"Classic"/Older Cosplay

>>9209060
I've been going to conventions sine 2004, but I don't have the pictures on my laptop, unfotunately. Anyway, this thread feels quite nostalgic.

>>9209089
This is perfection

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My first con was Anime Expo '97. Cosplay was super different back then since people just wanted to dress up as their favorite characters and show their fan spirit. It wasn't so much about being good or bad but rather having a kinship with other fans. Very different from today since everybody knows about anime and cosplay is essentially just a fashion show to garner facebook likes. Kind of funny how amazingly popular it was to cosplay from shows like Ah My Goddess, Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 back then but now hardly anyone at cons even knows they exist.

Anyways, have some classic Yaya Han from AX 2000

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Barbie and Kaie!
Man I was such a fan of them back then. Such polished costumes.

>>9209692
my thoughts exactly, i'm an old school cosplayer too but now its all about being the best camera whore

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>>9209060

It makes me feel odd to know my start time in cosplay was then. I kinda feel old but feeling old doesn't feel like I thought it would. I just feel skilled and less willing to give too many fucks about drama.

I do feel nostalgic for the days when people relied on skill to be popular over sexifying things for gofundme money.
But that's ok. I feel better about that because those people will grow out of it as they age.

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>>9209692
>Ah My Goddess, Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2

I was dumbfounded when I walked into AWA this year and saw a good bit of Ranma, and Tenchi with a smattering of Utena cosplay.

We were thinking manybe Hulu or Crunchyroll were introducing old anime as if it were new so the kids were cosplaying from it. I was busy rushing to a panel I was on so I didn't get to ask the cosplayers I saw what made them do old school.

I was quite pleased to see them though.

>>9211195
I think it's a pretty even mix of nostalgia/90s shit being popular right now as well as older anime had fun designs to cosplay. For a large part popular stuff right now is mostly slice of life which isn't too fun to cosplay so looking at earlier anime is good for inspiration.

It's still a dream of mine to cosplay from Saber Marionete J one day.

>>9209076
is this the origin of /cgl/-tan?

>>9211190

This is exactly when I gave up on cosplay, when I started noticing it wasn't even about the skill of the people making their own costumes anymore, but it had turned into a simple beauty contest.

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My first convention

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>>9211334
Mini dump over. I didn't even care about how good a costume was back then. Only if I could have fun with everyone.

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>>9209652

But cell isnt there sucking them up

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Damn, I have a buncha shots from like 2003-2004 or so I should post. Real slap-dash bad photos.
Nostaliga and age are definitely factors, but I think it did feel different back then. More innocent and naive?
Small crappy photo dump commencing? Sorry for awful resolution, but hey it was the olden days.

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>>9212028
Here's your Saber Marionette J cosplay, >>9211199
It's not Lime, but hey, better than nuthin'.

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>>9212036
Okay, last one. I have a TON more, but I don't wanna be that guy.
So many duct tape buster swords back then. And huge foam Wolfwood crosses...

>>9211195
Hey, I was an Utena cosplayer at AWA this year! Spent the rest of the weekend doing Evangelion and Kaze to Ki no Uta and my friends did Ranma and Cutey Honey groups. A lot of older series have been getting massive popularity resurgences on tumblr recently; definitely think it's the combination of those shows finally becoming easy to stream/buy in the US and classic hipsterism. Hell, my Retro Anime panel had awesome attendance that was mostly teenagers.

For Jojo fans, this gallery is one of my favorites. All from around '01
http://www.jojoxserie.net/cosplay.html

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I remember them! Didn't they stop coming to America because Barbie's mom was afraid of mad cow disease? I always hoped that one AX I would see them back again, but it has been years...

>>9209692
jesus man
i seen han back in like 2004 or something
didn't have those fucking attention grabbing tits

>>9212019
Holy crap, Il Palazzo and the great will of the universe or whatever!

>>9211331
ah yes vintage maryjane cornrows n all

My first convention and cosplay was 2003 and I was 16 years old. I still visit conventions but I make no longer new and big cosplay projects, because I have no longer high interest in cosplay. [spoiler]Cosplay was a mistake. I want to be a doujin-artist but I waste all the years with cosplay shit! I regret it![/spoiler]

>>9212016
>Nostaliga and age are definitely factors, but I think it did feel different back then. More innocent and naive?
I know what you mean. I really miss that "feeling" from early/mid 00's conventions. in the year 2010+ the convention-feeling is now complete different. Since 2014 are the comic/doujin artists more interesting and important than cosplay for me.

