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Otakon 1999 – DTY

GeoCities

Animation that’s for adults only By Kathleen DonnellyMercury News Entertainment Writer IF THE turnout at AnimeCon – a convention for fans of Japaneseanimation – is an…

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Kathleen Donnelly, Mercury News

Convention Report
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Scrapper Costuming (New York)

Personal Stories
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Warren (Chicago, IL)

Personal Stories
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TrisRex (Chicago, IL)

Audio

*whew* Things are finally slowing down around here. It is Christmas and I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who have supported me…

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Happy Holidays!

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MIO.GG

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Cosplay : A History

Books

The pandemic hasn’t affected me all too much in regards to cosplays and conventions— in some cases it’s led to some creative work-arounds or incorporations of…

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redroseace

Covid

It was Sunday morning September 20, 2009 and it was the final day of Anime Weekend Atlanta. Rain had been falling steady the entire time I waas here…

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AWA 2009

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ANNA MINA (North Carolina)

Personal Stories
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ventuswentus

Personal Stories

By Takahashi Nobuyuki The word “Cosplay” spread from a magazine called “My Anime.” During the 1970’s manga clubs and movie clubs were very popular among college…

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30th Anniversary of Cosplay

Essays

Fashion and style, glamour, glitz aand Gamilons? Obviously these are not the runways of Paris, the pageant that we’re describing is the fantastic world of COSPLAY. Cosplay is an abbreviation of the words costume…

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Cosplay in the United States (1995)

Essays

I remember sometimes having to doom scroll thru messages because if something was a hot topic multiple people would be emailing at the same time so…

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Melissa (Louisville, KY)

Personal Stories
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My Costume, Myself: Celebrating Stories of Cosplay and Beyond 

Books
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COSPLAY ZINE

Magazine
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Stephen (New York CIty, NY)

Personal Stories
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kangelicx (Washington DC)

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

Covid
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