Sabrina

Of all the odd and strange things I have seen online Sabrina's webcam has the power to freak me out and leave me disturbed. This is an achievement for something which is essentially a Japanese person (I'm guessing a man) who wears an anime mask and doesn't really do very much else (you really need to see it to understand). Anyway this came up at the Asylum and the Fortean Times and I have done a bit more research into this which I'll dump here and tweak and add to later.

This is called Kigurumi an explanation:
http://www.costumeplayers.com/features/kigurumi.htm

See also (the second link is weird as it is from a page of petticoat 'fans'):
http://www.geocities.com/littlerowan/kigurumi.html
http://www.pettipond.com/laterimages/cosplay/kigurumi/
http://www.geocities.com/kigurumifan/home.html
http://www.yuriskigurumi.com/kigurumi.htm - explanation of how it works for guys (as I think Sabrina is male).

They have links and there are more here:
http://koti.phnet.fi/otaku/linkkeja.html#6

More pics:
http://www.tcp.com/~doi/images/kigurumi/

Sabrina has a kindred spirit with Yuri (although the lack of a web cam certainly helps reduce the scariness).

And you knew it had to happen:
http://www.kusuo.net/E/24/

Which is probably a jumping off point into places I don't want to go so I'll stop here...........

And to clarify its no fetish it is a mainstream part of Japanese culture and you can find a lot of Pokemon and Sailor Moon Kigurumi around at theme parks and shows for kids - clearly, as with most things, I suspect it has also been taken into grey areas (like Sabrina) or beyond into porn but it isn't some niche thing

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