Epic! We need more people cosplaying in public.

>*astericked actions*
>epic
>encouraging people to cosplay in public for no reason

I hope you die a horrible death.

>>4722739

You first.

Also, what cons are in this area of the photo?

I must admit I love cosplaying in public. Sometimes my friends and I go cosplayed around our city, go to eat at restaurants and take photos with kids and mums at our streets. I find it amazing and people love it. Yeah, somebody can laugh at us, but we don't mind about them. We are having a good time and don't hurt anyone, so...

Well, at least it looks like they had a legit reason to go instead of "Lets freak out the normies!" They probably wanted to get different shoes on their way to/during a convention.

And it's a pretty good looking Sailor Moon at that.

Turns out she did have a reason, her feet were blistered from the boots and she wanted some flat shoes to wear.

I did think the caption for this one was stupid. I mean it's fucking sailor moon, obviously people are going to make sailor moon comments. There's nothing else to call her, this is a straight up sailor moon cosplay.

And hell, how was sailor moon an anime for creepy pervs, anyways? Most girls I see out on the streets (and in walmart, ironically enough) wear less than sailor moon did. Just because it's animated doesn't make it creepy.

>>4722829
One more reason I prefer my home state of MD to there. Most non fans I know here just think it's quirky.

Some corners of VA are kinda hick, quaint and rural though.

>>4722802
you further sully the already deplorable reputation weeaboos have in the eyes of normal people by cosplaying in public

>virginia
>pretty damn convinced I know the girl
>pretty damn convinced she was either on her way/came home from nekocon

because you've never needed a last minute costume supply the day of the con OP?

sometimes you forget your needles or run out of glue sticks.

>>4722844
Are you american?

Here in my country cosplay isn't that bad in eyes of somebody "normal". My city have theatres' skits at streets, music in live at avenues, lots of saltibankis and circus at beach, etc. Many times people thinks we're part of the spectacles, but when we tell them we're not, they're fascinating. Then they took photo os us, talks about our costumes and etc. Sometimes you see people laugh at you, of course, but it's a minority.

>We at PoWM aren’t 11 years old and we aren’t creepy pervs, so basically we ignore all animation coming out of Japan.


Look at the comments.

Successful Troll or Accidental Troll?

Cosplay in public's fine, you just have to be careful with what you're dressed as and don't do anything stupid.
I wouldn't advise Sailor Moon cosplay, but she said she was in there for a reason.

I'm not cool with people cosplaying in public for no reason. To "freak out normal people" or "get stared at" or whatever.
Photoshoots are iffy (Most beginners start out taking pics at the mall) it honestly depends where.
If you're at a con and need to run and grab something from the store, I see no shame in it.

>>4722802
I bet you're the kind of person who runs around in Hetalia costumes (or casual ones at the least) and are loud and obnoxious and take pictures under signs that are french just because the colors are red white and blue.
Gtfo.

I physically cringe every time I read the word "Japanime". WHO THE FUCK SAYS THIS. I CAN'T EVEN

>>4722897
That comment is gorgeously ironic, because every post on that blog has a caption that would lead me to think he either is a creepy pervert, or has the maturity and sense of humor of an 11-year-old.

>>4722897
>Accidental Troll

I think that's called just being a dumbass

>>4726332

>>4722802 and >>4722876 here.
lol nope. Most of my cosplays are Disney characters, Slayers, Dragon ball, some MMORPGs, Pretty Cure, Gantz, One Piece, FF, KoF... Fuck your Hetalia cosplays.

Like I said, wear a costume in streets doesn't hurt anyone, it's funny and most people love seeing us. On Christmans we go to hospitals (last year cosplayed as DoReMi characters) to give children presents. People here don't see cosplay as a weeaboo thing yet. Well, if you're fat, chill, laugh at people, pissing off folks,... of course they will, but we aren't these type of people. And like I said, here it's very common spectacles on street, so sometimes they think we're part of them.

When FFXIII come out last year, we dressed up like Vanille, Hope,Snow, Lightning, Fang and Lebro, and we went together to buy the game . People reconozed us and they started take photo with us, and later the commercial center (a big one in my city) called us to work for the videogames shop, they paid us for took photos with people, for walk on the com. center while cosplaying and telling people to buy the game for a week.

I love anecdotes lol

>>4726412

Wow, that's pretty cool. But you're from Europe right? America is a bit different about weeaboo things/japanese related things.

>>4726332
You mean the netherlands flag?

>>4726434

What, are you a newfag? Chile, motherfucker.

>>4726434
>>4726442

You're both goddamned retarded, it's the Russian flag.

o god i lold

>>4726417

For you information, not all european countries are the same.

>>4726468
Neither are all American states. But, you get grouped and we get grouped. Deal with it.

