August 29th - August 31Greater Columbus Convention CenterAnyone here goin? Any panels sound interesting?Will you be staring wistfully into your overpriced Naruto themed drink at the attached bar?What you cosplaying?I always find myself having a better time here than I expect, and there was more than one fairly active thread for this con last year with a surprising number of people attending so figured I'd make a thread this year.
>>10960267got a picture with a bunny girl at the con, was pretty awesome but I'm fairly sure she was just being nice and grossed out by my presence. still fun con
This was my first con in like 5 years after being bored with how swamped colossalcon got when anime became for normlords, loved it! So many kind and fun people.And, space to actually move around freely! Woo!
It's no humongous party like Colossalcon, which, in a way, is a good thing really, but it's usually a good time. Personally had a less fun time this year but I also mismanaged my time and went with someone who killed the vibe a little for me. Was also a little disappointed I didn't see any gulls like the previous year, that's always interesting. Next year I'll prolly just solo again.
Con was fun this year. Shoutout to that Shiki and Fujino I saw in the parking garage. And the Bojji/Kage duo.Though contestants need to step up their game with Guess That Anime OP
>>10960448>Though contestants need to step up their game with Guess That Anime OPSomehow they knew all the 80s and 90s shows but no one in the room knew K-On's OP.
Years ago, when cosplay started getting popular, but also sexual, I remember being a big fan of a certain cosplayer. They turned out to be quite rude to their fans, and I was left being disappointed by it. Later as the years went by, I came upon information that her cosplay hype died down, her twitch and vtuber arc couldn't lift off the ground, and she lost her twitter verification, and just isn't popular anymore. Basically what I'm trying to say in this thread is; fuck that whore. But also how has the cosplay community/scene been? Has it gotten more slutty? Worse? Better? Are people chill, or rude? Tell me your experiences from before (5-10 years ago) v.s now.
>>10956229>>10957729Sorry for blogposting, I don't have anyone to talk to, especially about things like this. Disregard my previous post if you wish. What I really wanted to say is, thank you for pointing out the resources, I will read them. Also excellent of you to mention physical appearance, as actual male autists are often unaware of it. Personally I am doing well, I am gaining muscle. I got a lot of money too, I am just in the process of learning how to show it, because turns out your bank account doesn't matter if you're driving 2000's honda and dressed in your high school clothes. Also to normies reading this, I was unbothered when typing my previous post.Mentioning this as I am aware that what is normal to me, may appear terrible in the eyes of others. I have a funny story about this actually.>Be me, working at Big Corpo>Picture a company's retreat. Dinner time, everyone dressed nicely.>Alcohol and relaxed atmosphere made people nostalgic.>Everyone at the table is starting to share funny stories from their childhood.>My turn comes next.>Not many funny stories, can't think of anything. >suddenly, eureka!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10957729>>10957730>thank you for pointing out the resourcesRegarding Models, like I said it's a good resource if you're completely clueless (like I was, much like you, for similar reasons though in my case it wasn't as extreme as rape), but some of the info in there is outdated. You have to keep in mind that the book was written in 2011 before all the bullshit of the 2010's really kicked in, let alone before covid permanently altered how society functions.>I got a lot of money too, I am just in the process of learning how to show it, because turns out your bank account doesn't matter if you're driving 2000's honda and dressed in your high school clothesI think flexing is like fitness where it's good to do it a normal amount, but doing too much of it either doesn't help or works against you. With your car, it's good to keep it clean and maintained (which costs money), but you don't have to have a Rolls Royce or whatever. Keep in mind some of the men you're competing with don't have a car altogether. As far as clothes go, it's more important that your clothes fit properly and look good on you than them being from Dior. So focus on learning how to dress yourself (step 1 is to not get advice from /fa/ by the way), and after fixing your wardrobe with moderately priced clothing maybe consider a few designer pieces, but I'd personally stay away from them. Signaling wealth matters way less these days, the more important thing is to signal the absence of poverty.
>>10956904That's sad
>>10902579I honestly think banning community drama posts helped kill the board. Was it a toxic aspect? YesBut it's still a part of our community building.
>>10909525Anime went to shit once Japanese sci fi and fantasy nerds stopped making it. I do not count isekai trash as true fantasy.
Im here and the convention line makers have the collective IQ of -100
>>10960120Turns out they had a 2-day pro wrestling show on that weekend at the con and the promotion was streaming from a phone. You know it's bad when they don't know how to run a proper broadcast.
What in the actual fuck. Basically if you work AX Chibi as anything (vendor, guest, ect) they basically don't want you working any other cons within that month. Shame too, I thought AX Chibi was fun, but this is some bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/animeexpo/comments/1mmsy4h/ax_chibis_absurd_noncompetition_tc/
>>10958823This would be a great way to not get artists for your con, assuming most people read the fine print, but they don't.
