Luffy’s swag? Asuna’s eyes? Mei’s face? Manga characters inspire fans who seek to be like their heroes and heroines. If the special night of launch of volume 108 of One Piece Or the Paris Manga show will see cosplayers dressed as characters parade, there are other, less radical, ways of dressing up.
20 Minutes offers you three methods.
Memoli, first Korean photobooth in Paris
If in Asia, photobooths are very popular, in France, we had to wait until 2024 for the very first studio opens these doors in Paris. The principle? A self-photo studio in Paris provides a large number of accessories: very colorful glasses, animated-inspired hats, kawaii stuffed animals, and headbands with animal ears… And like in photo booths in Asia, it It is possible to personalize these photos by adding stickers, small words or by adding a colored frame.
Whether alone or accompanied, it is possible for one afternoon to organize a small accessorized photo shoot as if you were in the streets of Seoul.
Manga Lash, for a look inspired by Japanese manga
XXL and exaggeratedly curled eyelashes… Once you get the hang of it, the result is stunning. With or without false eyelashes, you suddenly look like a manga heroine!
This makeup trend went viral in 2022. After a video by Toronto influencer Sarah Cheung (@sacheu), with nearly a million likes, the Manga Lash makeup trend exploded on TikTok.
The magazine Bazaar even explained that the query “anime eyelash extensions” had seen an increase of 5,000% in just one month. In 2023, it was actress Zendaya who succumbed to the Manga Lash fashion, walking the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles with this doll-like look.
20 Minutes being on the lookout for trends, ten years ago, we already gave you all our advice on how to wear kawaii makeup. But it is in 2025 that this trend is likely to reappear, because this makeup reappeared at the Chloé fashion show during Paris Fashion Week.
Transform into a manga character in just 1 click with filters
Filters have also been very successful for several years. This summer, the Ghibli filter allowed all fans of this universe to be able to transform themselves to become a full-fledged character from the world of these anime in just 1 click.
A wide choice of filters exists on TikTok, allowing fans of Asian cultures to change universes as many times as they wish. A few years ago, it was the Al Manga filter that went viral on social networks, letting a large number of users become their own manga character.
And today, AI makes it possible to transform entire cities or videos of daily life in anime scenes. Enough to imagine a virtual reality in the land of Naruto and Princess Mononoke…