/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

NOW, guys more pictures of awesome cosplays from Nordic cosplays! And names of those cosplayers too!

Sabina from Sweden.

Old thread
>>7176983

>>7191733
Sabina is awesome! Amy other good swedish cosplayers? Besides JoC

>>7191745
Shiroiaisu.

>>7191752
Her over a thousand times. Her costumes rock and she's just a sweetheart.

>>7191745
What is JoC?

YamiNoShadow from Denmark

>>7191777
A cosplay group called Jar of clouds

>>7191798
Yeah, who are they? Educate us, please.

>>7191787
aaaand why you can't add them to here? I'm kind a lost what kind a cosplay group is this Jar of clouds anyway?

<--- must be cosplayed.

Chigami from Sweden

Risa from Denmark

Lirlys from Finland

>>7191798
I just asked if you knew about some other swedish cosplayers since I already know about Jar of clouds :) just Google it and you will find some pictures

Kelevar from Denmark

>>7191798
>>7191800
I've sort of gotten the idea that they're the most well known swedish cosplayers outside of scandinavia, especially now that their leader girl got some more fame with the Link costume she wore to last NCC? Wasn't there even some drama surrounding why she didn't come to the stage when they gave out the awards?

Jozo-Dono from Finland

Yaci from Finland

TheLupin from Denmark.

Nordics seem to have a good knack for ElfQuest cosplay.

>>7191853
Isn't there some more drama going around of that leader girl?

Hanskinuskij from Finland

Sowah from Sweden

TINNERI from Finland

ShiChanny from Finland

She is just so cute...!

>>7191745
Tennyo, Pilerud and Mitternacht are three faves of mine when it comes to craftmanship <3

Mourum from Finland

>>7191907
ShiChanny is so awesome! And cute! Her costumes have "quality" written all over.

Pahviperua from Finland

>>7191703
Swedish Jack sparrow, from.. Uhm.. Sweden.
Great cosplayer imo but so far he has only cosplayed Jack sparrow as far as i know.
Goes to most swedish cons, nice Guy!

Ginger-I from Finland

>>7191921
Finnish version of Jack Sparrow

>>7191921
Wow, that looks.. Real!

>>7191926
I love that photo of him. Dont know his real name tho. I think he has some videos on youtube too.

>>7191921
Name of this cosplayer, please?

Hansku from Finland. She is so great ;A;

Keychainy from Finland

>>7191911
she's so photogenic huff huff

>>7192081
She really is!

>>7191853
what's up with this?

>>7191703
The Scandinavians love Japanese culture/language so much because they have no culture whatsoever.

Incredible school systems though

>>7192181
We don't? I'm a finn and I love our finnish culture! And we do have our culture!
But oh, you said Scandinavia so it's okay as Finland is not part of Scandinavia.

>>7192181
>actually believing this

>>7192208
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

"The clearest example of the use of the term "Scandinavia" as a political and societal construct is the unique position of Finland, based largely on its southwestern part having been part of Sweden for more than seven centuries, thus to much of the world associating Finland with all of Scandinavia."

are you sane?

>>7192213
I'm very sane. Thank you very much.
Same source here (who uses wikipedia as source, are YOU sane?)

"In English, Scandinavia usually refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Some tourist-oriented sources argue for the inclusion of Finland and Iceland, though that broader region is usually known by the countries concerned as Norden, or the Nordic countries."

I hate all of you. Every last one of you.

>>7192213
more for you to read do your homework

While the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands).[18] Scandinavia can thus be considered a subset of the Nordic countries. Furthermore, the term Fennoscandia refers to Scandinavia, Finland and Karelia, excluding Denmark and overseas territories; however, the usage of this term is restricted to geology, when speaking of the Fennoscandian Shield (Baltic Shield).
In addition to the mainland Scandinavian countries of:
Denmark (Constitutional monarchy with a Parliamentary system)
Norway (Constitutional monarchy with a Parliamentary system, independent since 1905)
Sweden (Constitutional monarchy with a Parliamentary system)
the Nordic countries consist of:
Faroe Islands (an autonomous country within the Danish Realm, self-governed since 1948)
Finland (Parliamentary republic, independent since 1917)
Åland Islands (an autonomous province of Finland since 1920)
Greenland (an autonomous country within the Danish Realm, self-governed since 1979)
Iceland (Parliamentary republic, independent since 1918, but in union with Denmark until 1944)
Svalbard, which is under Norwegian sovereignty, is not considered part of Scandinavia as a cultural-historical region, but as a part of the Kingdom of Norway (since 1925), it is part of the Nordic countries (Norden).

>>7192181
>The Americans love Japanese culture/language so much because they have no culture whatsoever.

ftfy, babe

>>7192229
Scandinavians are Ameriboos though.

>>7192208
So why are you responding if you believe Finland isn't part of Scandinavia? The fact is the nations described in Scandinavia are so inbred and their languages so lost they can't communicate with one another in their home nation, so they default to English.

Outside of 30 years of eugenics the only thing you hold to your name is adopting foreign culture and serving food over beds of ice.

>>7192230
Yes, every single one of us. We love you, big brother USA! <3

>>7192236
lol I can tell you're being sarcastic.

And hey, modern cowboys and Native Americans have a pretty cool thing going on. Other than that there isn't much.

I'm American and have no idea why the fuck I'm in this thread. lel.