>>9209692
>It wasn't so much about being good or bad but rather having a kinship with other fans.
This. I used to look down on people who didn't put a lot of effort into their cosplay. But now I find myself torn between dressing up because I love the character and bring ridiculed for looking like shit. Doesn't help that the internet will immortalize any photo taken of you at a con.

>>9209060
Things really were better in the olden days, before normies and SJWs started taking over conventions.

>>9213822
The typical normie-cosplayer do cosplay only for the attention. They know nothing or too less about the character and series what they cosplaying. I really hate this.

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>>9212043
Famine 2001

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Fanime 2001

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>>9214309
Fanime 2001

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Fanime 2004

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Fanime 2004

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Fanime 2004

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>>9214319
Fanime 2004

>>9209060
That lady could pull off a perfect Rinoa cosplay

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>>9214322
Fanime 2004

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>>9214325
Fanime 2004

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>>9214326
Fanime 2004

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Fanime 2004

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Fanime 2004

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>>9214332
Fanime 2004

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Man, this is almost like a different universe. Everyone looks genuinely happy

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>>9214327
Nice! Virtual On!
I'll dump more from my old photos:
Nan Desu Kan '03 - scanned from photos, sorry for shit quality.

(Lots of Alucard costumes utilizing halloween 'pimp' hats back then as I remember)

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>>9214394
Red Mage with yarn hair!

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>>9214346
Conventions in this time was more familiar and meeting and have fun with other fans was more important. Today is only good cosplay quality important and many normies (not fan of a series) do only cosplay to get attention and compliments. Normie cosplayers call you as "fucking nerd" if you know more infos and deails about the character/series what the normie cosplayer wears.

>>9213822
Conventions without or very very less SJWs was the best days ever! I hate SJWs and also too many normies on conventions. ._.

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I really miss the 90s. The anime was better, the cons weren't normie magnets, and I actually felt a sense of community back then. I know I must sound pathetic and worn out, but I feel what I feel. I'd give anything to go back in time and relive it all again.

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>>9214396
These are wonderful. Thank you anons.

>>9213822
I miss those days too anon...

>>9214327
Oh shit, I never see Virtua On cosplays.

>>9214432
wow I think that's one of the best wigs I've ever seen for Ryoko

>>9214432
>Ryoko AX 2013.jpg
>2013
Is this really 2013? Or do you mean 2003?

>>9214478
Oh shit I didn't even notice that. This isn't my photo desu. I found it on a previous nostalgia thread here.

>>9213403
Who is Maryjane?

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>>9214432
I hear ya, anon. I'm a bit of an old curmudgeon nowadays with respect to the fandom.
Here's probably my set of personal photos. Nan Desu Kan '05. This was the year I bought a cheapo digital camera!

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>>9214892
I remember joking with this guy about his cool Homestarrunner cosplay. He didn't get it :/

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>>9214432
>The anime was better

The anime is not "better." The ratio between good and shit anime is always the same but thanks to the internet and distribution we get more of everything. While we get more shit we also get more good anime as well. We've went from 1 out of 5 to 20 out of 100.

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>>9214900
Last one. Not even sure if Kaiju Big Battel is even a thing anymore. I should look into that.

I miss when we were all just trying to figure out how to make things. There were no resources and we were finding our way in the dark. In that respect, Cosplay has kind of grown to be what it is because of our own constant desire to improve our work and make cooler things. Some people had the opportunity to capitalize on it, if even for a short time.

The one thing I do miss that I don't feel as much anymore is the general friendliness. We were all huge nerds hanging out for the weekend and celebrating our nerdy interests.

Also, anime and western media rarely mixed. When Kingdom Hearts was announced, it seemed otherworldly and unheard of to mix Disney with Final Fantasy. There were a lot of people who were staunchly against it, like it was heresy. These days, you can't go 5 feet at an anime con without seeing a Disney Princess. That was not the case back then.

I still love cons, I still love going to them and traveling for them. It's been an interesting ride watching them change.

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>>9214906
The mixture of western stuff is a huge turn off for me, and I think that's responsible in part for contributing to the influx of normies. I was rabidly against Kingdom Hearts when it was announced (still never played one). There's always been comic and sci-fi cons for people to cosplay and geek out over, but the anime con niche was so cozy and tight back in the day - not the case anymore.

I still go to cons, and I still have fun, but I miss the genuinely nerdy vibe that was felt at them. That vibe is gone today. Replaced instead with literal attention whoring. On more than one occasion I've actually been made fun of at anime conventions for liking anime.

