A photo and video exhibition of the Japanese cosplay team YuRiE will open at the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam in Hanoi on September 11.

YuRiE, formed by two young Japanese cosplayers: YuRi and RiE, won the cosplay champion at the World Cosplay Summit 2009 held annually in Japan ’s Nagoya city.

“Cosplay” or the dressings & makings up to be characters from various animations, manga and games are the art of the visualisation of two dimensional images into three dimensional figures. Not only making and sewing the cloths, wigs, accessories, but also setting the location, shooting and posing for photographs, videos, are all done by cosplayers themselves.

Apart from the exhibition, which will run till September 23, YuRiE will participate in Acctive Expo 2010 that will open at the Children Palace on September 12.

They will perform and will be the jury of “Cos’Night” during which five selected groups of Vietnamese cosplayers will make performances for competition.

YuRiE will be present at the booth of the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam to communicate and take photographs with Vietnamese friends.

YuRiE cosplay and performance being Sanada Hiroyuki & Date Masamune, the characters from the game software named Sengoku BASARA, were highly acclaimed by both the juries and the audience in the World Cosplay Summit which is held annually in Nagoya , Japan .

The creativeness and reality of portraying the selected characters are essential to be admired cosplayers, and YuRiE is one of such highly revered cosplayers in the world./.