What is this conversation, I thought we are here for Nordic cosplay.
So have a photo of jatek from Finland.

>>7192244
Fatty needs to lose some weight.

>>7192244
I'd love my to shoot my black rocks off in her.

>>7192247
or maybe you need glasses, fucktard

>>7192247
where the hell did that come from?? she looks gorgeous and fits very well to cosplay as black rock shooter!

>>7192247
She seems absolutely normal, not fat.

Jatek is a great cosplayer! Check out her vanille cosplay, it's awesome!

Jatek's Vanille cosplay

http://crona94.deviantart.com/

It's funny how small the cosplay circles are in all the nordic countries or at least here in Finland. Everyone knows each other. And I assume it's like this in all the other nordic countries, too?

>>7192308
well, yeah. it's a bit like that. if you dont know someone you certainly know about them. it's not that big community... i went to 2 conventions outside my country and ppl are already talking about me here in this thread lol

>>7192281
>>7192289
>>7192290
She might be thin to you, since most of you people from Finland are fatties. I ain't saying she's obese but she is fat.

>>7192329
what are you, the chief of some starvin-marvin tribe in the wilderness? come on, why cant ppl be nice to oneanother? if u think she's fat, then go ahead and THINK it. u dont have to shove it up ppls face just cause you can be anon and because you know it will start a discussion. grow up and get out of your mom's basement.

>>7192329
Seems like where you come from, everyone suffers from eating disorders. Due to that, you have lost the ability to recognize what a normal, fit person looks like.

That, or you are too used to overshoopped Japanese cosplayers.

I am so very sorry about that.

>>7192329
I can't believe what I'm reading! Most of finnish people are fat and you think that this is a good example of that? Holy shit, yeah, you totally need some glasses! Let me tell you that this is what a normal person looks like! Wow, yeah, I know this might be a bit of a shock for you since it seems like you haven't seen a normal person before.

>>7192247
obviously trolling. dont feed this shit.

corbin/korppu/lyria from Finland

>>7192299
post more of her!

Denmark is a small community, but with the active level of organizers we have started to get one of the best shows on the road domestically. We are very proud to work with what we do. There are some of us that talk together and there are lots of great cosplayers out there. What usually makes me happy isn't the people that I hear about the most, but the newcomers to the scene, like Sabina from Sweden, and others that try stuff out that we don't often hear about.

Recently I was very happy to meet Henrik Pilerud at Gamex who did a Spacemarine cosplay, someone I haven't heard about since the scene online is very competition focused and not so much community based and supportive.

TL;DR The cosplays that get all the attention are usually the ones competing, I'm personally glad to see there are so many nice people coming on the scene who wants to be part of that community since in the Nordic countries we are generally very supportive. There is some drama yeah, but we all know each other, so people tend to confront! :D

This cosplay has been my favorite :D since I was expecting to see some ever since I caught that DragonCon movie from last year with the Yip Yip Aliens. Their Swedish and they are awesome!

Shin-Shin or whatever it is people call her nowadays is an amazing cosplayer, makes great costumes. (From Finland, yes) But I've been told by numerous of people, and noticed, that she's a huge prick towards others whom disagree with her, childish as hell, gets super butthurt easily and is just downright rude. People have asked her how she did some parts of her costumes, and she just turned them down rudely, saying that it's her ''professional secret''. Finland has alot of great cosplayers with great personality, then there are those whom are just assholes. (The twins, for example.)

And stop saying stuff about Elffi. He's a GREAT cosplayer and yes, he's trying to make LIVING OUT OF SOMETHING THAT HE LOVES. Are you people seriously going to snort at artists too that they take money for having people listening to their music!? People NEED to make a living out of things, and he's trying to make a living of something that he loves! So shut up. And he's GREAT in person, not a stuck up arsehole like those whom were mentioned before.

>>7192546
Post moar

>>7193316
That armor is awful...

>>7193316

I beg to differ. The feeling I'm getting from Elffi's actions isn't that he loves cosplaying or the characters he picks; it's the attention he loves. You can see from the way he's posing for pictures that all he cares about is looking good shirtless; every character has a smug macho look on their face when cosplayed by him no matter how the character is actually like.

His costumes aren't shitty quality and I have nothing against him as a person since I don't know him personally, but I'm just pissed when he picks only characters who are shirtless/who belong to a currently popular series. About three or four years ago I got a totally different feeling about him; it really seemed like he cosplayed as characters he loved but these days it's all about looking hot and doing popular characters just for the sake of attention.

Yeah, I know. You can't own characters and your day shouldn't be ruined if someone picks your favourite character just because he looks hot. But damn, the way Elffi "uses" my favourite characters and makes them all look super macho even though they're not makes me super irritated.

>>7193424

Why is loving an attention a bad thing? In some level, all of us cosplayers must love attention - other wise we would just be home sewing and showing our cosplay pictures only for our mums.

Is it any wonder that Elffi, with that background of his, is used to performing and being looked at and that maybe unlike all the "normal" Finns, he ain't shying away from the attention but embraces it as part of cosplay.

He ain't prick, he's always ready to answer to questions about his costume and he represents very well Finland and Finnish costumery internationally. And even though he ain't always shirtless (you just remember those cosplay, I wonder why...) why shouldn't he show what he has? Do we criticize small, petite people when they mostly cosplay cute, childlike characters?

