>Death Note group
>Is cosplaying Light, chained to L
>A fat gothic nerd appears, pushes Light away, takes away the chain and runs away with L

>Hellsing cosplay group

>Guy points at the Millenium cosplayers (including me) and asks "why the hell are these nazi weirdos standing near your Hellsing group?"

>work really hard on first costume
>admittedly not the best craftsmanship and durability
>make it out alive with the last judges award for attention to details
>hope costume likes a box in the closet, forever

o^_^o

>put on a random outfit for a con
>girl asks what i'm from
>made up something japanese-sounding
>she says she's seen it

>>2565908
I pulled that myself at my first con. I told her I was cosplaying the main character from this anime show thats hasnt yet been released here in america. I was able to even whip a plot out of no where too. Kehehe

>dress up as mad hatter from angel santuary
>person on anime stand askes if i'm elizabeth from paradise kiss
> kindly say no and tell them who i am they just laugh
> walk out hall, girl calls me over cause she reconises my character and is a big fan
> look at guy next to her he is cosplaying elizabeth from paradise kiss

cosplayed Anemone form E7 since it was newish thinking I would be the only Anemone. ran into another Anemone, her cosplay was horrible (construction and accuracy wise) but still was better then me cuz she was way more cuter.

>seeing obese Kingdom Hearts cosplayers kissing and licking each other

>cosplaying Yuffie with my friends who are cosplaying Aerith and Tifa respectively
>people approach us for pictures
>they compliment my friends
>they ask me if I'm cosplaying Rock Lee

>Go to a con with a camera and no cosplay because I'm a photographer, not a costume-maker, and want some interesting subject-matter to shoot.
>Hot chicks in awesome costumes give me the brush-off.
>Fat chicks in shitty costumes demand beauty-shots.

>Go to college's anime club against my better judgment.
>It turns out to be surprisingly cool, with no one taking it too seriously, and with the group often watching purposefully laughable anime.
>I become a psuedo-celebrity amongst the nerds for my MST3K-style snarkery.
>Come back to club after Christmas Break.
>New member is a slightly overweight, socially inadept Aspie black chick that's so stupid she has trouble stringing simple words together in a sentence and likely has an IQ in the sub 85 range. She mouthbreathes, talks loudly, and makes criminally unfunny jokes and repeats them several times at full volume just to make sure you heard them, all the time being fully oblivious to how awkward she is and how much everyone else hates even seeing her.
>The first anime she brings in as a suggestion to watch is a DVD of Loveless.
>Con-attendance comes up, and she declares her love of cosplay.
>She has pictures of her cosplaying white characters, shittily, on her fucking cell-phone.
>I seriously contemplate murder for the first time in my life.

>order zentai suit for Flamedramon cosplay
>ask seller to include two yards of matching fabric so I can make my own matching ears and tail
>also ask for there to be a hole for my face and for the mask part to be separate from the rest
>wait a bajillion years for the suit to come in the mail
>discover they took the liberty of putting mouse ears and a tail on themselves
>the hood isn't detachable and there's no place for my face
>looks nothing like it should

>>2566509
Why the hell are you raging over black people cosplaying white characters? Whities cosplay as Fran all the time.

>>2566529
prob wouldn't bother anaon as much if she wasn't fat and failed at everything.

>>2566509
>join Anime Club against my better judgement
>expect greasy narutards
>surprisingly okay
>obese, socially awkward 'bisexual' girl with salmon pink dyed hair and B.O. who calls everyone by Naruto names joins
>draws shoddy sasunaru 'yaoi' as a gift for the male club president and draws her own original 'yaoi manga' with loveless rip offs who vaguely keep a human shape
>my turn to pick the anime
>chose one of my recent favourite series
>she becomes obsessed with it
>claims to be married to my favourite character and pairs him with people who don't even make sense
>prints off official art from it off the internet in black and white and hands it out to people
>yells at everyone to shut up and watch and declares her favourite parts when they come up whenever we watch episodes of it now
>volunteers to cosplay with me at upcoming con
>not one of my favourite series anymore

>>2566422

Who the fuck is Elizabeth? Do you mean Isabella?

>another one of these threads

>>2566517
I'm lolling harder than I should, but I'm curious if you contacted them for a refund or to send it back?

>>2566586

I just asked them if they would replace the suit. As pissed as I am, I really need a functional zentai suit because I doubt I could make it from scratch.

>>2566556
Oh sweet mother Mary..... What series was it?

