Over the weekend, thousands of fans filled the halls of Planet Comic Con Kansas City, moving between panels, vendor booths and clusters of costumed characters brought to life from screens and pages.
Games Cosplay is not consent, and I wish we'd stop feeling so entitled to shoving our phones in people's faces without asking them first RPG Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the ...
Action The coolest in-game art is in Arthur Morgan's journal in Red Dead Redemption 2, and no you can't convince me otherwise Gaming Industry Some takes don't age: Back in 2009, a creative director ...
The Tales series has been around for over 20 years, and has become one of the most well known JRPG franchises around. It started with Tales of Phantasia on the Super Famicom in Japan in 1995. That ...
Getting ready the morning of a convention has never gotten any less chaotic for C.J. Stiles. They wake up, find whatever source of caffeine they can and begin the long transformation process: skincare ...
The world of cosplay lost an integral part of its spirit with a very sad event in November 2025, when Ashley, referred to by her handle Ash or @squidkid1111, bid farewell to life at only nineteen ...
India’s win at the 2025 World Cosplay Summit in August for Best Armor was a highlight for a subculture that has been on the rise in the country for a few years now. What was once considered a niche ...
The sweet and dreamy arpeggios that introduce opener ‘Echoes’, for instance, are deceptive, the song gradually darkening until it erupts into a blast of epic distortion. Closer ‘Jive’ starts so sombre ...
Desperation and delusion are at the heart of Sorry’s COSPLAY. It’s a fitting pendulum swing of emotion that feels like a morning skin routine in 2025. Our pores have adapted to AI slop, a growingly ...
For years, Universal Studios in Japan has paid tribute to the world of anime. Popular franchises such as Attack on Titan, One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Hunter x Hunter, and more have had ...
Local cosplayers at UwU Con 2025 came dressed to impress as the convention settled into its new home at Mesa Convention Center. The annual geek event may have changed venues, but the costuming energy ...
Coined by Japanese writer Nobuyuki Takahashi, cosplay is largely popularised and given its modern form by Japanese anime and manga culture. The act of embodying a character is also an act of ...