I am glad we have such an outgoing, straight backed fellow as a represent of Finnish cosplay.

[and here a picture of Yukimuussi from Finland]

>>7193490
thats quite something, to shoot at a graveyard infront of someone elses grave :/

Finland Finland [by Tamuki]

I challenge all the other Nordics to bring your own Hetalia!

>>7193499
typo

>>7191921
Remember doing One Piece cosplay with a friend and going on an adventure i.e. following him around and imitating him.
He was a p cool guy.

>>7193424
lol do you want him to cosplay schoolboys and shotas lol?
he can only cosplay grownup males....theer are not that many of them in anime who actually have a decent outfit to cosplay.

there are tons of cospalyers out there who cosplay characters I like...and some of them I don't like in thr role? and? I bet your "precious characters" also got cospalyed 6439522028times worst somewhere in the world lol. if you want, you can go and cospaly your favorite character better by yourself.

>>7193543
She/He never said that Elffi should cosplay schoolboys and shotas...

>>7193490
Total sidenote, I wish Elffi cosplayed characters like Tyki Mikk more often. That cosplay was dapper as hell.

>>7193553
Oh it was! I showed a picture of him in Tyki costume to my mum and after that she understood why I went to conventions ;)

>>7193316
Elffi isn't as nice as he seems, he talks a lot of shit about people behind their backs and often acts really stuck-up at cons. Some of his costumes that he claims to have made aren't actually completely made by him. You can see how the quality of his costumes went DOWN after he moved and after his ex-girlfriend moved out. He gets really butthurt if you criticize his costumes/props at all. And he often asks his fans what he should cosplay, picks the one that's most popular and cosplays it.

If he was actually a good cosplayer and cosplayed characters that aren't shirtless all the time(most of his costumes are shirtless or some way revealing, you can't claim otherwise), people wouldn't be so annoyed. But it's a bit annoying when the most known cosplayer from Finland is this kind of cosplayer.

Oh comoon guys, Elffi is just a big big silly dork who is cosplayer like us (.. or most of us). He wants attention yes, and he cosplay because attention... But, don't we ALL of us cosplay because attention?

Now now, before anyone of you anons gives me roar about "I don't cosplay because of attention!!11!"#¤" I have news for you... You do cosplay because of attention. In every cosplayers soul, there is a little or a huge attention whore. It doesn't matter if you upload your pictures to hundreds of social media website or you don't upload anywhere, you still seeks attention while doing cosplay or when you are cosplaying.

In Elffi's case, he seeks attention more than anyone else, but, that's how he rolls. It's actually saddens me that he is popular and he almost HAVE to cosplay from popular series/half-naked mans that his fans will be satisfied...

>>7193557
Some of us actually hate attention and pick not as well known characters because of that reason. I would say most people cosplay because they really like some character, not because of the attention it gives.

Stop speaking behalf of everyone.

Elffi and other cosplay attention whores, stay out of Desucon. It's a convention for people who actually watch anime.

>>7193557
Sorry to break this to you but I'm a Finnish cosplayer who has costumes I've never worn in public, don't have any photos of them online and I haven't really talked about making them to anyone except my few close friends when they asked. This is attention seeing exactly how?

tl;dr don't make assumptions about "everyone" because you will be wrong.

>>7193543
Just because there may be cosplayers worse than Elffi doesn't mean someone can't get upset over an attention whore cosplaying their favorite character. Elffi is no better than Yaya or J-Nig or any other cosplayer who's main reason for doing this is for attention. I'm not saying that it's criminal and he shouldn't do it, but I do admit that it rubs me the wrong way. Especially when he cosplays from series I genuinely like simply because he figured that since they're popular at the moment he'll get more attention. It also bothers me how he doesn't care about looking like the character. He looks like Elffi in a costume in every one of his new cosplays, as opposed to the character he's apparently trying to be.

Everyone is free to cosplay whatever they want for whatever reason, but then again everyone is also free to complain if something bothers them. No need to get so upset just because someone doesn't agree with whatever Elffi does.

Just my two cents.

can we PLEASE not turn this into an elffi thread just post more photos of lovely fellow nordic cosplayers

I recall he was going to cosplay Hisoka but the show never got popular enough in Finland so apparently he gave up. I might have liked to see it though.

tinneri (finnish) is so damn precious

okay guys if you could show only one favourite costume/cosplayer from your own country which/who would it be?

>>7193577
ShiChanny ! She's such a cutie and has gorgeous costumes.

>>7193565
he's the only cosplayer who gives cosplay from Finland some attention in international areas. many people start liking Finland after he visited their countries. you would prefer to be forgotten and everybody things you are grumpy and inroverted? okay great. better gossip about the only person who gets your country some positive attitude, right?

Also since when is the quantity of watching anime related to how good a cosplayer is? some cospalyers watch no anime at all and are amazing artists.

>>7193556
with shirt: Ichigo 1, Ichigo 2, Minato, Tyki, Amidamaru, Rai, Ragna, Vash, Ichigo 3, Barnaby, Kagami, Sinbad, Dynasty Warriors
= 13


shirtless: Kamina, Jecht, Gilgamesh, Gildarts (just half), Shura, Mihawk
=6

not even 1/3 of them are shirtless....that is not "all" or "most of them" LOL

>>7193588
no one said he should watch more anime or whatever, but it'd certainly be nice if he actually watched or read the series he cosplays from you know? and I don't really care about what people internationally think about finland since it doesn't affect me in any way, but it'd certainly be nicer that if finland is represented it'd be someone who actually gives a shit about the characters and series rather than just the attention and fame.

