Do you prefer to cosplay as more well-known or "underground" less known characters from more obscure media?Historically all of my cosplays have been somewhat obscure game characters, at least in my region, very little people play Yakuza so the few people that recognized my Kiryu cosplay made me feel quite good
>>10963012That depends on a lot of factors
>>10963012I cosplay anyone ive done anything from Miku to Ryoko from Saya no UtaSide thing im doing faust at some point lul
>>10963012A mix of well known and obscure. Sometimes I go for well known characters and sometimes obscure characters. Really it depends on the mood and interest.
>>10963012Obviously obscure shit. No reason to get excited once you've seen the same costume twice per day. Only good thing about it is going to group meetups. Also obscure things actually let you open up conversation since everyone has talked about the big works to death already.
>>10963012Obscure because the stuff I like tends to be hipster shit or older material. But not on principle, I like some brand new and popular stuff such as err Girls' Last Tour and Blame (2017).
Im tired of going to cons and not meeting anyone so ive decided to try and cosplay again to generate socialization around my cosplay. Im open to suggestions for what i should dress up as, preferably id want to dress as a character from a western movie or cartoon but im willing to do an anime cosplay if need be as well.
>Mandatory "you didn't need to make a thread for this" post before someone else does itThat's no skin off my back, but before anyone can answer further, it'd help to know your body type
>>10967725>but before anyone can answer further, it'd help to know your body typeIm 5'7 and i weigh 230lbs
>>10967727Eddie from silent hill 2
>>10967711>randomly picking something to cosplay that you don't care about, aren't involved in, or have any passion forNot going to make it and you'll fall apart at the first question someone asks you
Is cosplay dinergoth?
>>10965385Absolutely. Even a lot of the ones that become big deals have trashy roots.
>>10966398non-paywalled version here: https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewatlantis.com%2Fpublications%2Famerican-diner-gothic
The most diner goth thing I can think of is>Cosplaying>as a nameless Ghoul from the band Ghost>at ColossalConCould probably add on more like what beer they've got in hand but I don't know enough on that subject to make an authoritative brand namedrop
>>10967214isn't colossalcon awesome?
>>10967660"Awesome" is measured by the standard of ColossalCon instead of the inverse. Dinergoth isn't an insult, it's just a stated fact here
Why am I the only one making these EditionWHATS YOUR FAVORITE>IDOL>ORIGINAL SONG>OUTFIT>EVENT
>>10968998the argument was about all the morbidly obese in orlando, not bambi. bambi is just overweight. there's a gradient of bmi which is clinically categorized based on comorbidity rates, of which overweight is merely increased risk. the incremental categories are normal, overweight, obese, and morbidly/clinically obese. with morbidly obese being the absolute worst and a direct cause of death.
>>10968980who did she try to slander? how can we confirm that she didn't leave out of her own volition and she really was fired?
>>10968980>you're a fat weeb wotagay who's rolls spill out of her dresses>i don't need ashes making up some bullshit about me to get me cancelledbrother you just did that all on your own who in gods name would want to be around you or involve themselves with you saying shit like that lol
>>10969004i have no idea what you're talking about because I'm talking about >>10967947 which is about bambi and no one else in orlando
>>10969010oh. i confused it with the previous conversation. well ashes is obese and as such fat is an accurate description
Westerners will never look this good.
>>10967482Not that op person but it's embarrassingly obvious...even her hair strands are drawn on. And her leg accessories are warped from editing her legs thinner. Editing apps and photoshop are so advanced if you were an idiot yiu couldn't catch it, lol.
the landwhales are seething hard here.
>>10967551true
Cosplaying is the same as making fanart there is no right or wrong way
>>10966301That's not true. Some asians are too fat to be some anime characters.PIc related, her waist is too thick, her legs are too thick.
It's a cosplay that anyone can do.
Oops, it was sideways.
Aug 22 - 24, 2025Hyatt Regency O’Hare & Donald E Stephens Convention CenterWho are you planning to cosplay as at the event?What are you hoping to see or experience during the convention?Where do you plan to spend most of your time at the con?When are you planning to head to the convention?Are you going alone or with a group?
>>10964103Basically this, but I wouldnt say it's "struggling". It's fine. It has it's problems but it's still fun and better than most Kopf cons.
