A Japanese man spent roughly 2 million yen (about $15,700) on a practical border collie costume to meet his "dream of turning into an animal," based on a number of reviews.

Posting to Twitter final month, the person, Toko, shared a video of himself modeling the costume. It has amassed greater than 1.3 million views and hundreds of feedback from viewers who stated the costume seemed "too actual."

In keeping with The Impartial, Toko commissioned Zeppet, a Japanese firm identified for making sculptures and costumes for motion pictures, to make the garment. Apparently, it took the Zeppet crew 40 days and "a number of rounds of trials and revisions" to nail the costume.

"The purpose is that the skeleton of a canine will be reproduced on the skeleton of a human. For the reason that construction of the skeleton may be very completely different, we spent plenty of time learning easy methods to make it appear to be a canine," a Zeppet worker advised Japanese outlet Mynavi.

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A Japanese man spent over $15,000 dollars on a practical border collie costume to meet his "dream of turning into an animal," based on a number of reviews. The costume was made by a Japanese firm identified for sculptures and costumes for motion pictures.Radim Ryba/istock

"As well as, we [collected] images taken from varied angles in order that the attractive coat of the collie [could] be reproduced and devised in order that the coat [would] movement naturally," the worker continued.

It seems the onerous work paid off. In his now-viral tweet, Toko wrote: "Because of you [Zeppet], I used to be capable of fulfill my dream of turning into an animal!"

However Toko wasn't the one one impressed by the costume. 1000's of Twitter commenters stated they have been surprised by how actual the costume seemed, and a few even thought Toko was an actual canine.

"Your costume is so good!" exclaimed ninteli. "At first I believed it was an animal!"

"I believed it was actual for a second," tweeted @Lumiere_Cat.

"There are folks inside that?" requested @necoco202. "It is too actual."

"I believed it was an actual doggy!" added @Y56Ffs.

In fact, Toko is not the primary grownup to specific an curiosity in wanting to decorate as or "turn out to be" an animal. In 2017, the New York Put up reported that roughly 250,000 People determine as "furries"—a subculture of people that get pleasure from dressing up as "cartoonish animals."

A survey carried out by Dr. Kathy Gerbasi revealed that "roughly 25 p.c of these surveyed [self-identified furries] thought-about themselves lower than 100% human and would turn out to be zero p.c human if they might," the New York Put up acknowledged.

Chatting with The Put up, Joe Strike—a person who recurrently attire up as a Komodo dragon named Komos—added that the majority furries he is met "grew up with pursuits in anthropomorphic cartoon characters and now discover consolation round others with the identical curiosity."

Along with Toko's border collie costume, different intricate costumes to make waves on-line embody one girl's do-it-yourself Marge Simpson costume and two slinky canine costumes a grandmother made for her grandchildren.

And who says animals cannot gown up, too? In January, a cat dressed as a UPS supply driver went viral on TikTok.