>>7193593
Old costumes don't really count because in the beginning he cosplayed characters he liked, the he just started attention whoring.

>>7193615
All of this. I really dislike it when people cosplay from series/games they haven't even watched/played and don't know the character aside from googleing.

>>7193615
And what series of the ones he cosplay you claim he did not watch/play? and how shall YOU know what a person actually watched/played?

>>7193617
LOOOL so you make the random rule "that does not count" to support your hypothesis....great...that is pathetic lol

More Trinode/Majo/noyn from Finland. Her costumes are so awesome.

>>7193664

>>7193560
http://myanimelist.net/profile/Elffin *cough*
The bars would be a lot longer if he'd still update it.

>>7193666
SMT cosplay of a demon, sweet tits. I'm about to go look at this girl.

Risa from Denmark (+ special quest from France: Shigure-chan)

>>7193693
LOL I don't think he is using this account anymore LOL....such an old profile pic...last updates 2011....sounds like a dead account to me
and I don't even have an myanimelist account. does that now mean I never watched any anime?

>>7193714
Yes, it totally means you have never watched any anime.

>>7193714
Congratulations. You have received the dumbest comment of the thread award.

I can confirm that Elffi talks a lot of shit about other people behind their backs. I've actually overheard him do this at a convention, he was talking VERY rudely about his fans and making fun of them.

I've also heard rumors from many different people that he's gotten a lot of help with his costumes from his friend who's very experienced with sewing. And seeing how the quality of his costumes has been declining since he moved to another city it seems plausible. The Kuroko costume at least is clearly bought but he has never admitted it publicly.

>>7193722
LOL You say that but you have no proof of it......try recording it next time...

Costumes Elffi has done without knowing the character:
- Tyki Mikk
- Amidamaru
- Rai
- Ragna the Bloodedge
- Jecht
- Barnaby Brooks
- Shura
- Sinbad (he had no idea how the character was when asked about it)

>>7193729
He has watched Tiger&Bunny so he does know Barnaby. He even watched the movie (The Beginning) when he was in Japan.

>>7193729

This. Especially picking Sinbad annoys the hell out of me since we all know he knows shit neither about the character nor the series and only picked Sinbad because his girlfriend picked Kougyoku so that they could do a ~couple cosplay~ and kiss in front of the camera even though in the series Sinbad is a manipulative jerk towards Kougyoku and her crush is only one-sided. What angers me even more is that his fangirls tell him he is the best Sinbad cosplayer ever although there are plenty of better ones. Imo Regzo (pic related) is the best Finnish Sinbad and she loves the series and knows the character she picked.

>>7193739
"We all know" ?!?!

Didn't he start watching the anime immediately when it aired and ranted about it on especially Twitter every week after the newest episode? And now he is claiming to be watching the 2nd Season. You call that "not watching or knowing anything?"

So basically you and your friend got butthurt because someone stole your character and cosplayed it. Oh how sad.

>>7193732
>>7193772
And how are you sure he knew the characters BEFORE he cosplayed them? Maybe afterwards he started watching the series because people asked stuff about the characters and he didn't want to lose face.

Jesus you're a huge whiteknight.

>>7193739
Hello Regzo ;D

hahaha selfpost XDDDD Regzo is butthurt coz of not enough attention TROLOLOLOL
thread is full of butthurt Finns who want attention too but are to bad or ugly to get any trololol

>>7193776
I really doubt she would want her face to be posted in here, atleast she wouldn't resort to selfposting. :P And her Sinbad IS better than Elffi's too.

>>7193729
And you know that because you installed a webcam in his apartment to see him watching anime,whuuuuuut???
how you want to prove that???

>>7193776
soro is that you

>>7193779
How about basic checking the dates of twitter posts of him ranting about the daily EP of Magi and then seeing the dates of when he started to make his costume? As he always posts hella lot of WIP photos about every shit.

Or is that too complicated for you?

>>7193776

Smells like soro indeed.

But yeah, Regzo isn't the type to selfpost. And like >>7193783 said her cosplay was 100% better than Elffi's.

I just leave this here.

I love this thread. Elffi haters and whiteknights fighting and once in a while someone tries to reel the thread back on tracks by posting good cosplay, but it always fails. Good example of how much more people love drama.

>>7192546
I'm not sure but is this the girl who ate a hippo and doubled her weight? Also had some... *cough* Well you know, affairs.

>>7193796
you sure?

>>7193809

..regzo cosplayed as sinbad BEFORE the anime even started so don't you dare compare her costume to that shitty anime version

>>7193787
>>7193796
Sorry to disappoint you guys but that wasn't me.

I god this drama *take's a potato chip... and eats it* So what's the problem in cosplaying a character you don't know? How about cosplaying it because you like the costume? want to cosplay with a friend/group? or think you suit for the character?

"NO you can't cosplay him/her because you're not IC/you've not watched the series/the character doesn't suit for you!!1"

>>7193809
Regzo's costume is done only with manga references so yeah, don't compare it to the shitty anime version that Elffi did.

>>7193815
Yeah this is the mentality in Finland. If you cosplay a character just because it looks nice and you don't know anything about the character/series, most people in here are going to diss you.

