Not really a cosplay story but I went to a haunted house with my cousin wearing a long black dress and cardigan and so many people thought I worked at the house. No I'm not an actor I'm just goth :(

I once decided to cosplay Kirito from SAO and all throughout con I was admiring other cosplayers and it was awesome. Me and my friends decided to go and get lunch so we went and did that but as we were leaving the place a small girl walked up to me and asked for a photo. I complied, like the gentleman i am, and got the selfie with her. But what got me was that she ran back over to her friends and shouted: "I GOT A SELFIE WITH SEBASTIAN FROM BLACK BUTLER". Photos have never been the same since.

@miaqui2600

6 жыл бұрын

Kirito? Did you meant Jesus-kun?

@willingledew7779

6 жыл бұрын

FuzzyBhm i actually didnt have a sword... I HAD TWO SWORDS!!!

@ItsKateLive

6 жыл бұрын

Miyaki Hyoudou Jesus-kun goes solo to become said Jesus-kun

@miaqui2600

6 жыл бұрын

Katelyn_Does _Covers You didn't mention him managing to access and overwrite gamefiles in SAO from the inside the game and also doing so within mere minutes

@ItsKateLive

6 жыл бұрын

Miyaki Hyoudou I was quoting a video. 'So the nightmare begins..." "And Brice Papenbrook."

Oh my gosh I can only imagine this. I'm like the most socially awkward person ever. I would've ran out of the venue😂

I have a permanent scar on my leg because of something stupid I did in cosplay. It was Halloween and I decided to be pearl and wear my pearl cosplay. I was trick or treating with my friends and there was a small devil child dressed as a clown getting up in people's faces. I loath clowns. This kid comes up to me and I nope it out of there. I ran so fast that I tripped, ripped my tights, and my knee and hands started to bleed.

Oh god I can feel the second hand embarrassment

@cobes11

5 жыл бұрын

I don't get it. When I am in situations like that I own that shit. I take the mindset that I am the most awesome person in the room, everyone else is lame for not being as cool as me, and secretly everyone wishes they were having as much fun as me. It is only awkward if you make it awkward. If you own it, other people will be jealous.

@piercethenoah

4 жыл бұрын

@@cobes11 k

@cobes11

4 жыл бұрын

Muddle Puddie It is true. For example, guys my age (33) are too cool to dance at parties and even wedding receptions. My ass is out there dancing with all the girls, including the girlfriends of the guys who are “too cool” to dance. Fact of the matter is that people who are “too cool to do something” are usually just losers and uninteresting.

well my worry was that it was an "adult" toy show.... so it could have been worse like that?

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

TRUE OH GOSH

In my Junior year of High School I walked around the school as Viktor Nikiforov from Yuri On Ice. I got laughed at and looks of "wtf" and i DON'T CARE. I had fun, my friend called me a "sexy dude" XD

My sister and I went to a doll show/sale that I think was last summer. We took our BJD dolls with us and if you know anything about them then they are NOT your typical doll. So we had each doll on an arm and walked around the show room and it was full of old men and women. There were a few young people there but not very many. We kept getting looked at weird. It was a doll show...we had dolls...there should have been no problem. We got tired of how people were staring and talking to each other WHILE looking at us that we finally left. I don't cosplay much anymore, I mostly like to wear Kimonos/ Furisode kimonos now but the times I WAS out in cosplay or even Lolita was interesting. Recently my sister and I went to Ramencon 2017 and of course I wear my kimonos because why not? I don't wear them anywhere else. On Sunday the convention center had to share a bit of space with a christian church group having mass there and needless to say, the looks they were giving where judgemental. I walked by one lady in the main lobby and she took a look at me and said out loud "Really?!" as if it was a crime to wear something like I was. I ignored her because I thought I looked pretty and I still do when I wear my kimonos. No up-in-my-business christian lady is gonna change that.

@katiem5100

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I never get tired of the looks on people's faces when I'm out with my BJDs. xD

This is like when I go to school in cosplay every one just looks at you weird like your crazy or something

@Red5rainbow

6 жыл бұрын

The_Kawaii_Riceball who goes to school in cosplay? (Unless it's halloween)

@embersun.

5 жыл бұрын

@@Red5rainbow no rules against cosplaying in public outside of cons or Halloween

@Red5rainbow

5 жыл бұрын

CourtneyDolphinGirl it’s not that there’s any rules against it, it’s just that it’s abnormal, of course you’re going to be getting stares if you go out in public in full-blown cosplay

@ShadyBun

4 жыл бұрын

Red5rainbow brave people and or Junko kinnies

@Nazinsky

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadyBun Korekiyo though ,😻

My boyfriend (who isn't even a cosplay fan) loved this story just as much as I did! Congrats on the magine!

