/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

No personal photos, but I met Yoshiki at Otakon 2007. I stopped to use the bathroom before the masquerade, was washing my hands, and noticed a well-dressed Japanese man using the sink at the other end. His style reminded me a bit of early-2000s Gackt, so I asked him in Japanese if he was a Gackt cosplayer. He said, "No. I am Yoshiki," I apologized for the mix-up, and he walked out.

An hour later, when he walked on stage in front of 7,000 people in the First Mariner Arena before the start of the masquerade, I realized that I had insulted one of Otakon's biggest guests of honor and one of the most famous J-Rockers of all time.

Whoops.