I think the dissing people because they don't look like the character is more /cgl/ thing though.

>>7193809
didn't regzo make her costume before the anime came out? so maybe there should be manga references too in that pic. anyway they're both pretty mediocre, but at least regzo doesn't have elffi's godawful washed out face and worbla-everything...

>>7193814
so you are angry on him that he cosplayed from the anime you did not like?
So the other one shall be better because it is not the anime version? great reason to judge costumes....lol "I did not like the anime! so all anime cosplay from magi is bad! only manga cosplay is good"
your critique is so lame.

>>7193827
what is a washed out face? and what is bad with worbla? the cosplay worlds most known cosplayers use it. Yaya, Kamui, Lightning....it's awesome!

>>7193828
they probably meant that it's stupid to compare a cosplay from the manga to a cosplay from the anime. although the anime was pretty shit compared to the manga, and so is elffi's cosplay for that matter.

>>7193828

i think the point was that it's unfair to say regzo's costume is worse than elffi's based on anime references alone. regzo's looks more like the manga version and elffi's more like the anime version. that's it. whether you prefer the anime or the manga version is irrelevant. of course elffi's looks better if you look at the anime version is alone and vice versa.

>>7193814
>>7193810

So it's so cool and hipster to cosplay something before anyone else even knew about the series!! Woah so deep! That makes all the costumes done after that automatically shit, right?! :"D

And of course anime sucks, manga don't. Don't start with that old story. Ever considered people have different opinions and taste?

Today one must always cosplay from something SO deep and otaku. Something which is not known to the wide audience yet. If you do this you are magically the best elitist super cool cosplayer in the world.

If someone likes the mainstream series like Elffi does (everyone knows he is a shounen fag) is that really such a bad thing? He clearly enjoys all the long manly epic fights and never ending stories. What's so wrong with that? At least he got the backbone to admit it in public.

>>7193837

reading this thread makes me regret that I was born as a finn.

now I can easily see why elffi was the only one ever able to climb out of this shitty cave of ours.

so pathetic.

you have no idea how the other countries just read this and laugh at us?

im so ashamed.

>>7193814
When she was working on it she said she only had a couple of unclear references because Sinbad didn't get his jewelry back for a long time and the anime wasn't even announced until many months later. She's admitted herself that they're very inaccurate compared to all the new and more detailed reference material and the anime concept art. (sage for offtopic)

>>7193814
When she was working on it she said she only had a couple of unclear references because Sinbad didn't get his jewelry back for a long time and the anime wasn't even announced until many months later. She's admitted herself that they're very inaccurate compared to all the new and more detailed reference material and the anime concept art. (sage for offtopic)

>>7193864
Let them laugh as much as they want, they're not any better themselves.

I feel so much more sorry for those people who actually seriously defend Elffi.

Lirlys from Finland

>>7193904
here comes homestuck...

Umiyo & Shewon from Finland

This thread needs some love.

Here, have NaruDossu!

shisukoisa from Sweden

Su-rine from Denmark

plasticgay & 5thAlice from Finland

hanskinuskj from Finland

>>7193931

Sorine & Elffi were like the barbie dolls when they walked together in Japan.

Both tall, slim and blonde. So freaking awesome.

>>7192616

>>7194175
They asked for more jatek, not korppu.

>>7194175

>>7194175
They asked for more jatek not korppu.

PunVisual from Finland

>>7194185
whooooa! thats a nice freya actually :D

>>7194183
whoops refered wrong

>>7193361 requested more korppu

>>7194175
I like her, she's cute.

TINNERI and yaci from Finland, both very nice on the eye

more TINNERI and lirlys

Who's got a good eye on good male cosplayers out there that probably arent as famous as they deserve to be?

POST GOOD MALE COSPLAYS NOW

What's with that most more famous/over the average cosplayers in Finland are lesbian or bi?

>>7194253
Because it's a cool thing to be right now.

>>7194262
No but srsly, from 10 cosplayers I meet, 2-3 are straight. Go outside Finland at the number is far bigger. Nothing wrong against gay people but why/really?!

>>7194270
The number of great guys altogether on con scene that are single on top of that is quite low (most of the great guys I've met at cons are in a relationship). If the guy should be a cosplayer on top of that they are really few and far between (or they aren’t all that interested in women/anyone)
Since most female cosplayers tend to be rather chill and great people it's easy to be at least heteroflexible.

>>7194320
That's....quite an good answer :)

No, but I just find it wierd. Most great finnish female cosplayers tend to have lots of crossplay, and some don't even cosplay than just dudes, and most of these kinds of persons are really butch.

>>7194253
Why most average peoples in earth are straights?

Mie-Rose from Denmark (also NCC 2014 representative)

>>7195243
hups forget a picture

I don't know what this is about Elffi, at least he seems to have watched enough anime according to his MAL although he mostly watches shit. I remember Rimppu and other "top cosplayers" of Finland saying they don't watch anime because "most of it is bad". This is the exact mentality that doesn't belong to Desucon at least, why do they even go there.

Anyways this is the only Finnish sexually attractive Finnish cosplayer I have ever seen, can someone confirm if he really has a dick?

>>7195298
>the only Finnish sexually attractive Finnish cosplayer
Derp

>>7194253
Like who? Majo, Yumi and AG are the only non-straight above the average cosplayers that I know of.

