mercredi 29 octobre 2008

Purikura



Purikura… Do you ever ear this word? It sounds so Japanese, isn’t it? Purikura comes from “Purinto Kurabu”, which means print club in English.

What is the concept of Purikura? The concept is to make alone or with friends some small pictures into a cabin, like in a automatic photo booth but at the end, you can customize it.

You could find Purikura machines in the arcade game galleries or in department stores. The style of the machine is very Japanese, it means that the style is “ the fantastic world”, wonderful and magical. Girls principally use Purikura. But you can see some boys too.

They enter into the cabin. You take pictures; you choose the style, the background. After the photo shooting, you customize the pictures that you have shot. You put or write whatever you want. The idea of the purikura follows the wave of the Japanese cosplay: it is the young people who disguise themselves to be in another world (Snow-White, Alice in Wonderland, gothic, Marilyn Manson…) because they want to escape themselves from the traditional japanese way of life. Purikura are for them, a mean for cosplays to express theirselves. Some purikura machines rent Cosplay wigs.

Purikura are very famous because Japanese are crazy about photography and they love to be take in photo. Young people are crazy of purikura, and one of their favorite games is to take at least one picture on each purikura they can find. In addition to that, in the 100 yens shop they can buy some purikura books to stick the pictures. Purikura are a real hobby for teenagers; indeed, for having used them, it is very funny, it can make great memories for a day or a good time with friends.

For the moment purikura stay in Japan but they are developing in the rest of the Asia.

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