>>10974074
It's going to be Yani Neko simply because of how easy the cosplay is to make vs. how popular the show is. Literally the most bang for your buck this season when it comes to cosplay.

>>10970860
Your prediction came true, tons of Atelier cosplays at my local big con. Surprisingly a lot of high-effort ones, I thought they'd all be shit bought ones.
>>10974076
>I am getting tired of the umamusume cosplays.
I witnessed a lot of uma cosplays with their academy uniforms, a sore lack of their competition uniforms.
>>10974103
I came here to make this post but you beat me to it. It's going to be everywhere

>>10974103
Yup. Hits all the marks of cute, funny and shitpost potential. Also works for groups who can all cosplay all the fucked up cats

>>10974076
Unfortunately my girlfriend prefers the dress from 4. While I like Leon’s cop uniform. At least his 4 costume is perfect for hot weather.

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So, the new Cyberpunk season is out. The character designs aren't as strong as the first season but I expect a couple of cosplayers to attempt to cosplay Talia.
Maybe some prepared a cosplay already hoping she would become the next Lucy.

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Is it normies? Did normies take over my hobby and are parading its corpse around? These (you?) people are of a completely different mind to the people I befriended years ago. The "moral" panic is truly astounding. WHY DO YOU CLAIM TO LIKE ANIME IF ALL YOU ARE GOING TO DO IS CALL IT PROBLEMATIC AND LOOK AT ME LIKE I'M INSANE WHEN I DON'T ADD A DISCLAIMER TO THE FACT THAT I LIKE KONATA FROM LUCKY STAR
>omg she's in high school??
IT IS FICTION. IT IS A CARTOON. I AM HERE BECAUSE I LIKE THE FUCKING CARTOON, IT IS NOT A REFLECTION OF MY MORAL CHARACTER IN REAL LIFE TOWARDS REAL PEOPLE. WHY THE FUCK ARE ***YOU*** HERE?
The worst part is, the people I'm describing may very well read this post and think to themselves "yeah I know!" while completely neglecting to reflect on their own behavior (ESPECIALLY WITHIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE) and not realizing they are exactly the type of person I'm talking about.
I WANT MY FUCKING HOBBY BACK.

This is why the people I hang out with and meet at cons I use going to the bar as a filter. Schizo's will flake, poorfags won't go because obvious reasons, people too young to hold a conversation are gatekept, and anyone insane will be easy to get away from.

>>10977022
Normies, 2000% normies. Sometime in 2019/2020 normgroids decided to storm our spaces and its never been the same since.

>>10977022
You worry too much about genuine cattle. You simply have to learn to clock these people, and the more cons you go to the easier it gets. Normies love the big 3 shounen, they love demon slayer and JJK, the insufferable normie women all dress up as Miku or some other surface level shit. This is not a foolproof strategy however, the number of moralfagging insufferable people who cosplay "problematic" media while not knowing is insane. Just because someone is wearing a Saya or Zakuro cosplay, doesn't mean they actually read the vn or know anything about it. There's always gonna be some awkward interactions, simply because of the sheer amount of normies that have infected the fandom, just gotta discard whatever retarded shit they say and move on, you will eventually find people that actually know and care about otaku stuff.

>>10977024
I do this too and smoke cigarettes. I don't even smoke outside of events. Cigs are the ultimate social tool for me. Lets me get out of conversations ("i'm gonna smoke a cig"), wards off weird puritans, starts up conversations with people because I can light someone when I see them with a cig outside. Even that doesn't always work because someone I knew from cons had a freakout after I knew them for a couple years.

>>10830159
I'm not 8ft tall. I'm about as tall as the Major, but not that fat.

The Ghost cosplayers, both Papa and Ghouls really dried up but they'll be back. A band with album and tour cycles is different from an anime that ended 10 years ago

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>>10837910
Probably more pragmatic to go as unarmored versions and do the armored ones for photoshoots.

>>10899292
One time I saw a guy doing Alexander Anderson with the Helena's Nail transformation. Like, he made the thorny vines and shit that were attached to his face, it was really cool. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic on hand, but seeing that felt like winning the lottery.

To counter this thread: the late 2000s are officially back. Loads of Lucky Star, Gurren Lagann and Haruhi out there again

>>10976731
30 year old moid here I take my pills and do shitty crossplay at the same time.

>>10955089
What you're saying is you can start lifting today and next year you can fuck lots of hot cosplayer babes

How are you doing now, OP?

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>>10955089
>>10955099
>Anon feels old and busted and acts like it
>Unabashedly expresses jealousy towards friend who is living his best life without taking things to seriously
>Throws friend under the bus straight up calling him unlikeable based on the fact that he has a good time and is accepted
>Thinks being eccentric is inherently bad
>Learns people are drawn towards good vibes, respectful behavior and charisma
>Surprised no one wants to hang out with a sad mopey pile
Take it as a life lesson. Attitude changes a lot how people will perceive you and act around you.

