I've considered cosplaying outside of conventions, but then I slapped myself and realized how retarded it would be if I wasn't dressed like an average character (like L).

And then realized how pointless it would be because I'd look like a normal person.

>>1991011

I went to the mall dressed as Sora once when I'd freshly gotten back into cosplay and thought it'd be fun to wear it everywhere!!! and ran into a guy dressed as Tuxedo Mask.

It was kind of weird.

I'd never wear a full-out costume in public. I'll wear parts of the costume that look normal (ex. the skirts from my Sakura Kasugano and Yukiko cosplays) but that's pretty much it.

And if I ever saw idiots doing the Caramelldansen in a mall I'd get security in a heartbeat. That would be incredibly distracting and irritating.

>>1991020

Where do you live, nerdtown?

ITT hypocrites

caramelldansen is for those people that listen to techno but have no idea what it is and piss me off. fucking happy hardcore is bad and you should feel bad.

I've put on my Travis Touchdown jacket to go bars before. It's always a hit, because nobody knows what it's from and whose who do know say it's awesome.

>Anyone else have any similar stories?

god I hope not. I don't think my body could take much more rage.

>>1991031
IA but I lol'd.

Newfag is new. OP, what's the story behind the pic? I've seen it used everywhere, but I'd like to know what happened. I'm bored.

Also, so this is sort of on topic, when I was a 15 year old weeaboo fangirl/Hot Topic wannabe goth (I had an unfortunate adolescence), I had a "cosplay day" where I'd try to do closet cosplays once every couple of weeks. It was...pretty bad.

>>1991090
Weeaboo tried to shoplift at a 7/11 at a near a con

>>1991090
guy was stealing shit at the dealer's room for some con, got kicked out, came back in cosplay, tried that shit again, and got arrested

more or less

I saw a girl at a supermarket once with this shitty bright-blue wig on, with blue cat ears, a bell, and those ugly triangle-thing painted on her face (think Sesshomaru from InuYasha). She had to be like thirteen - I hope for her sake she grows out of that shit.

Worst was probably when I took a vacation to North Carolina when I was about 15. My cousins and I decided that every day we went out, we had to dress crazily/kawaiiiii/japaneselol.
Pic related. We cosplayed Death Note to a theme park. Yeah.

>>1991114

IIRC, it was actually a girl.

>>1991034

I was visiting Battle Creek to do some cosplay shoots. So yes. Pretty much.

>>1991121
Death Note cosplay at Carowinds. Wow. Must.... wow. Secondhand embarrassment just for being in the same state.

>>1991204
It was pretty goddamn awful. I think it was Ghost Town or something though, not Carowinds? Don't remember.

>>1991114
what con?

I went to a bookstore. A large group of Bleach cosplayers came in. I left as they descended on the manga section.

I only cosplay to public places when there's an actual cosplay event going on.

So yes, I go to those shitty Animethon things at Suncoast Video.

I went to to take my little sister to the Zoo one day. I saw a group of lolitas taking pictures by the monkeys.

The next year I went to Disney world with my family only to see a horde of lolitas.

Today I saw a leprechaun at the mall.

>>1991567
Shit man, did you try to catch him?

You could use his gold for all kinds of things if you did.

>>1991055
Haha, you wish. A few years back I was was at Kinokuniya when I saw some Naruto cosplayers walk past. It was terrible. I always see a small handful of cosplayers whenever I go to to the local Japanese culture feast.

I only cosplayed in public for a photoshoot =/ and we didn't go to any heavy public areas [we have a small town anyways]

>>1991286
I think it was AX

When I was in highschool, there was this guy that would come in around once a week with chobits ears and long, drapey sleeves under a t-shirt. And every once in a while, some weeaboo would wear an akatsuki jacket.

Big whoop. Some kids spent alot of money and hard work on their cosplays so their proud enough to wear them around more than once a year for cons and have some fun.

While I agree that Caramell Dansen is the devil's song, I think you guys are just secretly jealous that you don't have the nerve to do this shit because you care too damn much about your appearances to complete strangers.

When I was in highschool, I owned Kakashi's outfit and I wore it to the boardwalk and played DDR wearing it. You have no idea how much of a crowd a ninja playing DDR gets.

