Kigurumi, which is pronounced ali Ru igurumi, meaning "ali Ru igurumi", is thought to have originally appeared in theme parks such as Disneyland, where Characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were found, but it was a form of unnamedexpression. Can be categorized as a subgenre of COSPLAY.
The performance form of Kigurumi also appeared as a form of commercial advertisement in Japan at first. In 1980s and 1990s, The Japanese economy experienced a period from rapid development to bubble bursting and entered the Great Depression. In the streets, in order to survive the struggling society, the staff wore thick clothes. Act as an animal or other non-human mascot for publicity purposes. Gradually, there emerged commercial Kigurumi with human images. This commercial Kigurumi was mainly composed of animation characters. Although it may be very rough and simple according to the current two-dimensional aesthetic standards, most of them are just human figures built by geometric objects, it is indeed the beginning of the development of Japanese Kigurumi.
Kigurumi is an extension of Cosplay. The Kigurumi actor participated as a cosplayer in the exhibition. But Kigurumi is very different from Cosplay. The first is that Kigurumi needs to wear a mask. In this way, as long as the body is good enough and the movements are vivid, the actor's appearance and even gender can be completely ignored. In principle, no part of kiger's body is exposed in order to fully reflect the character, and the actor usually wears a skin-colored bodysuit that covers the body.
