TOKYOMANGO: Fake Injury Cosplay Popular Among Geek Girls. There’s a description somewhere in Gibson’s Neuromancer about a Japanese woman dressed in an ultraconservative style that involves fake bruising. I never was able to figure out if this referenced a historical practice or instead was an extrapolation, but either way, it’s surfaced in pop culture now.

TOKYOMANGO: Fake Injury Cosplay Popular Among Geek Girls. There’s a description somewhere in Gibson’s Neuromancer about a Japanese woman dressed in an ultraconservative style that involves fake bruising. I never was able to figure out if this referenced a historical practice or instead was an extrapolation, but either way, it’s surfaced in pop culture now.

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