A Vipper shares with us his photographic account of Finnish anime and cosplay event Tsukicon 2008, along with the World Cosplay Summit and Helsinki Book Fair, all held in Helsinki some weeks ago:
The venue was packed to the rafters it seems…
Here’s a tasteful building to admire:
A nation of Narutards?
You may have noticed I don’t ordinarily like to mock cosplayers, least of all when there’s a good chance some will be reading this site, so I’ll leave them to your tender mercy.
This report is apparently by the same person who brought us a report on Connichi 2008, so you can see some more there (the Saber cosplayer is well worth seeing). If all this is too much for you, there’s always the unrealistically good cosplay elite gallery.
“You may have noticed I don’t ordinarily like to mock cosplayers”
“Failplay”
spot the hypocrisy
Shouldn’t these rich Europeans be able to afford getting quality cosplay? I’ve seen 3rd world countries do WAY better.
The thread made me facepalm more than the pictures. Especially the guy claiming Finland a western Europe country.
Elikkäs… Terve vain näin aluksi…
Finnish cosplayers aren’t world class… however it was funny to see how bad general quality of cosplay in united states is. Just go to youtube and watch some of those videos about american cosplayers. They are even worse than these finnish cosplayers… In the other things…
Think how much fun it would be to get with your everyday and blast your way into one of those cosplay events. You would be so much cooler and different looking than the others. And just with your normal everyday clothes. 😀
Let me help you out.
It’s a picture of someone doing something for fun and having a good time while doing that.
It’s a picture of a happy person.
Noniin, eiköhän juoda rauhan pillimehut.
There are FailPlays in every country, even in Japan. Some of those cosplays weren’t that bad, it’s just that they weren’t japanese and they look “weird” to eyes of japanese. Well, I have to admit that few of those were horrible and made me want to rip my eyes off but hey, it happens.