It's funny, when you think about people being so devoted to a storyline or franchise that they'll dress like their favourite character from it. And if you think cosplays are bad, you've apparently never heard of StarTrek fan conventions; there are hundreds of people there dressed like Klingons, Borg, and Lord knows what else. And that's even scarier, because dorks now are actually trying to recreate the technology from StarTrek. People are already walking around with tricorders and computers of their own, not to mention all the Data-like androids people are making now. It's only a matter of time until the Trekkies take over the world, and that doesn't seem to be a very long time.

Perhaps there will be a war between all the StarTrek and Anime fans when they attempt global domination? That would be a rather chaotic battle...

-Ngakunui

Somehow this entry brought Star Trek and Anime together.

Anime Star Trek.

This is genius.

Fangirls are WAY scarier

^ agreed

Cosplaying is only acceptable on one day, and even then anime costumes are not tolerated...

Somehow this entry brought Star Trek and Anime together.

 

Anime Star Trek.

 

This is genius.

I think that might be real.

Yeah, cosplayers scare me. Then again, so do LARPers.

The only reason I would ever LARP is to beat people up with swords.

~Zhalath

erm.... O_O whats a cosplayer?

erm.... O_O whats a cosplayer?

A fanboy, or fangirl that dresses as a character from some franchise, or what have you- usually anime, though not as a rule. The later of mentioned category of dorks is generally more obsessed, often fantasizing things far more often, and deeply- though not always. To reiterate, the word "Glomp"(to lunge at/ tackle/ hug someone in an extremely hyper manner) originates from "Cosplayers'" method of greeting one another.

-Ngakunui

Halloween and conventions are the only appropriate time to cosplay. Any other time is just plain dorky.

Cosplay is only bad when the person doing it fails epically at it. Such as Man-faye or Sailor Bubba.

Cosplay is only bad when the person doing it fails epically at it. Such as Man-faye or Sailor Bubba.

OH GOD NO.

You just took the words out of my mouth.

Not to sound like a fanboy or anything, but Japanese cosplayers>>>>>American cosplayers.

I mean, American cosplayers (NOT ALL OF THEM, some of them) tend to procrastinate and finish their costumes in under a week.

I go to anime cons when I can, and I'd wear something Anime-related (Like maybe in something normal, like a school uniform or a headband or something), but I won't go extreme (like, wearing *bleep*loads of armored stuff.)

But I will never LARP. You will never see me dead in the vicinity of a LARP session...unless someone drags my corpse over there while people are LARPing. But, come on, who would go through all the trouble of dragging me over there?