No Mao suits here

摘要

The violet and turquoise eyes, the blue wigs, antlers and angel wings all remind you that this is not the queue for the supermarket. The 1400 people with the most striking costumes were spared the HK$30 ($3.85) admission fee to Hong Kong's Ani-Com & Games convention, which lasted from July 29th to August 2nd. The result was a riot of Chinese opera, Japanese anime, French maids, Conan the Barbarian and Star Wars. Some 700,000 people crammed into the convention centre to gawk at comic books, see the latest games and watch their fantasies strut by.