>>10964103>>10964103Well people pussied out when it escalated beyond shit talking earlier this year
>>10964196Because one of them is washed up azn rapper who tries to be black and the other is a black nazi who wishes he were white
You expected this thread to simply die out and fall off the catalog..., but it was I, DIO!Not today anonbros! Not today, especially considering the *ahem, cough cough* "rumblings" of today.
>>10967448what happen anon
is anyone here attending? any lolitas?
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>>10964345Here and bummed, the games room is trash, the panels are boring. Seemed like there's very little to do other than get drunk and people watch.
>>10957952Better version (sans the ford cap, Tigers hat was more appropriate)>>10967413>Seemed like there's very little to do other than get drunk and people watch.In all fairness, you're in Michigan. Not my dead neck of the woods but still.
>>10957952There's someone seething in the Katsucon21+ FB group about "cultural apropriation cosplays".Bruh. ALL anime cosplay is cultural appropriation. Does it only become a bad thing when dreds get worn by a white guy?
>>10967481Really the games room was what disappointed me most. There were less than 12 cabinets for 3000 attendees. The parking was a disaster too, people were getting stuck, towed, and just leaving because they couldn't even get into a lot. With a better venue it would've been a decent con but there was far to little space for the amount of people that turned up.
>>10967505Wrong thread?
Not sure where I should post this but I figure this board would be the best starting point.A couple days ago a friend of mine came to terms with having cancer and decided to shave her hair off. Her and I have been very close for a very long time, and while it might be weird or creepy, she let me keep some of her hair. I want to use her hair to make some extensions and im not sure the best way to do that. I was considering using a silicone based glue on hair clips in layers to make it work, and look good, but im not sure how well the glue would hold over time. Does anyone have any advice or tips for this? Picture unrelated.
can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? i could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right nowwwww
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>>10967096wtf even is this? It's obviously Miku coded but what even is it? It looks like those super early genAI prototype "this is what your brain sees during a stroke" images Google showed off almost a decade ago. You know the ones, the pictures that look kinda like cluttered room full of random shit but really it's just visual slop. Yeah... that was pre-alpha generative AI imagery, you know that right anons?
>>10967450Are you on mobile? I can open and see it, it looks like a cosplay hanging up in a closet. I can't tell the series. Looks normal, the questionable part is its relevance to Comic Con.
Are people there nice? Are there any activities you would recommend? I was really hoping for karaoke since it's something I don't have in my home country
It's a relatively small con because it's run by a college anime club, but overall a good time. They had karaoke last time I went but that was years ago and I've moved out of the area since then.
>>10966179>Are people there nice?they're alright I guess. pretty typical awkward, progressive, tumblr-y college kid types>Are there any activities you would recommend?last year they had a "guess that anime song" panel that I thought was a lot of fun as well as one or two other I quite enjoyed but there were also some rather middling ones>I was really hoping for karaokethey do have karaoke, although it's not exactly what I imagine would come to mind upon hearing "karaoke". last year I had the displeasure of performing a rather subpar rendition of Porter Robinson's "Cheerleader" in front of an audience of at least 150 peopleand a question for you if you don't mind, why Toracon in particular? It's not a bad con or anything but I'd figured someone visiting from outside the US would prefer to attend a much larger/more well-known con that's not in Upstate NY
Wow. What a violently unnoteworthy con to randomly even find talked about here. And it just so happens to be one that I've been going to on and off for a decadeIts nothing special. I suppose they have a "sense" of what a con should be, with the experienced people more or less being the nerdo weirdo types that you'd exactly expect from a technical school who actually do go to other cons and Japan to know better, but for some reason, they stick around and don't bother to leave to do better thingsSnowfest is run by their cosplay troupe which is basically their trial Toracon, but is largely more of an excuse for them to build money than focus on the actual quality of their big event. Not that they find anything original to "try out" each year anyway that bigger cons haven't already figured out with proven successThis school itself is nerd haven for the locals and regularly has nerdy smaller events that are more or less are okay for the public to go to, but is also exactly why the scale of their event gets limited more and more each day. They've had cool guests from Japan in the past, I guess. Lately the school is causing them issues with their inventory and there was a whole petition against the school signed for it thoughTldr; a small con that everyone who remembers says it dies more with each year, but for people who don't have to try too hard to go its fun I guess
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>>10967290I'm glad this board is dead so your spammy bullshit can go ignored.
