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>>35054310
Alright, I did my besht:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as "kigurumi", is in fact, an animegao-clad performer/cosplayer, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, kigurumi-wearing animegao performer/cosplayer. Kigurumi is not the closest thing to anime waifu unto itself, but rather a visual component of a fully functioning animegao costume concept made useful by the performer self, face shell accessories and necessary kigurumi components comprising a full waifu suite as defined by its Precure stage show origins.

Many anime bobblehead layers execute a modified concept of the kigurumi system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of animegao which is widely used today is often called “Kigurumi” which is intrinsically wrong, and many of its users are not aware that it basically means 'costume' in Japanese, foolishly coined by the English-speaking community in ignorance of this fact. There really is a Kigurumi, and these people are using it, but it is just a subset of the wider cosplay culture.

Kigurumi is the costume: the performer's clothing that hides a performer's natural appearance in favor of an animegao veneer. A kigurumi is an essential part of a performance, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete animegao cosplay. Kigurumi is normally used in combination with the performance of its wearer: the whole system is basically method acting with animegao added, or animegao-clad performer. All the so-called “Kigurumi cosplayers" are just performers wearing animegao masks.