I try to strike up conversations about anime with people at cons now, and there is about a 50/50 chance they won't know of a single anime aside from something hella mainstream that they don't even watch. They just came to show off their LoL cosplay they bought online, or the like.

What cons used to be like:
>Oh hey cool, you're cosplaying a character from an anime I really like! That's so cool! What got you into that show? Have you seen this other show that's like it?

Is now:
>LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~ Here's my card. Like, subscribe, follow, etc. Do I watch what?? Uh - no.

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>>9214997
>What cons used to be like:
>>Oh hey cool, you're cosplaying a character from an anime I really like! That's so cool! What got you into that show? Have you seen this other show that's like it?
>Is now:
>>LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~ Here's my card. Like, subscribe, follow, etc. Do I watch what?? Uh - no.
FUCKING THIS!!!!!!!111111
I really hate it when I talk to cosplayers they do a cosplay of my favorite characters/series and they have no idea about this! WTF? Damn attention whores! I really hate this!

>2006 is 10 years ago
Oh, god... why is the time so fucking fast? 2006 was a great convention and cosplay year for me.

>>9215283
The graveyard of the fireflies kid would be great if he shaved, got that good malnourished look to him. And who's the kid in the boxers supposed to be?

>>9214997
This pretty much sums up how it is for me as well. And it'll probably never be this way again. The beginning of the end seemed to be around 2010 for me, honestly.

I remember the normies started showing up around 2007-2008, but they hadn't influenced things yet. I think League of Legends and Blizzard in general had a bigger influence on the decline than Kingdom Hearts did.

>>9212043
That ain't a Buster Sword, senpai. Looks more like a bad attempt at Zabuza's weapon.

>>9213039
Great Will of the Macrocosm, to be precise.

>>9215078
calm down

>>9215283
>1995
Oh, wow! This is really old. I was 8 years old.
In the most european countries are the first anime/manga conventions in the late 90's, like 1998 or 1999. Most european countries has mid 90's and earlier no conventions, only small fan-meetings.

>>9215319
>The beginning of the end seemed to be around 2010 for me, honestly.
>I remember the normies started showing up around 2007-2008
Same for me too.

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>>9214997
>On more than one occasion I've actually been made fun of at anime conventions for liking anime.

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Wichita?

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I have old pics from A-Kon 2004 (my first con), I think. I'll dump some.

>>9215283
I loved Animerica. Figures that when I got enough money to buy a sub they stopped publishing.

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>>9212019
Man, I thought Excel Saga was the funniest shit back in the day. I tried rewatching it a couple of years ago and it was just too cringe for me.

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>>9216041
Here's some from A-kon in '05. Most of them turned out super blurry and the saturation burns the eyes even in the good ones.

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>>9211195
80's/90's anime have some pretty great designs filled with lotsof clashing colours
Also hipster kids wanting to get in on that aesthetic trend. I wish I was part of this cosplay gen though, it seemed so much more fun. I was just at the end of it when suddenly cosplay became a massive thing.

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>>9216051
This may not completely fit the criteria, since it was from 2006, but have some vintage Pixyteri.

That's pretty much all I have that wasn't blurry as fuck or in places with zero lighting. Babby's first digital camera was really really bad.

>>9216052
It was such a blast, anon. We did actually connect to other cosplayers by having fun and there was less concentration on jealousy and outdoing each other. Now it feels like a lot of people network just to ride each others' coattails for attention they crave. Sure, there were some people like that back in the old days, but it's so much worse now.

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>>9215463
Heheh I was never keen on my FF sword lore.

>>9216025
Damn, we were at the same con. Spooky~!

>>9216032
Yeah, I haven't tried watching Excel Saga again, but I remember the first few episodes blowing my mind back in the day, then it started to drag a lot in the middle. I think the standouts I can remember were the "American Animation" ep, and maybe the Fist of the North Star / Digi Charat crossover. But you're right, I'm sure I'd be covering my eyes and turning away at some of the LOL RANDUM stuff they did.

I remember at the time, maybe 2005(?), noticing a threshold (I think I even wrote about it in my 'con report' [I actually used to write those and post them on my Geocities page!]) when the dealers room was starting to sell more Japanese clothes: like pseudo-rave gear, decora-inspired stuff, and the younger, hipper, more good-looking people started showing up to cons in higher numbers. Not sure how they were related, but it seemed to happen about the same time. Now every con you go to will have at least one booth with etsy-esque designer respirators and facemasks, or colorful rave tails and boots or whatever.

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>>9216053
Bless you anon, I need more rares of the Queen

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>not mine, but nostalgia bomb I saved

>>9216064
Haha, yeah, there weren't very many cons back then. I did those goofy con reviews back in the day too, but I think most of that junk was on LJ. I went back and looked at my LJ a couple of weeks ago and was met by so much cringe.

