/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

We actually had one going with a decent amount of replies, but it died of over the weekend.

I keep checkin over on the forums, but they're pretty much dead. What are you guys cosplaying as? Do you have any groups going or want to plan some group meet ups?

>>7794806

I'm pretty sure everyone and their mom is going to be cosplaying either DMMd or Shingeki.

>>7794806

Since it's my first time going and I'm in the process of losing weight, I don't plan to bring any cosplay this time around. If I go again in the future? Most definitely.

Online presence as been pretty lackluster over all. Even Tumblr is somewhat quiet.

I am hoping that there is a social chill area in the hotel. It would be interesting to just meet people and socialize.

>>7794807

Oh I'm sure there will be. Though I hope to see cosplay from various fandoms new and old. As for DMMd, I just finished playing so it's a bit fresh in my mind. I'll be happy to see all of them. Already planning to do a Tae cosplay for a local con next summer in Texas. Sadly, as much as I would love to crossplay, I don't have the height or build what so ever. Unless I wanted to a chibi sized version, which would just look odd I think.

>>7794806

I have no idea what cosplays to bring since I'm flying in from out of state. Probably Nagisa since he's comfy but I have this itch to fix up my Edward Elric cosplay but it's a week and a half until I leave and idk if I could swing it. Maybe Shion to be comfy again. Kinda just want to relax and enjoy the con and be comfy.

>>7796026

I'm flying out of DFW and I'm totally with you on just chilling.

I'm bringing some stuff I've already done this year. Welcome to sports con y'all!

Kagami and Rei are going to be "drag" versions. Basically hyper-fem, stupid sexy sports boys. Maybe stupid sexy Toudou for half a day. I know some friends of mine are bringing their cosplays from the same sports series, so if you're cosplaying some sports balls come join us!

Let's organize some meet ups! I'm excited to be back in California and my first time in NorCal. Bring your dakimakuras because I'm bringing Kagami with me and we can have a pillow party.

GET HYPE!

>>7796369

I'm also from DFW. Are you perhaps going with me and friends or are you another DFW fujoshi going? I know someone from MEK is going.

>>7796419

Going solo this time but I have friends local to the area that I'm meeting up with at the con. Are you also part of the BL Garden group?

Anyone have space in their hotel room for 2 more people?

I'm going to be selling in the artist alley and bringing along my boyfriend as a helper. I can definitely pay for our share of the hotel room and maybe give you some free prints and goodies?

>>7797267
>>7797267
I have a room for Friday and Saturday night. Bed spaces are all taken so only if you don't mind floor space or if you can bring an air mattress. It's just me, my bf and another friend.

>>7796389
>Kagami and Rei are going to be "drag" versions. Basically hyper-fem, stupid sexy sports boys. Maybe stupid sexy Toudou for half a day.

Please no.

>>7797426

Not the anon in question, but of all the conventions YaoiCon is probably the best fit for that sort of cosplay. Weird, but not out of place I guess?

>>7796389
I don't understand, you're doing genderbends of the other two? Either way it sounds really OOC and kind of weird to do for sports series characters

>>7797460
I just want to dress up as characters I like despite the fact that I will never be a tall athletic guy, I have to work with what I've got here. I'm not entering any masquerades or costume contests with these, it's mostly me hanging out with my friends and then parading around the con meeting other fans. Isn't that kind of the whole point in doing silly/fun cosplays like this?

>>7797453
This guy gets it. I only do these for "party" cons to have fun.

>>7797426
Don't you use a picture of muh waifu against me here.

>>7797393
Ahhh, I dont mind floor space but I'm driving up from SoCal so I'd need Thurs night as well.

Thank you though!

>>7797460

It's a con specifically for anime dudes boning. Who gives a shit?

>>7797186

Yes, I think 8 of us are going? Sorry to be so cryptic earlier I just have no idea if I'm talking to someone else from DFW or someone from the group. I'm definitely hoping to get ideas for our next panel!

>>7798738

It's all good. I'm amused so many DFW people are making the trek.

