Cosplay at its best! (no spaming please)

[Shadow Kira01]

These NA cosplayers look great!!!

Originally Posted by Yotsuba

I love how people never compliment the NA cosplayers, rofl.

Is it impossible for Americans to do good cosplay? Maybe it's because most people imagine the characters as Japanese in their heads, so when they see a white girl cosplaying Haruhi, even if the costume is perfect, it's like "NO!"

Definitely untrue!

The truth is that it has something to do with what people eat in America and it also has something to do with the weather. This means that it doesn't apply to everybody as that there are parts of America that have warm weather and that people eat healthy hearty meals. And thus, there are quite a number of awesome American cosplayers. In fact, every nation has their share of amazing cosplayers and awful cosplayers.

[stubby42]

In many ways people of european decent are far better suited to doing cosplay because we have a much wider palet of hair colours, the problem is that alot of cosplayers dont have the correct body type to pull it off, where as there's far more Japanese people of the correct shape who are into it.

[Kyero Fox]

i love it when people say "women cosplay male anime/game characters better than men. Because they look girly in the anime/game"

well How do you know They would look girly when it comes to RL? hmm?

[miroku2192]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

i love it when people say "women cosplay male anime/game characters better than men. Because they look girly in the anime/game"

well How do you know They would look girly when it comes to RL? hmm?

Because they're basing it off how the character's look? I could be wrong, but isn't the point of cosplay to get as close as possible to making a "replica" of the anime character? So if the anime character looks rather girl-ish (which a lot of them do), then naturally, a girl in RL would probably fare better than a guy.

Make sense?

P.S. - just curious, isn't spamming written as spamming? not spaming? Can we fix that? The title of this thread has been bothering me :X

[Kyero Fox]

sure makes sense, but wouldnt it be more challenging/fun to be a RL version of that character?

one reason I like S-cry-ed all the male characters don't look girly.

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by miroku2192

Because they're basing it off how the character's look? I could be wrong, but isn't the point of cosplay to get as close as possible to making a "replica" of the anime character? So if the anime character looks rather girl-ish (which a lot of them do), then naturally, a girl in RL would probably fare better than a guy.

Make sense?

P.S. - just curious, isn't spamming written as spamming? not spaming? Can we fix that? The title of this thread has been bothering me :X

It could be fixed... but then the "I HAZ CHEEZZBRGR IN UR BAS3" crowd would be confused

[Fome]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

sure makes sense, but wouldnt it be more challenging/fun to be a RL version of that character?

one reason I like S-cry-ed all the male characters don't look girly.

You mean like the actors casted for live action versions of anime? I mean, I see what you mean by "real life" version, but there are things that were never intended to resemble anything in reality, and if someone is gonna mold and deform the character design until it fits in real life, why not just dress as someone new entirely?

[Throne Invader]

A lot of really nice and cool cosplayers here ^_^

[Shadow Kira01]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

sure makes sense, but wouldnt it be more challenging/fun to be a RL version of that character?

one reason I like S-cry-ed all the male characters don't look girly.

Real version of anime characters would not consist of cosplaying, it would be simply called "modelling" and that's not the same thing.

Cosplayers try to make themselves to resemble as closely as possible to the original anime or manga character, whereas looking like the real thing itself isn't anime/manga, thus..it has nothing to do with cosplay.

[0utf0xZer0]

Originally Posted by Yotsuba

I love how people never compliment the NA cosplayers, rofl.

Is it impossible for Americans to do good cosplay? Maybe it's because most people imagine the characters as Japanese in their heads, so when they see a white girl cosplaying Haruhi, even if the costume is perfect, it's like "NO!"

I personally feel that asians have an advantage for cosplaying anime characters due to rounder, wider facial features and shorter noses - traits I tend to associate with anime. Combined with what you mention and it does give asians a pretty strong advantage - I find asian cosplayers make up a disproportionate number of my favourite cosplayer even at my local con.

But in the case of this thread, I think a lot of it has to do with sites like MPZero which take the work of a hugely talented photographer (just look at the colour saturation) and make them easy to find. I'm pretty open about the fact many of my posts come from MPZero, but there's a lot of other people posting his stuff too... you can tell from the watermark.