It's a nutty contrast from then to now, because there were so many booths devoted to those furry tails, raver things, Yaya's cat ears, and steampunk this year. I feel like anime is being pushed out more and more. A lot of people will disagree, though.

Also back then, we didn't have the dudebros looking for easy lays. The thirsty guys were a little more subtle about their shit, probably because of social awkwardness.

>>9216084
Haha, yeah. I was shocked to find a wild PT in my "Ancient pictures" folder.

I would have to pull out my back up back up portable harddrive to mine off this kind of historical bullshit if I still have it but man, does this thread make me sad. I remember when no one ever bought a costume. It was totally unheard of. It was also blasphemous to buy a costume. I remember when someone would run up to me and ask about a sewing technique I used, or what fabric from where, vs. now it really seems like everyone buys their shit.

>>9216072
Cool Crosspunisher! Oh, yeah! In the 00's was Trigun a popular cosplay for many guys.

>>9216086
Puu's staff! I love it!

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>>9216086
Yeah, if I went back and found my old con reports, I'd probably die from embarrassment.

I think it's been said already, but with respect to raver and steampunk and Western cosplay, with more mainstream recognition of different fandoms, there's that blurring effect. It's an inclusive, generalizing effect on all fandoms. I don't remember "geek culture" being a thing until it was fabricated. Now being a "geek" constitutes being a fan of Dr. Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, comic books, video games, etc.
That's all well and good, and wasn't uncommons before, but to make a broad stroke here, you've got the masses of fans with only superficial interest in *everything*. So that's why all cons are are just getting smoothed out into the same exact experience. Maybe?

>>9216100
Yeah, SO many Vash's and Wolfwoods. It was wild. Huge crosses were so common, people were just throwin' em away!

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Shame this one came out so dark.

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>>9212389
I love everything about this. Bless you, anon.

>>9214332
Back when Naruto had a vague pretense of quality.

>>9214891
Holy shit, I only saw the live action movie of that. It was fucking terrible. But dank of them to make it.

>>9216124
Oh, yeah! 2004 and 2005 was for me the ultimate Guilty Gear X2 cosplay years.

What technological revolution led to cosplays becoming better looking? This thread's like a thinly veiled bad cosplay thread

>>9216229
Mid/end 00's become the cosplay quality really better.

>>9216025
The costume is really good! But... NO WIG!
Without wigs is typical for older cosplay.

>>9216229
Just an easier access to materials, Ive seen first time cosplayers look flawless. This might seem like a bad cosplay thread but this was before factory made cosplays for non-mainstream animes was a thing, so its refreshing to see badly put together but as the norm. People are having fun! Not like nowadays with sniffy cliques.

>>9216229
Once the cosplay scene became so competitive with big prizes for competitions and people who make a living off cosplay. Not just the cosplayers themselves but the people who make and sell props/costumes/ect it became a much more cutthroat field. Which is great for the overall quality of costumes but not so good for the community.

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>>9216229
High quality materials became cheaper, wigs became less shiny and cheaper, everyone realized bridal satin was too shiny.

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IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES...

>>9214333
holy shit Okage cosplay exist!

>>9216229
Way back in the early days nobody knew WTF they were doing. We didn't have massive tutorials or resources to build upon. We didn't know what "looked good" so to speak. Nor did most of us even care. Competition was for the masquerade and even then it was for a certificate or some dealers room loot. Most people competed for fun, shits and giggles, something to do at the con.

Eventually people began sharing tutorials on how they made things. Threads on cosplay.com were a popular way of telling everyone how you made stuff.

Eventually people started providing their services and expertices in different fields. Katie Bair for example came along and revolutionized cosplay wigs/hair. Before her, we used Halloween wigs and sprayed them the color we needed. Eventually we found out you could dye wigs by coloring them with sharpies. Then someone tried out acrylic ink and alcohol, Then people started having chinese factories produce wigs in various colors and premade styles.

Armor was made of duct tape and cardboard, then foam, then worbla came along, then we figured out from foam you could buy foam in huge sheets at the hardware store and create amazing things out of it for cheap.

We cut up old clothes, closet cosplayed, pieced together patterns, drafted patterns. Then companies start making patterns catering to us. Cosplayers started making and distributing their own patterns.

Out of lots of photos and trial and error we learned that holy shit, this fabric looks better, you can spend 10,000 hours beading things and impress everyone.

And then social media happened, youtube happened, information spread like wildfire.