>cosplaying as Bakura from "Yu-Gi-Oh!"
>never ending abridged quotes
>girl tackles me and breaks my ring
>another obese Bakura with a mullet and a necklace-sized Millennium Ring tries to rape me
>proceeds to do Hare Hare Yukai
>half the people at YGO meetup have only seen the abridged series
>most of us go to one of their friend's YGO panels for the lulz
>there is a 12-year-old there (unsurprisingly)
>feels good man, talking to awesome Jack Atlas cosplayer, Pegasus brought cookies
>random older-looking chick whips out her laptop and goes around showing graphic yaoi to everyone

>Know nothing about cons, their attendees and the fact that they are unfortunately no where near as cool or moderate as myself or my close friends.
>Attend a con.
>Recoil in horror as you witness what's basically IRL deviantART with fatties in shitty costumes and girls with tourettes syndrome and impulse-control problems.
>Wish you had stayed home and watched The FBI Files marathon on Discovery Channel.

>Cosplay from "TRUE CRIME: Streets of LA"
>Hardly anyone notices
>Realize that I was probably the only guy to give a fuck about that game

>Drunk Haruhi Cosplayer pulls out fake badge claiming shes a cop and threatening to arrest my brother.

>Brother pulls out real badge and credentials and arrests her for impersonating a police officer.

>wants to go fabric shopping
>low on money after paying rent, license renewal, and car tags
>recieve birthday card from grandparents
>50 dollars inside

This is going to be a long one. I have to give you the back story first.

>move across the country
>meet short, fat girl from down the street
>calls people by 'nii-san' and draws cat whiskers on her face with eyeliner
>tells me she wants to be a catboy and makes swishing 'tail' motions with her butt
>knows Hare Hare Yukai and Motteke Sailor Fuku dances without watching either series, once performed then for talent contest and complains that she lost
>foster home next door
>kids aren't allowed to play with her anymore
>invited into her room
>has Death Note hat and Ryuk plushie despite never reading more then one volume of the manga because it was "too scary"
>walls covered in Naruto poster
>characters drawn in pencil on her wall
>name of her OCs which she roleplays with her now long distance internet girlfriend written on the wall
>find 'Inuyasha' slash fanfiction in one of her sketchbooks with her OC 'Jeff' (the only non-Japanese one, apparently)
>find mirror with names of Inuyasha characters and pentagon written in red paint
>claims she 'thought they were real in another dimension' when she was younger and would try and summon them through the mirror
>paint is fresh
>says she found out she was 'bisexual' when she thought a Naruto crossplayer on Youtube was cute and her Mom told her it was a girl
>reveals to me apparently cosplays, shows me pictures of her in ill-fitting store bought crossplays from last year with spray in Halloween colour
>Facebook gallery full of anime pictures tagged with her and her slightly creepier girlfriend who apparently ships people from saw and no real photos
>her Mom won't let her upload pictures of herself to the internet
>status update: "GOING TO THE CORNER STORE COSPLAYING AS SASUKE! ^_^"

(1/2)

>>2566675

>spends all her birthday money on a really expensive wig as she's being Kyo from Fruits Basket for the next con
>Kyo from Fruits Basket
>Fruits Basket
>convention comes
>she texts me to meet up with her
>wig is bright orange and spiked everywhere like Ichigo's, looks nothing like the character's at all
>ill fitting innacurate clothes from second hand store
>cat ears and tail
>with a strangely semi-attractive Luffy from nowhere
>he is wearing an 'I love Yuri' pin
>buys another tail from dealer's room because it's fluffier
>doesn't replace her tail, just holds it and strokes it while describing how soft it is
>explains to me why gay furry sex is hot because of the tails
>she isn't binding
>"My boobs are too big to bind."

>>2566675
>>2566687

>>2566687

I read Death Note all the way through and I'm horrified of scary shit.

Someone kill this girl.

>>2566675

Oh, and unrelated, but I forgot to include:
>we go on her computer
>has a scantily clad male gaia avatar dating another male gaia avatar, but claims it is okay because only their 'characters' are dating so he doesn't have to know she's a girl
>graphic yaoi easy to find all over computers
>"Don't your parents mind?"
>"Uuuum, why would they? My parents aren't homophobic."
>shows me picture of her character "insert made up Japanese name here _______" in her Facebook gallery
>it is Belphegor from KHR
>facepalm.jpg

>pedobear cosplayer hangs out by ice cream truck THE ENTIRE FUCKING CON
>the only time I see him somewhere's else is while standing in line at Tim Horton's
>bunch of small children think he's a mascot or something and run up and hug him

>>2566648
fucking awesome.

