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…
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Hm... If such cosplay outfits weren't so expensive, the creepy Otaku in me would probably have bought a couple for display purposes...
Of course, when real schools start adopting these uniforms, college entry rates will increase significantly. Probably.
hm no angelbeats ._.
no Miku? I see at least 5 of her in every coscon :/
I can see my Nanasaki Ai wearing her uniform right now in pic3
Mmmmm...
Gotta love those To Aru and K-ON!'s school uniforms.
Put your finger in Ai's bowl of ramen and you'll have no regrets...
Feeilng dirty just by looking at these uniforms.
sukumizu underneath and most will nosebleed
The Fortune Arterial ones just pops out in real life. Very cool.
no sukumizu and most will have no regrets.
Thumbs up if she's wearing sukumizu underneath...
The only thing better than sukumizu under the uniform would be a bandage under the uniform.
That's "bandage" singular.
Cosplay uniform #8 reminds me of Cirno's dress.
I'm surprised that nobody has posted this yet.
My favorites are (3.), (5.), & (9.)...
That all look amazing though so fair enough...
What the....no Yosuga no Sora,Clannad and AB!?
Yeah, we all want to see different kinds of school uniforms.
It's as unique as it is interesting.
All are school uniforms? Ok we do have an obsession with girls.
Do be actually able to pull angel beats uniform off you have to be dead and in limbo / purgatory
Where is that Kuroneko?
yeah!! Seifuku FTW!!!
Maid uniform where?
I really like the K-ON uniform.
It looks smart and modern.
It's also realistic as most schools round my neck of the woods have plain and simple blazer and skirt/trouser combos like that just in different colours.
I wonder if they sell those wonderful jumper uniforms from Hidamari Sketch?
Less of a cosplay popularity ranking and more of a "what otaku are wanking off into" ranking.
Afterall, cosplayers aren't the only ones who buy from cospa....
Rei's and Asuka's uniform...nostalgia
That Fortune arterial's uniform (no.9) catch my eye straight away, i mean, look at those Emblem... just wow
That Mashiroiro Symphony uniform looks awesome; googled the title and of course it's an eroge XD
interesting; japanese female cospalyers actually seem to cosplay women more^^
a great amount of the female german cosplayers just bandage their breasts and cosplay male characters that are very androgynous... of course there are enough girls that cospaly girls too
No Miku... O__O
Well, #1 is so right, there is a lot of Kuroko this year...
Cleaning all the Otaku fappage stains could get expensive.
No MIKU?
I love most of the above!
Seifuku FTW!
I would think that the To aru - Tokiwadai middle school cosplay is made famous by kuroko.
No uniforms from Cosplay Fetish Academy..? Okay, that's too absurd.
Sorry for the double post. This is what usually happen when I try to surf around Sancon during a storm. -_-"
IShithara won't be happy
(or in front of his comp he'd do you know what)
Bah, give me homemade costumes any time.
Seriously. What a boring and unimaginative selection.
I think I've done a school uniform costume... twice and even then it was for a very specific photoshoot and then pretty much never worn again.
I find school uniforms unimaginative overall, they're so boring compared to the other character designs and outfits out there.
That and it's not hard to make a school uniform, dammit.
Hell will frozen by the time the school uniform in Cosplay Fetish Academy entered this Top 10..
Well we can dream right? Also we always can be hit by a bolt and be send there...
Yah over here we call those highschool band uniforms.
Yeah, the "Top Cosplay" list is full of fail. That I agree on. Let's see, the list would focus more on:
- Otaku Fetishes.
- Popularity contest, regardless of costume quality.
- Mass production.
Wake us up when we actually get the true meaning of "Top Cosplays" than this plain crap.
What a commentary, lol.
hopefully we start seeing this more on future schools :)
It seems odd to me that there are so many outfits from obscure dating sims. Are otaku buying them for their girlfriends... or themselves?
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?
I'm a bit concerned that every outfit is a school uniform. That really says it all doesn't it.
Agreed. Seems more like a Top 10 Sailor Fuku list.
Such uniforms carry a stigma of being a type of fetish fuel. This list really DOES say it all. I mean, wow...
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.
Suprised there isn't a buy me link hidden somewhere on this page ^^
Why do the real ones dissapoint think its just quality otherwise if these were custom made they would look better