You also have no idea how hot a ninja gets playing DDR in a full costume on a 90 degree day.

>>1991043
Fuck your vendetta, "Love is Dreamless" is REAL Happy Hardcore, caramelldansen is shitty euroshit.

There's a guy in my theatre department who will, occasionally, come wandering in with Naruto gloves on (as in, fingerless gloves with those metal plates on the backs of the knuckles) and ONE red contact in, and then glare menacingly at people and brood in a corner. I think he thinks he's Sasuke, or something.

>>1991043

... Caramelldansen isn't happy hardcore o.O

>>1991742

This.

I've done it. I wear parts of costumes inconspicuosly before. Like vest, pants, a skirt, jewlery, or a belt or acessories. Wore a natural looking wig out and wore gray contacts too. I like wearing my hard work more than a few times. I also like wearing it knowing I have on a piece of cosplay secretly.

I don't think I have ever worn a full out cosplay costume though. None of them are fitiing for everyday wear. Most are ball gowns, bright parkas, dark swirly capes, ect.

If I had something that was leather pants or part of a school uniform I could get away with I would wear those.

Since 1/4 of the faggots who go to con's are "lolgoth/punk" shits, they just wear their normal chain pants and make up or look like sluts just like on normal days.

I do wear my Link hat when i go to the mall though

I have some cosplays i'm planning that I would wear in public. I like to see people's reactions.

Another who wears normal-clothing components out. I recently bought a very nice pair of jeans for a costume, and you bet your sweet ass I'm gonna get more than two or three wears a year out of those babies.

Little pieces of jewelry, too, like cute earrings.

And shoes. Especially schoolgirl loafers.

Naruto cosplayers in Little Tokyo kinda piss me off.

I kinda have a story like this.
A friend was doing an art project and wanted me to model in one of my costumes--a fairly plain, simple kimono.
We were at a tourist-y location, so the moment I got into my outfit, people literally stopped and stared. I felt very awkward, but I figured, eh, it's only this one time.
Then a very, very white person stopped and said, "Oh my, I've never seen anything like that," and I rolled my eyes. I mean, maybe some people like the attention, but I really hate standing out. Especially to stupid people.

>>1991801

I don't like the way you said "very very white" person as if it's something bad, but I still feel bad about your situation. That really sucks. Last time we wore kimonos to a garden for a photoshoot, a bunch of tourists asked for pictures. Kinda awkward, but pretty cool.

I won this at Otakon. Wore it to a Rita's 19 minutes later.

I don't know about stories, but I hate when people cosplay out of conventions, just to go to the mall/wallmart, whatever.
That's part of the fun of cons, going to McDonalds in costume and getting stared at, and doing it every other weekend just for kicks takes away from that, I think.

>>1991831
Sorry 'bout that.
I meant more in the way of the "stupid / ignorant American" stereotype. Which is bad too, I suppose.
I dunno, just the way the person said it pissed me off. Like I was some exotic thing for them to gape at. Eh, whatever. No point in angsting over other people.

the fuck, dress however which way you want. The world is full of stupid conformity. I would love it if I saw funnily dressed people. Brighten up my day.

>>1991858
This is true, but the dumb bitch in the OP should have had the foresight to not cosplay BLOODY anything in public. Then again, since it was Death Note, I'll assume the shit was fake looking and badly applied, so no harm done.

>>1991718
This is part of the reason I don't cosplay outside of conventions. I couldn't even wear my red contacts to school without feeling self-conscious. I didn't want to freak anyone out by looking at them. And I don't like being stared at in general. I suppose I'd wear parts of my cosplays that could pass for normal clothing.

>>1991720
I kind of want to see this.

There's this one guy at a mall I go to who cosplays as Cloud sometimes. He's kinda old-looking, so me and my friends refer to him as "Old Man Cloud".

I once ran into this adorable kid, says maybe five years old, dressed as Indiana Jones after the last film came out. It was an attack of cuteness, his mom even let me get pictures.

Aw, the Indiana Jones story made me smile.

-cheesy-

>>1991864
>Death note

fail.

>>1991886
awww but kids are entirely different. they're just damned adorable. c:

but back to topic. I'd be too nervous to wander around in full costume. The fact that I'm in Utah helps. The mormons would stare so bad I might spontaneously combust.