>>7195298
Please let's not talk about him again, we went through this a million times in 2010 and he quit cosplaying because of it.

>>7195305
Because of what?

>>7195298
Please let's not talk about him again, we went through this a million times in 2010 and he quit cosplaying because of it. And he quite possibly was the overall best cosplayer of Finland. You don't see anyone putting that much effort into details and having such large scale of skills.

>>7195309
Because of all the drama regarding his gender and the creepy fanboys masturbating over his pictures.

>>7195311
Well it's expected that if you pass as a decent trap and cosplay as Touhou characters you will get that kind of reputation. And why would it even matter if someone faps to your photos? That is pretty much the reason why we tend to take the photos at conventions.

>>7195313
Maybe, but that story is older than shit and been through so many times so I don't see why we should go through it again for the millionth time. Let him be already.

>>7194320
well, there actually is more great single guys on con scene than you know, but many of them are not into cosplay and due to being more or less stereotypical geeks, they are a bit insecure when it comes to girls (they don't come to talk to you automatically, you need to go to talk to them instead)

Pixelninja from Sweden is probably my favourite Swedish cosplayer.

>>7195353

>>7195246
I hate when people paint on abs like this.....

>>7195243
Which ones have qualified for NCC so far?
Website is not that updated yet

>>7195440
Mie-Rose, YamiNoShadow & YayDei (dA) are going to be Denmark's representatives.

Idk is there NCC representatives from Sweden, Norway & Finland chosen yet...

>>7195454
Finland has shewon (pic related) and another girl who goes by the name sestracosplay (I think?). The 3rd representative will be chosen in February.

>>7195454
>>7195491
What kind a cosplayeras are these?

>>7191921
>>7191924
Norwegian Jack.

>>7195298
Does he have a site where you can see his cosplays? Even though he doesn't cosplay anymore.

>>7195758
nope, he deleted every cosplay page what he did have when he did stop cosplaying.

buww from Finland

How about her? I have heard that there is some kind of drama about her. Any experience?

>>7196137
sage

>>7196137
sage

Sage

capriciou-s from Finland

AG-Emily from Finland

>>7196137
>>7196323
soro stop trying to sage the thread whenever people talk about you, it's your fault for being a drama hungry shit

>>7196137
Haven't we talked about this once? Soro and her drama is boring as shit. Let's just forget her and post some really good cosplayers here!

>>7195577
YamiNoShadow

>>7196316
>>7196323
>>7196371
>>7196708

Shut up, soro. You fucked up consciously and you bear the responsibility.

>>7196137

We had a whole thread dedicated to her here in February, but it never hurts to spread the message. To sum it all up:

>She stalks people
>She harasses people for no reason
>If you unfollow her on twitter or tumblr, she will fucking hunt you down and demand an explanation. She's proven to come up to strangers in conventions and angrily ask them why they unfollowed her on twitter.
>Her costumes are bought or made by other people, she blackmailed her friends to make her Kotetsu costume
>Despite this she has declared herself as the best Finnish Kotetsu many times
>She was loudly talking shit about other cosplayers in a convention, and after this on person overheard her doing so and told about it here, soro ironically got mad at her for "speaking shit about her speaking shit about others"
>When she was having a fight with a person, she snuck into her house and called everyone on her phone's contact list to tell them not to be her friends because she's "a bully"
>She claimed to know Elffi "in real life" after meeting him only once and still sucks up to him despite speaking shit about him too how he's so stuck up and an asshole

Pic related, it's from the previous thread.

>>7196137
What's with that wig anyway? Isn't Erica's hair short and pulled behind her ears?

>>7196847
Well, actually the hair is a little bit shorter and yes the ears are showing but yeah..

Is there any danish drama at all?
Ive been to a few danish con and there doesn't seem to be much problems at the con itself, but the girls cosplaying on stage also seem icecold and its constantly the same winners
I know most of them from fb and dA, but I dont know any of them in person

>>7196873
sage

How about Norway and Sweden NCC contestants? Have they been selected already?
Since Denmark and Finland has already been posted.

>>7196952
I think that Sweden hasn't chosen NCC contestants yet... And Norway might have two contestants chosen, but I'm not entirely sure about it...

>>7195454
>>7195491
POST MORE PICTURES OF THESE GUYS!

>>7195577
The finnish repsesentative shown in the picture is definitely better of our two chosen ones. The other one was quite a surprise, and I'm under the impression that she's quite a nobody? So far our team seems a little worrying compared to this year, but who knows how the other preliminaries in Frostbite will go.

>>7196955
One will be chosen at kultcon if I'm not wrong?

General question on the topic, how does nordic cosplay competitions work? What should I watch out for as a first time competitor? How does the competitions differ between cons and countries?

>>7197090
Wasn't it established in the previous thread, that all the "better" cosplayers were invested in other contests and thus didn't take part in the earlier qualifiers?

Sage

>>7197325
I think the problem was that the NCC contest was announced too late (only a month beforehand) so nobody had the time to prepare a costume and a stage show.

>>7197365
You do know that saging is the best way to feed the trolls?

>>7196952
I don't think they have been chosen yet.. What did you guys think about the people from norway and sweden that competed in the previous NCC?

>>7197384
sage

s+(alt+0157)+a+(alt+0157)+g+e(alt+0157).

Lapirin, ShiChanny & Lirlys from Finland

>>7193715


Self-post from Finland.

