More Non Cosplayers at a Con - A new Trend?

[angelmage99]

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angelmage99

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angelmage99

Yes it is growing, but for a good reason.

First of all the Anime culture is growing and fast. Those people are still new so they haven't started on cosplay yet.

Other reason is money. A lot of fans are under age when it comes to working and some of them are having money troubles.

I really like your answer to my question. Yes the Anime culture is growing by leaps and bounds. I'm taking my almost 13 year old niece and her 14 year old friend to the Youmacon convention in Detroit this year. Just like me they both really like Naruto. I can't wait to show them this world. They are too young to make or buy a Cosplay outfit this year but I feel that they may become future Cosplayers. I hope that the economy improves soon. In the meantime just going to an anime convention is a special treat whether they are a Cosplayer or not.

My first con's I didn't cosplay. I've been going since 2008 (I know not that long), and didn't start cosplay till last year. I think it's easier for me because I have a lot of friends and I'm on the older side, compared to my sister.

I didn't start going to Anime cons until 2009 and I only have 3 outfits. As for being older can you believe that I'm going to be 49 years old next year? I remember watching one of my favorite Anime's, Sailor Moon, when it came out in the USA back in 1995. That was the same year that I was married. I just celebrated 17 years of marrage. I have a great time taking pics of other Cosplayers and my best Cosplay outfit so far is Syaoran from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. If you don't mind talking to an "older" big Anime fan please answer my friendship request. If you don't accept I understand. You can't be too careful these days. At the least please check out my Profile page and my guild. Just click on the banner on my signature to check out my Role Play guild.

I'm about 27 years younger than you. I'm 22, but I'm one of the older anime cosplayers in my area. I have 4 now and I'm going to work on Botan from YYH soon.  

[angelmage99]

smithers456

angelmage99

smithers456

angelmage99

smithers456

angelmage99

Yes it is growing, but for a good reason.

First of all the Anime culture is growing and fast. Those people are still new so they haven't started on cosplay yet.

Other reason is money. A lot of fans are under age when it comes to working and some of them are having money troubles.

I really like your answer to my question. Yes the Anime culture is growing by leaps and bounds. I'm taking my almost 13 year old niece and her 14 year old friend to the Youmacon convention in Detroit this year. Just like me they both really like Naruto. I can't wait to show them this world. They are too young to make or buy a Cosplay outfit this year but I feel that they may become future Cosplayers. I hope that the economy improves soon. In the meantime just going to an anime convention is a special treat whether they are a Cosplayer or not.

My first con's I didn't cosplay. I've been going since 2008 (I know not that long), and didn't start cosplay till last year. I think it's easier for me because I have a lot of friends and I'm on the older side, compared to my sister.

I didn't start going to Anime cons until 2009 and I only have 3 outfits. As for being older can you believe that I'm going to be 49 years old next year? I remember watching one of my favorite Anime's, Sailor Moon, when it came out in the USA back in 1995. That was the same year that I was married. I just celebrated 17 years of marrage. I have a great time taking pics of other Cosplayers and my best Cosplay outfit so far is Syaoran from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. If you don't mind talking to an "older" big Anime fan please answer my friendship request. If you don't accept I understand. You can't be too careful these days. At the least please check out my Profile page and my guild. Just click on the banner on my signature to check out my Role Play guild.

I'm about 27 years younger than you. I'm 22, but I'm one of the older anime cosplayers in my area. I have 4 now and I'm going to work on Botan from YYH soon.

Yes I'm quite a bit older than the usual Cosplayer. At the cons I feel like a kid again. I use to go to and work at Star Trek cons many years ago and missed the fun. Since I happen to have a growing interest in Anime I decided to give the Anime cons a try and I'm very happy that I did.

I agree. I don't have to worry about college just for a couple of days at least and relax. I started at a Sci-fi con before I did anime.  

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Money. School. Time. Other poop.
I've taken a year off of cosplay just because I can't find a good job because every interview I've been to wants experience over a university degree. Even the Master's degree is pointless when going up again someone with as little as four years experience with no degree. So now I get to go back to school and get a trade school degree that I can actually use around here since gaining experience is part of the curriculum. Really thinking about doing my friend did and just going over seas as an ESL teacher.

Just using the same cosplays.
I nice thing I'm doing is cosplaying the same character but in different outfits so that I can reuse the wig. The nice thing is that the characters I have wigs for wear a lot of different outfits. The bad thing is that I'm running out of the cheap to make ones TnT