I did the same exact thing, I dressed as human gir from invader zim so people just thought my outfit was cute ( cause I was young and it was just a hoodie) but I told my friend, and she like...dressed full Catwomen...and got looks

Not that long ago, I went to a con in cosplay. I was dressed as King/Harlequin from Seven Deadly Sins. I went round the con, bought some stuff, everything went well. I went home at about 5:30 and I decided to grab McDonald’s on the way home since I lived about half an hour away. This McDonald’s didn’t have a drive thru so I decided to take my hoodie off before I went in, but I was still in shorts, a weird blue shirt and yellow and blue boots. In the middle of March. I didn’t think about it that much since I was just going to go in, grab a burger and go back to the car. I walked in and I got some weird looks, most people knew that there was a con going on nearby so most people looked, realised and looked away, but one woman came up to me and asked why I was wearing a wig, a ton of makeup, and these weird ass clothes (not her exact words). I politely told her that I was getting dinner after the Comic Con and Anime Expo that was being held nearby and I went in costume as one of my favourite characters. When she told me that I was too old for dressing up, I explained to her that a lot of people do it and that there is a whole community of cosplayers. She then told me that my clothes made me look like an idiot and that everyone was confused about what I was doing and why I looked so weird. I asked her to leave me alone and told her that I was going to leave as soon as I got my food. She kept on hassling me until one of the employees saw and asked her to leave me alone or leave the store. She finally shut up and I got my food. I cosplay a lot but I don’t like photos because I’m awful at human interaction. This woman put me off cosplaying for a little while but my friends convinced me to go in a group cosplay with them. I re-used my King cosplay and we went as all seven of the sins. I decided that the cosplay community is too good for one idiot to stop me.

I dressed as Harley Quinn for the Suicide Squad premiere but the movie didnt start until later that night, so we decided to get some pizza and then walk through the city. Turns out the shady red-light district is very close to the cinema and the pizza place. Walked down a prostitute-lined street wearing sequin hotpants and a torn-up shirt.

@daniellesheehan2950

3 жыл бұрын

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@meiko6120

3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellesheehan2950 COME BACK!

@daniellesheehan2950

3 жыл бұрын

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@AltBadin

3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellesheehan2950 Return to us once more

@daniellesheehan2950

3 жыл бұрын

@@AltBadin guess who's back, Back again

I have never had this happen. But I'm also perfectly fine with wearing my cosplays in public for photos, dates with my husband or just to wear it. But I'm so sorry that you had such a bad time.

I felt this way a few times when I brought costumes to school in Halloween/carnival. Almost no one in the schools o went to did. After a few times of doing it almost completely alone and often being ridiculed for it I gave up on it. Until I visited my first gaming con. Realising cosplay was a thing and people didn't mock people for dressing up there was the moment my life started

oh no i had this same experience when i moved to my city. they advertised it as a cosplay event and a one day convention and seventeen year old me went dressed as lucifer from supernatural complete with fx makeup. oh man that sucks that you two also had to go through with that but at least youre not alone!

The only thing close to cosplay I've done was cosplaying Frisk from Undertale just for Halloween at my school because I wanted to. And my hair is the same color so I didn't have to do anything about that.. But the entire day I was super embarrassed becauuuse.. I was wearing shorts with black tights underneath and brown boots because I've seen some people cosplaying Frisk do it like that (and i really didnt want to show any skin) so I did that.. I was super excited and felt awesome about it. Then we got to the parking lot and I was walking towards the school and of course my brother tells me as we're walking that I look weird because no one wheres tights underneath shorts.. So the whole day I was worrying that people would think I looked weird. Luckily I think I just sorta ignored it after a while and while I was in the lunch line someone recognized who I was (and that someone was wearing a dino onesie I think? How did they get away with that.. p sure one of the teachers wouldve said it was against the dress code or something) So yeh. I can't wait til I have more time and money to do some actual cosplay..

@dragonflower17

4 жыл бұрын

1st: Your cosplay sounded adorable! Glad someone recognized you! 2nd: .... I wear tights/leggings under shorts as part of everyday fashion. Your brother can zip it : ) Sure you looked fine.

Great video as always, Anya! Something I realized recently after cosplaying for four years is if you're cosplaying and people are starting at you, they aren't necessarily staring because they think you're weird, they could be staring because they think you're cool, or they want to look at your costume. That probably wasn't the case here, but at cosplay events it often it's. Usually the first time I go to a small convention or a convention I don't know much about I go in normal clothes to avoid this.