The bar was low when I started. Now, the bar is set extremely high for beginners because of how much information and resources are available. If you fuck up, shame on you for not spending 2 minutes researching. Whereas I wandered around in the dark starting out.

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>>9209692
>>9213422
Alright, I'll be honest here. I tend to judge people's costumes a bit more harshly if I see them online vs. when I see them at a con.
My feelings of meeting and talking to a fellow fan usually tend to trump judgement of how their costume looks. I need to try to apply those same feelings while I'm online I suppose.

>>9216588
Yeah, the Amano-inspired FF cosplays were so over the top. I think they became a bit of a turning point because it gave many people creativity with detail.

Also back then we didn't really care too much about how awful a cosplay was. Just as long as it wasn't absolutely disgusting.

>>9216330
>People are having fun! Not like nowadays with sniffy cliques.

Shit is confirmation bias. The super friendly people are out there in droves its just you've ignored them or don't really remember them as strongly as the groups that snuffed you.

Meanwhile when it comes to such comments about people being cliqueish, I always find that people saying that usually end up being just as cliqueish as

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>>9215283
what?

>>9215283
Oh Animerica. My horrible first cosplays now exist only in the pages of these magazines buried in people's attics/basements.

>>9217204
I agree. Been going to cons for 15 years. I'm always meeting new people and making new friends and acquaintances. It's true that people are a little more cliquish now that there are vastly more people attending. But there are plenty of people out there that are super friendly and I still meet new people who I end up hanging out with the whole weekend, just as I did at my first convention.

>>9217225
Well, I have my costume for next year lined up.

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>>9211175
>>9209078
Holy shit, as a lolita who don't know much about cosplay - I'm 98% sure they're Babi and Kaie of Triple Fortune, right? The faces are very similar, see pic related. First time seeing them in feminine clothing and makeup and my mind is blown

Is this common knowledge, am I the first one to point this out or Am I making shit up?

>>9217553
Barbie and Kaie were well known japanese cosplayers in the 90s who came to America to attend cons here.

>>9209692
mmmm back when she did OC and didn't have those bolt-on inflatables on her chest...

>>9217640
That's Ruri from Nadeshiko not an OC

I started going to cons and cosplaying in 1999. If you avoid large cons, I find a lot of people are still genuinely friendly and nerdy, and will be excited about talking about the series you're cosplaying. It also helps to cosplay from a less popular series, or to avoid sexy cosplay. I do miss those days, but overall it's more fun to be able to find nerdy folks easily.

I think PayPal is what really revolutionized cosplay for me. Being able to get thermoplastic, better fabric and wigs, and Japanese pattern books really catalyzed the sudden advance. Before that, you had to find an expensive importer and call them with your credit card info, which was rather risky.

Next time I go to my parents' house, I'll dig up my 1999 disposable camera photos to share

>>9217204
(shrugs) Maybe for your cons it's easier to chat and talk, just talking from recent experience with the cons here. American cons did seem a little more relaxed compared to Europe.

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>>9217225
Bad YATTA cosplay???
He needs the right underwear.

>>9214901
It's still around amazingly enough.

>>9216053
Shit, she actually doesn't look half bad here.

>>9216025
wow, i haven't seen an angelic layer cosplay in a while

>>9216853
This. Anon said everything I was thinking, much better than I could say it. There are so many more resources available now. It's taken some of the challenge out, but the overall quality of the cosplays has gone way up.

>>9216329
Going back to a certian point, you could only find pink wigs at halloween and costume shops. Mailing things might take forever, shops didn't take paypal and nobody trusted entering their credit card into online shops back then. So a lot of people would use colored hairspray in their natural hair or go with natural hair period. Finding the wigs you needed was nearly impossible even on Ebay at one point, believe it or not and they'd all come in the same neon colors and two or three styles.

>>9216040

Hey it's Kyandi!
I had forgotten about her. She was such a cute Chibi Usa.

>>9216046

That's Kell.
She still cosplays. Chick is prolific too.

>>9217553
>Holy shit, as a lolita who don't know much about cosplay - I'm 98% sure they're Babi and Kaie of Triple Fortune, right?
Is this common knowledge, am I the first one to point this out or Am I making shit up?


Previous poster here:
I'm a cosplayer and while I've heard of Triple Fortune cause of their bonnets I didn't know Barbie and Kaie were the proprietors. Neat!

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From a previous thread:
some talking points.

