Reacting to Another Wikihow Cosplay Article | AnyaPanda 

If anyone tells you that you can’t cosplay a character because of your race, body type, eye color, etc. DONT LISTEN! it’s so wrong and just unfair. Don’t let anything stop you from cosplaying who you want❤️

I got so triggerd when it came to the contest and body types. You should never stop anybody or yourself if they have "the wrong" for the cosplay. Cosplay is for everyone. Regarding of race, body type or age. To me this should be comment sense. Sorry that I went on a rant there

Also, don't let anyone tell you who you should and shouldn't cosplay. If you love that character do it, if you don't know that character, don't do it. Never do cosplay to please others, just yourself.

Regarding point 5: I once had a middle aged woman approach me at an event, while I was standing in line to buy lunch, just so she could tell me that having my phone in my hand ruins the 'authenticity' of my cosplay. There's always that one person at the con 😅

The drawings on WikiHow scare me

About the comfort level point: Though your comfort level might help you chose a costume, if you really want to cosplay a character, you can always modify their costume to fit your comfort. If you can't or aren't comfortable wearing high heels bring a different pair of shoes, if you're afraid people will walk on the back of your dress or cape, sew it a little shorter so it doesn't drag on the ground, if you feel a costume is a little too revealing for you, you can modify it, etc. The practice run of a cosplay can really help you determine what you are comfortablewith and in , if you're going to be too cold or too warm for the convention and it'd recommend getting used wearing certain element of your costume for example a new pair of shoes or an eyepatch before the event. And of course, casual cosplays are valid and you don't have to cosplay to go at a convention. Also, yeah the similar body point is yikes.

I have never seen something like that take such a sharp turn geez.

They have an Article on "How to Cosplay Raven from teen titans" that I thought was super helpful when I wanted to cosplay Raven. It covers everything from boot covers to how to cast the resin gems for the belt. I'd love to see you react to it!

I don't even understand how this positive article could body shame people, especially new cosplayers! No! Unacceptable!

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This article started out so well and then just confidently strolled off into "uuuuuh not really???" territory x'] I've been going to cons since 2012 and I only remember one cosplayer I've met acting in character, and only when I asked him for a photo. And as you said, there are no limitations for who you can cosplay based on your physical appearance. Competitions are about craftmanship, and cosplay is about having fun

Choose based on body type???? EXCUSE?! NO New cosplayers, PLEASE cosplay whoever you want. If anyone tells you otherwise, I will fight them. Cosplay is for fun, for you. Do it for you, not to please others. If youre "plus size" youre not "plus size sailor moon"... youre JUST Sailor Moon. And we love you for being brave enough to start cosplaying, cause it can be scary AF to cosplay.

I do personally like to act in character when I cosplay but like...yeah, don't take acting classes for it lol. Just have fun and don't stress it

The only people I've seen who act "in character" are creeper dudes dressed as Deadpool using it as an excuse to act inappropriate towards girls and people doing skits on stage as part of a competition

Because i'm a teenager with no job and usually cosplay to go see movies or just to have fun, I look for characters I can do closet cosplays of, and use the clothes I already have to kind of disneybound as the character.

With me acting in character in cosplay, I’ve had an experience where a Gundum Tanaka cosplayer started talking to me in character (I was cosplaying Himoko Yumeno) and thought I’d go with it and have a back and forth with him before we were both like “okay really cool cosplay can I have a picture with you” that was a highlight of my time cosplaying at PAX East last February

At my next con I plan to go as a gender swapped version of Bakugou Katsuki. He is relatively tall and muscular, and I am short and curvy as heck. Sod picking based on body type!

I don't have the body type of the character who's cosplay I'm working on atm. I'm much shorter, the opposite sex, ect. I'm genderbending, but like...I never took body type into consideration and I'm not gonna NOT do this cosplay just because I won't look screen accurate.

Oof, when it got to the body type part I started cringing so hard. You can cosplay whoever you want to, regardless of your height, body type, anything. Cosplay is for fun! Don't let anybody tell you that you can't cosplay because of the way you look, because those people are just wrong. Cosplay with confidence, my friends!

#3 Actually just because you cant wear heels doesn't neccecarily mean you cant cosplay them. You can still wear flats. I for the life of me cant wear heals, so I either wear flats or wedges!

