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2018 Kigurumi Chronicle

This volume records events, works and publications from this year. Announcements and completed events are identified separately.

Verified chronology

March 24-25: AnimeJapan 2018 extends public-space rules for kigurumi

AnimeJapan 2018's public days ran March 24-25 in Tokyo Big Sight East Halls 1-8. Cosplayers World used East Halls 3 and 8 and provided paid cosplay registration, changing rooms, cloakrooms, indoor and outdoor photography areas, early changing, and a parade.12

The page continued the consent, pose, changing-room, and cloakroom provisions. This volume does not count those continuing provisions as new 2018 rules; the year's unique governance node is the larger venue footprint and explicit parade-attendant responsibility.

Academic year 2018: animegao mask production enters graduate research

Keio University's repository records Haruka Jibiki's master's thesis, “Construction of a matching service for animegao-kigurumi mask production: through the activities of mask order-to-sales business ‘Kigurumi-Ya,’” advised by Kazunori Sugiura and published by the Graduate School of Media Design. The record describes x + 65 pages and classifies it as Media Design thesis no. 689 for academic year 2018.34

The title itself establishes mask production, maker matching, and Kigurumi-Ya's order-sales activity as the research subject. Because the repository supplies no abstract, this archive does not infer methods, sample size, or outcomes. The durable claim is narrower: production supply, commissioning, and service design had become a formal master's research topic.

Sources

  1. AnimeJapan, “AnimeJapan 2018 Event Outline,” https://anime-japan.jp/2018/about/outline/ ↩

  2. AnimeJapan, “Cosplayers World,” https://anime-japan.jp/2018/main/cosplay/ ↩

  3. Keio University Academic Repository, “Construction of a matching service for animegao-kigurumi mask production: through the activities of mask order-to-sales business ‘Kigurumi-Ya,’” https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/detail.php?koara_id=KO40001001-00002018-0689 ↩

  4. National Diet Library Search, aggregated thesis record, https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000025-I012760004076179 ↩