>>10830111 Yeah, when I said above you that people still dress as Quiet? I was contrasting it in my head with how Yoko sticks out now....because she's rare these days. I don't think when I see Quiet cause it's still around.
Cosplay what you want. You never know when you'll make someone's day when dressed from their favorite series. I can't really blame the people who are truly excited for FOTM, but you can tell when costhots are just jumping on it as the hot trend.
>>tfw you will never see a haven trooper or Quiet cosplay
Haven Trooper we never saw more than a couple ever in history. Quiet still gets cosplayed every other con, you might just be going to the wrong cons.
>mfw at least 2/3 of all Quiet cosplayers don't even play MGS
>>10825168 MGS4 is the most underappreciated game in the franchise Was a big fan of the BB unit but cosplaying them would be super hard because of the amount of bulk
>>10837991 One of the most common 90's cosplays I see. Probably third place after Eva's and Bebop's. (Admittedly I'm being rigid and defining this as "started and ended in that decade)
>>10825168 Oh i’m supposed to cosplay quiet sometimes this year/next year! As long as you follow the ig hashtag #QuietCosplay you should be able to catch it
>>10844111 Yeah because outside of actually trying to dress up as a Shinigami, every lazy austimonaut wound up cosplaying as L or Light.
>0-effort cosplay
I feel this is something that really turned me away from the hobby as a whole, it's sadly the nature of the beast that majority of cosplay is done based on whats popular at the time. The fact no one really attempts the more impressive options as often with the flavor of the week, has bled my enthusiasm.
Doing cosplay from old shit is awesome! I went to a con to be the Kei part of a dirty pair duo cosplay and do many old photographers approached us, glad someone remembered their old fave series.
Is Cat Noir and miraculous ladybug stuff still a thing in conventions? First thing that came on my mind on the 'cool costumes not done anymore' subject
>>10837910 No. Portable Ops or Peace Walker. Maybe not Peace Walker but definitely Portable Ops. 4 sucked ass anyways Alternate history MGS games > contemporary/future timeline MGS games
>>10825168 I did Dread Pirate Roberts/Westley from The Princess Bride at Ohayoucon, that was fun. I was surprised that apparently there was a Buttercup running around, didn't bump into her though.
>>10838020 >>10838122 >>10838131 Yeah vash cosplays seem to be making a slight comeback these days. I saw a short black girl with an afro cosplaying as him recently
Naruto also fell off despite being so huge nearly everyone at AX05 was from Naruto.
Bane was popular when Dark Knight Rises was fresh so it's kind of surprising when there hasn't been any recent Bane cosplayers when Baneposting never died.
>>10825168 My buddies and I cosplay as the Straw Hat ronins from Ghost of Tsushima. Only problem is that they're so generic-looking that we could be from anything really.
>>10825168 Because normies and attention whores will always goes for the easy and trendy stuff. Quiet could be a good way to justify wearing a slutty cosplay but she's not a FOTM waifu and the Haven Trooper design, or any tactical design really, is way to much work for these someone as lazy as them. Beside I don't think they'd be the kind to want to hide their face.
>>10825168 I couple months ago I went as an ODST and only like three dudes knew what I was. Although It was kinda cute when a family asked for a picture, that made my day. It's amazing how Halo is pretty much a dead franchize nowadays
How's MSPA/Homestuck cosplay been looking? Haven't attended a con since pre-Covid, back when you could find a few trolls or God Tiers roaming the halls easily.
>>10893753 You're absolutely right. To cosplay a haven trooper would take a real metal gear solid fan, and the work to reproduce the parts, get what can be purchased ready like holsters and weapons... ain't for everyone.
>>10903810 >I saw some one doing a really high quality cosplay of this with a girl who pulled it off really well at 2024 katsucon. Yeah, same. FFX is one I'm always happy to see. There were a few other in there too, like Wakka and Lulu
I saw 3 Yuno Gasai at Anime Boston. Makes me wanna be Yuki simply because nobody else does and maybe if they act in character I might get a hug or something.
>>10906080 Big Boss is definitely the most-cosplayed Metal Gear character, but in my experience it's almost always the iterations from 3 or V. It's rare that I encounter PW Snake, and I don't think I've ever seen PoOps or GZ in real life.
