They like the character? It's not like most anime males aren't so girly it can't be pulled off, anyway.

Do you mean drives?

>>2670946

Yes. I'm curious why.

Because their guy friends won't/aren't fit to do it.

cuz we know we would look better then a fanboy doing it.

Either because they like the character or maybe their body type is more suited to male characters.

>>2670939
Pen0s envy.

Attention whores.

Because they're too ugly to do the females.

>>2670995
This.

So they can make out with their girl friends who are also crossplaying, therefore making it OMG YAOI LOLOLOL.

>>2671001

So I could say for people like them, they're just sexually frustrated when it comes to opposite sex relationships?

I only crossplay because I absolutely hate the portrayal of most female characters. They're mostly stupid, overly slutty, or just Mary-Sue-ish. Their character personalities seem flat to me. A lot wear provocative clothing, and I get cold easily. But of course there are exceptions.

And most of my favorite characters are male, so I love cosplaying them.

>>2671065

I'm the same way. :/ I just like male characters more than girls.

I do it because even though female characters often get better costume designs, the male characters are often far more interesting and less fucking annoying.

>>2671065
>>2671079
These are my reasons.

Because there are no girl characters in the shit I like and the ones that exist all have bare stomachs/boobs/asses.

What is so wrong with showing some skin, Ladies?

To those who bash chicks who like to show some skin, are you all too disturbingly ugly to show some?

>>2671171
It is possible to choose not to wear revealing costumes without hating on girls who do. :|

I cosplay male and female characters equally, I don't really... think about the gender of a character if I like it enough to cosplay it.

>>2671171

Dude I have no problem with sexy ladies wearing sexy costumes. But as I am very skinnyfat, I don't want my pudgy-ass stomach hanging out everywhere. So I dress like a dude.

/cgl/ hates no matter what though

My height. Most female charecters are too short I think and with my 187cm I can't very well cosplay females when cosplaying with others.
I do cosplay some females when not in a group thou, but mostly people suggest I cosplay males ^^;

Guys cosplay to be badass/to get sex.

Girls cosplay because a character turns them on and they want to be able to have that effect on others.

>>2671246
Probably true.

I've never crossplayed, but I'm admittedly very girly and prefer wearing dresses.

You cosplay because you like a character. It doesn't matter if they're the same gender as you or not.

/thread

because real guys aren't pretty enough to cosplay certain male characters

>>2671246
IAWTC

>>2671271
The girls that cosplay them usually aren't, either...

I've never seen a male character better-cosplayed by a boyish girl than by an actual pretty guy. Except maybe Link.

>>2671385
Well, I can't even find any males cosplaying the characters I like which is why a comparison isn't even possible.

I am the same as the femanons who stated that most female characters are ghastly. If I can't relate to a character or find their personality interesting, I sure as hell don't want to cosplay them. Most of the handful of female cosplays I've actually done were pretty much done as jokes.

>>2671403
>can't even find any males cosplaying the characters I like
Name them, then see why guys probably aren't cosplaying them.

>>2671412
I've never seen Prince of Tennis cosplay by males. Come on, it's not that gay...
Or Reborn.
Or Hajime no Ippo.

>>2671427
PoT -> what about TeniMyu? I know it's not real cosplay, but it at least proves a point.

Reborn -> I remember seeing a hot adult Lambo reposted a lot.

Ippo -> I certainly haven't seen girls crossplay the Ippo guys.

As for not liking any female characters, geez, I think your horizons must be slow. There are so many kick-ass female characters I'd do if there wasn't such a huge stigma about guys dressing as girls and I wouldn't need to constantly shave.

>>2671453
If anyone has the Adult Lambo, do post!

<--- from curecos, pretty sure they're all female.

>>2671246
wow I didn't know guys cosplay to try to be badass or get sex... that's pretty pathetic but then again so are my own reasons of cosplaying.

>>2671385
I don't know about that,
kaname does some pretty good guy cosplays eg: benten/portgas d. ace

>>2671427

I saw a lot of guys cosplaying tenipuri before It got really really gay.
There are plenty of male reborn cosplayers.
There are few ippo cosplayers in general, it's not really a good example, if you cosplay ippo it'd be awesome.

I'm not strikingly pretty, but I'm rather short, so I basically cosplay anyone under the age of 13, whether it's boy or girl.

If I were male, I'd totally cosplay anyone from Hajime no Ippo. Crossplaying would be really awkward, I just can't walk around half-naked/bare-chested.

>>2671467
Wow, okay, so now I have.

I do pretty much everything, crossplay, skimpy stuff, etc. I like a variety, it keeps cosplay from going stale if I mix up the types of costume I do.

Last crossplay I did was from a game without any playable female characters; the one before was from a game with about three female characters total. I didn't have the build for any of them (I'm a flatty), and just liked that particular male character more.

This year all my new costumes are going to be girls, though.