I have a embarrassing story myself. My friends and I made vocaloid cosplays for our County Fair for a sewing contest. There was supposed to be five of us in total, Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, and Kaito, but my sister who was Len was busy with her horse, and my other friend who was Rin was busy with her pony. So I was left with meh Miku and my Luka (I was Kaito V3 btw) -Well this was my first time cosplaying, and I'm not someone to really go out and embarrass myself wearing my blue hair and my weird white, blue and yellow coat. (I love cosplaying but I am a lil too self conscience.) We did mannequin modeling where you sit there like a statue and just stare at people stare back at you.... yeah. Some people knew who we were and it made me feel better. But after we were done modeling, I was a little too lazy to change back to my normal clothes, since our RV was far away..... So yeah, my friend who was Luka enjoyed herself, but you know.... I'm excited to go to a real comic con.... I don't think I had a good start.... I'll probably be remembered as Blue boy for the rest of my fair life..... DX

watching this made me remember my past. ughh the cringe is killing me!

I experienced something similar last year but this very little convention advertised itself as cosplay friendly, had a discount for cosplayers, and had a cosplay contest on Sunday. I even did my research and saw photos from past years. I went on the day they didn’t do the cosplay contest because I thought more people were gonna be there. It wass suuuper bad bc I was the only one dressed up (as young Jack Sparrow) and everybody else was dressed in belly dancing costumes probably because they were performing. I left after 20 minutes and went to the beach for photos instead because I felt so uncomfortable! Thank you for sharing your story! I definitely feel you lol

I'm amused. I'm glad you're able to share something embarrassing with us.

@ayanamcr.7303

6 жыл бұрын

Eliza Schuyler Oh, Hello to you to, Eliza

One time there was a day at school where you could dress up as your favorite character from just about anything, so I decided to go as Harley Quinn. I had my version of her jester outfit from the neck down while my hair and makeup was done like her hair and makeup in the Suicide Squad movie. I was the only one dressed up as anything that extreme and I didn't have anything I could change into!

Love these cosplay story videos and congrats on getting on the magazine cover! Only embarrassing cosplay story on my end is when I tore my pants doing a roll/trying to look cool cause I was dressed as an Assassin from Assassin's Creed. Learned that day some pants are just not meant for action poses 😂

My friend met the voice actor for Levi from Attack on Titan in an elevator while in Attack on Titan cosplay, they actually got stuck in the elevator with him

Each time my school has a dance I will always be in cosplay for them until this girl commented me and knew who I was cosplaying and I still love her even though I don't remember who she was.

The amount of experiences you've had are like my worst nightmares this has always been one of my biggest fears showing up to something and being the only one in cosplay

What pisses me off more is when events are advertised as fancy dress welcome and NO-ONE ELSE DOES, like....I'm the one doing this right

I had to help my grandpa with something while in Kaede cosplay 😔✌🏻

Congrats on the magazine cover photo

god, I went to a con and fucked up real baaaad. all these little kids and parents thought I was a professional cosplayer for the con so I had to take pics with little kids as well as give autographs as rainbow dash. smh. I got home and was laughing about it so much cuz there were like no full cosplayers and I had just started out so ya

@In_Spired

6 жыл бұрын

Sumara St. Onge Beautiful

I went to Miku Expo in hetalia cosplay long time ago. There were like 5 cosplayers there and my cosplay was really bad (like reeeallly bad, I just started cosplaying). Everyone was looking and even some with professional cameras took pictures like why. I feel embarrassed just typing this

@Casket_Cutie

5 жыл бұрын

The same thing happened to me my first time!

i think this is the first time im actually watching this but it kinda reminds me of something in february where my parents took me n my sister to a toy show n my parents said i could cosplay as gumi (matryoshka ver) we get there n the only other person that i can remember dressing up was my parents friend n he was dressed up as dracula cause he does dracula related things n even was a host on a tv show as dracula in the 80s other than him n his wife i was the only one cosplaying T_T but a person with a sailor moon jacket did recognize that i was cosplaying gumi!

i have a holy fear of being embarresed... it happens alot T_T

6:43 She glitched! XD

I've got a somewhat similar story of when I went to a halloween party (a "grown-up" one, if you will) in a very weebish attack on titan cosplay. I mean, the people there were super nice, but that almost made it worse?? I have a childish-looking face despite being in my 20s, so they probably thought "man, who invited this teenager?" and tried to like, ask me questions about anime and stuff and god I just left early feeling embarrassed. If you're going to a halloween party, either DON'T dress in cosplay, or just gather up the courage to FLAUNT it, y'know? I could not do either of those things.

