Cosplay skits.
Can't stand them.
Cosplay all you want, but 99% of you fail at acting. :v

Naruto headbands

Anyone under the age of 18

faggots forgot Yaoi paddles

SIGNS.

>>1811337
>>1811339
Yaoi signs in particular.

>>1811321
>>1811321

I agree 100%. its fucking annoying.

People that carry around signs saying "FREE HUGS, OR GLOMP ME" etc.

God damn.

People who bitch about your cosplay to either you or your close friend's faces. That pisses me off.
Oh, and glompers/etc. I read one story recently about how one glomper managed to effectively destroy something one girl worked on for ~5 months and she doesn't have the heart to put effort into her costumes anymore, made me RAAAAAAAAAGE.

>>1811321
not if hot girls are doing it while im flirting with them.

formal balls

>>1811355
Testicles in Tuxedos?

Anyone under 16.

>>1811358
sure, those too

>>1811353
Oh shit man, the glompers. Any britfags remember the guy that was giving 'air hugs' at one of the Expos? I can't remember if it was February or October, but yeah, I thought it would just be a hug motion from about five feet away with no contact, so what's the harm in that.

My surprise when the fucker ran over and lifted me off the ground.

>>1811355
What's wrong with formal balls? Other than taking up space, how do they annoy anyone else?

>>1811360
agree 100%.
and Yaoi paddles.

>>1811383
Probably because he can't make a decent formal costume? I find that they're very helpful in that they weed out the common garden variety Naruto and Bleach craplayers, you know, the ones that would ruin a nice event.

>>1811365

D:

Yeah we had a friend who made a badass Motoko outfit. Some neckbearded fatty ran over "GLOMPS LOL" and broke her head visor. So much rage. She yelled at the guy and he got all red faced and pissy and tearded up and walked jogged away.

They're glorified high school proms that don't weed out jack shit unless they cost money. Even so, they delay other, better events because they have to be held in the largest room the con has

>>1811392
I've had plenty of costumes or props destroyed by glompers or huggers who just take it to far, or can't recognize that "no, no free hugs please." actually means that.

Oh man, the neckbeards who do not turn up in costume but are there to just take pictures of anyone wearing skimpy outfits, they are often some of the worst offenders. Of both hugs, and being huge superdickheads.

Although personally I can't wait to see what will ever replace free hugs. The problem is that it is so deep rooted into cons nowadays it's almost impossible to rid. Like caramelldansen.

>>1811400
Actually the MCM Expo's 'ball' was held in the Novotel Bar, which was fairly small. Oh wait I just remembered, that sucked too. Nevermind.

I'd like to see all the fucking 12-17 year old girls who fail!crossplay* and go around saying "I LOVE TWILIGHT AND VAMPIRE KNIGHT" and take pictures of each other biting each other on the neck/making out/being retarded,just...gone from the conventions., or the whole planet.

*(as in a tall slender yaoi character..but it's actually a chubby/fat 15 year old girl who didn't bind or anything)

>>1811418

Agreed.

And yeah the guys who are just there to take pictures of people are kinda irritating. We're there to dres sup though so I understand but the ones who get way too physical or are like "Hey grab your friends boobs LOLRANDUM" make me sad.

Hugs. You don't just walk up to some stranger and hug them on the street, so there's no reason to do it at a con. I'd rather get randomly hugged on the street seeing as there's a somewhat better chance the hugger's recently bathed.

>>1811418
And to add to my post, I'd also like to say I'd like attention whores gone from conventions....and when I say attention whores, I mean retarded ones..I don't mind people who REALLY REALLY like having their picture taken...I mean the ones who jump up and down and scream a VA's name, and when they get called to ask a question, they say "CAN YOU SAY "BELIEVE IT" IN YOUR EDWARD ELRIC VOICE HURR HURR"
or girls that walk around in black bikinis/skimpy outfits with an Akatsuki print and say "I'm sexy no jutsu *whoever the fuck you are*
no.
you're a fucking skank, you're 14 years old dressed more revealing than Yoko and it isn't even a real cosplay.
diaf plz.

