Cosplay Wow

There's cosplay, and then there's coswow! I stumbled upon some cosplay photos today that were so cool, I had to share.

First up is a girl from cosplay.com who, in this one shot, manages to really capture the essence of C.C. from Code Geass - check it out! Pizza Hut supports the rebellion! She also manages to nail the bedtime C.C. look as well. ;)

And then I found this gallery here, which has a ton of high quality cosplay photography (quality cosplay *and* quality photography), and is worth skimming through if you have the time and haven't seen it before. Here are some of what I thought were the highlights:

More C.C.! ^.^

Clare from Claymore (three pages worth)

Saber-chan from Fate/stay night

A female Bejiita?!?

The Legendary Sannin from Naruto (lol @ ero-sennin peeping on Tsunade-sama!)

BERSERK!!! - *awesome* defeated Griffith cosplay, with some great behelit shots!! (three pages worth)

and, Nagato Yuki (for my book-loving readers)

There's some other interesting stuff in there if you have some time to kill, but those are the highlights. :D

I also read this blog rant titled Cosplay - Should only good looking people do it? (which has a picture of another Clare, btw). In response to the issue, while I am very sympathetic to the sentiment, the obvious point to be made is that cosplay isn't just (or always) about looking good. It can be (and is often - more often?) also about just having fun and celebrating the characters you love. And I would never want to get in the way of people enjoying themselves as such. I think people should, however, have a healthy appreciation for the difference between costume play, and costume modeling (not that the two can't be the same in some cases).

Ok, just a few more:

Gabriel from Constantine

Massacre Princess!!! (and after the madness)

The Joker