2010’s most popular subjects for cosplay demonstrate once again the rather pervasive fascination of Japanese with girls in school uniforms…
The ranking, compiled from top cosplay retailer Cospa’s sales figures:
1. To Aru – Tokiwadai Middle School Uniform (Mikoto & Kuroko)
2. K-ON! – Sakuragaoka High School Uniform
3. Amagami – Kibito High School Uniform
4. Mashiroiro Symphony – Yuihime Private Girls Academy Uniform
5. Nanoha – Seishou Elementary School Uniform
6. Haruhi – Kita Prefectural High School Uniform
7. Tokimeki Memorial – Kirameki High School
8. Evangelion – Tokyo 3 Middle School 1 Uniform
This list obviously fails to include wholly home-made costumes, but as apparently a significant proportion of Japanese cosplayers use store-bought costumes this is perhaps not a huge issue.
See also the earlier mid-2010 ranking, which turns out to be quite similar.
With the list 100% comprised of school uniforms, just what these uniforms end up getting used for is not hard to imagine…
It seems odd to me that there are so many outfits from obscure dating sims. Are otaku buying them for their girlfriends… or themselves?
hopefully we start seeing this more on future schools 🙂
This made me remember of a mod to put in school uniforms for Fallout 3 / Fallout New Vegas 🙂
Schoolgirl running around in the wastelands with a minigun, sniper rifle, or shotgun?
What a commentary, lol.
so boring . all school uniforms… I am disappointed in cosplayers. <_< don't you guys wear enough school uniforms that one would not want to cosplay in a school uniform…. I would think cosplaying lets you be anyone. <_< yet they choose to be another person in a school what a shame
its not like I am saying all women must cosplay in something lewd but damnit cosplay in something interesting. <_< if you want simple maybe think of one of Mena's dresses from Dance in te Vampire Bund or dress as Ruri <_< or sunako from shiki . those 3 are simple and not lewd so be a little creative. Besides school uniforms are overused. They are over used in life and they are over used in fiction.