[Tyrien]

Originally Posted by MMM

So true. Who has a 12 inch waist? No person is going to look exactly like the body of the character they are imitating because most anime characters do not have real human body structures.

Well I didn't want to say anime because some people cosplay things that aren't in animes but from other series. Either way it's true though.It makes it hard to look at someone's effort as a whole. Like the poor girl above. It's a great costume and great detail but what I think really throws it off is the expression on her face, it really looks sad.

Originally Posted by SSJup81

Cosplaying looks like it'd be fun, although, as MisaMisa mentioned, it's best to go with something that suits your body type or whatever. Personally, I'd love to pull off a Lulu cosplay. I always liked her outfit, but, there really aren't too many things a person like me could pull off. I'm overweight and African American. Not too many "blacks" in most anime/manga series, I've noticed, so probably no matter who I dress up as, I'll get teased no matter what. I remember one year, me and two friends were planning on dressing up as school girls and treat the convention as a "school festival", but decided against it a few years ago.

That aside, I don't think that people cosplay as much as the OP is proposing and that only a small amount of people do so outside of a convention setting in probably places like Harajuku like once a week or something.

That goes back to what I brought up. Because cosplay and anime's subject mater mainly s derived from games and anime you're basically saying large people shouldn't cosplay because for every character that suits (I'll use por Yuna again as my example) her body type that's a desirable character to cosplay there are thousands more that look like what she'll probably never look like.