Cosplay

For those who don't know what cosplay is, it is when a person dresses up as a character they like from anything really. It could be games, animes, movies or TV shows they really like. You often get to see cosplayers when they go to conventions like comic-con, RTX(Austin, Texas only) or Armageddon(NZ only). This often leads to cosplay competitions of who dresses the best as a cosplayer, the most common cosplayers that people get to see are of anime characters.

You can also see cosplay role play where either a group or one person play as their cosplay characters and create their own video or photos of their cosplays. You can find most videos on youtube. But if you want to become a cosplayer yourself, it helps to find out what your intended character wears so that you can find the clothes, some clothes you can find on Ebay or even Trademe (NZ) sometimes you can find a whole character's costume at certain stores. If you go to Japan or live there I strongly recommend Animate(It's a anime/manga store), you can find most in Tokyo (Places I saw Animate in are Akihabara and Shibuya) but it does tend to be crowded in this store because it is very popular and if you don't want to spend too much on the costume, I recommend buying it during golden week. It's a holiday that all of Japan celebrate where they have everything on a half price discount if your lucky.

Now some people call cosplayers nerds but when you think about it. We're all nerds in some way, I'm a nerd when it comes to anime/manga, horror and video games. So before you call someone a nerd you should seriously think about it because you could be insulting yourself.

But in my personal opinion, I think cosplayers are awesome because you get to be a character you love and get to have fun with it. What's so bad about that?

Sorry if this post took a while but I'll be trying to get my posts up as soon as possible, don't be afraid to comment and like I always say, don't be afraid to say your thoughts.