On November 3-4, BlizzCon made its triumphant return to the Anaheim Convention Center and cosplayers were not, ahem, playing around. The best BlizzCon cosplay was definitely worth writing home about, ...

A traveler at heart, Brianna is a risk-taker and goal chaser. Ever since she saw her brother playing Ocarina of Time on their N64, her path was set. In 2021, she graduated from California State ...

Cosplayers say their hobby has had an astronomical rise in popularity over the past decade. While the subculture promotes "no ...

Cosplay is the art of dressing up as characters from a fandom such as anime, comics, video games, and other forms of pop culture. Through diligently crafting their own cosplays, or buying them premade ...

Halloween-themed “cosplay” events have become quite trendy in Japan these past few years. Last year on the night of Halloween, young costumed revelers took over the famous scramble intersection in ...

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Coined by Japanese writer Nobuyuki Takahashi, cosplay is largely popularised and given its modern form by Japanese anime and manga culture. The act of embodying a character is also an act of ...