I'm probably gonna solo this con. I don't even like yaoi, but I live in SF and can get a free dealer badge from a friend, so why the hell not?

What is the turnout like? Pre-teen ham beasts?

>>7799547
It's an 18+ con.

>>7799547

It's my first time too, but everyone keeps telling me it's both a party con and a relaxed con. Might run into a few awkward individuals but overall everyone seems chill since it's an older audience.

>>7799197

Well, we've been wanting to go as a group trip for ages but I won the mascot contest for this year so I think that helped me convince people to go. It won't be an every year con for me, but maybe every few years or if the guest is good. Kinda excited for Shoko Takaku.

>>7799993

Congrats on the win.

I might go, but only if I can find someone to karaoke One Direction songs with me.

>>7798423
>Who gives a shit?
Landwhales gonna landwhale I guess

>>7801402

Not so sure about that. There are plenty of thin and quite attractive crossplayers attending. I'm fine with a little creativity thrown in.

Who here is excited for the auction and bingo?

>>7803888

Not me.

>>7803902
Aww don't come in here to be a party pooper.

>>7804802

Sorry bro, 3D is pig disgusting.

>>7804853

>>7803888

Curious about bingo, but may spend more time at karaoke. The auction weirds me out a bit, though I am curious how well Reika does.

>Friend has been wanting to drag me to this con since last November.
>No interest in a con like this, and especially tight on money due to two other cons in the three weeks before Ycon.
>He messages me out of the blue one day asking for my DoB and email.
>Half hour later replies with screenshots of the receipts to the plane tickets.
Guess I'll be attending my first California con.

Say hi if you run into me. Don't really know anyone outside the northwest community.

Bump

My bf has been going for years and says it's great, so I'm going Sunday to check it out.

Ugh you bitches I've been pining for years to go to this, rubbing it in my face. Have fun guys!

>>7811414

Why would you pine for years to go to such a shitty con?

Flying out Thursday aka the worst day to fly ever. Friends are leaving tomorrow to drive 26 hours to the con.

I saw that they made some schedule adjustments and posted descriptions for the fan panels. The Sublime panel is no longer at the exact same time as the guest of honor panel. I'm a bit disappointed in the fan panels (really, Ask a Nation?!) but some of them look good. Very interested in "Is the Seme Always Taller?"

Anyone else going to panels or just main events?

>>7811826

Going to a few panels. Voice Over for Hentai looks extremely stupid, but I'm game if they have audience volunteers. Would never do it outside a con like this though.

>>7811826
where did you guys get the panel schedule at?

>>7811863
http://www.yaoicon.com/schedule.php

>>7811415
Quite a few of my favorite yaoi mangaka are guests each year and missing out on meeting them is a bummer

>>7812953
>quite a few
Don't they usually have only one or two Japanese guests

>>7797393
Hey I'm a bit late to the party here, but I was thinking about turning my Saturday visit into a 2-day thing and was wondering if you still had floor space for two people? (Could potentially just be me, friend may not be on board to stay the additional day but I'm bringing 2 sleeping bags in any case), I'd be willing to split cost on it.

>>7815570
>>7797393
btw i'm different anon from the one that posted last week in case that wasn't evident. Anyway, if you still have floor space available for lease, send me an email

>>7815581
>>7815570
>>7797393

And because I'm a dolt, the email address by which you can contact me is sleezy.oblivion@gmail.com (apparently I missed the fact that moot did away with the email field)

Anybody there yet?

>>7816022
I may go this afternoon, will likely attend Saturday in full. Have a few friends who are already there but most seem to of been caught by surprise that it's this weekend. Unfortunately the panels I was interested in are all on Sunday, c'est le vie!

>>7816022

Yep and doing karaoke and bingo.

It's a little dead today, but I figure most people will be here tomorrow.

Where da homies at

>>7796389
yaoi fan girls dressed as any male characters disarms them if they are traps and turns yaoi to yuri in real life, im happy fan boy.