About the only actors I see at cons are people dressed as Deadpool, cause like. How can you not? I'll sometimes act a bit when posing for a photo, like say a random line, etc, just for fun! But yeah, over all, it's just people wearing the costumes lol

I cringed so mutch when they said to choose someone with your body type

I cringed so hard at the ''similar body type'' section. And I feel like the specification that it's to ''win contests'' makes it even worst imo.. I hate that this is aimed at cosplay newcomers, since this elitist\gatekeeping mentality should very much NOT be taught to new people

I think, I need tips on how to stop choosing characters... I'm a slow cosplayer and my cosplans have been expanding rapidly throughout my cosplay life

I mostly keep different things in mind when choosing a character. I would see from which franchise I want to cosplay and if my friends cosplay from there. Let's say death note, my friend cosplays Light and another one female L, and I really want to cosplay Misa, and it actually works out well XD

Cosplay is for fun cosplay who you want damn it just don't be the weird guy who is in character and is irritating everyone

I act in character when I’m vlogging or if A young kid wants to take a picture

I'm a simple guy... If I see Anya video I click!

11:59 I like getting into character for cosplay but I don't take it seriously😜

Another great video, Anya. I'm enjoying these "Reacting to..." videos, especially as we get to hear your experiences & you impart the knowledge gained from your many cosplay events / costumes. Thanks Anya x

Hello everyone welcome back to my new- aughhhh I just dropped my phone...

Cosplay rent is in fact, a thing. It is mainly popular in Asia and usually there are more popular characters from the shows that are mainstream than obscure characters but it also depends on the shops.

I love your videos, I'm starting cosplay and your videos are the best 👍💯

I know several cons that ban trolls from homestuck, and/or body paint. There are some "costume shops" that do rent costumes that can be used for cosplay. Generally they are theatrical costumes shops.(shops that mostly rent to theaters)

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I just love Wikihow articles they so cringey.

It must have been written or supervised by a professional cosplayer or maybe the guys working for wikiHow are hardcore cosplayers themselves and know the process of How to cosplay really really well.

This is the earliest I have ever been-

OMGGG i got here before the notification did !!! i'm so exciteddd

I'm not good at making cosplay and I don't want to buy everything as a ready made cosplay (making it is half the fun for me) so I keep an eye out in charity shops etc and centre the cosplay around a piece of clothing that I modify. This means my cosplay can take a while to form (I have a waistcoat that is screaming to become a doctor who cosplay but no matching pieces have surfaced to work with yet) They end up being a mix of clothes that I bought and modified and accessories that I crafted My frozen cosplay started off as a formal wear dress from a charity shop that I owned before the movie came out (had a whole 'I own that dress!' kind of moment while watching the film) altered and dip-bleached (rather poorly due to inexperience) and then covered in sequins. It's still one that I'm really proud of.

GASP :0 Do you have Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe up there on the board or am I just seeing things that aren't real? Btw your videos are very helpful, thank you so much for making them!

I'm not gonna lie, wikihow has some pretty good tips but I still prefer your tips Anya💕

I being self conscious about my self cosplaying on TikTok , but now am starting to be more confident, in myself 😌❤️, I really hate how some say you have to have a good body and have the particular race for the cosplay ,

I argue that the stereotypical chef costume could work - Ratatouille anyone? Just need a toy rat and voila a possibly low grade but quick and cheap cosplay!

I'm laughing so hard. Wiki how should never be taken seriously

Imagine having to make a list of your favorite series to figure out which character you want to cosplay :D

When I was younger I used to think that if you cosplay you have to look like the character so I always picked short characters like Rin Kagamine or Levi because I'm pretty small but now I don't care about that and I'm planing on doing my dream cosplay, specialy I like doing crossplay

Anya, sweet to see a new video from you. You're awesome.

Most costume shops where you can rent costumes are not ''historically accurate'' ;) I don't live in the united states but I have never heard of REAL restrictions when it comes to cosplay. You were right about the no rules for cosplay but wrong about the acting. I know people who do that, including me. I love acting like the character I'm dressed at, Shireen for example. Some people do practice certain characteristics.

I hate to say it but there are some cosplay contests that will put how you look (as in your body type and how accurate you are with your cosplay). I went to a Supernatural Con and they didn't ask how you made the cosplay or anything, it was all based on fan response. So what happened was this girl who looked almost EXACTLY like Claire Novak (basically she looks like a girl with totally casual clothing) won while so many other people put so much more work and effort into their cosplay (low key myself included, I had to do SFX makeup to look like my head was cut off. Another person had NAILED the Dogeball Dean cosplay right down to the embroidered polo but she was of a POC so she was literally the only Dean who hardly got applause, meanwhile if someone else who was white wore that costume they totally would've potentially won). She won like $300 of merch... For looking like the actress....

You made my day so much better

I literaly just watched the first video lol

It's really weird to me to see so many people saying they don't see anyone in character, except the occasional Deadpool. It's been a few years since I've been to a con, has the environment changed or something while I've been away? Because I've always seen people slipping in and out of character at conventions, especially with people cosplaying the same series and even more so if they came as a group. I don't see people in character the whole time, but it seemed pretty normal to work in mannerisms or speech patterns the character would have when it felt appropriate. It made it so much more fun. Honestly, that was the best part of cosplaying for me and how I met my friends. I'm finally getting to go to a convention again later this year, and I hope this is still happening, because I must admit, I'll be rather sad if it's not. I'm in this for the 'play' as much as the costume. Or am I just misinterpreting this, and people are talking about spending the whole con completely in character or something, because I would agree that no one does that, that'd be excessive.