>>2566732

Hey, I think I saw that Pedobear. Or, at least I've seen *A* Pedobear at a Tim Hortons being hugged by kids before. Was that at Portcon last summer?

>>2566675
If it weren't so pathetic, I'd be laughing my ass off at this girl. Get her into the loony bin NOW.

>looking at manga in dealer's room
>forget extremely expensive camera on table for like two minutes as I wander away
>can't find it to take picture of a really awesome cosplayer, run back
>fat beardy Asian guy is in the process of putting my camera in his back
>snap it out of his hands and shout
>he says "whatever" and just walks away
>go to tell con security just so other people can watch out for him
>they make us go through like 50 people
>finally end up in front of some old Russian woman
>as we try and explain what happened, she's like "NO, NOTTIN' WE CAHN DO, NOTTIN' WE CAHN DO, GO AWAY."
>she's assuming we got our camera stolen and were just complaining about it because the head of security apparently didn't speak fucking English
>wasted half an hour of our time just trying to help them

>>2566742
N'aw dawg, Anime North.

>guy from school claims to have won the costume contest at our con for several years
>asks him to do Sebastian from Black Butler with me since I'm being Grell
>he wants to be Finny
>he's over 6 feet tall
>finally agrees to do Sebastian
>isn't buying red contacts
>"Well, that's alright, I guess."
>unless he wears his sharingan eyes.
>"..."
>and he's probably going to dye his hair black instead of buy a wig
>his hair is short, curly and blonde
>now inclined to hang out with him most of the most popular day
>I fear for what I may be paired with

>>2566798
I hate having a cosplay partner like that so glad i found one who isn't a lier and is self aware.

> first cosplay, first con
> really insecure 14 year old
> alone
> cosplay is not very sturdy, but im so proud of it
> ass-backwards mega-naruto glomps from behind screaming SASUKEEEEEEE
> I was not cosplaying sasuke
> /faceconcrete & cosplay ruined forever

>>2566648

Okay, what con did this happen at?

>>2567077
Who were you cosplaying as?

>working on my Soifon cosplay
>all black fabric
>walk away for not even a minute
>come back and my cat has rolled all over the fabric
>WHITE CAT HAIR FREAKING ALL OVER THE PLACE

>Dress into Gakupo for the first time
>Walk into the convention center
>Immediately gets attacked by rabid fangirls
>is then sat on and clung to for half an hour, then followed for the next 4 hours or so
>changes out early to avoid them

>>2567410
Cosplayers need dropsheets for this sort of thing. Get a big plastic sheet and cover your shit.

Or don't get cats, they're guaranteed to fuck things up.

>>2567384

Otakon '09 after the rave ended.

>>2567436
;__; But I love my pussy...

>>2566648
So much fucking win.

>>2567436

Or doors. Seriously, sewing room door is kept closed so they don't get at the fabric. Then, my bedroom door is kept closed so they don't get at the wigs and finished costumes.

I have three cats and none have ever caused me cosplay problems because they're kept out of those areas.

>>2567434
Oh god I'm going to a con in april as Akaito, Am I going to die?

>at my first convention with two friends
>we all spot a very scantily clad sailor moon
>the bottom part of her costume was riding up
>I swear I saw some pubic hair poking out

She had great boobies though. :3

>>2567482
You may. Vocaloid fans tend to be pretty bad in some states.
But then again, Akaito isn't as epic rare as Gakupo, so you might be fine. Be on guard, though.

>>2567501
I hope that's the case, the con forums have about 20+ confirmed vocaloid cosplayers coming. I think maybe 8 or so Lens/Rins, 5 or 6 Mikus, 5 Kaitos, 2 Lukas, a Gakupo a Keiko, and a Mikuo. They are all girls, I'm afraid I will be the only guy

>>2567541
Oh-ho! You're male.
Yeah, bring some mace.

>Long time anime fan who hates con funk
>Go to a con last minute to get shit signed.
>Deodorant failed
>Take pictures with a really famous VA/instant reason for watching dubbed anime
>Pits smell like crap
>Pose required to be close to this VA

I hated myself so much the whole day for it but I was so happy because he's awesome. He was not rude to me at all. Best and worst moment in my life ever regardless.

>>2567579
Seconded. Srsly.

