Friend of ours, Seiya Kou over at Starnigh Creations wrote up this interesting article about plus sized cosplayers. I read it and it’s quite an interesting read. Check it out. Original article is here. I’ve been hemming and hawing about writing a piece on this for a while, and I wasn’t sure how to do […]
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Editorial: Anime Boston, Unfair to Independent Bloggers?
I have been running Anime Jam Session since 2007. A year after that, I brought in some friends and even after I told them that this project would be hard work and we’d have to win over a lot of people and earn a lot of respect in the process, they still wanted in. For […]
Cat Ears to Crutches: A Glance at Differently-Abled Cosplaying
From time to time, I do meet some great cosplayers. This woman I met at Anime Boston 2011 was just charming. I took a picture of her and I was like “Wow”. We’ve kept in touch since then, and I asked her to write an article on being a cosplayer with a disability, and how […]
Mako-chan’s take on the Bay TMNT "reboot"
We all know that rebooting a franchise is to restart it. There have been some successful reboots such as Battlestar Galactica, La Femme Nikita, and even Beavis and Butthead. However there have been those that have crashed and burned as well, Charlie’s Angels, Footloose, and Arthur. Then there are the ones, that as fans of […]
Racism and Cosplaying… Such a Thing Exists?
My first convention was Animazement 98. I had so much fun there. It’s where I discovered costume play aka cosplay. The following year, I cosplayed Ranma Saotome and did my first skit with a longtime cosplay friend, Derek Rich. Since then, I’ve gone to many conventions, did a lot of cosplays, and a lot of […]