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Cosplay, otherwise known as “Costume Play,” was a phrase coined for individuals who enjoyed creating elaborate costumes in order to portray their favorite anime, videogame, or manga character. The phenomena that started in Japan has done nothing but grow exponentially with each passing year. With the success that it has been, it has slowly overflowed across the ocean and took residency in the United States as a slowly growing fad.
With the increasing fanfare of the Anime culture in America, it seems that the cosplay scene has grown with it. There has slowly but surely been a growth in interest so much so that it has called for huge conventions to spur up from both the east coast and the west coast. Outside of conventions aimed directly at cosplay, you’ll find the hobby being displayed at anime conventions, comic conventions, and even gaming conventions. As great as all of it sounds, sometimes people just don’t understand the intricacies of what makes cosplay so magical and worth witnessing.
The only issue revolving around this pop culture happening is the blatant disregard of actually mimicking a character you can pull off. Due to this, America has been home to some of the worst, funniest, and even saddest forms of cosplay worldwide. Of course this epidemic isn’t only limited to the United States, it does happen elsewhere, just not as often as it does here.
What we’ve done is gone around the net and compiled a small collection of prime examples of this growing problem. The concept is simple, the dedication is tough, but the execution is everything and sometimes it just doesn’t work out. All we’re trying to achieve and all we’re asking for is for these individuals and future individuals to think first and maybe next time ask themselves, “Who am I kidding with this?” If the answer happens to be yourself, then you should stop right there.
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ahhh. Thats good, bad and ugly! LOL
LOL at some of them XD (the failures wtf XD)
Totally awesome, I'll have to send in a pic of my cosplay so you can add it to the winner list, hehe.
Very nice article, pretty funny too. It's amazing how good some of these are (mostly always the japanese of course) and you only really realize how good some of them are when compare them to the silly Americans. I love being an American... I exist to make people in other countries feel better about themselves, lol.
That's cool :D The Tifa girl looks just like .. Tifa ;D
I want to mary that tifa cosplayer. The cosplay is awesome but she is just beautiful.
those are awesome..the girls are really quite beautiful..butmy fave is the gundam one, that is too epic
Some of those costumes actually looks FIERCEE!!
the gundam one is beyond epic, and the riku one is hot.
HAHAHAHA! Like it was said before, some of those are very good. The hair on the Cloud winner is perfect. Yuna is pretty spot on, the guns are dope. The Gundam guy isn't even trying. Riku... Riku... Riku... that outfit from FFX-2 is awesome, always loved the g string coming out from the mini skirt. The KH kid is really disturbing. Tifa looks amazing... and Vincent looks awesome. Probably the best one.
the gundam winner must have no life....but still his costume was awsome..
and the tifa winner is hot..
Gundam one is definitely my favorite. This just goes to show how superior the japanese are when it comes to Cosplay.
Though efforts and courage to do cosplay is only a nickel dozen.
LMAO at fat Yuna and Fat Tifa !! Though the Tifa and Yuna winners are HOT !!
lmao, sorry fat chicks.
I love Cosplay, but I would never do it, unless the costumes looked as good as some of the winners, but being American (and lazy as heck) I would probably end up looknig like one of thouse sad losers (loser as in costume not there lives), LOL
yea vince and tifa (tifa gurl looks hot) vince guy looks pretty cool
Is it me, or did only the obese peoples get fail? But still, nice article! It was... amusing..
Fail = White Folks. Winners = Asians. Its how it always is.
haha the fat chick looks funny,haha
that winner Tifa.. beautiful and perfect
I'd like to see "old" Snake....
But Tifa....d@@@@.m.n.........she is hot @.s.s.s.s.s.s!!! Is she the real lifelike model???
The Tifa was good. the rest failed cuz they were japanese dressed as characters who looked white.
While all the winners are VERY good, like so many others, I just have to say that.... the Tifa winner is gawd dayumn beautiful!! Even though she looks EXACTLY like her CGI counterpart, the most epic win still goes to the poor SOB in the Gundam armour! That's just unbelievable...
Kudos to PSU for putting up this article! I had a good time looking at the failures as well. Keep it up! :)
Wow, the winners look so much like the "real" thing. That's amazing. Also, the failures? LOLOLOL
Notice how Americans suck at Cosplaying, no American should cosplay. Thank you for making eyes bleed US.
i've already seen this on another site, same pics and everything
2 things 1 the yuna fail is disturbing and 2 i seriously thought for a second that the tifa winner was cg absolutely stunning if i was her id change my name to tifa lockheart lol
the Tifa looks soo soo real niiice whoop whoop rep+ or bubble to him kkk XD
Wow Americans suck so bad at this, loved the Gundam failed one though, at least his message got across
So basically Asians cosplay.. everyone else....FAIL
We Americans always seem to butcher things popular in other countries.
dont these people gave anything better
What this is shows is that the Asian scene actually spend valuable time producing their costumes and pay respect to the creators by getting as close as possible to the character. Seemingly the Asians are creating custom pieces to get as close to the original concept as possible.
Meanwhile us Yanks go up the attic and look for whatever didn't sell in the last yard sale and try to make it work. The other thing I noticed is that photography. Just look at the Vincent shot. The winning shot looks like a still from a live action film.
Plus, all the Asian chicks look insanely hot. I find it hard to believe you couldn't find better looking Cosplayer chicks than just a bunch of fatties but maybe the point was to find bad ones so I'll give you that. Having said that, nothing these fatties could wear will make them desirable let alone disgracing the FF franchise.
Asians are for the WIN, Americans, lose weight!
@ Staticnueron: I like your style.
This is some freaky weird sh!t.
I'm sure, "pretty sure" that the Winner of the Tifa cosplay.
The chest is a lie.
pretty cool winners i like the rikku alot
who else want's some fatty yuna? or is it just me.
Great!! love all of them (even the failures, they're funny XD), but i'm amazed with rikku and tifa =D they're just perfect
"I'm a Gundam" 4 the win :)
LOL they really fail man....they should know their limits at the first place. And all of the Japanese cosplay are really hot! I got a bunch of the japanese cosplayers photos, and they all look fantastic. This shows that Japanese really know their stuffs, unlike the rest of the world, i live in Singapore, and the cosplayers suck here too.
if they make a movie they should cast tifa she is born to b her OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is HOOOOOOOOOTTTT mabe to hot she has to win if not the judges are g@y.
Do u realize that almost all the fails are americans and the winners are all japanese. I just noticed,
They need to at least make it a little fair and do some characters that Americans can put up some competition with their Asian counterparts. Maybe some characters like Homer Simpson, Fat Albert, or even the State Puff Marshmellow Man. Then you'll see some real American gravy!
Cosplay done right aint such a bad thing... haha hoah Tifa and the Yuna
This is funny as heck
Incredible.....Everyone against Cloud looks identical to their cosplayers on the winning circle. Tifa cosplayer and Yuna cosplayer are hot!
Lol @ Fry-Man. No, it's not just you. She doesn't look bad.... just ridiculous.
And I hate to sound so "Pro-Ugly" here, but the game artists incorporate such an unrealistic sense of beauty that (outside of a few rare people) not many people can achieve. I'm reminded of an old Converse commercial that some guy states that there are a lot more ugly people in this world than beautiful ones.
Wow...people don't realize how silly they look. But hey, if they are having fun with it, by all means, Cosplay!