>>2567579
That bad huh? I'm friends with the Mikuo and the Keiko and they said It looks really good on me (The Mikuo Made it shes a good seamstress).
Body Size
6'3", 170lbs, 18 years old. Should I get my best friend to be something scary and follow me? Hes a 6'1" 220 Muscle man

>in line with friend waiting to pick up pre-reg badges
>friend starts laughing and telling me to look behind me
>fat hairy man in short shorts and a belly top that says "yaoi"
>his hairy, sweaty asscrack is hanging out the top of the shorts

>>2567620
BRING HIM. And make him cosplay as Armstrong or something. Srsly. Con bitches be crazy

>>2567620

My you're a tall one. Does it really look good?

But, yah - sticking in a group is great way to stay safe. Either stick with your girls, or with this muscle guy. They can be there to pull you out of bad situations.

>See horribly fat/Pale Yoko cosplayer showing pubes and a bit of nip being forced to leave the con til she changes by con security

>>I don't have an appropriate reaction gif, but...
>>First time con-goer
>>see a hot girl in cosplay, trying not to stare at her very cute butt as I walk behind her
>>Can't bring myself to ask for a picture, worried how I'll come off as.

>Go to Kumoricon '09
>See a giant glomp circle in the middle of Pioneer Square

>>2567784
>Same thing.

>first con
>sexy people talk to me
>get invited to room party and everyone gets drunk (and naked)

>A-Kon 2009
>First convention
>Severely anemic and very nervous around large crowds of strangers (I'm pretty small and frail)
>See furries for the first time; didn't know they were real until now
>Almost faint in dealer's room, get yelled at because I fall into a fire exit zone
>Boyfriend leaves me alone on the con floor while I recuperate
>Feel threatened by large smelly man when he starts asking really personal questions, won't go away
>Too weak to get up for a very long time
>Buy a begging man a big lunch, get yelled at because it's not to his tastes

>>2567870
>First con
>Akon
Dear lord, you couldn't have picked a worse con

>>2567870
Don't bother giving food to the homeless. Most of them are ungrateful bastards and won't even want food in the first place ("I ASKED FOR CHANGE YOU BITCH" etc).

sorry to hear about the rest though.

>go to a /cgl/ meet

>>2567541

>I'm afraid I will be the only guy
You're fucked.

>Otakon 2003, its my first con
>I'm wearing some cat-eye contact lenses 'cus I think they're pretty cool.
>Constantly getting attention from people asking me to meow for them.
>Whats a furry?
>THATS A FURRY!?

>>2567885
That's exactly what my friends said right after everything settled down. They're probably right, but I'd like to think that at least he needed the meal. I mean, I hope so. That's what I tell myself.

I'm a security guard at a convention center. Nerd cons are usually the most interesting.

D&D cons are by far the best, It's very much the ideal geek audience. 21-64 mostly male demographic and very well behaved. Occasionally there are some heated arguments between the players, but we usually quell them easily.

Furry cons are fucking weird. There's a lot more drugs than you'd think and they all smell fucking horrible.

Anime cons is where we deal with all the shit. Everything from underage drinking to costume malfunctions that leave underage and horribly fat girls running and screaming topless to the bathroom.

>Finally get to go out after being sick for a week
>Decide to wear lolita since I hadn't been able to
>Go to book store with friend who likes manga/animu
>Doesn't occur to me she might know what lolita is
>Meet her at book store and she FLIPS
>Continues to loudly call me "kawaii loli-chan!" all day
>Insists that I'm an OTT Sweet Lolita when in fact I'd just worn a skirt, blouse, and cardigan
>Shoves manga down my throat all day
>Finally I manage to escape long enough to find the book I wanted and when I do....
>She forbids me from buying it because it's about the Nanking Massacre and "defiles Japan's honor!"
>End up having to buy it off Amazon and pay shipping on it.

>>2568009
>about the Nanking Massacre and "defiles Japan's honor!"
laughingelf.jpg

>First night of the con
>everyone's asleep
>cell phone goes off
>friend wakes from a night terror and bounds around the room screaming like a banshee, fists flying

>Go to SMASH
>Girl wearing ears and tail asks me of her eyes look wierd
>I say no thinking she was going for a heterochromia look
>Friend realises she's lost a contact
>Girl glares at me

>>2568037
That story was so fucking funny I put it as my favorite quote on Facebook.

>Friend gets xbox with custom made faceplate stolen at con
>Sees same Xbox on ebay
>gets it back, guy who stole it gets jail time

>>2568074

>>2568074
awesome.

>First time at Anime North
>Notice a few furries, no big deal
>More and more furries getting too close to personal space
>Friend gets dragged off by mario and Luigi and you are left alone to run from furries

>>2565803
>Fan Expo 2008
>Not really cosplaying, just throw on a skirt, sweater,sneakers and monkey hat
>Approached by people
>Asked to be taken pictures of
>Called 'Kawaii"
>Panic

Okay, see, some of you people sound like pussies. When someone tackles you, drags you around a con, "forbids" you from doing things they don't approve of, etc, etc.....tell them to fuck off. Man the hell up and stop whining to /cgl/ about weeaboos you let walk all over you.