Popular oldschool topics include the following:
1st gen cosplayers and influential community members-
• Tikki
• Alisachan
• H-chan
• Beverly
• Miyu
• Angel McLeod
• Derek
• ElfEater
• SailorJAMBoree
• Eyes On Me
• COSPA
• Widya Santoso
• Kevin Lillard
• Cosplay Scandal
etc
2nd generation cosplayers:
• Lindze
• Yaya Han
• Ginny
• Nadine
• Dommi
• PikminLink
• Adella
• Lillyxandra & Haruka
• Akanepanda
• Twinkle
• Ashita
• Daitenshi
• UsagiKou
• Lord Masamune
• StripperVash
• Limebarb
• Jia

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This is the family that used to run that cosplay site... I never made a profile there cause I didn't like the format.

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>>9218530

Here's some AFO 3 in like 2002

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>>9218534

I remember this Squall had all the girls a twitter because she made an attractive boy.

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>>9218538

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This movie Belldandy was a big deal because clean sewing was becoming a thing in 2002.

We still had a majority of slipshod construction so when well tailored cosplay was around people cared a lot.

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>>9218546

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>>9218548

Oh yeah I had forgotten about PrincessPikabell or something like that.
She had an interesting kitch where she did princess characters of pokemon.

>>9218552
Pikabellechu, my friend. She's still at it, by the way. Keep on trucking, crazy Pikachu lady...

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>>9218529
Yeah, damn, I was thinking about Alisa-chan and Derek the other day after seeing this thread. I couldn't remember Derek's name to save my life, but remembered foam-haired Goku cosplay.
And does Alisa go to cons still, or is she completely in the softcore tease stuff... or does she even do that still?
I'm so out of touch. I suppose I could try looking it up.

>>9218565
Does she still believe she was a face character at Disneyworld?

>>9217731
It's really sad how she actually started out okay and her cosplays continued to get worse and worse. The Queen has lost a lot of weight, but it makes her look a lot older than she actually is. That Rydia cosplay is arguably the best one she has ever done.

>>9218529
Who is still active? Some are now very popular cosplayers.

>>9215621

Witch Hunter Robin

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Have some Dirty Pair cosplay from the 80s.

>>9218521
Lolita anon here. I think this discovery is really cool! Explains why they're so nature in front of mass amount of people and cameras.

Also the contrast between their current style (visualkei host jrock look) and designs ( feminine bonnets) very fascinating!

>>9219122
Nice! '80s cosplay babes. I'd totally hang that up in the inside of my locker door.

>>9219025
she still goes to dragoncon

>>9216025
Thank you for posting all these A-Kon pics! A-Kon (I think it was 2000) was my first con. Found memories...

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>>9216119
I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going...

>>9217665
>1999 disposable camera photos
Oh please do!

>>9219122
This is one of, if not, the best Dirty Pair cosplay I've seen.

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>>9219086
>Who is still active? Some are now very popular cosplayers.

Alisachan did tease sites and then I saw her in some performance art where a dude used a sander or something to make whatever she was wearing spark. I honestly didn't get a good look cause it wasn't till after it was over that i realized who she was.

Derek has moved on to SuperMan cosplaying
TristenCitrine from SailorJamboree works for Funimation now.
Lindze still cosplays and now is an esthetician.
Pikmin Link just had a baby and still cosplays
Adella had a baby a year or so ago and still cosplays occasionally
Lillyxandra runs FireflyPath making extravagant dresses
LordMasamune is a voice actor now.

>>9219863
Oh, wow! All the people are so successful and all the years I reach nothing.

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>>9214896

What I miss about old anime is the traditional cel animation, I still like modern anime and digital techniques can look pretty amazing when done right, and back then there was also anime with very low budget and bad animation (like most TV series), just like today. But still I feel something was lost in the process of making animation 100% digital. It's understandable though, but I miss it.

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Cosplayers from NYC's "Comic Art Convention" in 1974.

This might be a little TOO old and unrelated but I think it's awesome to see how far the cosplay community has come.

>>9220150
That's a huge load of real knives, holy shit.

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>>9220150
>"Captain Video"
>Even 42 years ago there were massive smartasses with jokes ready to launch

That said. That might in fact be the first documented case of Meta-Cosplay.

>>9220150

LMAO. Just noticed the girl in the dress staring terrified at the chick with the knife.

>>9220150
Awesome. Captain Video is like the OG cardboard box Gundam.
I remember seeing an article online a few years ago or so with a bunch of scans of old '70s cosplay photos...

>>9219122
the hipsters have given Dirty Pair a new spurt of life but this is so great

>>9214997
I can remember a conversation with a fellow con-goer about how weird we both thought it was to cosplay from western comics or movies at an Anime convention. (I'm still pretty weirded out by people cosplaying characters played by actors.) Nowadays it's just normal to go to an anime convention and to be surrounded by 100 Tony Starks or whatever movie/superhero comic is popular right now.