OH this reminds me of an embarrassing moment I had. There was an anime event at my public library and they said cosplaying was allowed so I decided to cosplay Toko Fukawa from Danganronpa. When I walked in EVERYONE STARED. And I was the only one in cosplay too. It felt so awkward. I also had to sit by someone who went to my school and it was just super embarrassing.

One time me and my friend went to a manga appreciation event and we were cosplaying as umbreon and espeon and no one else there was cosplaying so I can really relate to this video.

Anya thank you SO much for that review for the magazine, it kind of made my night! I am the creator of CRM and you were literally such a delight to work with! :D

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh oh my goodness I'm so glad! :D You're so sweet, your comment seriously makes my day! I'm honestly so blown away by the hard work that you and your team does, and you've all been so lovely to work with!

MoonMenagerie, a New England Sailor Moon cosplay group, is also featured in that issue of Cosplay Realm!

I’m pretty new to cosplay and going to cons and stuff, but anyways... Here’s a story from my first con ever haha I was cosplaying Star Butterfly from SVTFOE, and of course the con had all of these super cool things to do. One of them was cosplay blind date... Oof. It was really fun though, I just regret one of the things I said... The guy who like hosted (?) the cosplay blind date, had said that if you were in cosplay, it would be fun if you answered as your character. So, the question was, “what is your favourite anime?”. I could have just answered Sailor Moon, Nanatsu no Taizai or BNHA, because that’s probably what kind of anime Star would be in to, but I of course answered “I don’t watch anime”. And immediately after saying that, I was just like “Oh my glob now everyone probably thinks I don’t like anime” I have so many embarrassing stories from that con, but that’s probably the one I think Ed about the most when it had happened. It’s not really that much of an embarrassing story, but since it was my first con, and I’m like 13, I ofc feel like everyone is silently judging me

@starhedgehog8496

5 жыл бұрын

Thought*

I'm late to comment because I'm a new fan and I'm just kinda making my way through your videos but my most embarrassing cosplay experience happened when I was cosplaying Rogue. I was at Phoenix Comicon (When it was still called Phoenix Comicon) and Chris Claremont was a guest that year!! And!!!! He complimented my cosplay! And my social anxiety ass turned around and walked away because I was FREAKING OUT! Anyway, my brother ended up dragging my back to his booth and he was super sweet and understanding so yay there's a happy ending!

Agh I went to a toy show yesterday but it was a comic, toy, and hobby show so they had a costume contest, too It was p cool

not a cosplay story but I showed up at my friends "western" themed party is a white glittery dress when I was 11-

Yay! I love these videos.

Im your 1k like on this video btw youre awsome! ^^'

I'm making one of my first cosplays for Halloween (I might not finish it this year so maybe next year) it's a human Chica (from five nights at Freddy's) and I'm super nervous about how it's going to look. I live in a small town so getting materials was hard, I've ended up with a kind of crappy fabric but I guess it'll do. Wish me luck

@rstcharles4684

6 жыл бұрын

Heh, I cosplayed a human bonnie last Halloween, good luck!

@Red5rainbow

6 жыл бұрын

I'm going to be trying to cosplay for my first time this halloween too! So we'll be in it together I guess!

@goatking2983

6 жыл бұрын

Red5rainbow that's awesome, I hope it goes well! Who are you cosplaying as btw?

@Red5rainbow

6 жыл бұрын

I'm going to be trying to cosplay as Fink from OK K.O.

@goatking2983

6 жыл бұрын

Red5rainbow awesome! Hope you have fun

I had the same experience but for a Renaissance event. I had even emailed the people before going about whether or not I should be in costume, and they had said that some people go in costume. I had my twin sister in an outfit as well. We got to the event, which was an event where they discussed things like Renaissance clothing and stuff like that. We were literally the only people in costume and we were the only young people there (I think I may have been in high school at the time)-the others were adults and lots of them were older adults as well(30s-40s). Everyone stared at us and I can remember them smiling like it was "cute" or something. It really looked as if we had no idea what we were doing-and we both have social anxiety. Social anxiety and this really don't go together lol It was also a much smaller event than I had thought, so that made me even more embarrassed and depressed. I can still remember how embarrassed I was to this day.

I went to a midnight release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl at a game store and the ad actually encouraged us to show up in costume, so I went there dressed as Link...turns out I was the only one who decided to actually come in cosplay...it was awkward but at least the owner of the store complimented me for actually listening to the ad.