>>2568009
>friend implying that Japan has any honor left when Japanese women look for wealthy men to marry and won't marry poor and there's tentacle hentai pumped left and right.

>>2568143
Seriously though.

>>2568143
>Fly solo at every con
>Do anything you want
>Buy anything you want
>Hang out with whoever you want
>Go to whatever panels you want to

>>2568143

>>2568143
Listen to this anon, guys. Last time some sweaty hambeast of a dyke tried to glomp me I shoved the bitch off of me, told her to grow the hell up and stop attacking random strangers, and walked away.

I didn't get smothered. She didn't follow me around all day. I taught a bitch a valuable lesson about herself. Shit was so cash.

>first day of con
>elevators already out of use
>climb down 10 flights of stairs
>friend notices my badge is gone
>have to climb back up 10 flights of stairs to find badge no more than 2 feet form our door

at least we found it..

>>2566497
>>2566509
>>2566556
You poor bastards...

>AWA 2009
>Staying at friends house
>she went to Dragon*con so this con wasn't as important to her
>Spent maybe 5 hours at con over the entire weekend
>got treated like a dog on a leash and was not allowed to do anything by myself
>got back to college in North Carolina at around midnight before an 8 o' clock class because other friend was to busy dicking around to get the car packed, making my boyfriend wait up for me
>sobbed silently all the way back to NC

>>2568185
Anon, I love you. I would hug you but you'd punch me so instead, brofist.

>>2568224
Hope your not friends with them anymore

>>2568228
Nah, polite people can hug. Rabid, slobbering yaoi fangirls get the punches.

>>2568234
yes, partly for this and partly for other convoluted reasons

>not staying at hotel, but friends are
>wearing a too-small dress and uncomfortable heels
>left comfortable clothes in friend's room
>ask friend to take me to room to get clothes
>go to elevator to find insane line
>friend says "oh we can take the stairs"
>room is on the 8th floor

>>2568248
Holy shit, THIS.
Wasn't at NDK, was it? Fuck you, NDK elevators!

>>2568268
It was at Kumoricon, but I just remembered there's more to the story.

>>2568248
>get to room and change
>friend says "I'm getting in the shower, btw finish hot gluing my mask for the masquerade before you leave"
>my other friends are waiting downstairs because I said I'd be right back

>>2568289
>make mask anyway
>see friend next day
>friend says "oh why didn't you finish the mask? the things you glued on fell off"
>tell her I finished it
>she doesn't believe me

>Share hotel room with father, female cousin, and cousin's female bff
>Con still has 20 minutes before it's over
>Head to hotel room to change out of cosplay
>Get undressed and leave everything on the bed
>Grab something from the bathroom
>Cousin's bff walks in the room

From now on, I take everything I need and put it all on and take it off together in one go in a locked bathroom.

>>2568358
Not your fault dude. When I room with other cosplayers, we always open the door a crack first to ask if anyone's there or needs time to get decent. Just seems like good sense.

>>2568289
2009? Never going back after 2009's shitfest.

>>2568444
Yeah it was '09.
It's the only con that I know of that's actually near me, so I'll still be going since it's easy and I get to see all of my cosplay friends.

>>2568358
You should have done this.

>>2568444
Hopefully this year will be better with the registration cap and all.

>see an accurate cosplay of your favourite character
>talk to them and find out that they're actually very friendly and have a similar personality to the characters
>they also turn out to be just as big a fan as you of the series

>Friend asks me to do Mitsukuni to his Takashi (awwright, Ouran group)
>I agree, having actually liked the show and being too shy to cosplay by myself
>Friend breaks his leg a week before the con
>End up going by myself, decide that I might as well wear the costume anyway
>Alright, this isn't so bad. Everybody seems pretty al-
>HONEY-SAMA, HONEY-SAMAAA!
>50 fangirls closing in around me

>>Join anime club against better judgment
> see insanely loud fangirls that wear awful satin schoolgirl "cosplays" that are far too small for them to school and act like that are the most KAWAII DESU things on the planet
>two of them claim to be Japanese even though they have Jew noses and Jewfros.
>Weaboos decide to have a fund raiser selling pocky to raise money for them to go to cons
>Make video advertisement to broadcast to entire school
>Random pictures of me end up in the video alongside pictures of obese yaoi fangirls and narutards
>not sure how any of them acquired said pictures
>was never aware of said pictures going in the video until the video played in my ap english class
>everyone now associates me with the shitty anime club that I was planning on leaving after attending for only a week.