The influence of normies does have a 'bright sight', since more and more people are coming out for their nerd-side (i.e. confessing they really like Star Wars or reading comics). However, these normies still don't seem to fully understand anime, or respect fellow 'nerds' with an interest in it. In my country anime conventions are starting to focus more and more on normies. It seems as if anime is just a little extra instead of the main thing of the convention.

I stopped going to cons for this reason. 2015 was the last year I went and I honestly don't feel as if I'm missing anything new. Compared to the first time I went (2008), when my first Anime convention was basically an anime only thing, cons have now turned into a 'Look at me I'm pretty and have a nice costume LIKE MY FB PAGE' competition.
It's sad, but times change I guess.

>>9221081
Why not just make an exclusively anime con? Anime itself is more than popular enough by now to prop it up. Over here in Germany we have the Animexx local cons. They're really small, but usually hard focused on anime.

>>9221081
Are you in the UK? Mcm is normie central and the anime is shoved off towards the side/back and western franchises slap bang in the middle. This counts for cosplayers too, half the anime meets are inside at the far end of the halls.

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>>9220129
Nah anon I feel you. The opening motorbike and bar scene from Akira is still probably my favorite bit of animation ever. There was something that made hand drawn cels feel more real than digital animation. The worlds of anime old just felt more concrete and believable to me. I still like modern anime and admire a lot of the art styles, but it just doesnt have the same feeling as it used to.

Also this thread is such a treat. Im feeling nostalgic now. I recently realized that my first con was ten years ago labor day weekend. Kumoricon fucking 06. Its weird how fast shit changes. I remember waking up at 5 am so I could get in the reg line at a decent time to get a badge, and that was before pre reg was a thing there yet. I met a lot of friends that I still talk and hang with today. But it certainly was a different world.

>>9218529

Out of these people, there's only a handful that I still talk to or see, or have seen anywhere in the last 5-7 years.

Beverly had a baby and I've not heard her mention cosplay much at all in a long time.

I see pictures of Jia cosplaying with another friend of mine on the west coast, so she's still active.

Limebarb doesn't cosplay anymore and barely goes to any conventions. Her Lemonbrat business is still around.

God, the last time I saw StripperVash, he was still emceeing masquerades and that was a number of years ago.

Kevin Lillard still takes convention/cosplay pictures at various small Midwest cons, but I've not seen him in person since he had the heart attack all those years ago. It's good to see him around and at it though.

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>>9221134
>The worlds of anime old just felt more concrete and believable to me. I still like modern anime and admire a lot of the art styles, but it just doesnt have the same feeling as it used to.

That's because 99% of modern anime sanitizes the settings they use to hypergloss levels of polish. A normal high school can't just be a normal high school, it must be on a level beyond one that the most enthusiastic principal could force the students to clean and wax to. In the past, this simply couldn't be achieved because hand drawing necessarily made everything a little smudged and dirty. Now in the digital world this is perfectly possible.

Some anime deliberately avoid this by making everything a little messy and grimy. The one that sticks out in my head would be Another, a murder mystery anime from a few years ago. That anime did it to add to the horror though.

>>9221081
>cons have now turned into a 'Look at me I'm pretty and have a nice costume LIKE MY FB PAGE' competition.
Oh, yeah... all these attention whores! This sucks! I visit conventions more because the artist alley and special guests from Japan. Cosplay is too overrated if you ask me.

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Wow this thread takes me back!

Big Fire from Katsucon '98

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Chocolate & Tira Misu

Katsucon '98

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Katsucon '99

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Anime Central 1998

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The Women of Cowboy Bebop

Ohayocon 2005

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Lime from Saber Marionette J

Anime Iowa 2001

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Ifurita from El-Hazard

Anime Central 2000

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Yuri Cube from Galaxy Frauline Yuna

Ohayocon 2003

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>>9223407
Dragon halffffffff
I would love to cosplay Mink if I got moar fit. ;_;

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not my photos but found some from ax 2001

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>>9225253
there are entire galleries of anime expo 2001 pics here! http://www.usagichan2.com/AX2001/AX2001-massnavi-cosplay.htm

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>>9225255

>>9225250
This looks really nice!

>>9225255
Oh, yeah! The early 00's was known for many Di Gi Charat cosplay.

>>9225253
Angel Sanctuary cosplays always make me so happy. I miss seeing them so frequently now.