( I know this is late but whatever) For Halloween 2017, I just did a quick closet cosplay of female Danielxdream (Y'all Phans know who I'm talking about) and I expected that most people knew who Dan and Phil were since they are pretty popular so I just expected when someone asked me what I was it would just go like: Them: Who are you? Me: You know Dan and Phil? Them: I've heard of them Me: well, Dan dresses up in all pastel for a video and I did a gender bent version BUT NOPE IT ALMOST ALWAYS WENT LIKE THIS: Them: Who are you? Me: Y'Know Dan and Phil? Them: Who? Me: Well they're youtubers and uuh *explains in full detail who they are making my costume even more confusing* Them: Oh, I thought you were a fairy BUT SINCE THE TEACHERS THOUGHT I WAS A FAIRY, I WON THE COSTUME CONTEST... Also the 2nd place winner was a Trump and they took photos of us so now there is photos of my dressed as Dan Howell next to a Donald Trump... That day was both embarrassing and amazing

maybe one day I will be in a cosplay magazine ...

ahah I just went to my first con last week and I for some reason was hella scared that id pull up and be the only one in cosplay so I dressed it my regular clothes and boy did I make a mistake I was literally the ONLY ONE who wasn't in cosplay! it was so embarrassing!

I die from second hand embarrassment every time I watch this

Congrats on making the issue AnyaPanda 😁🐼

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ^.^

@boreragnarok8903

6 жыл бұрын

AnyaPanda Omg your welcome, you truly deserved it

I dressed as Nightwing to school…and it was made out of cardboard, tape, and markers.

For my first convention, the city it was in had 2 different convention centers. We ended up at the wrong one and my friend and I were all dressed up at a SCRAPBOOKING CONVENTION. we did make it to the convention we were supposed to be at though so it was all good in the end.

6:33 didn't cosplay for a con since we didn't see anything about it on their website, and my friend said it wasn't really that kind of event... show up and a cosplay masquerade is on the itinerary at the front. There were maybe 3 people cosplaying there oops

I went to Publix in a strawberry shortcake cosplay and one girl at school recognized me but instead of coming up to me when I was at Publix she went up to me at school with a group of five friends.

Great story Anya. I had my own experience with my own cosplay and it was for a costume parade for a club in university and I wore a gladiator costume in one time and a samurai armor in another. Both had masks cause I felt embarrassed doing it even though I wanted to. The samurai one had a breastplate but the gladiator was topless so I just powered through it

6:42 *mood*

I’m about to get my first cosplay I’m so happy

The time when you're the elephant in the room. Research first I guess.

I was cosplaying Ezra’s purgatory armor from Fairy Tail and this guy who was multiple years older than me came over to me and asked for a photo. I said sure and he walked off and yelled “NOT THE REAL ERZA EVERYBODY” why?!?

I went somewhere with a Jeff the Killer cosplay- o.o

Girl, wow! 😯

You are the best! Also what bodypaint do you recommend for a beginning cosplayer?

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

I use TAG and Snazaroo. TAG stays on much better and is better pigmented, but can stain easily while Snaz takes longer to apply and doesn't stay on as well (especially in the summer), but it washes off of your skin and clothes very easily. That being said, it really depends on what you prefer and think you'll be most comfortable using.

@burntcheeseburger7174

6 жыл бұрын

AnyaPanda thanks!

I'm lucky in that most of the characters I cosplay wear ordinary street clothes. Showing up in a tweed jacket & bow tie as the Eleventh Doctor may come across as a bit overdressed in most contexts, but if you take off the fez you won't get strange looks, at least.

Oof this is honestly always my fear when going to new anime conventions for the first time. I don't know why even when I would know other people going to the same con dressed up.

at school we have book week for all year levels, my friend and i decided to go in cosplay, we were like the only people dressed up let alone wearing a wig. while i was walking around school i came across a school bully and we made direct eye contact and i regretted everything. i honestly wonder what she was thinking when she saw me

What song do you use at the end of your vids? I like it!

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

It's called Upbeat Party, I bought it off AudioJungle

@heidikeith1081

6 жыл бұрын

AnyaPanda Cool! Thanks!

Omg you look like Shailene Woodley sooo much!!

lmao I died picturing this and I would have killed myself if I had to live it

I've half cosplayed to school

Even tho this video was 2 years ago

LOL, I would just not care that im the only one

Why do you always wear a wig? I don't mean to be rude, just curious

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

For the sake of privacy, I'm just not comfortable showing my natural appearance online.

Is it just me or did her choker scare the shi-sh out of me...

@AnyaPanda

6 жыл бұрын

What's scary about it?

@rainbowpink_2

3 жыл бұрын

(I know this comment was from 2 years ago but) I think it has to do with how it kinda looks like skin