I've worn my acid green contacts out and about and scared people on accident though. that's always fun times.

I did the in public cosplay thing on the train a few times. Mostly going to and from cons and events.

Once it worked out surprisingly well, and gave me this bizarre confidence boost so I wound up flirting with someone, which I normally would never ever do.

I wear my tie for Lupin III (yellow and flat bottom) whenever I perform Improv out of tradition (been doing it since high school). Everyone once and a while I think about wearing my red jacket somewhere, but I haven't given it a proper inside backing yet so it would look like of weird upon close inspection.

Never ran into anyone in full cosplay outside of a con before, but I sometimes see Naruto headbands around at Border's or the like. Makes me want to punch babies, but that's because I dislike Naruto.

>>1991907
Fellow Utahn. Dressing anything but super casual (or scene lolol) will get you stared at, at least here.

CONFORMCONFORMCONFORM

>>1991928
ohfuck I know.
why the fuck do we have so many scene kids here? srsly. wtf.
it's utah for fucks sake.
BUT I AM SO GOING TO BE IN FULL COSTUME THE ENTIRE TIME DURING ANIME BANZAI. FUCK YES.
october 16-18, downtown SLC. yeaaah boyyy.

My friends and I do Death Note cosplay quite often. I personally like it since the costumes are street-clothesy enough that, without the group, it's not really that obvious you're up to anything at all, but fans still love and recognize it. The only part about it that gets me self-conscious is when my friends inisist we go to Chinatown or a sushi place because it's like kawaii neko baka japanesu desu.~ Ugh, weaboos, let's just hit the movie theatre or something. And sorry, I'm not blasting caramelldansen where anyone can hear it.
>>1991020
I've only run into other cosplayers once, at Disneyland of all places. they weren't KH or Nightmare or anything Disney-related (I don't know what series they wre from, actually), but it was a very surreal feeling, and a somewhat comforting one.

Do school events count? We have themed dress during Spirit Week and that's usually a good excuse.

>>1991940
FUCK YEAR ANIME BANZAI
This will be my first time going (all the way from the south border). What are you cosplaying? We can totally meet up and be all, "I KNO U FROM 4CHAN LOLOL" and be best friends for ever and ever.

Last semester, a girl in our anime club came to school dressed as Matsumoto from Bleach. There weren't any events going on that day, either. Did I mention that I'm in college?

As for me, I've worn the jacket to my Prince of Tennis uniform out a few times a long while ago. But that's it.

>>1991971
JESUS. St. George much?
I'm in downtown slc already, myself. herpderp.
I'll be Reno from FFVII. And if all goes well I should have a Rufus bumming around with me as well.

I have been out and about (mostly at casinos) as Jack Sparrow. Mostly because I score free drinks at the bars. When I was going to a bar once as Jack, a nice african-american fellow starting rapping about pirates while following me. This continued for a good ten minutes. It was incredible.

>>1991996
Fellow Vegas cosplayer?

While driving to Wendy's from Jacon my friend let me stick my head out of the passenger's window, like a dog. All along the way we saw people on the sidewalks and in cars in cosplay from the convention waving, and laughing at me. Some old people gave me funny looks. It was awesome, totally worth the lulz.

>>1992006
Nay kind sir. I be dwelling up north, in the land of Reno.

>>1991994
Damn straight, land of unbearable heat.
My cosplay plans are still undecided (probably Fruits Basket [hurr]), but I'll keep an eye out for you.

>>1992011
asdlkjdkfjg I would die down there. I'm still pissed that it's getting fucking hot up here. It's lame. Especially seeing a baseball game on Utah's stupid ass holidays in 100 degree weather. ffffff-
do eeettt. I need moar con friendsies. (or a life..? nah.)

people dress wierd enough here in LA. venice beach, down town, i cant tell which is cultural clothing, classic cool, bums, freaks, goths, and traditional wear. they're all strange 'costumes' to me.

>>1991705
Seems like the whole of LA fills up with cosplayers during AX. I remember running into a TF2 cosplayer at the grocery store near my house, 45 minutes away.

Saw a guy trying to cosplay Itachi from Naruto at the Chicago Pride Parade. Needless to say, it fucking sucked.

I also saw a Michael Jackson cosplayer there too.