>>1811431
Oh my, are you ME?

Signed.

>>1811353
>>1811365
>>1811392

I've been to a couple of conventions and yeah, this glomp crap has to stop. It's cute if it happens in your shows/manga but it's not cool in real life. I saw a random 13 year old girl latch onto a Miroku and not let go for a good mintue and a half. Because of that, he didn't get onto his elevator and their con party was split up.

I've never cosplayed, so I respect any time/effort/money that people put into making an outfit, I would never dream of randomly squeezing people. If I see a cosplay I like, I tell them 'good job' and offer a high five. Also, I ask before I take pictures.

>>1811450
Usually people are very polite. I never decline a picture really, because everyone's always asked me politely with just a "can I just have a second so I can take a photo please?" or something, but I feel it's too good to last.

If we could somehow weed out anyone who hasn't seen original Macross or that appreciates older shows, I think we should be good.

>>1811471

Just to specify, I mean people who "Don't" appreciate older shows.

This is the worst generation of fans ever

Fucking Oh MY GAWD yes.

Signed.

>>1811418
This, and also the yaoi crossplayers who waltz into a perfectly good photo shoot and try to turn it into a yaoi orgy. I literally witnessed a pair of girls walk into a calm, semi-professional group photo shoot and started dry humping each other, then bitched when the photographer refused to take any more pictures and told them to stop and act like adults. They said no started screaming and whining and then followed the group around when the photographer tried to get them isolated to take actual shots.
Needless to say, the photo shoot was disbanded and no one got their pictures taken, which was sad because everyone other then the failcrossplayers were dressed beautifully.

>>1811336
>Anyone under the age of 18

Nah, rather just what Oshi said >>1811360

We're very few, but 17+ are alot better at behaving themselves than 16- kids. (inb4 underage b&, I know, okay.)

On that note, pretty much everything thats already been said in this thread.
Except cosplay skits... Conventions should do like Abunaicon, have everyone who wishes to perform with a skit write their manuscripts to them, and then the staff will all pick which 20 groups has the best skit-ideas. If only every con worked like that......

Ugh, I hate those yaoi fangirls so much, usually I'm quite easy-going.
MCM Expo this May is going to be crawling with them.

>>1811550
Yeah, Expo is pretty bad for them. I got paddled twice

Hope that guy with the yaoi stand isn't here again, he was practically encouraging them.

Sexy-no-jutsu cosplays that aren't Naruto (the character). I can't tell if the fat chick saying she's sexy-no-jutsu Sasuke pisses me off more or the fact that she bears no resemblance to the character what-so-ever and then I see her barrel roll to some random kid and glomp him.

>>1811553
Oh god, I remember that guy. I was cosplaying as Rukia and he pointed and shouted 'You! I got some good Bleach yaoi here!'.
Not cool, gaiz.

>>1811553
Yaoi... stand.
Fuck me, I'm being more and more put off by the second.

Cosplay. I mean, SRSLY. Who needs cosplay at a cosplay convention? =B

People who bitch about other nerds in a nerd convention as if they're higher up the totem pole.

>>1811569
butthurt faggot who is so ugly he is an outcast among outcasts

>>1811568

Conventions aren't about "cosplay." The majority of people who attend cons are the average joe schmo that dresses in normal clothes and casually reads manga.

You're immersed in the cosplay culture and consequently notice only people in costume so you tend to forget the vast majority of people who aren't in costume.

>>1811570

Lol, typical upset female response.

Here anon, don't forget to take this. Pic related.

>>1811565
He addressed me too, tried to sell me some FMA shit. Which somebody else from the large FMA group had already bought and tried to show me every 20 seconds. Including during lunch.

