Sometimes you just need to go all-out with your costume if you want to win. That’s what a One Piece fan in Japan did for the One Piece Tower theme park’s cosplay contest, One Piece Narikiri Contest 2018, which has been running as part of …Read more »
A few weeks back, we reported on ambitious Australian cosplayer Wirru, who’d put together an impressive crossplay of Fatal Fury’s Mai Shiranui using silicone molding, thigh pads, and other techniques. It also turns out he’s been practicing karate for 17 years, and has decided to …Read more »
Fighting games in the 90s were often joked about for the gratuitous proportions of their female cast members, but SNK’s Mai Shiranui was arguably THE most notorious. Her hand-drawn bouncing cleavage in the King Of Fighters games and anime outings like Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture …Read more »
There’s nailing a Dragon Ball Super cosplay, and then there’s knocking it so far out of the park that it ruins it for everyone else. That’s why this is absolutely, positively, the best Beerus cosplay of all time.
The World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya Japan has been making headlines every year since 2003, as cosplayers from around the world stun judges with their well-crafted costumes. One thing that tends to be overlooked however, is that Nagoya’s governor Hideaki Omura shows up in costumers …Read more »
If you love cosplay so much you’re considering moving to Japan and entering into a fake marriage in order to obtain residency, well, you might want to think again. Canadian cosplayer Shannon Daniel Wong, who did just that, was just busted by the Tokyo Metropolitan …Read more »
Back in 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French president Francois Hollande agreed to organize an event called Japonismes 2018 to celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and France. From July through February of next year, Paris is to host a showcase …Read more »
If you ever wanted to see what Luffy looks like in the real world, the latest opportunity comes in the form of the One Piece Oto Utage – Episode of East Blue stage production. Performances will be held at the Tokyo International Forum Hall C …Read more »
The Dragon Ball Super movie isn’t the only event Dragon Ball fans have to look forward to later this year. Ahead of that is the Dragon Ball Tour, which is coming to the United States and Canada this year for a seven-stop tour full of …Read more »
The Haikyu!! stage play’s fifth HYPER PROJECTION ENGEKI HAIKYU!! show, “Hajimara no Kyojin” (“The Start of the Giant”), made its way to the stage in Tokyo over the weekend. Now we can get a taste of what the performance is like thanks to a new …Read more »
Cosplayers have devised a lot of tricks to portraying the bustier characters of anime and gaming, but when it comes to the sturdy female martial artists of Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise… it turns out there’s no substitute for actual muscles. Chun Li’s most iconic trait …Read more »
In what will no doubt be a dream come true for many anime fans, Studio Ghibli is getting its own theme park in Japan. The opening is now scheduled for sometime in 2022 on a 200-hectare plot of land in Nagoya, and concept art has …Read more »
If you watched Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel and thought, “man, I wish I could wear that male uniform,” well, prepare to experience the feels. The uniform worn by main character Shirou Emiya and pals at Homurahara Academy will be available from Japanese cosplay specialists ACOS …Read more »
Get ready for a big Dragon Ball event sometime this year! Bandai announced plans to host an event called Dragon Ball Tour in seven cities across the United States and Canada, starting with San Diego this July. More locations will be revealed at a later …Read more »
Location is a huge part of what makes great cosplay photos, and there are quite a few costumes out there for which a library setting would be perfect. Shooting in most libraries, especially with flash, is usually a no-no, but for a limited time, Tokyo’s …Read more »
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