If
>AFO was such a waste of time it makes me sad, my dexters lab outfit was confused with meme man dr pepper shit
>I just don't get how some eccentric person could get people to like him.
>He didn't even try to do his cosplay right
was the same vibe you spread during the con, then don't be surprised it turns off others. If people actually approached you thinking you cosplayed something else, you could have easily used it as a starter and playfully joke around it instead of being a bitter autist.

>>10955089
>anon has a friend who's extrovert, fit and positive alla round
>anon is a fat,narcisistic, entitled repressed faggot
>why is everyone loving him and ignoring me reeeeee
kys

>>10894234
>phase connect
those women are all mentally ill. I'm not even remotely surprised

>>10868287
Imagine subjecting yourself to this when we live in a world where everyone and their mother has a camera in their pocket

>>10971052
Not since she's clothed. The U.S. does have really strange laws though. You can pay to have a stranger use toys on you, but not vise-versa; and they can't be full nude when they do it. I learned this learning about the dominatrix world. All states vary though. I don't think its so much stigma because we used to have booth girls and all sorts of things, but just frustration that now oftentimes its taken as a sex thing. So, people take it out on what they perceive to be why.

If you ask me, the problem is the increasingly rampart and normalized hard drug usage. It's getting kind of scary because it doesn't wait until near midnight behind closed doors anymore. Now its like a mid-day thing.

oh shit this thread is 3 years old. I was about to ask if crunchyroll expo is still a thing but I'm pretty sure it isn't

>>10868287
Tbh I'd like people to pay me for my scosplay, shit is expensive as fuck.
Unfortunately I need hyperfixations to drive me on working on it so it will never fall under the marketable category (I'm also m so that's a waaay smaller market)

I just want a qt lolita gf so I can make cute accessories for her coords in my workshop ;_;
I don't want to sell stuff I make on sunday, I just want to make someone happy in life...

>>10975849
We all do anon... We all do...

>>10964505
Ohhhhh my god

>>10964505
This is ai you simps

>>10975235
update: i started going to events that cosplayers attended. even if I'm not cosplaying I put forth effort to dress on theme and even do my makeup. much easier to talk to people there. as to whether or not that's lead to anything...i don't kiss and tell. even anonymously. october is My Month

>jfash
these japanese fascist sure dress in a curious way

>>10958316
>>10958321
>>10961723
cool

>>10976879
The better taobaocore isn't that pricey, and if you have some DIY skills you can mod and include some thrifted stuff.
This isn't 2012 anymore, you can be a successfull brokelita, especially if you can compensate a weak coord with great makeup work or hair/wig work.
I believe in you and your limited ressources. If you can't get rich, you can git gud at other stuff that will shine through.

>>10976879
>>10976883
>>10976897
What’s the point of unpopular opinions thread when you twist it into something that is not opinion at all?

The point of wearing less stuff has nothing to do with affordability. A whole new world will open up to you when you realize that you can wear lolita clothes outside of lolita fashion.

>>10976916
yes let's heavily police staying perfectly on topic on a board with 3 posts per day

>>10974851
I might be overthinking it but I think it has something to do with the attainability of the look.
Not the affordability, the difference matters.
We're now almost a decade into easily accessible taobao buyers and dedicated platforms, meaning everyone can have easy access to the wonders of completely costless chinese manufacture. Cheap production PLUS the sometimes dubious tastes of the domestic chinese market has resulted in the type of overdone princess-y dresses we've all seen folating here and there. Layers of see-through voiles, ruffles on top of bows on top of lace on top of ribbons that's going to look nice on the product shoot with studio lighting and a fan to keep the ethereal upper sheer layers all floaty. And it's going to look completely dull in person and be almost impossible to wear for anything other than posing with your arms up.
In contrast, with oldschool, what you see is exactly what you get.
There's no worries about how this layer will look in person because the build is a lot simpler. Not necessarily simple, but simpler than the overdesigned piles of frills we've seen pop up as hime styles. You know you can get close to the look you are presented with. Even the makeup doesn't require fifteen steps to make your eyes look larger (we're talking about chinese-influenced stuff, keep that in mind, the noob might not know it going off the product photos they are presented with but there is a huge difference between the type of results chinese and japanese practices and trends). It's something YOU can do.
As a pre-packaged look, it can be very when you're two or three taobao disappointments in and haven't figured how to really build your own coords yet.
Well
That or zoom-zooms fantasizing about the 2000s again. The lolita version of y2k I guess

>>10977000
Hajime has a pretty simple design so it's not like there's too much more you could do to improve it. I would definitely recognize your cosplay if I saw you walking around.