>First con, fanime 2007
>Ride crashes the van on the way there, boy troubles ensue the next day, I eat two small meals that entire day, go to bed with massive headache.
>Sunday, a friend and I are having her future boyfriend's best friend draw portraits of us.
>Friend and I spot a Nekozawa cosplayer across the artist alley
>We call out to them that we love Nekozawa
>Several minutes later, the cosplayer makes their way over to us, and walks behind us.
>As they pass us, they whisper, in character, "That's because Nekozawa is the best"
>Friend and I fangirl.
>Two years later, I find out a recently made and already very good friend of mine was that Nekozawa.

Yes, yes, my friend and I were awful, awful fantards back then, but we were sixteen and it was our first con.

>>2568839

Ohmaigawd I loved The Thief and The Cobbler.

>>2568507
Pardon me, borrowing bits of this.
>see an accurate cosplay of your favourite character
>talk to them and find out that they're a total douche
>they also turn out to hate the game/series and bash you for liking it

>>2568852

inorite? The animation makes me swoon.

>cosplay Makoto from 3rd Strike
>get tapped on the shoulder
>get asked "could you punch me?"

>>2568852
>>2568839
You two anons are fabulous.

>Feel like you've rushed the cosplay to get it ready for the con.
>Think it's crap.
>See someone you respect as a cosplayer, try to hide so they don't see it.
>The find you.
>They look genuinely impressed, say you did a great job.

>wearing a costume I'd worn several times at different cons previously
>get picture taken by girl dressed as Ms. Lovett at a con
>girl tells me she's taken a picture of me in my costume at every con I've worn it to
>implies that she wants to put me into one of her "pies"

>>2568839
HOLY SHIT I was just thinking about posting in this thread with that picture.

>Friend is major Narutard.
>Friend dyed hair red and dressed up as 'sexy no jutsu' Gaara.
>Friend is fat.
>Friend looked retarded.
>Wasn't allowed to ditch because she'd have a never ending bitch fit... Died a little inside.
>jpg is to the fat/sexy part.

>>2568839
:3 tak

>>2566732
Been going for five years and there seems to be more and more of them EVERY FREAKIN YEAR.

>>2568991
I'm going to talk to the head of security next time we have a con and put a stop to it.

>Anime North
>Harvey's free burger day happens while
>con is going on
>Insane lineup
>First in line

>>2569003
I was there that day, you bastard! You got my meat!

>>2569008

You could say he... beat your meat?

>Go to con you've been going to since year one
>Look over schedule, decide all of one event looks interesting
>Get there fairly early, so you know you'll get in
>wait in huge ass line
>line gets capped less than 5 people before you
>spend rest of con not in the too-small hotel, but explore city and eat delicious donuts
>wonder why you spent so much money to come to con and not just go get donuts

>>2569008
Sorry duder, need to be prepared for when they open. Check the date online, get there early before anyone else knows.
>>2569013
SHE beat your meat XD I'm a femanon.

>>go to con with little amount of money
>>wait in huge line
>>look around for an hour
>>look for panels, there are none.
>>go watch anime screenings
>>its Naruto
>>don't buy anything
>>bored shitless
>>realize you're in a shopping centre that requires an entry fee
>>leave disgruntled

Classic pic
>Dress up as Rinoa from FF8
>No one takes photos or notices me
>Three fat guys wearing hello kitty hats and pink
>scream "RINOAAAA! OMG I LOVE YOOOOOOU!"
>Ask if they can have hugs and pictures
>say yes to be nice
>get lungs squeezed inside out
>Smell terrible for rest of day
>Go back to hotel early to shower

>>2569029
Pretty much this.

>>2569034
>No reaction face
In the end, I think it was your grandmother that was able to help fix the dress? And then there was the re-encounter at the fabric shop... ect... ect...

>>2569029
That's most local cons. Sucks to be you.

>>2569041
Yeah.
Was a "Thank you GOD" moment there.

>>2569045
No, it was actually Supanova. Ausfags don't get anything else.

>>2569041
Everyone knows this story.