I'm a girl - I guess I'm quite good looking and I crossplay because I'm tall. Most of the female characters are rather small it wouldn't really suit me (as mentioned) and also - people tell me that I have a 'bishounen-face' when it comes to cosplay

All the female characters I like tend to show off a crazy amount of skinage. (No one wants to see that from me, TRUST me)

Plussss I don't really watch/read/play a lot of things with a lot of awesome ladies in em :(

Never seen good short male bishies like ed, echizen, hitsugaya, kenshin, ciel, ulquiorra etc

People tend to give female crossplayers less negative attention than females who cosplay their own gender.

When you're a girl dressed as a girl, girls are more likely to be catty bitches and guys are more likely to be creepy.

When I'm dressed as a guy, nobody gives a fuck, and I never get criticized for inaccuracies or compared to "hotter" or "superior" cosplayers.

>>2671636
so true.

>>2670939
PENIS ENVY

I crossplayed for the first time this year

for the record, he looked like a girl anyways.

>>2671634
This is because genuinely cute boys who have barely entered puberty have no need of the attention that comes from cosplaying.

I usually like the character better, the outfit is more comfortable, etc. Female characters in animes oftentimes can be pretty vapid. Plus I'm not a fan of long hair and much less a fan of long-haired wigs.

plus, yeah. I do prefer being masculine over feminine but I certainly can't speak for all female crossplayers.

I look like a guy

>>2671843
i dont know why that made me lol

>>2671427
I've seen a lot of guys cosplay prince of tennis after it was licensed.

it's fucking dragon ball z tennis, of course guys read it and fanboy it like one piece. it's just that the overwhelming popularity was from overseas fangirls. But once it became easy access in the states, i've seen groups here and there of guys hanging out in PoT uniforms at cons (california cons)

then again, not too many looked like specific characters. cept for a lot of Momos and Kaidous, because you know, generic asian guy haircuts.

Damn, i miss PoT cosplay. it was so fun pretending to be a middle school star athlete

>>2670939
Guy characters are often easier costume to construct/alter/gather and the challenge for live portrayal is fun too. If you cosplay only one gender for too long, you'll know it's difficult to make that switch...

I overwhelmingly crossplay more than cosplay, because as others have said, interesting female characters with designs that appeal to my sense of aesthetic are few and far between.

And it's fun picking up chicks/fangirls. Not that I cross a line, but it's just less work and fun flirting with girls when dressed as their idol...

for yaoi pictures and some are closet lesbians

I understand the whole idea that most female characters are vapid and just not as awesome as most male characters. I still only cosplay chicks, but I cosplay girls from series that I like, even if I prefer the guy characters' personalities and whatnot.

Example: I love Trigun and it's male characters, but I'll still cosplay Meryl because I love the series so much, no so much the character herself.

So there are ways to get around it I guess. That, and I look wayyyy to feminine.

I don't know, but I fuck them anyways.

>>2673253
>"you cosplay some ridiculous conception of your gender that you don't naturally agree with because I pressure you to do it"
I like you :)

my boyfriend wants me to crossplay less. The thing is I crossplay because i DONT want to put myself on display for fanboys. I'm ok with showing skin once in a while in normal clothes because i enjoy fashion, but skimpy outfits for the specific purpose of being photographed and gawked at by men? That's a bit... I'd MUCH rather be gawked at by girls while wearing a suit or school uniform. I'd rather just be comfortable and have fun, not constantly checking myself in a mirror and wondering if I was turning the wrong way for that photograph etc.

Girly costumes make me more self-conscious, require more makeup and wig/hair attention thus stress etc. I'm picking and choosing characters and outfits carefully when he requests a girly character.

it may seem backwards but next time he pushes too hard for me to do a skimpy outfit in public, I want to tell him "you first!" not to say "you crossplay this first!" but more like "you cosplay some ridiculous conception of your gender that you don't naturally agree with because I pressure you to do it"

it may backfire, but then again he may realize the effort that goes into those kinds of cosplay.

and besides, I'm a tomboy, it's just feel better.

>>2673257
>>2673261
It's like this anon predicted the future

The breakdown's probably 80% YAOIIIII SO HAWT, 10% fits their bodytype more, and 10% various reasons, like needed a guy cosplay in a group of all girls or what have you.

>>2673277
not really, I'm a serial editor of my own posts.

people always ghost-quote me.

Female anime characters really suck.
Honestly. They have no personality.

Besides, most guys aren't pretty enough to cosplay as most anime males.

My first cosplay was actually a crossplay, and I honestly never thought anything of it until years after when I noticed crossdressing had an entire subforum on Coscom.

As far as I'm concerned, 2D is 2D and I'm 3D pig disgusting, so it doesn't matter whether I'm adding another layer of inaccuracy to the source material or not. If I like a character and I think I have a slight chance of pulling them off, I'll do it, regardless of gender. It also helps me that by Japanese standards I don't have a very feminine personality, so the characters with whom I can identify best are rarely female, and I'd rather cosplay as a character who I feel like I can get my head around. (I can't pose for SHIT if I can't feel the character, figure drawing model training or not.)

Besides. I feel awkward being thought of as hot or sexy. Not that I am (lol the thought is hilarious), but a lot of female characters are designed to ooze sex appeal of some sort, which I just plain can't do. FABULOUS, yes, but sexy? Not me. Plus you wouldn't want to see me in the outfits many female characters wear. I'm way too flabby for my weight and I'm so pale that in photos under the wrong lighting I can glow like truly thermonuclear photoshop was applied. You don't want to see that.