>>7197826
what is wrong with lapirin's costume and face in this one? she looks awful

So many people who do not know how to sage in this thread.

Have we finally run out of drama? Good riddance.

>>7198782
Just a very unflattering picture.

>>7198809
We could always complain how desucon requires cosplay competitors cosplay something from a japanese source..

>>7198913

This! THIS! Ilona & Desucon should really lose their pants on this one. Even though Desucon is "anime & manga" conventions it shouldn't affect to cosplay competitions... especially to NCC, where you can cosplay almost anything.

>>7198809
Nope, there is only one person who can't take critique.

>>7198926
I actually agree on the NCC part. The preliminaries should be held under the same character rules as the finals to make it fair. Otherwise I don't mind the restrictions in their normal competitions though.

>>7198926
Their charter says that they exist to promote anime and manga: they'll lose their status as a non-profit organization if they don't follow it, and would have to completely recharter the entire con if they wanted to change it.

>>7198926
It was a nice change when they lost the restrictions from ECC the previous year. Altough some people kinda lost the point of the whole thing when the preliminary winner (well deserved) was from a japanese source. The fact that people talked about losing the restrictions wasn't so that a western costume would win, it was so that cosplayers wouldn't have to restrict their character choices and could bring their A-game in a costume and a character they really have passion for, not choose based on the opinion of the organizers.

I think that considering the fact that NCC preliminaries in Tracon have no restrictions it's okay for them to restrict in a strictly anime & manga based con. ECC just doesn't have other preliminaries in Finland so it's no wonder that some years there's been a lack in quality or versatility in the preliminaries.

>>7198913

???

Desucon 2013 _did_ allow Western series in its Eurocosplay Preliminares, didn't it? I don't think that Splinter cosplayer was cosplaying from a manga you know...

When it's about regular cosplay competitions I think Desucon has every right do decide whether Western series are allowed or not. It _does_ claim to be the most "anime" anime convention in Finland so I don't think bronies, Adventure Time and Supernatural belong to its cosplay competitions. Just my two cents.

>>7198958
Yes, 2013 EC preliminaries were held without restrictions, but all the previous years have been restricted.

And yes, this, it's very much okay if you want to restric regular comps, but you have to consider how fair it is to restric international competition preliminaries in the same manner.

>>7198957
My opinion as an ex-desu-organizer is that there is no inherent reason why Desucon should provide a preliminary at all. The international comps are nice but they are also a bit of a hassle compared to regular contests. All those rehearsals, all of the diva-ing from the contestants, all of the drama...

Also cosplay isn't the point of Desucon, it's an extra program kind of like the vidya room. A lot of anime fans are also cosplayers and play vidya, so why not if the con has space? But it's not the the main selling point of the con so it can be dropped out of the programming if the people, the main venue or the time is needed for something else.

I think the complaining about western characters boils down to one thing only: cosplayers like to think they are crazy important and that the con should provide them exactly what they want all of the time, regardless of what the "idea" of the con is.

>>7198913
After all this western craze fades away you don't care anymore. Desucon should stay like it is. It's the only frigging contest in Finland where they require a costume from an eastern source because they're not like Animecon who desperately want to please everyone even at the price of abandoning their principles. I cosplay from both western and eastern sources and I still think Desucon shouldn't allow western cosplay because it's a damn anime convention.

>>7198970

>I think the complaining about western characters boils down to one thing only: cosplayers like to think they are crazy important and that the con should provide them exactly what they want all of the time, regardless of what the "idea" of the con is.

This. The rage that emerged when Frostbite was announced to be the first anime convention in Finland that prohibits underage con-goers from attending is a good example of this. Con-goers these days (especially the younger ones) expect con organizers to give them conventions whenever they want, wherever they want (usually in Southern Finland near Helsinki) and if there are some restrictions everyone gets butthurt and demands that things should be changed OR ELSE THEY WON'T BE ATTENDING THIS CONVENTION!11 Some people really seem to think that just because they started their Frostbite costume in this August the organizers of Desucon should make a U-turn and make the convention cater for ~everybody's~ needs. Ugh.

>>7198952
There's no such law or ordinance that prohibits them from allowing western sources to cosplay qualifiers.

With that said, it's their convention, they can do their own decisions.

>>7198970
Well nobody made Desucon held ECC preliminaries in the first place either, so the argument of "well we could choose not to have it at all" is as pointless as putting up age restrictions to your con in hopes of getting "people that are actually interested in our con programme" to come full your lecture rooms.

Yes, cosplayers are demanding, but there's a good reason behind it. Cosplayers, like it or not, are thing the public notices, they are a marketing point for all the cons. If you want such showy marketing, all you in actuality need is a well-flowing competitions, a couple of changing rooms and maybe two lectures about the hobby, photoshoots are a good plus. Not a lot of things and mostly cosplayers do it for cosplayers themselves. Haven't seen a cosplay organizer that wasn't a cosplayer herself yet.

So no, I don't see why non-cosplayers keep complaining that cosplayers are so needy and egoncentric when we are just trying to tweak our own things better and fairer for ourselves.

The fact that we try to make competitions so that cosplayers get the most out of them isn't about how crazy important we think we are, it's about making the competitions a competition. Not just a show for all the non-cosplayers to oggle at. It's a show that the organizers hold but where the con-goers bring the actual content. So it should be a give and take -change.

>>7198993
7198970 here, I've been cosplaying for nine years so uh.