> Bust ass sewing cosplay (Human Luna)
> Finish it
> Swell with pride and go to bed
> Wake up the next day and look to hanger to see dress missing
> Get call from friend after an hour of panic saying I "didn't make it sexy enough" and she would "fix it"
> Go to con to get it back from her (Fanime 09)
> Bring along Temari fan I made for her as a favor
> See dress
> Has been altered into a tutu like dress that is too small and short in other words, completely ruined
> Gets bitchy when I get mad and demands I pay her for fabric and labor

On top of that, she didn't finish her Temari costume and sold the fan for three times as much as it cost for me to make it. Didn't even pay me or anything for doing it for her.

Better?

>>2569053
Ahahahaha. Being an anime fan outside of the US. Still sucks to be you.

>>2569021

This sounds like Kumoricon. In fact, that sounds exactly like Kumoricon.

There is a fair amount of certainty in my mind that I have talked to you at once before.

Last one.
>Move to Toronto for college
>Live 15 minute highway drive/30 min bus/sub ride >from con
>Leave house at 9
>Beat rush hour smelly otakus taking same bus to >con

>>2569062

It's quite possible. It was, in fact, Kumoricon.
It makes me wonder if this is my darling again, whom I always seem to run into on cgl? (It's possibly not, though)

>>2569053
Melb have Manifest
Sydney have Animania (still the best)
Adelaide have AVCon
Perth have WAIcon
Brisbane have Animania
Tasmania even had one.

>Go to a con after spending $300 worth of loli clothes
>No compliments from anyone
>Get mistaken by fat Narutards as Misa
>Con sells shitty loli clothes and has con itas running aboot.
>Con cost me some money to go to and I feel miserable as fuck. Nothing is worth the money and the panels suck.

>>2569057
I'd contest that...
But god it's true. Especially in Australia.

>>2569078
>$300
>No compliments

What'chu want? A cookie?
Why do you need to be validated for spending your money on stupid shit you'll be too old to wear soon anyway?

>>2569080
I'm jealous of people living outside of the US. But when it comes to anime, fuck no. Greg Ayres said when he went to a UK con they mentioned they were disappointed in a lot of shit. Their cons didn't get Americans too often and the wall of legal anime (For buyfags) was tiny.

>Otakon '08 was my first big con
>went solo since my boyfriend is a douche about anime
>trolled around the game room
>met some awesome dudes
>almost walked off with one of their hats
>watched bad almost-porn and MST3K'd it up
>made some neat friends

>>2569088
>Cosplayer saying this about clothing you only wear once.

No I didn't want a cookie but I didn't even get one girl to recognize me in lolita. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this thread that puts effort into something and comes up short, and is disappointed for it.

>>2569078

>>BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW

fixed

>>2569095
Cosplay isn't the same as Lolita clothing.
When you make a cosplay costume you put effort into it. Lolita you go to a website and pay out the nose for it.

>>2569101
I didn't work hard for those $300/looking for good commissioners? Looking my best that day? Pfft.

>>2569078

If Lolita is your fashion style then don't fucking baw if people don't compliment you at a COSTUME event. You don't get it both ways.

>>2569113
Because it was a general anime con and there aren't rules that dictate how you dress? God you have a bug up your ass. I cosplay too. I just didn't for that con. Learning to sew now.

>>2569078
>>2569095
>>2569105
>>2569118

no sure if troll.jpg

>>Join staff
>>Find out who VIPs are 2+ mo. before they're announced
>>Free room and food in con suite
>>Free entry
>>No lines EVER. Want to see something? Just walk in.
>>Meet all the VIPs and have pic taken with them

Feels good, man. I still don't get why more people don't try to become staff.

>>2569128
Cosplayers post in loli threads I make, so fuck it. /cgl/ can be nice when it's not dramu.

>>2569118

Yeah, but I hear lolitas complaining all the damn time that "Lolita is a lifestyle"　"Lolita is a fashion, it's not a costume"
Do you go up to nicely dressed business men and fawn over their suit, and their brand?

>>2569135
>Do you go up to nicely dressed business men and fawn over their suit, and their brand?

I do, but...for other reasons. If you know what I mean...

>>2569135
>Thinks that /cgl/ lolitas are representative of lolita fashion as a whole and most of us just dress lolita when we want to because we like it? It's just simple as that. Again, bug up ass. You have one.

>>2569078
...Nobody complimented your outfit, not even out of politeness? I shudder to think what you looked like.

alright thread turning into lolita vs cosplay drama

you're both fuckwits.

>>2569141

Once again, lolita drama fucks up a perfectly good thread.

>>2569143
She probably didn't talk to anyone and just expected people to come up and fawn all over her like she was a fucking princess.

