Cosplay

Skyrim Cosplayer Joins Christians For His Own Religious Protest

Every year at Dragon Con, there are some Christian protesters hanging around angry that everyone is loving nerd shit instead of Jesus. And almost every year, Heimskr from Skyrim is there to join them in their preaching. Cosplayer Jacob Kevinsson has been dressing as the Skyrim preacher and attending Dragon Con since 2014, and most…

League Of Legends: The Cosplay Movie

Not only is this some of the best League of Legends cosplay I’ve ever seen, it’s also one of the most professional cosplay videos I’ve ever seen. It’s by a team of Chinese cosplayers, and if you like your cosplay showcases to be completely over-the-top with corny-ass soundtracks, then boy is this the vid for…

Cosplayers Create Their Own Wonder Woman Vanity Fair Shoot

You know how nerd stuff sometimes appears in Vanity Fair looking all gorgeous and fancy? A team of cosplayers decided to stage their own version, only this time with the characters from the new Wonder Woman movie. In keeping with the spirit of Vanity Fair shoots, not only did the cosplayers pose around some nice…

The Best Cosplay From Sri Lanka’s Comic Con

The thirdSri Lankan Comic Con was held on August 26-27 at the SLECC in the country’s largest city, Colombo. Just like last year, there was a lot of great cosplay! Below is a selection of some of the best of it, courtesy of photographer Prasanna Welangoda. You can see more shots of the show at…

The Best Cosplay From Sydney’s Biggest Anime Convention

Sydney’s biggest anime convention, Smash, has come again to Rosehill Gardens, bringing with it a cavalcade of bright and colourful cosplayers. With a focus on the Japanese side of things, Smash gets quite a different range of costumes to the ones you’ll regularly see at gaming expos or comic cons — though there are some…

World’s Best Geralt Cosplayer Meets Geralt’s Voice Actor

Here’s German cosplayer Maul,who may as well be Geralt of Rivia in real life, meeting voice actor Doug Cockle outside GamesCom. This is…maybe not the worst approach to handling the upcoming Netflix series?

Four Years Of Incredible New York Comic Con Cosplay

Photographer Andrew Boyle has been going to the New York Comic Con for years, and has decided to do something with the hundreds of images he’s taken of cosplayers over that time: put them in a very fancy coffee table book. It’s called Heroes & Villains, and while there are some snippets of text here…

Britain’s League Of Legends Cosplay Is *Chef Kisses Fingers*

Earlier this year, at the MCM London Comic Con, there was a dedicated showcase just for League of Legends cosplayers. It was real good. Riot Games has now shared shots and footage from this showcase, so that we can all get a good look at the event. Sneaky Zebramade this video: While the photo gallery…

Dang, This Is Some Good Metal Gear Cosplay

Here’s Norwegian cosplayer CryoCanine with one heck of a Skull Sniper (from Metal Gear Solid V) cosplay. She’s actually been wearing the outfit for a few years now, but as with many other cosplay costumes that are good enough to keep around, CryoCanine has continually been improving it, to the point where she now may…

Nice Bow, Horizon: Zero Dawn

Harrison Krix from Volpin Props went out and made a replica bow from Horizon: Zero Dawn that looks (and more importantly moves) as close to the game’s actual model as you’re ever going to get. It doesn’t fire, but then, that thing was designed to look good in a video game, not shoot arrows in…

The Cosplay Of Otakon 2017

Otakon was held in DC over the weekend, with around 30,000 fans making the trip to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the first time Otakon has taken place outside Baltimore for over a decade. There were many cosplayers there. These shots are courtesy of Tyler Fortier, and you can see more of them at…

Hi, Persona 5’s Panther

I have seen some very good Ann Takamaki cosplay in the past six months, but few have come as close to the source material as Megan Coffey’s effort here. You might remember Megan from a feature we ran earlier this year. If you missed it, consider your heart now changed.

Cosplay Heats Up Japan In August 

Today the summer Comic Market gets underway at Tokyo Big Sight. Where there are comics, there are cosplayers, and you can bet the bi-annual Comiket is crawling with those. As in the past, the cosplayers at year’s summer Comic Market run the gamut of incredibly accurate to incredibly silly. The result is some truly enjoyable…

When Fallout Meets Judge Dredd

Dimitri Zaitsev wondered what it’d look like if you mixed the dystopian worlds of Fallout and Judge Dredd. So he put together this incredible outfit to find out. In the gallery below you’ll see the amount of work that went into the costume, not just in terms of its construction, but the weathering and other…

Mercy by ladymelamori, photo by Kirchos.

Bayonetta, by Ladee Danger. Photo by Martin Wong.

China Wins This Year’s World Cosplay Summit, Japan Comes In Third 

Team China won its first World Cosplay Summit championship with an impressive Blood: The Last Vampire performance. Cospalyer Tian Tian was Blood’s Saya, while Xue Yan Xue was a chiropteran monster. This was China’s first World Cosplay Summit grand prix win. Congrats! Below you can watch Team China’s performance: Mexico, which took the top slot…

Vancouver Put On A Cosplay Show

Anime Revolution, aka Anirevo, was held over the weekend in Vancouver, and photographer The Will Box was kind enough to share some of the shots he took of the cosplayers in action.

You don’t see much Darksiders cosplay these days, so here’s Uriel by Eylerwain. Photo by aKami777.