>>10959144The sad part is it’s so competitive that there’s plenty of artists who would willingly sign that. I’m so tired of every event now focusing on getting artists and vendors to pay the maximum in vending and add on charges. Even first time events charge ridiculous fees for artists nowadays. Not sure that there’s even a breaking point because there’s a never ending line of artist alley hopefuls who will put up with any kind of fees or policies just for the chance to sell their work. It’s sad what has happened to the scene.
>>10959132True. AX may as well be one of the most overrated.
Are they shooting their foot over a small convention
>>10958823and this is why a lot of people should not work with AX.
Hey guys, I'm going to do a cosplay on 4chan, wish me luck
>>10959194I'm also doing a cosplay on 4chan. How do I look? I'm Joker from Persona 5, by the way.
>>10959194do you even know the name of this character
>>10959194Gonna ask my GF to cosplay this. Wish me luck!
>>10959194good luck, zoomoid. 'cosplay on 4chan' fucking newfag
Good luck, OP!
What are some options for male cosplay?I have never done it before, I can't sew, I have very little money.I have skinny lean slightly muscular twink body.And I don't want the clothes to be too warm or take up too many of my hands.
>>10959773Way too broad a question! Follow this neat guide!>What games or shows or fandoms do you like?>Do any of them have outfits you think are cool or might want to wear?>Can you find them online to buy from anywhere?
>>10959775Sorry for being retard.>Avatar, JoJo, Dr. Stone, Yugioh, a bunch of random anime and JRPGs, Warcraft, Metroid, Overwatch, too many things to name.>Something with exposed shoulders or abs could be fun to wear.>I don't love cheap clothes, or cheap synthetic fabrics, and I have no idea how sizing would work. Jenny Nicholson did a video on halloween costumes where half of them turned into fetish wear from the size, or the one where her spiderman top kept falling off and she kept pulling it back up between cuts.
>>10959773anon i’m going to be real with you. if you truly do have a decent build and very little money? and your main concern is getting hot??use your free.99 assets and wear something simple, cheap, tight & sluttylook through the outfits of characters from shows from that you like until you find one you think fits the bill or don’t idc it’s your life
>>10959773Body reveal Dio.
What are some cosplay stories that you'll remember for the rest of your life?Wholesome: Cosplaying some My Little Penis characters with my then-gf when a little girl started freaking out over how great we looked. She got her dad to take loads of pictures with both of us.Less wholesome: I saw a fur-suiter yelling at his wife.Least wholesome: Walking to the convention center behind my friend's sister in her Sailor Saturn cosplay, on a windy day. She either didn't notice or didn't care that her bare ass was playing aggressive peekaboo with me. Only time I've ever wanted the walk from the hotel to be longer.Sad: I was at Twitchcon when that lady broke her spine.
>>10905722>hey, the exact same thing happened to me a fe>suddenly recognise this post as my ownslow moving boards are sometimes better than fast ones, but its kind of a surreal feeling coming across one of your own, old posts
>>10913963how do these people exist??? Im scared to ask for water when im with someone ive never been before. Shit, im scared to ask for water when staying over my best friends house, and this girl is acting like that.100% some kind of mental deficit
>>10956854Hey don't bully
Spontaneously wearing my wife’s extra Rumi outfit and getting big laughs from little kids in town for the DragonCon parade. Never thought I’d have the courage to do that in a million years….
first major anime con after not going for a good decade (2024), gf talked me into going because she's never gone to cons. no more ironic weebs, people actually back to enjoying anime, attended some panels where people gave a shit, having a blast etc etc. gf and i did a couples cosplay (mario and rosalina). got a lot more attention than I thought, made kids smile with the mario voice, made several autistic teens days because mario said they're awesome, gf got a lot of compliments about her costume (her grandma made them for us, fuckin awesome.). also got hit on by like 3 different women and a femboy, too bad this plumber's got a hot date with a space babe :-)
I'm 24 and I'm friends with this 23 year old woman who I know IRL. We are going to a con in two weeks and we were chatting online and I asked her if I could see a pic of her wearing the Ochako outfit she bought. She said I could if I took a pic of myself wearing a cosplay she picked. I said okay and she sent me pic rel and said she has the wig. What should I do?
>>10959624Whatever you want.
>>10959624Tell her you are bringing a CHAD (ME), to have sex with her.She will then let you simp for her forever.OR you could just be normal.Your choice.
>>10959624Send us the pic first so we can check if the cosplay is accurate
>>10959624idk. personally i would just not be in this situation in the first place that’s crazy
Show us the cosplay pre-wig and we can tell you whether it's worth trying it on.
Hey Anons just started to print these myself what costumes do I do next :) this will help me get rid of my wizard status and that of many others!
>>10960194
>>10960194I can tell you're a Rookie. You should stick to something simple like the zaku.