It's true Desucon didn't have to have said yes to ECC prelim years ago. We didn't have any good reason to say no either, and contrary to what you think, Desucon doesn't say no or ban things just for the hell of it (at least didn't when I was organizing, do tell me if this has changed...)

At least back then I was under the impression that Bakacon or Animecon or some other con would soon take the other ECC prelim for themselves and the western chara debate would end then and there. It didn't happen, which I guess was one of the reasons Ilona changed the rules this year. I'm still waiting for that other prelim, Cosvision? Anyone?

I disagree strongly about the point that cosplayers market the con in any way. Desucon at least hasn't really needed any extra marketing for years now, and I cringe every time a newspaper has an article about "funnily dressed up kids" when the point of the con, is, uh, dissecting Japanese cartoons in a meaningful way...

I kind of liked this guys Kamina does anyone have more pictures of him? What else has he cosplayed?

One of the twins (päivi) that were mentioned earlier here is taking part in NCC preliminarities with this costume..

>>7199208
I seriously hope that she doesn't win because they couldn't give a shittier image of Finland. I don't give two fucks about their sewing skills, they're way too stuck up and I hate how they need to compete in every contest imaginable and treat anyone below their fame level like shit.

>>7198958
It's because all the other cons in Finland suck balls

>>7199236
Tracon doesn't suck balls

>>7199236
Except that Tracon is hands down better than Desucon.

>>7199200
He has cosplayed as Okabe from Steins;Gate and Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII. You can find more pictures of him on dA where he goes by the name Elmoren.

Does someone here know the dA or fb or any site at all of that V1 from this summer's NCC finals? She was lovely but I haven't found her from anywhere to see what else she's done

>>7199323
http://chrixdesign.deviantart.com/
She also seems to have Facebook and blog

>>7199334
Thanks a ton!

>>7199305
I'd like to hear some facts to back up this claim, if you don't mind?

>>7199642
Better place for holding a convention, better and especially more varied programs, bigger artist alley, for some reason usually higher quality of cosplay in the competitions though this year was a bit of a letdown, and they don't go around boasting and making total asshats of themselves and marketing by forcefully stuffing their things down people's throats which is a thing that really makes Desucon less likeable for me. Also I find Tampere nicer place for a con than Lahti and the area around Tampere-talo beats Sibeliustalo with more easy restaurants and grocery shops close by even though those aren't really the cons' merits itself.
I do admit that there are some fields where Desucon does better, but these things definitely make Tracon very much better convention in my point of view.

>>7200099
>Better place for holding a convention, better and especially more varied programs, bigger artist alley
Well, Desucon IS an anime convention, while Tracon is anime-roleplaying-games which gives them a lot wider range for the programme. And yes, their convention place is a lot bigger (which allows them to have a bigger artist's alley) than Desucon's but you really can't blame a convention for that because Finland doesn't have a lot of huge conference buildings at an affordable price.

>usually higher quality of cosplay in the competitions
I've always thought Desucon's Eurocosplay and Hall cosplay categories have set really high standards for cosplay, but again, because Tracon is a lot bigger than Desucon they can have the huge amount of 40 contestants unlike Desucon.

>they don't go around boasting and making total asshats of themselves and marketing by forcefully stuffing their things down people's throats which is a thing that really makes Desucon less likeable for me
Couldn't you just say right in the beginning that this is the reason you don't like Desucon? You either hate their guts or really respect their creativity.

>>7200099
It was pretty much Pararin who gave single handedly that fucking bad reputation for Desucon. When he was in charge of the marketing or something all he did was go around dissing other cons and saying how superior desucon was, eventually he got kicked out from desucon because he was a terrible pain in everybody's ass and everyone hated him.

They both have their pros and cons, but since I'm not a terribly huge anime fan I only go to tracon nowadays because I don't feel like paying a lot to get into the convention.

>>7200736
And then he screwed with Fanfest. Oh joy that drama was delicious!

>>7200857
which is too bad because it was a pretty good idea, considering all the western media taking over anime cons drama.

>>7200867
Yeah but Para's behavior and how he took Fanfest's lost was terribly amusing and childless.

bump

I fucking hate scandinavians. I wish there was a way to remove you from humanity.

>>7203074
inb4 titans arrive

>>7203091
Those times are over, nords are pussys now.

Sage

Any upcoming cons?

I know Kultcon starts in Sweden tomorrow, anyone going?
The performance part in the comp is something Sweden really needs, going to be interesting to see.

>>7204089
My:Närcon is coming up soon, the first time they try it

I don't want this thread to die just yet! More photos of nordic cosplayers, please? :)

>>7208705
Ginger-I from Finland

hey what is this Swedish Cosplay Championship? Why they use same cosplayers every year?

>>7208927
Place 1-3rd place in the final and you are guaranteed next year.
The good ones re-qualify each year, then contenders are added from the other competitions and the net competition "bubblare". (So you either need to impress with a costume on stage in another competition that qualifies you to SM or "impress" people on the internet where you need decent work and a good enough amount of people who like your work.)

Since the Swedish pool of cosplayers is small to begin with it happens that the same kind of people are in the finals, since they tend to win competitions and have a following. Not complaining though since I get to see great craftsmanship.

>>7209125
I think that they have changed the "place 1-3 and you get a free pass"-rule now though. Btw not all contestants this time are "famous" people