>>1811566
Stay the fuck away from London, just avoid the entire city altogether and you'll be fine!

The Fucking Game
Flying Glomps
underage girls getting away with "yaoi" stuff, when "hentai" stuff will get you kicked out.

>>1811575
Oh and on a similar tangent

Muslim "peace" conventions that happen to be going on in the same building as well. Goddamn I was pissed off to no end with those people, don't get me wrong the families and the kids were alright, but everyone else was being a prickhead.

>>1811575
B-but... I LIVE IN LONDON.

agree w/ OP but how do you link other posts in your reply?

>>1811592
You LIKE it?

>>1811599
You click their number. To link to OP's post you'd click.
Anonymous 05/05/09(Tue)15:13 No.1811321
>No.1811321
on his post.

themoreyouknow.jpg

>>1811599
navigate to Windows folder on your c:\ drive and delete System 32 folder

>>1811575
Ugh, how awful. He'll be there again, my friend of a friend knows him.

People who do not bathe, or at least TRY to cover up their body odor.

Kids who don't want to pay for a hotel room, and try to sleep in video rooms, bathrooms, phone booths, hallways, or the main con area.

>>1811610
Goddamn, first the tube and DLR engineering works, some faggots wanting JMetal at the Cosplay Party, and now this.

What a great convention.

>>1811603
It's not my fault! Really! (B& here, so I can't really move away anytime soon. But I try 110% to not act like the other underage fangirls.)
...Actually, I do kinda like it here.

cgl and cosfu meetups

>>1811617
Oh I'm not saying it some parts couldn't be nice. Just the fact the con community is pretty terrible.

Actually it's not so much better up North were I am. We've got the Yorkshire Cosplayers. Who are whales.

>>1811623
Surely they aren't that bad. I mean at least the sociable enough to meet with other people. Not the one's holed up in their houses calling everyone fat and ugly.

>>1811577
so glompers are people who give you unwanted hugs?
and please, example of the yaoi stuff that's ok and the hentai stuff that's not. I've never witnessed an injustice like that

*Yaoi paddles (a bit unnerving to see your character's father with one...)
*Hare Hare MOTHERFUCKING Yukai
*Stalkers
*Crossplay with beards/neckbeards/facial hair of ANY sort.

>>1811660
>>*Hare Hare MOTHERFUCKING Yukai

Thank fuck I thought I was the only one

Skanky whores who just tease guys. Sure, you can be a skanky whore, but don't be a bitch and scream rape the second he flirts back.

If you put yourself and your friends in that position by dressing like Sexy no Jutsu Pokemon and start flirting with anything with a penis, then get ready to deal with the repercussions. This isn't online, you can't just block them. That example came from an experience I saw at a con one time.

Fucking Naruto. Ugh. Get it the fuck OUT.

>>1811624

I'm moving to England soon. Don't know where, but I'm hoping the cosplay community isn't that bad. Please tell me it isn't.

>>1811660
>Cosplay with facial hair of ANY sort
The rest of the world would like to have a few words with you. Specifically, the male demographic between the ages of 14-105.

Also, here's something for you - while a lot of cool main characters look like they are perfect flowers, poised and beautiful - YAOI BAIT - every character with a beard has always been a bad-ass.

I agree with gettin Naruto the fuck OUT

>>1811688
It is pretty bad. But it really depends from really what perspective you look at it. And it really depends WHERE you are. Closplay is rarer up north than it it is in London or other southern areas.

There are few large events. But the advantage is that they are closer to you instead of being hundreds or thousands of miles away.

In just over two weeks the MCM Expo will begin at the ExCeL centre, in the London Docklands, it is one of the largest cons in Britain, and the community is a pile of horse shit. Basically anyone with a naruto headband, and £5 for the tube, can get to it.

You'll have better luck with smaller conventions.