13:47 bruh what is even happening in that image?!?! 😂😂

I loved this critique! Comfort level is definitely something I take into account based on my where my confidence level is at at the time. A couple of x-men characters are at the top of my list and I’m just not mentally prepared to walk around in full spandex yet. One day! Hearing you talk about choosing characters makes me wonder if you’d do a video on your character “cosplay wishlist”? I’d be curious to hear who you’d like to cosplay as one day and why, etc.

I actually choose and cosplay the types of characters based on my height and body type. I cosplayed as Thor in Thor Ragnorok after gaining up to 220 pounds of muscles and then ate nothing but fat foods gaining 350 pounds of fat to be Thor from Endgame.

As someone who has been to D23 (Disney convention every 2 years), you are not restricted to just Disney characters. it's uncommon but I have seen a few nondisney cosplays several times (one year it was all the Candyland characters). So no they won't turn you away if you're in a non-brand cosplay. Also, anyone can cosplay any character they want. so matter what your body type, age, race, anything. cosplay is about having fun. you don't need to look exactly like the character. I'm a plus-size cosplayer and if I kept all my cosplays to just plus-size characters I wouldn't have a whole lot of cosplays then (I've been cosplaying for 11 year)

i did/am doing a himiko toga cosplay. tbh i don’t know what made me wanna do her is mha my fave anime? nope is she my favourite character? well she’s up there but in my top maybe 5? why did i choose her? honestly i have no idea- i guess i just like her aesthetic and her personality lol am i glad i cosplayed/am cosplaying her? yes ofc xD

My cosplays are both ones that I absolutely love and that I choose because of friend group. Victor(yuri on ice) and Rin(free) I would have never cosplayed without my friend group. But now I really LOVE Victor and I am waiting for a con to wear Rin cause I know it will just be a blast! I am currently working on an Edelgard(Fire emblem 3Houses) because of a fan art. I have never played the game. BUT a dear friend does so she has kind of enlightened me on the character. 😶 Are you working on any crafting projects cosplay or not related?

im that one who go very into the character when i cosplay.... some people does that XD so i did not see anything wrong being reminded of that. but yeah maybe

the only thing that makes it so hard for me to decide who I wanna cosplay is my cosplan list. Its just too long haha

6:14 most of the Time the Cosplay i choose is a character i had a crush on him like all my Cosplay,if i had hit of thunder on him for exemple Megumi fushiguro, Aki hayakawa most rencently from Jujutsu kaisen and chainsaw man . L'm obsess about culture anime only Lol

Personally, I pick cosplays by just watching/playing things and as I do my brain kinda picks out characters that I want to cosplay and files them away for later. Even characters I don't like, if I like their design and what theyre from, it's enough to get put in the cosplay corner of my brain

Lord I thought this was going good until you got to “cosplay someone of your similar body type” and I kinda just... well I went “😬” that’s the best way I can describe it

13:16 Yes your right nobody acting like a character in convention exept the moments you talk like photoshoot and showcase 😁 i dont acting exept this moments,l am myself un Cosplay.

I wanna cosplay someone from tpn but my favourite characters phil 😭

gross article aside, I usually base my cosplays on my comfort level rather than who's specifically my favourite. I'll just cosplay them to show how much I like the franchise, rather than my favourite character. For example when I really starting getting into demon slayer I made a mental list of all the characters I'd be comfortable with, and it came down to Kanao, even though my favourite would be a totally different character.

To give my two cents into all this that doubles as advice for new cosplayers. From a moderately new cosplayer to the new blood. Dress up as whatever character you want. Race, gender and body type are irrelevant. What matters is you like the character, no matter how popular or obscure the character is. That's all that matters.

D23 does have some restrictions on costumes. Here's the first thing that popped up: "All event attendees-including adults-may attend the D23 Expo dressed as their favorite Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars Characters. Attendees in costume must adhere to the following guidelines: Costumes should be family friendly and may not be obstructive, offensive, or violent. Guests may wear masks."

I mean having a test run is fair but not for acting. Instead checking for when all your pieces are together whether you still have proper movement as sometimes items might slip, you might trip over a skirt or long coat, your wig might get caught on a loose fastening you may need to sort out etc.

Interesting, I've never heard of conventions denying access if it's themed and you are not dressed in that correct theme. At least, I've never been part of events like that. I tend to wear something that fits in with the event so I have never tried. I have been to a Xena convention, though, and had someone dress up as Jack Sparrow. Definitely felt out of place.

