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Toni Darling (Phoenix, AZ)
The biggest misconception is that everyone will make tons and tons of money. That just isn’t true for most people.…
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Shiratori Hime Cosplay (New Orleans, LA)
I’ve been a fan of Steven Universe since the very beginning. Mega Pearl spoke to me in terms of the…
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Luna (Ocean City, NJ)
As a kid I used to make little costumes for the dolls. My parents would always help me make my…
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Brandon (Orlando, FL)
I found out about cosplay and conventions from my Vice President from the Japanese Culture Club, when we were in…
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Punished Props (Seattle, WA)
I’m way into video games. For example, I played World of Warcraft for five years. At a certain point the…
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NegativeDreamer (Orlando, FL)
I got into cosplay a bit later than most… 28 years old. I always was into Halloween my whole life,…
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Regina (Portland, OR)
When I started getting interested in cosplay and costuming, I had absolutely no knowledge of sewing or fabric! I remember…
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Subaru Camui (Las Vegas, NV)
So my cosplay origin story started back when I was in fifth grade. I was 10 and my mom told…
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Phaleure Cosplay (Columbia, MD)
We are all pretty local to each other so we do it quite often at least once or twice before…
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@DraconPern (San Antonio, TX)
It started probably back in 2006 or 2007. You get bored and you look online for anime-related stuff and by…
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Josh & Sheena (Christiana, TN)
We met in high school and started dating. I used to carry a DragonBallZ notebook. I had about three or…
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Jez Roth (Las Vegas, NV)
I opened up the School of Cosplay in November of 2019, right before covid. And I wanted to open this…
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Rick Prince (Nashville, TN)
[Face Off has] been an absolute and incredible ride. Over the arc of the past year, things have been really…
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TrinityRen (Denver, CO)
I wanted to put my skills to the test by making five CLAMP cosplay because I absolutely love CLAMP. The…
Further Reading
They’re Young. We’re Dead. So it’s Cosplay by Wendy Ross Kaufman