/End Off Topic

I love this cosplay of Kallen and Villette from Code Geass. Especially the third shot. Holding a pistol above your head while wearing knee socks may be impractical, but it sure looks awesome:
http://yuuroan.exblog.jp/9037900/#9037900_1

I'm probably posted like half Ibara's old shoots by now, but this one is one of my favourites due to the colours scheme and poses. I don't really care that I've never seen Pia Carrot: http://mpzerocos.exblog.jp/9639816/

[KimmyChan]

Originally Posted by Shadow Minato

These NA cosplayers look great!!!

Those are superb! I love them all!

[The Chaos]

Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0

I love this cosplay of Kallen and Villette from Code Geass. Especially the third shot. Holding a pistol above your head while wearing knee socks may be impractical, but it sure looks awesome:
http://yuuroan.exblog.jp/9037900/#9037900_1

wow..Kallen Cosplay look Great

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Shadow Minato

Real version of anime characters would not consist of cosplaying, it would be simply called "modelling" and that's not the same thing.

Cosplayers try to make themselves to resemble as closely as possible to the original anime or manga character, whereas looking like the real thing itself isn't anime/manga, thus..it has nothing to do with cosplay.

ah ok, i get it now.

are those two cosplaying as Ryuho and Kazuma guys? I cant tell 100% cuz its small.

[Shadow Kira01]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

ah ok, i get it now.

are those two cosplaying as Ryuho and Kazuma guys? I cant tell 100% cuz its small.

From left to right: Scheris Adjani, Tairen Ryuhou, Kazuma, Yuta Kanami.

[Isha Ichiinu]

ZOMG. I wish I could roleplay like that. But I don't know where to start. All I know is to look like the person as much as possible and have fun. But I don't have the money. Or the material! HELP!
These are the people that I would like to cosplay as:
Rolo Lamperouge from Code Geass
Riku from Kingdom Hearts
Sora from Kingdom Hearts
Kairi from Kingdom Hearts
Rima Toya from Vampire Knight
ALL HELP WILL BE WELCOMED! NO CHEAP CRAP! D:

[Shadow Kira01]

Originally Posted by Isha Ichiinu

ZOMG. I wish I could roleplay like that. But I don't know where to start. All I know is to look like the person as much as possible and have fun. But I don't have the money. Or the material! HELP!
These are the people that I would like to cosplay as:
Rolo Lamperouge from Code Geass
Riku from Kingdom Hearts
Sora from Kingdom Hearts
Kairi from Kingdom Hearts
Rima Toya from Vampire Knight
ALL HELP WILL BE WELCOMED! NO CHEAP CRAP! D:

Try looking on eBay!

The goods are usually in mint condition and the prices are cheap too.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Shadow Minato

From left to right: Scheris Adjani, Tairen Ryuhou, Kazuma, Yuta Kanami.

yes i know the characters -_- but are the people cosplaying Ryuhou and Kazuma male?

[Shadow Kira01]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

yes i know the characters -_- but are the people cosplaying Ryuhou and Kazuma male?

They are cosplaying as males and thus, they are males. Yes.

When they are not cosplaying, they are no doubt females though.

[0utf0xZer0]

@Shadow Minato:

I don't suppose you have high res shots of any of those NA cosplayers you posted? Now that I've actually had time to look I'm impressed with the lighting for a few shots, but it's kind of hard to see details.

[Shadow Kira01]

In case, this thread gave people the impression that it has been derailed as that it is pretty much answer and questions, I will post more NA cosplays:







I like the KOS-MOS cosplay best, looks so realistic!!^^

And here are some EUR cosplays:

Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0

@Shadow Minato:

I don't suppose you have high res shots of any of those NA cosplayers you posted? Now that I've actually had time to look I'm impressed with the lighting for a few shots, but it's kind of hard to see details.

No, I found them on Cosplay.com. I selected all the good ones to post here.

http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/a106575/

http://idolatrystudios.livejournal.com/

And also, of course..

http://www.cosplay.com/