>>1811688

In general, we're fine. Only a couple of people are outright prats, a few people who are a bit OMG SRS BZNS about cosplay but are generally friendly enough, and the majority are pretty chilled out and mostly in it for fun.

Pick your cons carefully though. Smaller, fan-run anime cons like Minami, Aya, Ame etc have a much lower density of utter faggotry than glorified dealers' rooms like London Expo, Collectormania etc.

>>1811710
>>a few people who are a bit OMG SRS BZNS about cosplay
COUGHCASTLEOBLIVIONCOUGH

>>1811660
NO more naked snake cosplay?!?!?

If any of these things get banned, I'm going to start going to renaissance fests again.

>>1811845
I once saw a naked snake cosplay. It was a 400lb man in old camo with a headband and the eye-patch over the wrong eye. Shit made me RAGE.

>>1811858
I weigh 200 lbs. and on and off wore my eye patch on my RIGHT eye? I hope it was right, 'cuz that's where it was.

>>1811425
I don't necessarily mind giving hugs--in fact, I rather like them--but please, PLEASE, just ASK! I'm kind of weird about physical touching if I don't know the person that well/at all, but I will be much more inclined to hug a random person if they ask me first. Yeah, I'll still feel a little weirded out (you know, "Hi random person I never met before until now. Oh? You want a hug? But we, like, don't even know each other D:") but I won't mind it nearly as much if someone asks me first. And yes, bathing also helps IMMENSELY.

>>1811681

Does this count if you're flirting to be flirted back to, or only if as soon as they reciprocate you get creeped out?

I was planning on whoring myself out at AN this month.

>>1811957

That is fine, you are looking to flirt. But if you were flirting and then got mad if they flirted back, that would be idiotic.

I can guarantee that 50% of you have done what you are complaining about.

Nobody cares.

It's what gives cons an atmosphere.
Get off you high fucking horses and go work on your cosplays so they don't look like shit, you lazy assholes.

Most of you high-and-mighty cosplayers are the ones that should be banned, imo.

>>1811967

Last year was my first time at a con. I joined a giant Caramelldansen line, was one of the most active people at Free Hugs, and I'm an underage b& yaoi fangirl. Nobody got mad at me, I had an awesome time and I bathed every day :|

>>1811697
Read it again. It says crossplay, not cosplay.

THE GAME.

I am so fucking sick of this shit.

>>1811321
fucking seconded. doing the same idiotic motion over and over and over again =/= dancing, learn to fucking dance if you must. they've almost ruined that song for me.
>>1811333
They can't write, either. I've had more than I can take of all the tired old memes and references. "This is ____" stopped being funny ages ago. As did mudkips.

I don't mind signs. Just carrying around a sign isn't hurting anyone. It's things that actually invade my space or bother me directly that I have a problem with. I'm lucky enough that I've never been glomped, but I don't usually cosplay really popular characters and series, which is why, I'm sure. I've had people beg me for food, though. Either bring your own food or bring money, damn it. Don't mooch off me.

>>1812089
The problem here isn't the dance. It's the problem that the song can be ruined for you, meaning that you might actually like it.

The fact that you might actually like the song for the song itself is disturbing.

>>1812084
Is it because you always [spoiler]lose it?[/spoiler]

>>1812129
Retarded 18 year old Narutard I punched in the face after Anime Boston '08? What're you doing here?

>>1812084
sign me up for the extermination team!

>>1812129
You know that's why. Why still ask?

Metal Gear cosplayers who are not MAIN/IMPORTANT CHARACTERS

underage girls

You know, it's sad. Sometimes I feel like these 'annoying as fuck' people who do caramelldansen and yaoi in photoshoots and free hugs and all these other things are having way more fun than me.

>>1812191
That's because they probably are.

Seriously, fucking go do something. I don't mean join them, but shit man just DO something.

>>1812191
They are.

Go out and have some fun, anon.

You people live in a whole other world don't you?

