格闘ゲームの台頭 コスプレ

The Rise of Fighting Game Cosplay

There’s tons of different ways to cosplay there’s no right and wrong way you might have a cosplayer who makes a look from head to toe everything’s from scratch they made the patterns they sewed it you might have cosplayers who buy pieces of clothing and they alter it

And then there’s also a ton of online resellers who sell really amazing costumes there’s just so many opportunities out there to get into it so it’s a lot easier than most people think so actually this is my first Evo so I wanted to make it special by

Cosplaying as the character that I love and this is actually the first fighting game I got into Street Fighter 6 so I was like why not so for me I would say my favorite personal cosplay is obviously beerus uh it’s a character that I love so much and the community

Has just been so warm and receptive to the costumes uh this is my second beerus costume I have his default outfit that people just seem so happy to see and I just really love making costumes that make people happy I’m so passionate about it just always pushing myself to

Get better and just learn more along the ears oh you already know baby I’m cosplay it’s Leroy Smith from Tekken 7 why do I like him cuz he’s the coldest mofo in all of Tekken 7 shout out to Har for making his character you know what

You did bro you was in your back to be honest with you I feel like fighting game developers their character design is so top tier because I feel like for fighting games you have to have characters be flashy and be colorful and I really think that’s what appeals to

Cosplayers is just having like a really cool look and a really cool flare and I think a lot of anime fighting games kind of tie into that so you get like a lot of anime cosplayers who might get drawn into cosplaying at fighting game events when I first cosplayed at a major I

Think it was just myself and my one friend were the only cosplayers and it was very much like oh man I’m not sure if we’re supposed to be here but over the years yeah I feel like the cosplay Community has realized like there’s a really good community at fighting game

Events and at Majors and it’s very warm and welcoming the cosplayers and I just think people are starting to realize like oh cosplay is a thing you can cosplay at these events and I think it’s just drawing people in because I love Anime conventions and I love going to

Them but personally as a cosplayer I was burnt out so cosplaying at Majors like combo breaker and CEO it’s kind of like rejuvenated my passion for this craft because there’s so many amazing cosplayers showing up and I think it’s because we’ve just established a cosplay Community within the fgc that’s just

Warm and welcoming and it’s like yeah you can cos play here like it’s cool even just today being Friday compared to how many cosplayers were here at Evo Saturday last year that number has tripled so I just think it’s just word of mouth and people are realizing you

Know this is a really cool event to cosplay at so it makes me very happy to see so many cosplayers here I’m new to fighting games so like she’s a pretty beginner friendly character and I just like really grew to love her well everyone welcome to the finals of Evo 2023 cosplay contest

When you go to events you might see there’s costume contests which are just a fun way to like how everybody else competes here playing games cosplayers compete with our work basically you get judged by a panel of Judges they look over your work your costumes they might review your progress and it’s really

Just competing based on your craftsmanship and your skill there’s different Awards and different categories but it’s it’s definitely a quite an exhilarating feeling to win it’s just a really good way to kind of bring the community together I mean Evo is the biggest show ever it’s where

Everybody comes to throw down and what better place than the world’s biggest stage to show off your boy lero Smith so competing in Cosplay is just you kind of have to change with the times if people are 3D printing you got to look into 3D printing if people are doing wigs a

Specific way you have to look into it you have to keep upgrading your game upgrading how you do your work and that’s kind of how we compete with each other is solely based on craftsmanship our grand prize winner is rhinosaurus chle I am in shock in tears but that

Could be the dehydration so this is chenle’s design from Street Fighter 6 you know chinley she’s been like the fighting girl kicking girl all throughout the centuries but when I saw this I thought she was a grown woman and you know I’m at that point in my life

Where I’m kind of in that same situation of growing up and I just had this feeling that this was the design for me it’s definitely all the blue designs so I really wanted the blue on the leggings to match the blue on the dress and you

Know I had the fabric so why not do an ironon vinyl cutter type situation it jammed up my vinyl cutter so you know what I had to do cut everything by hand I probably Drew this design three times on the mockup on the pattern paper then

On the ironon and then I had to hand Place everything one at a time to make it all line up and also again she’s a full woman I am like 164th scale of a woman it was really hard to get everything proportioned down to my front

Panel size so for me personally as far as the future of Cosplay goes I definitely want to see more contests I think having costume contests at Majors is a great thing it really shows cosplayers that the events care about their costumes and the community I definitely want to see just more

Cosplayers showing up to events we’ve got a really great community that we’re building here so I’m really excited just to see more people show up and just to get it bigger get cosplayers on stage giving out medals cosplayers you know walking out players just make the cosplayers feel like more welcome in the

Community than they already do and I think we’re getting there I think we’re on the right track so I I really think for me I just would love to just see cosplay like go to the next level at these Events Sh

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