Cosplay

The Best Cosplay From DragonCon 2018, One Of The Biggest Nerd Shows Of The Year

DragonCon, which was held between August 30–September 3 in Atlanta, isn’t just one of the biggest cosplay shows in North America, it’s now one of the biggest cosplay galleries we’ve ever run on this site. Over 80,000 people went through the doors of multiple hotels in the area, to sit in on panels, meet friends,…

Destiny Gun Looks Like The Real Deal

Impact Props, the same team responsible for Nathan Fillion’s personal sidearm, have since made a replica Ace of Spades that looks as realistic as a fake Destiny weapon could possibly look. It’s an ornamental thing, so it doesn’t do things like fire pellets, but the cylinder does spin if you like to play space cowboy…

The Best Cosplay From Rose City Comic Con 2018

Rose City Comic Con was held in Portland last week, and photographer Justin Cosplay was kind enough to send in some shots (and video) he took of the event. You can see more of Justin’s work at his Instagram page

Roadhog!

One of the coolest things from PAX West this year was shyaku_cosplay’s Roadhog cosplay, so it’s a treat to be able to showcase some close-ups of the costume. All photos below by Ashley Russell

New Tomb Raider Cosplay For A New Tomb Raider Game

With Shadow of the Tomb Raider out this week, a couple of cosplayers took to nature to pay tribute with their own takes on 2018’s version of Lara Croft. Cosplay by 2playergame | Photo by Flash Bang Cosplay Capture The cosplayers are kat.ofalltrades and 2playergame, while the photographer is Rex Yau, aka Flash Bang Cosplay…

Hellblade: Senua’s Cosplay

You don’t see much Hellblade cosplay around, but this shoot by Anna “Ormeli” Moleva and photographer Aku more than makes up for a lack of quantity.

Monster Hunter Cosplay, Perfected

I know, we’ve already posted shots of this cosplay, but husband and wife team Kamui just took the costume out in the wild for the first time and I mean just look at this.

When Marvel Meets My Hero Academia

Marvel: ‘Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history’. Cosplay: This unexpected coming together of two franchises comes courtesy of chriswithcamera (photographer) and cosplayers cutiepiesensei (Iron Bakugo), xkirakelly (Thordoroki) & myladygabriella (Captain Deku) The costumes were all designed by cutiepiesensei, but each cosplayer was responsible for building their own outfit. 

Gunship Looking For All The 80s Cosplay

Synth lords Gunship are holding a contest where fans can dress up as 80s movie characters, act out some 80s movies scenes and have it featured in an upcoming video. Basically Sweding, if people still use that word. The fine print is here, but you’re basically acting out scenes that’ll be played over the top…

That Was A LOT Of Overwatch Cosplayers

We’ll have a massive gallery of DragonCon cosplay in the coming days, but until that’s ready I wanted to share something in particular that went down during the show: an immense gathering of Overwatch cosplayers. I’m not saying it’s every Overwatch cosplayer in America, but….I mean, it’s a lot of Overwatch cosplayers. These pics were…

Photographer Justin Henton shot this clip featuring some of the best cosplay at PAX West this year.

If Sailor Moon Was Goth

CineCosu Studios’ series of reimagined Sailor Moon settings continues with this third, very cool instalment: Goth Sailor Scouts. Having done 90s fashion and boudoir, this shoot is based on some art done by Cosmic Spectrum, which depicts the scouts not as magical schoolgirls but as black-clad witches. “To that end”, CineCosu’s Dominique Zamora tells Kotaku,…

Replica Mass Effect Pistol Actually Folds

Optimistic Geometry creates replica cosplay weapons that actually “work”. Not in the sense that they fire lasers, but that they’re able to mechanically slide, recoil, light up and fold, just like D.Va and Commander Shepard’s do. Here’s his Mass Effect sidearm: And here’s a recoiling, light-up Overwatch pistol: You can see more of Optimistic’s work…

More Glow Cosplay, Please

Glow, the best show on television, deserves the best cosplay on the internet. Here’s a very good start, with Ginny Di taking on ZOYA THE DESTROYER. You can see more of Ginny’s cosplay here

Excellent Cosplay Of Persona 5‘s Punk Rock Doctor 

Is this the best Tae Takemi cosplay you’ve seen? It’s the best I have. This is cosplayer Kuro Akagi’s take on P5‘s punk rock doctor. As NicoNico News points out, Akagi recently uploaded some photos of her Takemi cosplay Here are some shots, which appear to be from the same shoot, that Akagi posted this…

The Best Cosplay From AnimeFest 2018

Over 10,000 fans packed in over the weekend to the Sheraton Dallas Hotel for AnimeFest, a convention run by a non-profit group who have been educating the masses about anime since the early 90s. Where there are cons there is of course cosplay, and below is a selection of the best of it, with all…

A Closer Look At Mexico’s World Champion Street Fighter Cosplay

In case you missed it, Mexico took top spot at the World Cosplay Summit this year with an incredible Street Fighter routine. We’ve seen video of their effort, but this gallery of photos from Dr. Cosplay gets nice and close to the action. Luis and Lalo from Mexican cosplay duo Banana Cospboys are of course…

An Italian Cosplay Showcase

Romics is a big cosplay show that takes place twice a year in Italy; there’s a main show in October, and a Spring edition that’s held in April. This is a look back at the Spring show, with a video shot by Muffin Geek

Time For Some RWBY Cosplay

This is 1337Mandoas Blake Belladonna from RWBY All photos by Elite Cosplay

The Best Cosplay From RTX 2018

RTX, Rooster Teeth’s big annual convention, was held in Austin earlier this month, and amidst the panels and live shows was some very good cosplay. Here’s a selection of the best of it, thanks to Mineralblu, who was there taking pictures (and video) for us. Blizzard, please make “Baby Bjorn Dad 76″ an official skin,…