What are your veiw about cosplay?

I don't see something wrong about cosplaying. For me (and proven in the previous posts here in mylot) cosplaying is an art of expressing yourself and your fandom in public. If you're an Otaku; you will apreciate it as a character on screen or in manga comes to life. Cosplaying is also essential in conventions because us cosplayers makes the con lively. Not craving for attention but to express ourselves how we love the character/series/game or manga so much like the rest of the congoers. It makes the congoers go for the next conventions because they'll be seeing cosplayers putting their effort in costumes and portraying the entity. It's also bringing others in one group in their likeness. Like clans; they would share their ideas about it and eventaully grow into a community. Happy mylotting cosplayers!

It's what I look forward to every year twice a year. I basically work to support my cosplay habit sometimes...

I just learned what cosplay was when I was online looking for a kitty cat hat to wear because a guy i really like hates the beanie I have lol so anyway, I found some website called cosplay something something and found all these cute animal hats. I kept doing searches and the word cosplay kept coming up, so i said to my friend hey look at this word, i think it means something (because before I had just thought it was the clothing brand name, like volcom or something). And he told me about it, and I was like wow, that's cool! the Easterners always know how to rock it. I love anime and video games and the cosplay outfits are so damn cute, how could you not love it?

I like cosplay. But I'm not fanatic cosplay fans ^^ My sister who always like to cosplay. She give me b day present Ghotic cloth cosplay. wahahahah

cosplaying is so much fun! although i haven't cosplayed. ^__^ and i don't think i would be able to try it because i don't have the resources and i'm kind of shy. ^__^;; i have friends though who are cosplayers and they are always excited when they talk about it. yeah, it doesn't only give you fun, it also make one artistic and creative. making those costumes aren't easy! it takes so much effort and talent! one has to be a creative imagination and knowledge on types of cloths and sewing to make a very good costume! i really salute those cosplayers especially those who cosplay as robots! ^__^

I'm a cosplayer, so I'll say for my point of view I think is a normal hobby, and only because it's not so normal in some countries, people think it's crazy and weird It's always like that, some people just prefer to judge as bad thing something that they don't do or never heard about which is a wrong and old way of thinking Some people like to dress like actresses or musicians only to look like them (using the excuse: It's fashion now) so why can't we dress like cartoon characters? Using the same excuse as some people: "It's fashion in Japan and some other countries!" hahaha Hobbies aren't always things musicians or actors do, hobbies are simply things you like to do on your free time and don't hurt anybody And we don't really think we are the characters, we only dress up to go to Anime meetings and take pictures and have fun, but when the meeting is over, we're back to studies, work... Our normal life as normal people In my country (Brasil) we have the Carnival in February when people dress like "birds" in my opinion because there are some kinds of wings on their costumes. In USA some people dress like wizards, ghosts and etc for Halloween and nobody think it's crazy, right? So it's the same with us but using a different culture, the Japanese culture. In some months we dress up like Anime characters to go to anime meetings and that's all^^