>>2569143
I actually get compliments in lolita often. Even in school. It's just in that con, dunno. If I did get a compliment I might've missed it, but I only dressed loli for one day too. Con was full of weeaboo. If I was hideous I wouldn't have expected compliments :/.

>>2569151
That's it! It's official!

>>2569149
Nah, I tried bro. But when your con's full of weeaboos, eh... I think I'll just go to PMX.

>>went to con in lolita
>>layered petticoats for maximum poof
>>knocked shit off every table passed
>>spent all day apologizing

retardface.jpg

>>2569156
You too?

>>2569156
That's awesome.

>"5' tall Ciel by myself
>Crazy tall narutard chick grabs my hat and 'HURF DURF's
>Can't reach ;_;
>She trys to run away with it
>Guy cosplaying Grell steps out of fucking nowhere and trips her, takes hat
>Bitch got told

>Went to a con as a male Sebastian.
>Don't have to go further; you know.

>>2566529

Fran is not black.

She has a different skin tone, but she is not black.

>>2569185
Either way, black cosplayers cosplaying white characters is fine, as long as they do it right, same with white cosplayers doing black characters. As long as it's done right it's fine.
Look at Maguma...

>>2569173
People where pretty good when I did that.

I got a shit tonne of photos taken though.

>>2569193

Oh, I agree. Who cares either way. Just sayin' she's not black.

>>2569219
Not person you replied to but do share =D.

>>2569167
That is beautiful.

>>2569232
Nah, sorry. Don't wanna self post and stuff.

>>2566648

Fucking owned!

We need more people like that at cons to put some of these stuck up cosplayers in their places.

Do you know how much time she got?

>>2569167
Dude, I would have high-fived that Grell.

>>2568839
>See someone talk about a character named "Nekozawa"
>Slightly rage because I think they are talking about Mechazawa
>Find out Nekozawa is a completely different person

>>2569132
Nothing like having VIP treatment.

> Overhear VA say something about missing a raid
> Realize he is talking about WoW
> Have long WoW nerd conversation
> Exchange character info
> Go home and play WoW with them

>>2569331
I've never met another player with a toon on my server. Your luck is godly.

>Dressed as a princess at Ohayocon
>Waved over by some adults with group of little girls
>Adults have the girls huddle in the photo
>One girl runs up and hugs my leg
>Take photo with adorable girls

>>2569334
When I played I met 3 people in my town that played WoW and we all played Arthas unknowingly

>>2568949
>>implies that she wants to put me into one of her "pies"

>Join a group.
>Meet cool people who don't take shit too seriously.
>Second advent of guests yields nothing but retards.
>Potentially great experience ruined by socially in-adept obese Narutards with tourettes syndrome.
>Swear on that day that MURDER SHALL REIGN.

>>2566578
yep sorry about that the paradise kiss i have was translated by idiots and she's names elizabeth for some reason.

Hey /cgl/, ya winnin?

>>2568839
This has happened to me countless times.

>narrowly underageb&
>paranoid mother who thinks rape is around every corner
>won't let me stay in a hotel for the con I've been waiting for all year without a parent although everyone I plan on staying with is 18+
>friend books room for all of us without consulting
>$85 the entire weekend for free breakfast, a king sized bed to just orgy sleep in, a living room and a full kitchen
>parents still don't know about it
>not sure how to feel about this quite yet

>>2569502

Ha from my second con onwards, my mom would book a room for me and her. We still do this because she thinks of it as a little vacation (she goes to the pool, uses the spa, etc.) and the con's too local for most of my friends to be interested in rooming.

>>2569023
This year will be different. I WILL get a free burger and not suffer having to consume ice cream and hotdogs because the hotel we stayed at was too far to walk to.

>Convince brother to come to Anime North 2010
>Brother looks like The Sniper from TF2
>He won't cosplay but he wants to see "what a convention is like"
>is going as a Scout and my brother will most likely wear his cowboy hat and aviators.
>"causal sniper"

>Con room has atrium balcony
>Can see cosplayers walking around
>Crank some gangsta rap
>Crack open a 40 ouncer of malt liquor
>Keep it fuckin' real as I watch the cosplayers

>Share room with fangirl, her brother, and her mom
>Slept really nicely; the hotel had these sweet-ass fucking beds
>Get woke up in the middle of the night by fangirl complaining to her mom
>"YOU ALL SNORE!", I hear the fangirl say

>Cosplaying

>>2568143
Remember, most of the people on here are girly, shy women.

>>2569654 cowboy hat
>> casual sniper

What? Add overalls, a button-down shirt, and cup-style welding goggles and he'd be a reasonably decent Engineer.