Anime Expo 2008 (Part 2) – Cosplay
July 7th, 2008 Posted in Anime
Image by Jasmine21
Let’s keep this short. Due to reasons mentioned earlier, I do not really have any images that I took to show you. But don’t worry, I have a few links that you can check out after the jump.
I don’t really know what the status of cosplaying is at other conventions in the US and around the world, so I have nothing to compare Anime Expo to. My first reaction as I stepped into the building was, “Wow. So many Narutos.” Really, if I had to name two anime series that were cosplayed, I’d definitely have to choose Naruto and Bleach. It was getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Sometime after the Shokotan concert, I decided to count how many Naruto related cosplays there were as I walked from the West Hall to the Exhibit Hall. Within five minutes, my count was already around 30. Another 15 to 20 minutes later and the number was in the high 80s. I finally just decided to quit counting, and thank goodness too. I’m pretty sure I would still be counting right now had I not stopped. That’s not to say that there weren’t any good Naruto cosplayers. There were quite a few that were very well done. It’s just that there could have been more cosplayers from other series. I was looking for Shana cosplays in particular, and I managed to find one person.
It’s kind of pointless to list these, since I don’t have any images, but I saw a few cosplays that caught my eye. One of them was Genesis from Crisis Core. Also, it seemed that most of the Yoko cosplays were very nice. Lastly, Final Fantasy related cosplays all seemed pretty good. And no, unfortunately I did not get to see the Masquerade event that night.
If you want to see pictures (I’m sure you do), then I’d definitely recommend that you check out the following flickr users:
If you want even more pictures, try this too.
Maybe next time I’ll learn to not own myself and actually get some pictures. ><
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P.S. You have got to see the McSephiroth picture in VideogameVisionary’s album.
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One Response to “Anime Expo 2008 (Part 2) – Cosplay”
I agree, there were like a million Narutos and Bleaches
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There were actually some really well done Bleach ones, but there were also a million peeps just dressed as themselves in Soul Society clothes (come on guys, that’s just weak
Even the Narutos, I saw some reeeeally good Kakashis and an awesome Zabusa, but there were way too many peeps in random ninja clothes (again, weak:)).
By the way – the best Gaara I ever saw was like a 9 year old… we need some competition.
Cheers!