>>1812220
I'm sorry, what was that? I can't make out what you're saying. It's like you're trying to send me a message from a whole other world.

>>1812084
This just reminded me how many times I heard that and other memes at last years Fanime and so help me god if this year is another repeat of that I might just cry.

You know...I looked at my schedule....I am not doing a single anime con this year. I am THAT worn out by everything you have mentioned Anon.

>>1812276
Wimp.

People who are too nervous when asking the guest question at a Q and A panel. God damn, just ask the fucking question already, then the people who ask stupid question to female seiyuu (are you married? Did you voice blah blah blah?), People who ask questions in Japanese (and you can tell the guest have a rather difficult time understanding it). That one dude at AX who ask some stupid question about gaming in Mexico or some shit.

I don't know anything about cosplay, but this thread affirms that you are all raging faggots.

>>1812377
Nothing I haven't heard before.

>>1811957
>>I was planning on whoring myself out at AN this month.

Pics?

statutory rape being against the law

>>1811957
>>I was planning on whoring myself out at AN this month.
>>1812530
pics seconded

I'll take a piece if you're into girls.

The Game
Stuck up cosplayers who think that just because someone likes Naruto they're a 15 year old dyke.
Scene girls who read up about some old school video games on Wikipedia, went to Hot Topic and bought a related t-shirt, and showed up at the convention trying to gain as much attention as possible from every male they can. I swear to god the bad kind of scene girls just gravitate towards my cosplay group.

The emo guys that wear bondage pants and kitty ears and walk around by themselves looking depressed and trying to be moe or some bullshit.

I was cosplaying as Yoko last year at a very small con and right when I walked in the door this 14-year-old girl tackled me, fucking up my top and exposing my boobs. Thank god it was early and everyone was busy registering. Anywhere else, that'd be assult.

hate the caramelldansen too, went to a con and then a month later saw dir en grey in concert and there were ppl doing it behind me as i took a break from the pit. so wanted to kick their faces in.

>>1811969
...Jamie?

portable emo corners

>girls that walk around in black bikinis/skimpy outfits with an Akatsuki print and say "I'm sexy no jutsu *whoever the fuck you are*

Oh ho ho ho, THIS.

>>1813174
Holy shit. And some of them are huggers or glompers, jesus christ they're the worst.

>>1811880
QFT.

If a fan of a character wants to hug me, I think, "Wow, someone else likes this character a lot." I remember being a little kid and wanting to meet Mickey Mouse and Captain Hook, and being totally stoked when I could hug them at Disney World. Granted, I was eight years old the first time that happened, but I understand the congoers who want to "meet" their favorite character (because I definitely went to Disney World last year and took photos with every mascot I could find. Ha!). I've been hugged by girls and boys of various ages when I've been dressed as either a girl or boy. Most recently, a guy a little younger than I am asked me for a hug and a photo when I was dressed as Yoko. He was respectful and, honestly, I love the attention. All cosplayers like attention. Anyone who pretends they don't like it is full of shit.
Cosplayers, cut your fellow fans some slack. You liked a character enough to spend time constructing a costume. Someone else is probably likes the character so much they want to "meet" them in real life. You're a glorified mascot. Own it.
Glompers, respect the personal space of cosplayers. Most of us work very hard on our costumes and don't like having parts of them crushed by unforeseen flying hug attacks. If you want a hug, just ask politely if it's okay. Also, your chances of getting to hug a cosplayer increase dramatically if you don't look/smell like you haven't showered that day, and if you aren't acting crazy. A simple, "_____ is my favorite character and your cosplay is great. Can I hug you?" has always been enough in the case of my friends and myself, so hopefully other cosplayers are as easygoing.

tl;dr: Let's get along and respect each other.

Wait, I forgot I was on /cgl/.

>DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS.

>>1813422
This.

The last time I got "glomped" they came up behind me and hugged me. I guess I looked surprised because they apologized but I said it was fine and actually really flattering. The most delicate piece on my costume was on the back and they didn't ruin it at all so I didn't mind.

