With colorful wigs and ornate, futuristic costumes that flatter her toned figure, it’s hard to believe the 22-year-old is a self taught costume designer. Graziano is a cosplayer—an anime, video game ...

Anime fandom and cryptocurrency: two great tastes that taste great together? While that remains to be seen, anime fandom’s millions of global denizens remain too tantalizing a target for ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. For the last few years, nearly all of Kotaku's cosplay coverage has been focused on a weekly roundup we called Fancy Pants. It was intended to serve ...

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 convention. An ...

Stemming from an increase of online social media posts in mid-2012 onward regarding cosplayers being harassed and assaulted at conventions, including posts by cosplayer Meagan Marie, and Mandy. The ...

Ever since I attended my first comic convention, I’ve been intrigued by cosplayers. (I seem to be naturally drawn towards things that encourage dressing up, no matter their form.) Whilst I’m not into ...

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. economy.

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. Despite ...

A 17-acre CS Cosplay base set up close to the ruins of the Sichuan earthquake has generated public anger. CS is an abbreviation of Counter-Strike, a tactical first-person shooter online video game. As ...