>>4726504
There's something a bit different than internal states of a unified country and dozens of countries as part of a continent...

You americans need to stop acting like you're the centre of the universe all the time.

>>4722876
Where is this magical city/country?

>>4726521
Actually, that difference was not always there, but I digress. I never said we were the center of the universe, but California is nothing like Maine, which might as well belong to Canada, and Texas and Arizona could just be given back to Mexico. But most Europeans (Well, Okay, the French, Spanish and German people I lived with during my college excursions) seem to think Canada = nicer Americans from my experience, anyway. No need to get all pedantic and butthurt over such things. Oversimplification is a basic brain function.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ : wow. Lulz for squares. Everybody on 4chan is a right regular hipster in comparison.

>>4722897
Accidental. This mindset is directly from W country.

>>4726521
It's kind of hard not to because we're isolated.

>>4727035
Why doesn't somebody cosplay me? You could have lots of fun pretending to dodge the draft before pretending to start a war.

>>4722732
>Epic

OMG SO EPIC XD EPIC FOR THE WIN

> Wisconsin
>Cosplayed as Ellis from Left4Dead2
> Malls, Diners, even Wal-Mart
> nobody bats an eye.
> everything thinks I drive a wrecker

amidoinitrite?

Who cares if people cosplay in public, as long as it's casual clothes?
A Left 4 Dead cosplay or cosplay of your average dating sim is not on the same tier as say, Rozen Maiden or TTGL.
It's all in degrees, people.

>Japanime

Lol, I went to a walmart once on the way to a con. Some of my underage female friends were in rather fanservicy costumes. We were getting tons of looks. When we checked out this one fat black woman, we're talking Shamuu here, was staring and as I walked by (I wasn't in costume) she muttered, "dem whities be crazy!"

I just looked at her, pointed to one of the girls with her sweet tight ass hanging out her skirt, pointed at me, and with the skeeviest grin I could muster just nodded up and down. She had a good sense of humor because she smiled and told her equally fat black friend, "dat white boy gunna git him sum booty!"

It was perhaps the most glorious day of my life.

>>4727223
In hindsight, it was probably not a good idea to stop at that walmart in Alabama. Sure, it was 11 am, but you never know. It's probably not a good idea to stop anywhere in Alabama if you can help it.

>at the mall
>Sees some guy in a Naruto headband, matching gloves, and jounin vest
>also wearing tripp pants, with all the chains..
>friend and i try not the laugh
I LIKE cosplays at malls and what not... but if you are not ina group you just look stupid! Same goes for raver outfits! Hambeasts, please stop going to the mall in your OTAKU KAWAII DESU DESU DESU tutus and corsets unless there is some kinda of meet up going on or an event at the mall... It just looks Bad!

>Laundry day
>Don't want to wear dirty clothes, and class is in fifteen minutes.
>Grab NeoJapan (Inazuma Eleven) uniform from cosplay closet.
>"Oh fuck, I'm going to look like such a weeaboo in this."
>Decide that weeaboo is better than dirty which is better than nekkid.
>Get to class (Which was unfortunately Japanese III)
>Oh! Did you just leave a soccer match?
>Pretend to be a jock for a day
>Every class after that, my professor makes me answer questions about soccer in Japanese

Everything went better than expected. Cosplaying in public isn't always bad.

This reminds me of an AX story.

>literally 15 minutes from walking out the door to carpool to AX2011
>in sailor uniform, no specific character
>checking to make sure everything is packed
>roommate walks up
>"By the way the rent is due tomorrow, I need $450"
>FFFFF I HAVE NO CHECKS

>fuck it
>Walk into Wells Fargo in cosplay
>Ask for withdrawal
>Banker is actually familiar with anime/video games and with AX; made a costume for his sister
>everything went better than expected

Much better than my weaboo days, when we thought OMG LET'S GO TO THE MALL DRESSED AS DEATH NOTE CHARACTERS.

http://youtu.be/2gmbMzvUEQI

fucking swag

Aaaah, this brings me back:

>Already in costume at the con when friend realizes she forgot her shoes for her costume.
>I drove and Wal-mart is down the way, suggest we go look there.
>All the stares I got were epic despite my costume not really being all that out there.


Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. It takes a long time to get in and out of costume usually and sometimes you just can't be arsed.

>walk into Wal-Mart dressed as the 10th Doctor with a Wonder Woman and a Power Girl
>get lots of compliments, thumbs ups, etc.

I guess since we weren't super weeaboo about it no one really cared. Also who could hate super hero chicks?