There's a local cosplay group that meets once a month in my city. However it's such a small city, and they are annoying enough for me to avoid the city center all day whenever they meet.

Last winter, I wore my Death Note Matt outfit out to go ice skating once. I was bored and got tired of watching the vest sit in my closet for the year, so I pulled it out for fun. No one caught the cosplay, but I did get a few compliments on the vest.

Also, most of my Squall Leonhart outfit gets mixed into my wardrobe. The leather pants don't get much wear as every time I wear them out, someone else wants to get into them, but the jacket, boots, gloves, belts, and Griever pendant all get mixed up with other things and worn.

I'll admit, I've done it. Some friends and I used to have cosplay bowling nights and dinner for kicks. And it was fun. A little embarrassing to think we walked through a crowded shopping center in that to get to the bowling alley, but still fun.
You guys need to lighten up.

Group of weeaboos from a local high school got invited to participate in the International Festival at my university, dressed up like various anime characters and did the Caramelldansen on stage. Head of the Japanese department was royally embarrassed. Participants from all of the other countries were like wtf.

saw a girl randomly walking around Bristol on a day when nothing anime related or comic con was going on in the city.

She was a fat fugly timeslip Sakura from naroooooooooooooooooootoooooooooooo

I wear my K' jacket when it's chilly...

I only cosplay outside of a convention if there's a photoshoot or something.

>This thread.

I cant say if this is related to the topic, but when I was in high school, some girl dressed up as fucking Sasuke during spirit week.

I saw a girl with cat ears and a Naruto headband (sand village variant) at the midnight premiere for the 6th Harry Potter movie.

While maybe 1/5 people were cosplaying with some kind of Harry Potter theme, this cunt takes out her ears and headband. Fucking weeaboo.

>>1992201

wat

Other than Halloween/special events, I can't think of times where I wore a costume "just because".

Technically I have worn this "costume" a few times, but without the mask/belt, it's really just another outfit.

I used to wear cat ears every day my freshman year of high school. Ugh.

I also used to work at an anime store, and got the occasionally odd ball cosplayer come in (usually Naruto). Once it was a Sakura, and she didn't even buy anything. Just walked around and browsed awkwardly.

Cosplaying outside of a convention is fine. Your business and all. But you've got to expect to get stares, and also to get asked questions (and for pictures if your shit's good). As long as you're okay with that, 'sall good.

Bobby these people lack a very important thing. Shame.

I don't have any cosplays that make me look like a total retard.

>>1992315

There's a girl in my college that wears cat ears everyday. She also pretends to clean herself like a cat and goes "NYAAA LOL" when her friends pet her.

wtf, man.

>>1992332
... Is it wrong I think that's hot?

>>1992332

Still hot?

>>1992337

Congrats you're a furfag

>>1992276

...do you work at Starbucks?

>>1992345
ANGLES but she looks alright, i think braces are cute

>>1992382
Nope.

I was out yesterday with a guy in a Kaiba coat.

People stared but he didn't really care.

I've never worn a cosplay out in public "just because," but not because I wouldn't - most of mine are just too complicated to bother. My con group goes out to dinner at least one night at every con we go to because confusing the hell out of the poor stupid Americans is FUN AS HELL. I've also gone to classes in a cosplay on a Friday of a con when I'm going straight from there to the hotel. I don't give a fuck if people stare at me; if I'm having fun, that's all I care about.

>>1991996

Hahaha, that's AWESOME!

>>1991996

The system works!

I saw someone with a Naruto wig and headband waiting for the bus once.
No costume, just the hair and headband.

Mentioned this last week, but I saw some Hetalia fags at Borders.

I don't cosplay outside a convention unless I'm going to a restaurant during a convention or Halloween.

I guess the Fox Run Mall in NH gets invaded by local cosplayers on Sundays, or something. On a couple occasions I was visiting with my friend and a swarm of giggling future cat ladies were stomping around the anime corner at FYE, in full costume. They eventually left, and as we walk by Hot Topic on the way to the food court, who should be in there by the same cackling children!

A few of them weren't in full regalia other times. Sometimes I'd see a leaf village head band around the food court, but that creeps up just about anywhere now.

One time I was walking past a crappy Japanese resturaunt and I saw this 10 year old kid in a Naruto outfit inside