Today I wanted to show some images and video of Sailor Jupiter cosplay costumes. Some of these are the best, and some have been included to show you what won’t work.
This video is just a short walk-on of a decent Sailor Jupiter costume at Anime North in 2004. I wanted to include this one so that you can see what happens when you don’t pay close attention to the sleeves on a Sailor Senshi uniform. The sleeves need to have a puff to them, or they will end up looking like wrinkly holes.
This cosplay of Sailor Jupiter by yuzuru shows the seam that cuts across the chest on your typical senshi uniform. This seam is critical to making the costume look like a senshi uniform, and not a dance leotard. Be sure to find a nice emerald color, avoiding forest greens and lime greens.
I can’t figure out why, but it’s hard to find a high-quality video of PGSM on You Tube. Here is a good one, which shows Jupiter’s transformation sequence.
Sephiroth is one of the more romantic of the video game baddies. To cosplay Sephiroth, it takes a kind of quiet dignity…there’s nothing worse than someone acting like a goofball in a Sephiroth costume. Here are some examples of good Sephiroth cosplay.
This is a good slide show of some of the best Sephiroth cosplay costumes that I have seen to date. These come from a variety of conventions and photo shoots.
This is what I”m talking about when I mention a goofball Sephiroth…
Sephiroth cosplay skit at Supanova Sydney in 2005.
Sailor Venus is the senshi of love, and her fans are more than eager to portray her long blonde locks and orange skirt. Here are some examples of Sailor venus cosplay to get your started on your own Venus cosplay costume.
Eternal Sailor Venus at AWA 2007. This one looks like she used knee-high socks, and her uniform is a little too much like a dancer’s leotard. The skirt looks nice, though.
Check out these photos of some of the best Sailor Venus costume I’ve found so far at Cosplay.com:
I have been a fan of M. Alice LeGrow’s Bizenghast series for a long time, since before the first novel came out, if you can believe it. I started looking at her work on DeviantArt before TokyoPop published the series. A unique aspect of M. Alice is that she is also a seamstress and creates cosplay costumes for her own characters. I went out on a search for some Bizenghast material to help with your own Bizenghast cosplay:
This is the official TokyoPop Bizenghast music video. I would use this as a guide to some of the tones and costumes of Bizenghast. If you’ve never read Bizenghast, this is a good introduction.
This is a Dinah cosplay at JaCon 2007.
Here is another Dinah, this time with less bones.
Another, less impressive boney Dinah from Ohayocon 2007.
Finally, here is a cosplay skit featuring Dinah at Anime Expo in 2006. Have you ever done a Bizenghast Dinah cosplay?
Do you fit this profile? In this video from ‘The Tozzer Report’, we’ve got a rather biting take on the world of cosplay and conventions.
So are you able to laugh about your costume obsession, or do you get offended when presented with this kind of take on the convention subculture? The view that others have about dressing up in costume usually stops at the Halloween or masquerade level. Is it understandable that the mainstream can’t help but laugh at cosplay enthusiasts, or are they just not ‘getting’ what it’s all about?
Let me know what you think. Is this video funny or cruel?
Okay, there are a million videos coming out a day about someone pracing around the Wal-Mart in a costume. Either they needed to pick up paper towels on their way home from a costume party, or they grabbed a banana suit instead of their coat. However you slice it, people think it’s funny not only to show up abruptly in costume, but for some reason they think it’s also funny on video. Here are some awkward and sometimes funny -insert costume name here-in public videos.
Fun in a Banana Suit!
Master Chief Goes to Wal-Mart
Megatron Goes to Wal-Mart
Have you ever gone grocery shopping in a costume? Let me know in a comment.
Some will argue that the following video doesn’t contains cosplay as much as it contains excuses for skimpy outfits. Others will tell you that Arisa Mizuhara is a wonderful cosplay talent who has turned her hobby into a lucrative career. What do you think?
Check out this feature on Nanao’s Cosplay Research featuring Arisa’s Rozen Maiden cosplay. I like the way Nanao puts it, Arisa looks much like a real-life doll. If I could pull off cute outfits like that one, I’d be in the business of having my picture taken, too.
So what do you think? Is this just a hot girl making money off of cosplaying, or is she a legitimate fan?
I’ve compiled these videos of Sakura Haruno from the Naruto series in an effort to offer a character study for anyone who is attempting to assemble her costume.
Here are some Sakura Haruno photos compiled form both the manga and anime series from YouTube user ‘ fabiolaamaasasuke‘.
A cosplay costume created for Sakura Harno, with other costumes thrown in there, too from YouTube user ‘xxnayxxXD‘.
This is a slideshow Sakura Haruno cosplay tribute posted on YouTube from ‘ oOsakurahimeOo‘. This one is a good source because it shows several different ways to portray her outfit.
And finally, this one is a bit strange, as it shows a Sakura dress on a girl looking at cherry blossoms, kind of in a photo shoot sort of format.
Here are some videos that portray Kakashi Hatake cosplay for those of you who may be doing a character study of his costume. While not all of these are live action, they are all fairly helpful.
Here we have various scenes from the anime that you can pause and forward through to get a better look at Kakashi Hatake’s clothing and character style.
In this cosplay tribute video, we see a slideshow of various cosplayers taking on the role of Kakashi Hatake. Posted by ‘Kakaoshi ‘, this video is a good way to see all the different ways to portray the character.
In case you are entering a cosplay contest at a convention this year, here are a few moves demonstrated by this guy.
I’m putting together a series of posts that present video of popular cosplayed anime characters. Combining anime, manga and cosplay footage, these will help to give you a better idea of what the costumes look like and how they have been cosplayed in the past. Today, we’re looking at a character study of Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto.
This is a great compilation of photos from manga and anime to get an idea of what Sasuke Uchiha’s costume looks like. This was actually posted by ‘1KittyX3 ‘, who has cosplayed Sasuke in the past.
In this video posted by ‘OtoProductions ‘, we have a slideshow of various cosplayers portraying Sasuke Uchiha. Note the different materials and styles of costumes used.
And finally, here is a funny skit form a convention involving Sasuke Uchiha.
