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Lindsay (Chicago, IL)

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Anna-neko

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Punished Props (Seattle, WA)

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Scrapper Costuming (New York)

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COSPLAY NOTEBOOK – Hlee Xyooj

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By Infinitus_Potentia (Reddit) I’ve been making a list of notable people who had a hand in shaping the American anime fandom before 2000 (which you can…

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How The Cartoon/Fantasy Organization – torchbearers of anime in America in the 80s – was brought down

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Sunday Creature

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kangelicx (Washington DC)

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(Transcript of original audio interview we recorded at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2010 that aired on the Tokyo Tower Show that same year.) Zippy: We get the…

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Helen McCarthy (UK)

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Clinton (Owasso, OK)

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@super.ultra.omega (Rhode Island)

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Chip (CHicago, IL)

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By Greyrondo There is nothing ordinary about cosplay. Whether it’s the character’s personality or the costume, the end result is always larger than life—not that cosplayers…

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There is nothing ordinary about cosplay

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Chunky Cosplay (Anchorage, AK)

Personal Stories

I started a huge project at the beginning of lockdown, and I used its completion as incentive to get back into competing as the world began…

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faerie_fingers

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Cosplay : A History

Books

During the peak of the pandemic, my congoing went down to attending no in-person cons but I continued to attend virtual cons. However, the virtual cons…

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Blue.Eyed Cosplay

Covid

At first I feel like it was the only one, or at least the only prominent one, then at various times various groups sprang off of…

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PAUL VARTA

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@Houston_Fisk (Houston, TX)

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Corey (Anchorage, AK)

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