Currently, in South Africa, costume hire shops do offer more specific cosplay costumes (like anime characters). Some of them will work with conventions like Comic Con Africa to do activations for the upcoming con or work with cosplayers to show off their costumes at conventions. The cosplay community is growing in SA and a lot of casual pop culture fans, who aren't cosplayers, will hire out more known characters from recent geek movies (is MCU) and wear them to conventions. There is a costume hire company that is currently offering discounts on their new anime costume stock to cosplayers in return for advertising their costumes on their social media.

Yes

The body type advice was weird. One of my best friends cosplays Junko Enoshima and she looks AMAZING, she's flat chested, but it makes zero difference. My daughter is 6 foot tall and looks epic as Kokichi Ouma. We have a friend who is way shorter than her and cosplays Shuichi, we've taken some awesome photos together. I certainly don't have Sakura'a muscles, and I'm WAY shorter than her. But I've never let that stop me from cosplaying her, coz I love her, and she's my favourite.

I act as my cosplays ;-; I thought that was common I'm just weird apparently

I don't get the body type one? Like you're not auditioning for a live action adaptation or anything

I found the point about being aware of what sort of restrictions the event may have on what you can wear to be sort of an interesting point mainly in that I was expecting it to say something more along the lines of make sure to be aware of whether it is a family event or not because in that case the event may have a sort of minimum dress code so to speak. Most of the cons I have been to have been general anime and family friendly cons. However, I have been to Power Rangers centric con as well as a Dragon Ball centric con. The first time my husband went to the Power Rangers one he said he saw one person dressed as Naruto and another person dressed as a character from the Green Mile. The first year we went to the Dragon Ball centric con we saw someone cosplayed as Bugs Bunny and another as Erza from Fairy Tail. The second year we went to that same con I cosplayed as Kushina from Naruto on one of the days.

I bought a Costume because if i would have sew it and get the materials it would have cost me more than buying the costuem

have you seen the junko enoshima cosplay how-to on wikihow??

yeess a brand new video!!

Hello Anya! I jst wanna say, I am from small country in Europe and we consider in our cosplay competition if you "fit" the character. It's not much points (it's like 5 out of 100), but in most of our competitions you get points for picking character that fits you, so to me this makes 100% sense if you wanna attend competition. However, we are not bodyshamers, and it's not ment for shaming someone for being plus size and picking really small girl, it's generally ment to put some extra points to someone who did their makeup so well that they match their character with the face or achieved similar silhouette (for example if character have big tiddies and you don't, if you considered putting some pads into your costume, you get some extra points).

the only times i see people acting in character at a con are for character/series specific panels 😭😭

im new and im 12 almost 13 so i cant buy cosplay but i allwas been fasanated with cosplay and i do like picking charters to cosplay but i dont have the money so i alwas just forget about it but how i pick a charter is go the oppist personallity or my personallityi also enjoy being in charter even when i cant cosplay (all of the time but i just love acting and im okay with it) becouse its fun anyway it depends if i feel like doing an oppist personalttiy or not then i pick a few then have my gut say what i should work on getting but not actully also one qestion. Is it okay to cosplay something that everybody just moves away from?

9:29 you are not agree About this point and me too, Cosplay is for Everyone .

anyone cosplay who they simp for?

I choose my character if I see the costume cheap on depop lol

OMG HIIII IM EARLY FOR ONCE (i was also the 70 like lol)

I bought two cosplay I also custom made one

No one has to limit themselves to cosplay just because of their body type, race, gender, etc!!! I the shortest girl in my friend group, (we all cosplay together) and the doesn't stop me from doing what I want! sure, it doesn't look canonical, but no one gives a flying fuck, you can't change anything you don't have control of **cough cough** my lack of growing **cough cough** It's silly to be judgemental just because someone's cosplaying a character that doesn't fit their natural body.

I guess all those times I went the gym to lose 50 pounds to fit into superhero tights was for nothing jk

So the cosplay someone that has your body type- *ah so im limited to teruteru ryoma hiyoko and chihiro WHO MY FRIEND HAS ALREADY-* Edit: all my friends mostly cosplay danganronpa so thats all im taking into consideration for this comment

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Not @ them talking about body types.... Do they think that white ppl won't win a cosplay contest bc the character is Asian? Or the fact that a Junko cosplayer might have more pigtails then two??? Or the fact that somebody is a bit thicker or more slim???

Most cosplayers do act in character. That's part of the fun?

Im kinda early :)

Woow! Early gang

Do some research before making a video and speaking min something as if you're an "expert". COSTUME SHOPS do in fact rent/sell costumes for that can be used for cosplay or parties or whatever the need for a costume may be. Don't I'll inform people that this isn't possible when, in fact, it is. Matter of fact, the first convention I attended was in a rented boba fett costume. It was expensive, but it was rented. Correct your video and please do some research before spouting information that isn't valid