I've been doing more female outfits lately out of sheer laziness than anything else; I pile on the makeup in ridiculous quantities for cosplay of either gender, but I'm starting to get sick of hiding my chest.

I don't crossplay, but the girls I know that do are
-closet lesbians
-yaoi fangirls
-really tomboyish normally. (don't wear makeup, don't do their hair, jeans and tee shirt, etc)

Sometimes I think hmm I want to crossplay blahblah, just because I really like that character, but I know I can't pull it off because I have the fucking biggest hips ever, and the only way to fix that would make me look really fat, which animu males are not. I just stick to cosplaying gurlz.

>>2673288 a lot of female characters are designed to ooze sex appeal of some sort,

THIS.

plus the "some sort" is the sort I'm not inclined to appreciate. It's a weird contradiction, but I'd rather portray something I personally find sexy, so as to feel sexy, rather than someone else's idea of sexy and be objectified.

just so happens that I the easiest way to do that, is to crossplay.

it doesn't mean that I want to have sex in guy clothing.
it doesn't mean that I want to be a lesbian
it doesn't mean that I'm a hypocritical feminazi.
it doesn't mean that I want to be objectified as a sex object by either gender.

just once in a while, I want to wear a costume and feel sexy.

is that a hard concept to grasp?

For those of us that crossdress normally, it only makes sense. For all of us that will only be found in jeans, a hoodie, and a tshirt normally, it makes sense. For those of us with short hair or a masculine build, it makes sense.

When I first got interested into cosplay, I was more interested in crossplay at the time. The main reason for this was because I had a VERY low self image as a teenager, but I still wanted to have this particular ceative outlet for my fandoms.

I did not want to dress up as any female characters save for Meryl(Trigun) just because I lacked the confidence to cosplay them. That has changed more now but sometimes it also boils down to just liking the male character design too.

I feel so sexy when I have my Dan Hibiki makeup and brows on... It's true... Get me with a cute Sakura cosplayer or even CROSSPLAYER. (Hint hint Iorie) and I'll be set.

I like feeling manry. Feels good man.

What kind of anime do you guys watch anyway? I watch a lot more unknown shit and I've never had problems finding cool female characters.

That, and there's always clamp for baddass but still very girly female characters.

I am one of those "I dress as whatever character I like" people, regardless of gender. Well I mean, so long as it suits my body type.

Coz I want to bad-touch them dudes. But I don't want to get arrested by randomly touching ppl I don't know. Does that make sense? Oh well, also I have a man face. D8

>>2673261
>I want to tell him "you first!" not to say "you crossplay this first!" but more like "you cosplay some ridiculous conception of your gender that you don't naturally agree with because I pressure you to do it"
And he probably will. Odds are, he will go into the venture knowing damn well he won't match up to a drawn character, but won't care that much.
I've done the same thing, the only real hurdle is the one in your own head.

I crossplay because it's more of a challenge. If I can pass as a dude, that's totally a win for me. Plus it's funny to see people's faces when I talk to them and they realize I'm a chick.

Why are so many guys wierded out by it? on the whole i've seen a lot more guys protest this than girls. I dont understand why.

>>2671065
>>2671079

end of thread

>>2670993
This and because I think I look better as a boy. I'm going to cosplay the characters I think I look good as. I mean, there are male characters I would love to cosplay simply because I love them, but I know I couldn't pull them off.

And I have cosplayed female characters before too.

>>2671001
It amuses me that when I was dating my last boyfriend, he was going to cosplay another guy and yet now that I am dating my current girlfriend, I've convinced her to cosplay a female character so. . .hmmm.

I crossplay when I like the character... like Link! I loved Wind Waker and loved Link, so I made the costume and have so much fun doing it!

I don't feel as pressed to act lady like or cute, I can be rude and uncouth, belch after a soda, and just generally ignore the "a lady should act like one" teaching I was given as a child.

male characters are:
-more recognized (depending on material)
-more clothed (so the girl's parents are more at ease)
-some other reason (figure it out yourself)

>>2674018
>parents are more relaxed

Lol, what are you smokin'? My parents aren't even that bad, but they'd worry if I was dressing up like a dude. My grandparents would be super freaked out, because my aunt turned out to be a lesbian.

>>2674026
Not the person you were talking to, but the one female outfit I did that showed any skin (midriff, arms and some leg + stockings) ended up being dubbed my "skank costume" by my parents. Every single one of my crossplay costumes only showed my hands (if it didn't have gloves) and my face, and a bit of neck. They never worried about those.

I think that it really is almost imbossible for a guy to cosplay all those bishie/shota boys in anime so it's better girls do it?

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>>2674037
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>>2671385
Well except you know the ones with facial hair and the ones who are...you know manly, unless you have a beard which is fine by me btw

I cosplay both. I like to strut around all casual as fuck in a cool guy costume one day and then be a delicate yet seductive flower the next. I don't consider myself very versatile, I just enjoy swinging from one extreme form to the next. It helps that my current fandoms have a nice helping of good male and female characters to choose from too.