How to cosplay correctly
How to cosplay correctly?
DON’T.*
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO COSPLAY THE RIGHT (JAPANESE) WAY
–by Lisa Katayama gadgets.boingboing.net — Tuesday June 16, 2009…Here, a six-step cosplay guide based on my previous research:
1. PICK THE CHARACTER YOU WANT TO COSPLAY.
The more obscure the anime, the more wow’s you will get…more...
*If you are normal American geek, you are waaay to fat to pull off cosplay any anime and manga character except Homer Simpson (and only then if you are a geekette).
In addition, only Japanese kids can afford the costuming costs that average 700,000 yen ($7,000 USD). Cardboard box Gundam was only funny once–a whole convention of cheapshit costumes is pathetic.
eBaum’s World has a fun photo collection of Really Bad Cosplay such as….
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June 18th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Fat people doing cosplay always seriously scares me .. if you can t fit in tights why even try lol .. I recently went to the vancouver anime comicon and took a bunch of pictures if you want to see them :) there is a couple fat people doing cosplay haha .. http://www.almostjapanese.com/part-1-anime-evolution-2009-vancouver-comicon
June 18th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
June 18th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I’m glad I happened upon your blog here. I have learned so much nothing already.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
COUNTER-EXAMPLE…
June 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Hmm. Sounds to me like you are perhaps simply bitter because you happen to be to fat and too poor to cosplay well, yourself…?
And trust me, there are plenty of Japanese geeks who suck at cosplay.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Nah. America has ALWAYS been Number 1 in the scary combination of fat and bad cosplay.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Gaijin cosplay?
See
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8764/tifa4.jpg