2017 Kigurumi Chronicle¶
This volume records events, works and publications from this year. Announcements and completed events are identified separately.
Verified nodes¶
About one week from October 4: a community census creates a quantitative snapshot¶
The “Kigurumi Census” initiated by Kussy (@kussy_tessy) received 221 responses. After excluding one response that did not accept the opening consent statement, 220 remained valid. The questionnaire circulated through the author's surrounding Twitter network. Its preface explicitly acknowledges population bias, question framing, and lack of neutrality, so this archive treats it as a bounded community self-record, not a population census or academic finding.1
The report covers participation, years active, masks and clothing, production sources, photography, social contact, identity, and intimate subjects. Two limited indicators are useful for the annual overview: among the 217 valid answers to the participation-mode question, 53% said they wore kigurumi at events or offline gatherings and 15% mainly wore it alone; the experience question had 216 valid answers and an average of 5.9 years, while after non-participants were excluded, more than half still had no more than five years of activity.1 These percentages describe this sample only.
Sources¶
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Kussy (@kussy_tessy), Kigurumi Census Results Report, survey conducted in October 2017, PDF, 73 pages; complete archive page. ↩↩