I wanna cosplay (go for halloween in) this outfit from the band Magdalena Bay, but I have no idea what the clothes she wears are called, do any of you guys know? Sorry for being a newfriend at this stuff
>>10960234Mica Tenenbaum‘s Imaginal Mystery Tour blue outfit. sry i cant tell if it’s a two-piece or if she’s wearing a belt
>>10960246most of the time she's in a two piece with a leotard type thing under, the screenshot is from a tv performance with a slightly different outfit maybe?
>>10960246It's 2 piece, you can see it in the music video for image, her waist pops out a bit when she's sitting on a chair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfcWOPpmw14>>10960250Yeah, this one's a little different than the one from the music video, no white gloves, the makeup's a little more subtle. Anyway OP it might be easiest to make the clothes yourself, I saw a couple people dressed in this outfit when I saw them in concert a few months ago, and the one I talked to said she handmade it.
How does /cgl/ feel about this trend of turning anime characters into cosplay with google's new nano banana?
>>10960128Looks uncanny, I hate it
>>10960147well it's just linear algebra
>>10960129i thought this was real at first. what the fuck.
>>10960217So?
CCC #2 Repent EditionWhat recently mischiefs have you done recently? Or plan on perpetuate on your next innocent victims.Me: Ask someone if I can play Street Fighter II on the SNES classic. It was a close match manage to win, He was getting ready for a rematch but I say thank you and prepare to leave, He leaves first. Also after that pick up some free posters that some left of the consoles table and I leave.Also repent for being lazy and missing 3 cons this year.
cant enjoy going to cons anymore too many trannies taking up the space along with attention seeking cosplay whores
>>10960136for me its edm
I always take pictures of ugly trannies in cons with their temu wigs and outfits and send them to my friend group chat to make fun of them. I'm a good cosplayer irl with outfits done by seamstresses, wigs and make-up done by profissionals so when I'm in search of other cosplayers for profissional photos, I NEVER pick the man in dress even if his cosplay is good. It was hard but I finally managed to form a touhou cosplay group with only True and Honest women. All of them not fat too, I was able to assemble almost everyone from EOSD, we were missing a Meiling, Patchouli and Rumia. The pictures came out amazing, I hope the touhou troons see those pictures in the photographer's site and seethe that they will never be as cute as us. Somehow this confession may make me more hated than the ones here admiting to sexual assault kek
>>10960159>me in my fentanyl-cooked dreams
I don't cosplay at cons and I just use them as an excuse to drink in public for a weekend
Hello I am trying to get a thorfinn from Vinland saga style cosplay for an upcoming comicon but can’t find any cheap ones can anyone help me because I don’t know what to do? Please help.
Just get a burlap sack, honestly learning to sew could help you too. I mean its not like it uses any complex colors or fabrics. The most realistic recreation would just be basic it doesnt need to be hard. But use fake knives they don't allow reals ones everywhere. Rope belt. Oh look in a home depot or home improvement store and craftstores.
>>10960017Buy some coyote pelts and stitch them together.
It's time to talk about the OF question.Is it really that common for cosplayers to hop into the OF/patreon/etc bandwagon? In my area, it really isn't common at all, and most cosplayers I know have to work regular jobs to fund their cosplays. I've seen a few threads on twitter reminiscing about the 2000s era of cons, and it seems like some people really think that most cosplayers are OF thots now. I fucking wish that was true, as a coomer.
>>10957603You're on Twitter. It's one of the most NSFW-friendly platforms around. Of course every other cosplayer you see on there has an OF. They've gotten nuked off TT and IG.
>>10957603No. Like with everything if you go out enough eventually you'll run in to one of them. I met a literal pimp once at a con, shit was weird.
>>10957603A lot of them don't actually have one but they do suggestive poses and wear very little clothing on their pages. They have wishlists and donation links in their bio for people to buy them specific cosplays and they throw in regular stuff too. Same wishlist websites regular sex workers use for that kind of thing. I know a couple of cosplayers that get the cosplay bought for them and then they list it as for sale after some uses but marked up. A lot of them are really slutty but don't explicitly do porn, just enough for it not to count.
I've also seen these twitter threads OP is talking about. >dude, they're all OF whores now>it used to be soooo good in le old daysThese clowns would hate the era of the yaoi paddles and random glomping if they were actually there.
>>10957643dependsmaybe maybe not
I have seen this happen more and more often where con-goers allow themselves to be held, picked up, or manhandled just for the novelty, as if it were a game.Haven't we fought for years to establish that cosplay is not consent?Why do we put so much effort and time into setting boundaries and kindly asking for our personal space to be respected, only for it to be thrown away for some clout picture?
what is bait?
It's nice to be touched
>>10959717>I'm gonna touch you
>>10959981Nice
>>10959693someone's mad a cute girl would never consent to being picked up by him