>>1813422
Yoko is my waifu. Can I request a picture of your Yoko cosplay? I will hug you through the internet, and I promise I don't smell.

>>1811660
>>*Stalkers

I survived chernobyl and all I got was grieving from a fat nerd. :<

>>1813422
>A simple, "_____ is my favorite character and your cosplay is great. Can I hug you?" has always been enough in the case of my friends and myself
What if some guy sharks you from the front?

>>1813175
Stop being such a soft cunt about bumping.

>>1813461
Sorry for the derpface and failboots.>>1813476

>>1813501
And now I made a failpost.

What I meant to say was:
Sage for selfpost.

>>1813476
FALCON PUNCH. Also, the term "sharks you from the front" is fantastic. You wordsmith, you.

>>1813501
Thunder thighs make a good Timeskip Yoko! The Jacket is cute, but did the sleeves feel a wee bit too short for you? Could just be the photo. You look really tall, too.

What con was this for?

Carmelldansen
Skits that aren't thought out properly
Stuart Claw
Free hugs/glomps signs
Anybody who hugs or glomps without checking it's ok first
Yaoi paddles
Signs of any kind, unless a necessary part of the cosplay. NECESSARY.
Memes
"Original character" cosplays
Shinji Ikari (almost there...)
Peace and Unity Festivals

My list thus far.

>>Peace and Unity Festivals
And wasn't it ironic how somebody got stabbed at it?

>>1811355
>>1811383
>>1811400
>>1811412

Valid points all around.

From what I hear, Amecon's ball was a rousing success. But on the other hand, I can tell you first hand that Expo's was a fuck up of the worst kind.

The there's the other option, formal cosplay balls that are seperate events rather than a part of a con or other event.

Example being the Grand International Cosplay Ball in London last November. Bloody amazing event, the venue, the music, and of course the cosplays were all what you'd want and expect from a proper formal event. God I hope they do one this year.

>>1813550

Very much my point.

>>1813547

>>Shinji Ikari (almost there...)

I don't get it

(not trolling or anything just wondering)

>>1813556
>>I can tell you first hand that Expo's was a fuck up of the worst kind.

Signed.

Luckily however there was a bar, and I could drink away the Soma, almost. Not enough liquor in the world ot make them sound good.

>>1813563

He's banned from every convention in the UK, except the London Expo. I'd be happy to never see the fucker there again either.

i looked through this thread and a lot of you bitch about people glomping, why don't you just beat the shit out of them in front of all the other faggots who think it's cool so next time they'll think twice before doing it?

>>1813578
Because that shit gets you kicked out of a con.
Cons sometimes have a double standard towards glompers and the glomped.

>>1813508
It's a valid question.

>>1813540
Thanks, I think XD I walk and run everywhere, hence the massive legs.
The sleeves are too short. I'm new at making patterns and made a careless mistake involving hem allowance when drafting this one.
I'm 5'8".
AUSA 08.

Sage for off-topic conversation.

name-space collisions suck....
fyi sharking is also the act of running up pulling down someones top or pants (pants-ing) then running off....
(Questionable Content is great but that comic had me confused because of this when I first read it)

>>1811431
i'm sure i've read these EXACT words before...I'm actually certain that i've read these words before. weird. but still, agreed. or girls that do the whole 'this is konata but in a bikini' just cause they've got a wig on. Its asking to get butt raped.

>>1813569
ok, slowpoke here but whats the deal with him? I'm a britfag and go to alot of the cons, so i'm just wondering who he is and what he's done. If its evil 'do not believe his lies' ryan then i already know but if not then someone fill me in?

>>1811585
i was there when that happened! some guy gave me this flyer about how pop music is evil and how western lifestyle is ruining islam...but they chose to live here in a western country...hypocrits. Curse them. sorry for goin off topic here