>>10934533
the meteorological summer season starts on June 1 and lasts three months, until September 1.
Astronomical summer lasts from the date of the summer solstice until the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on September 22 or 23

Where do you live where it's autumn already?

Where I live we can still get heat waves until mid october at the latest. If I get past that point I finally feel like it's autumn even though it officially started ages ago.

Also, to clarify why I made that comment; I don't associate hot weather with halloween, and it will be a few months (from when halloween stuff starts popping up in stores, not from now) until halloween is actually there.

not falling off anytime soon

>>10756720
It hurts me to this day that I never got to visit the physical store....

>>10773355
Maybe try searching for pastel goth room inspo

>>10846450
It is now four and a half years old.

>>10970180
It was comfy. Did ALA really get too big for Ontario?

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>>10964752
Will this thread survive to see 2027?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_IyDVy9d_U

[spoiler]Been meaning to share pictures but I kept putting it off, fuck me.[/spoiler]

>>10972872
Only if you bump it every month

fug I didn't get a room at the hyatt

looking to find someone to room with

pls and thank you
disc: faithbasedanswers

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Bringing a new cosplay this year, The Ronin from Star Wars Visions (it's an anime, sue me).

Going this year but most likely alone so hopefully I meet some cool people while I'm there. I'm not really in the michigan anime scene so I'm not aware of anything happening beyond the convention.

I will be volunteering in the arcade for one of the guys who brings JP arcades and candy cabs, but I hope you all have an awesome time if you do attend. I went last year for the first time and I think it was fine, but not as big as I had heard it had been (if that makes sense). Didn't seem to be any drama (outside of the owner of the console game company causing problems) and the weekend was uneventful in the good way, so things are looking up.

>>10976847
Youmacon doesn't have anything since it's not at the rencen and the staff are all pedos who fucked everything up. Shit closes at like 11pm now.

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Don't forget Pistons Anime night!

>>10976874
I have a feeling he calls himself Lilith or something like that online

>>10976885
50% chance.
50% he goes by Alice.

>>10976885
>>10976898
Nah, every trans person I've ever met goes by a Mary-Sue natural phenomenon name. Jasper, Ember, Zephyr, etc

>>10976876
>i hate motherfuckers that think clicking checkout is all it takes to walk into these spaces
I almost don't blame noobs like that to an extent when they begin. Everything else in life is now packaged as ready out of the box. Just buy the thing and that's all. Everything is retard-proof and designed so it can be used with the lowest possible amount of involvment and effort.
So when you are at the very beginning into most fashion but EGL in particular, you'll probably expect the same.
What's going to set you on the path towards a perma-ita or a lolita (or some other alt-style really) is accepting that you need to do stuff yourself. That things are not ready out of the box. That you can't just throw your wig on, you'll have to style it, then maintain it. That unless you only wear one-piece dresses, you'll need to do a lot of matching and looking for different pieces. That some of your dresses will have weird adjustment points. That if you want your petticoat to stay in place, you might need to pin it to the lining of your skirt.
It's probably worse in jirai where things can be more easily worn out of the box but lolita usually gives you a good idea of how much further you have to go on day one when you have a frumpy dress on and are nowhere near the inspiring photos you saw. That's where itas and lolitas part way.
Then you have outlier cases like >>10976254 who put effort into looking like shit. That level of itadom is not natural. It is a learned behavior.

>>10976987
In a lot of queer spaces, looking like absolute shit is encouraged by everyone, because how they dress is Asserting Muh Identity, and someone's Identity is never allowed to be invalidated by anyone else Asserting Muh Identity, otherwise they immediately start infighting and making callout posts about the other person being an -ist or doing an -ism. The result is, everyone just identifies as looking like absolute shit

See:
>>10976254

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>>10976889
I do think that it's a style that short people can look good in, idk if it's possible to even look any good if you're like really tall

You know, this thread is slowly turning my opinions on jirai around.
The comm is horrible, the style is kinda done BUT the fact that it makes people seethe is rather appealing...

>>10976889
I've never really been a fan. The particular shade of lilac isn't my favourite and a lot of it feels quite uninspired, like every coord is a derivative of that one stereotypical jirai fit. But maybe that's because I never delved deeper into jirai because the impression I got as an outsider didn't interest me much.

Isn't there already a general thread? I don't care, I just want more casual j-fash threads. Right now all the peeps are into jirai, clown/kid stuff, or tenshi kawaii y2k breakdown. I guess only two of those originate in Japan.

>>10976933
I mean, if they put on a good wig and lose the 'stash and do some fake lashes, good enough. And if you say >>10976912 is the same.

Maybe some false lashes and a better wig. Maybe some nails too. Its a work in progress. We've been here long enough to know anyone can be kawaii with enough work.

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>>10976979
>We've been here long enough to know anyone can be kawaii with enough work
And nips prove it on the regular that it is possible with the right outfit, makeup, hair-do, lighting and camera angles