>16 years old
>getting ready to go to a cosplay meeting
>OH OOPS GOTTA GET SOME GROCERIES FIRST--

I swear some of the responses you get in stores are awesome even when you're dressed as L and you've got a fuckton of eyeliner under your eyes.
>called emo
>called stoner
>someone asked me if I needed some help applying eyeliner
>spent 30 minutes in the loo with a girl who demanded I get my eyeliner fixed
>laughed out loud making fun of our government
>pretended to be a swedish tourist on my way to a rock band
>fuckyear

>Go to Walmart with girlfriend as casual Ciel and Sebastian out of boredom
>no1currr
>Go to Walgreens for some candy for a movie we'd watch later that night, she doesn't want to go in because her binding is falling off
>Standing in candy isle when little kid walks up staring at me for a good couple minutes
>"Why do you have an eyepatch?"
>"I lost my eye in a car accident."
>hfw
>Walk away like a boss with Crabby Patty gummies and candy corn

>Leave con in Nyotalia!France cosplay. All nearby restaurants already closed.
>Head into Walgreens for snacks.
>Little girl tugs on my skirt, "I like your tiara."
>Feels like a princess.

>>4728467
You're a lesbian who does Sebastian/Ciel cosplay with her girlfriend...at Walmart.
hmm...

>>4727737
Even better:
http://youtu.be/YUqDrByoeoA

>Go to Walmart Food Store, middle of the day.
>Wearing Princess Peach cosplay, two friends with me being Mario and Luigi
>Browsing the snacks, about to take off for con.
>Feel a hug around my legs from behind.
>Turn around, little boy around 5-6 there.
>Grins up at me. "I didn't know you lived in Florida!".
>Can't hold my "daww", and pat the boy on the head smiling.
>Boy runs back to mom, looking like his day had been made.
>Told my Mario n' Luigi, said the boy hugged them too.
sofuckingcute.

I always get scared cosplaying in public man, simply because i have low self-esteem like most people.
Hell, even eating at the McDonalds by Megacon makes me nervous.

>>4728547
I'm a dude, dude. But whatevs.

>at mall dressed as Austria
>wandering around store while friends are buying stuff
>cashier says, "WOAH!"
>I look at him
>he's staring at my Mariazell-curl
>"Is that your actual hair? :O"
>"Yeah, sure."
Later
>heading for the exit
>woman stops me to ask about my haircurl as well
>stand here for 2 minutes explaining to her that it's a wig
Then she tried to sell me makeup.

>>4728591
Yeah, I apologize about that. Someone in the prog thread said you were a girl.
Still, my opinion does not waver

>>4728598
Thanks, neat.

>>4728571

i love this niggas so much

> went to the zoo directly after a convention, some in cosplay
> Mario, Captain Jack included as well as Kuroshit duo
> Everywhere we go, kids flip out over Jack and Mario

Still wonder if people think they were pedos.

>Go to the mall in cosplay cause friend needed a shirt for the rave.
>Black children selling candy by the door.
>He starts to yell at us, 'Yall in a play?'
> I tell him no, that we were dressed as Vocaloids.
> His mom yells at him to stop talking to freaks

He was annoying so it all worked out anyway.

If I went to the food court in cosplay would it be bad?
Even if it were a Persona 4 group? Having issues determining if it would be really awesome or a terrible idea

>>4728778
Persona is pretty casual, right? With the uniforms? People will probably think you go to some private school.

>at the local mall w/ cosplay friend
>both of us in normal clothes, being teenage girls at the mall
>suddenly, Trinity Blood cosplayers
>ofw
We ended up wandering into Hot Topic and we saw them there, we asked if they were doing a photoshoot or going to a meetup or something and they told us they just dressed up for fun.
I still don't understand why you'd wear a ballgown to the mall for fun, that sounds like a hassle.

>>4729097

Because they think its fun.

Deal with it.

>>4729097
>running into Trinity Blood cosplayers at the mall

>>4729097
Because they lack attention and need to get it somewhere.

Ha, I like stuff like this. She's probably picking up stuff while at a con. I remember going to such public venues while cosplaying to get things like medicine or stuff I left unpacked at home.

>Dude I know has vash the stampedes jacket.
>He wears the thing everywhere.
>Call him a fucking weeaboo

There are some cos lays you can get away with without to much unwanted attention. However, if you want the attention, the more flashy the better.

One of the best times I ever had was dressing up as a Gotham city police officer. My friend owns a crown Vic that he let me borrow for the weekend. It made driving in traffic very intrestion on my way to Milwaukee. The same with when I wore my STARS cosplay as well.

>>4729123
Yeah, I always realize that I've forgotten something important as soon as I've gotten in costume, so I usually end up going to a drugstore in costume at least once a year.

I would straight up die of shame if I saw my picture posted on a site like that, though.

>>4730068
TK , I AM FAPPING TO YOUR POST AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

>>4730109
Is it because I look sexy as hell in a uniform?