There’s always been a bit of a stigma attached to hentai, a highly sexualised form of Japanese anime and manga. Ditto for any associated cosplay, which can often be explicitly pornographic ...

Costume designer turns play into work with cosplay Crystal Graziano started out role playing online. Now she works for a game developer doing what she loves.

And there are even some mean-spirited cosplay websites that fat-shame and post pictures of heavier cosplayers under categories like “fatties” or “too fat to cosplay.” ...

Leo O’Brien and Tristan Sites locked eyes from across the room and made a beeline to meet each other. Both were cosplaying Nightwing — a DC Comics superhero — at the Anime Midwest… ...

The show takes place July 11-13 in the Lansing Center, at 333 Michigan Ave. Tickets can be purchased online through the ...

Stephanie LaCava recommends four cosplay costumes she can wear (almost) every day, including Light in the Box Catsuit Cosplay Costume, Cossky Penny Dreadful: City of Angels-Magda Halloween Costume ...

Whilst the cosplay world, like our world, is far from perfect, it’s great to see these discussions happening, to try and shake away the judgement and negativity and distill the scene back to its ...

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Henry Lee, Co-Founder of American Cosplay Paradise, agrees. After launching one of the first American Cosplay websites in 2000, Lee has ridden the Cosplay wave to commercial success.

Let me get this out of the way first: I don't cosplay. But I think James Pethokoukis writing at The Week was pretty far off when he wrote that the rise of cosplay is a bad sign for the U.S ...