>>10908443 I'm thinking about doing GZ or the sneaking suit from PW next but also wanna refine my current setup. PW Snake is probably my favorite where he is in his life. He's independent but not totally jaded yet. I mean he gets that way over the game and then especially GZ. Also the PSP models make things a little more forgiving and I can use my imagination to fill in parts. I gotta work on the deltoid armor.
>>10908470 >p much anything from prime KyoAni - Clannad, Haruhi, K-ON, Free!, Amagi, Lucky Star I saw a dude dressed as Yui leaving a convention last weekend. I should have said hi but was kinda in a rush. There desperately needs to be more cosplay of these characters. I saw they should mandate cosplay to uncosplayed folks and make sure all the Luckys are there.
>>10906080 >>10908443 I had a talk about this just the other day (with someone dressed as Major Ocelot, incidentally enough). He did make a good point, that Naked Snake is one of the easier characters to do. MGScon had a good showing from across the series, naturally, and I'm really glad to learn literally right now that there'll be a year two
>>10908524 https://www.mgscon.com/ As of last year, yeah. It was just one day in LA but an awesome time for fans. About a dozen of the voice actors showed up, and some of them like Vanessa Marshall and Cam Clarke would mingle with the crowd. I'm already looking into booking for this year's
>>10908785 At some point, an announcer asked how many people came in from the East Coast and quite a few raised their hands, myself included. There were even a few who did when asked if anybody flew in from overseas. You should definitely look into going if you can, it was a very soulful experience
>>10825168 Your favorite IP being popular in the cosplay community is really not a good thing even if tactical butts are awesome. To give you a personal example I'm a big fan of the SCP Foundation but the cosplay community surrounding it, in my country at least, is filled with secondary who openly admit that they don't consider the official website to be canon. They don't even try to add some cool details for the specific MTF they choose to cosplay it's always the same boring all-black tacticool operator cause they don't wanna put any work. There's not a single D-Class, scientist or even any popular humanoid SCP like 049 or 035. Lack of relevancy is the price to keep the leeches out of your hobby.
I always wanted to see a girl-take on the Doomslayer/Doomguy. The only one I saw was from this Russian cosplayer which turned out really good, but nothing else since then.
>>10882257 >>10885747 are you really trying to say Gullty Gear cosplays aren’t as relevant anymore? guessing you literally have not touched a single con since Strive came out
>>10891182 yeah basically lol, they coexisted at the same time too, and are singlehandedly responsible for cons banning nazi shit. i remember the weirdo girls in my art class looking at and trading shit like nazi germany x fascist italy yaoi
If you look at old photos from late 90's/2000's cons Revolutionary Girl Utena was fucking everywhere. Now I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen it in the past 10 years (and it's only ever Utena and Anthy, no one else) >>10894866 Was gonna say this too. 2013-15 was flooded with survey corps jackets, titan body suits, and those weird ass pajamas. Now the only character I see regularly is Hange for some reason >>10897157 I was Kyo a few years back and only one person recognized me lol. I'd bet it's a different story at Latin American cons tho :p >>10868338 KH fans are still around but the demographic has totally flipped. It used to be fujos and emo kids larping Organization XIII, now it's millennial dudebros in Party City Sora costumes >>10864297 Bro's boots are fucking killing me lmao, he's putting those dumb MSCHF boots to shame
>>10870978 Anime Expo has two gatherings organized for mulp this year. I've seen the same group of girls dress up at several socal conventions over the past few years as well
I'd say "be the change you want to see", but the people actually making the change don't have time to wax nostalgic online >>10908470 I see Haruhi pretty often, more recently by old guys. It's represented in ALA's promo art
>>10825168 Not a whole lot of RWBY cosplay anymore. Yeah it's probably because the absolute state of the show (another convo for another day), but back in the day there was quite a bit of RWBY cosplay. Hell there used to be RWBY cosplay gatherings frequently at conventions.
>>10953782 >I was Kyo a few years back and only one person recognized me lol. I'd bet it's a different story at Latin American cons tho :p
Brazilian here, every now and then you'll get a Kyo who's totally not attwhoring/wanting to show off as a fetish (with their husband who certainly has some cuckoldery going on)
All the pooners got the Vash out of their system, so he went from crazy common to almost zero overnight. This only occurred to me after seeing that '98 Vash became the majority again @10968106 Awesome post, fag
The Ghost cosplayers, both Papa and Ghouls really dried up but they'll be back. A band with album and tour cycles is different from an anime that ended 10 years ago