Halloween owes at least some of its booming popularity in Japan to the country’s preexisting enthusiasm for cosplay.
Speaking of characters who’ve recently risen to fame, we spotted Bowsette/Princess Koopa (Rere Kirisame) looking as devilishly beautiful and confident as ever.
While the Shibuya celebration is as much about getting drunk with friends as it is anything else, in Ikebukuro it’s the costumes that take center stage.
Frilly in a much more frightening way was It’s Pennywise, seen here in his 1990s version with Georgie Denbrough (Eiseihei).