>>9216117
I love seeing Escaflowne cosplays!

>>9214882
David Durica?

>>9216045
Sweet fucking CHRIST!!
Relm and Gau in one picture?!

>>9223420
>No Electra
Lame

>>9225255
>>9225282
I miss Digi Charat. I should cosplay it again.

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>>9223422

I remember this cosplayer!
At the time she was a bit of an anomaly as most women cosplayers were in their teens or early twenties and she was in her thrities.

I thought she was pretty cool just doing what she liked.

I'm now her age. Wow.

>>9225248
Oh yisss, That Bride Utena is Lynleigh. Man I really wish we had met back in the day when we used to do Utena characters. Would have really made a splash. She's married with a baby now and runs that design lolita site.

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>>9226975

ah the days when we cared so much less about cosplayers being model pretty.
We were more like... Are you ____? omg I love that show too. Lets talk for 15 minutes about this show.
After the 15 minutes we realized we were talking to a complete stranger and then introduced ourselves.

>>9226979
I remember this time! Today not so possible because too many cosplayers don't know/watch the series what they do as cosplay. Fucking attention whores!

It's like >>9214997 said:
What cons used to be like:
>Oh hey cool, you're cosplaying a character from an anime I really like! That's so cool! What got you into that show? Have you seen this other show that's like it?

Is now:
>LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~ Here's my card. Like subscribe, follow, etc. Do I watch what?? Uh - no.

>>9223416
ALBERTO THE FUCKING IMPACT. HOLY SHIT

>>9214891
Best theme for couples cosplay or bestest theme for couples cosplay?

>>9215319
I think Team Fortress 2 had a big impact a bit before League picked up steam. It was one of the first PC games to have strong, stylized 3D character designs after years and years of games aiming for realism. Naturally a lot of cosplay came out of TF2 and for some reason it showed up in anime cons more than comic cons or gaming cons.

>>9216042
Snow Fairy Sugar!

>>9216053
But.. she actually looks GOOD here! Both in costume and personal appearance. What happened to her?

>>9219122
Thanks, I saw this ages ago on an old con report website but never saved it. These sisters were described as a little notorious for doing revealing cosplay in the early days.

>>9221081
>The influence of normies does have a 'bright sight', since more and more people are coming out for their nerd-side (i.e. confessing they really like Star Wars or reading comics). However, these normies still don't seem to fully understand anime, or respect fellow 'nerds' with an interest in it.
I've seen this described often, as the cool kids joining in and their reaction is "this is some cool stuff! who let the NERDS in?"

>>9225241
"shinji, get in the robot"
"make me, old man"

>>9227690
She's still batshit crazy and still cosplaying. Lost a bunch of weight, but recently apparently thinks she's becoming a real-life futanari. Also still can't keep a job for trying.

Ah yes. Memories. Anyone remember going on to A Fan's View to get con pics after attending a convention because that was literally the only site you'd find them on if you didn't take any yourself?

>>9231053

Yeah, I really appreciated Kevin's efforts. A lot of my costume pics on my Geocities site were taken by him.

Also if I couldn't make it to a con going to his site was a good way to feel like I was there. I can't even say that about con pics I see now. Frequently people only take pics of their friends, the few series they know, or it's all photoshoots taking outside of the con.

Holy shit this thread is still up and it even hit image limit! Thank you all the anons who posted old school pics. They really bring me back.

>early 2000s
>hear about this thing called anime cons at some university anime club anime showing
>go to said con
>see random cosplayers
>get excited and panic at the same time because don't have camera
>find some shop at the con selling disposable cameras for $25
>can't make myself pay that much for one

>>9212389
I came here specifically to post these old JoJo cosplays, especially the Kira ones. Bless you anon.

>>9232633
For me it was 2001 the very very first time I hear something and see photos from anime conventions and cosplay .I was very amazed! 2003 I visit my first convention and do my first cosplay too.

Might be relevant - been listening to this at work today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adC7N2pcY2M

Yeah, the guy is a furry but the first 20 mins are pretty much all about how comic and anime cons came about.

>>9223416
Holy shit a Nurse Angel Ririka!

Can we get another thread going? This nostalgia was good for my old soul.

>>9214895
Is this still nan desu con, because that looks so familiar to me?

>>9223427
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna! How I miss that show. I would love to cosplay from it, but nobody would know me.

Weird question, but
If you had a time machine and could go back to a con any year in the 90's or the first half of the 2000's and cosplay there, would you?
And would you bring your best, most detailed cosplay to the scene, recieveng all the praise? or would you cosplay something freely, making friends along the way?