 2013 material Decision
Chronicle Tokyo Game Show dates, venue, and contemporary cosplay conditions Include in the annual axis
Daily life / discussion Early changing, cloakroom, designated photography, and personal-site publication flow Record only organizer-published participation conditions
Workshop / craft No verifiable kigurumi production release found Omit
Reference / education “Large kigurumi” is a size and circulation boundary, not a synonym for all animegao Include as a terminology and evidence boundary
Etiquette / safety Changing-room privacy, photography permission, movement, and publication consent Include
Academic No directly relevant, verifiable new 2013 research found Omit

The existing chronicle, daily-life/discussion, reference/education, and etiquette/safety structure is sufficient. One general-convention ruleset does not justify a separate event, craft, or academic section.

4. De-duplication against 2014-2025

Continuing subject Kept in 2013 Later-volume treatment
Kigurumi at public conventions Tokyo Game Show's spatial restriction on large kigurumi 2014 retains AnimeJapan's official-character interactions; 2015 retains another event's area and movement rules for kigurumi / doll costumes
Changing and storage Hall 9 changing rooms, early period, and cloakroom conditions Later years retain only new fees, facility expansions, or operating outcomes at other events
Photography and publication consent Permission before photography and again before personal-site publication Later years retain new channels, commercial-use limits, or more specific privacy rules
Specialist animegao events No adequate first-party confirmation Later events are not projected backward into 2013

5. Annual conclusion

The stable 2013 record is not a specialist animegao event list but a public-convention boundary. Tokyo Game Show placed large kigurumi within circulation and space management while publishing changing-room, cloakroom, designated-photography, photography-permission, and image-publication conditions. These rules show that kigurumi had entered the governance vocabulary of a major public cosplay setting. They do not prove named participants, a specialist gathering, actual facility use, or community scale; those gaps remain open.

Source


  1. Tokyo Game Show, “TOKYO GAME SHOW 2013 / コスプレイヤーの方へ / To Cosplayers,” https://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2013/visitor/cosplayers.html and https://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2013/en/visitor/cosplayers.html