I guess im a yaoi fan boy too (well i only like yaoi-traps because they look like chicks, but better with that imaginary non existent penis[girls cross play as bridget and poison therefore no cock=no homo ] that only appears in hentai)

>>7797426
oh hell yes

nice to have Rule 63 fan made costumes

At least there not doing crossplaying as in a girl dressed as Bridget or Poison

bunch of my friends are there
I'm like 10 minutes away but right now I'd rather just be at home doing nothing
I have no idea what I'd do there besides hang out

>>7817616
Yeah it's kind of boring tbh

>>7817732

It seemed they are low on panels and panelists. Is this normal?

Did anyone check out the Bingo on Friday night?

>>7818196
Bingo had a full house. From what I gather it was leagues better than its LA show

>>7818133
it's a small hotel con so... yeah, I'd say that's normal. not sure why you'd need three days for it

>>7818133
- Peak panel time hours (late night especially) are reserved for main yaoi con events only
- Con attendees mainly go to Ycon for guests and events with the bishonens.For the most part they ignore panels
- No incentives to perform panels provided by the con. No badge discounts or other intensives available

>>7819344
>>7819469

Weird. In my area of the country, even the smaller hotel cons have panels and events all day and into the late night.

If the lack of panels is the norm then cool. At least I know for future reference. It was just a new experience and unexpected. Still, those that I did attend I had a great time. I may submit a few of my own the next time I attend.

>>7820220
Ycon does have panels and events late night such as the dance and the bishonen auction. The point I was trying to make as those late night slots are reserved for Ycon official events. If you were a panelist looking to submit, you would not be able to ask for a late night panel as the convention chooses not to run anything against their premier events

>>7799993
You mean breaking the rules by re-using mascots that are part of your club in Texas when the contest was for COMPLETELY NEW designs?

>>7820655

That's fine and dandy. It was just new for me. I did check out the major night events and yes it would be a bit hard to compete with that.

Does anyone have a list of the AMV contest winners?

>>7819469

They shafted a lot of the smaller panels by stacking them against popular shit like Reika. I spent a lot of time prepping my shit and maybe 20 people showed up. I'm not sure why anyone but stupid newbies who don't know any better bother. They just use non-ycon events as padding to make it look like they have some content.

Basically everyone was at that con for Reika and gave zero fucks about anything else.

There's an Asian guy with an extremely cute face. He cosplays Makoto and something else from Free!, and I see him at every single California con. I noticed him out of cosplay at Yaoi Con.

Does anyone know who he is, or is he not known?

>>7823413
Correction, Reika and the bishis

>>7823413
The "Voice Acting in Hentai" panel was super hilarious. I'd love for that to come back

>>7823413
Past years they've refused to let females that cosplay as dudes in the auction. Even moderately popular ones that look good as guys. But it's ok if it's Reika.

>>7823425
him?

>>7823557
Yeah, that's the guy. He's e'rywhere

>>7823609
I'm not sure if he's popular cosplay wise, but he has a lot of friends within the asian california cosplay comm. I'd link you to his facebook but that's kind of creepy

>>7819469
As a bishie from this last weekend, it felt like the only panels / events that anyone and everyone talked about or attended were the main, bishie ones. Primarily bingo and the auction.

Personally, I, and the other bishies I was rooming with were all too busy to really do anything.

>>7820220
From what I did see, it seemed lacking in panels and content, even compared to hotel cons even smaller than this one.

That all said, to anyone who attended bingo and the auction, what did you think of them? This was my first Ycon, so I don't know how it compares.

>>7823615
That's K, I was just curious because I've seen him so often.

I'm saddened at the lack of photos

>>7823899
I've had a few people message me saying they got a ton of photos.
I might upload a few of theirs, since couldn't really take any, myself.

>>7823557

Is that a guy on the left?

>>7823542
Past years was under different management with different rules and different policies.

>>7824414
Or let's be honest, this year was just Reika Con.

>>7823964
can you? even the tumblr tags are pretty bare

>>7824168
nah it's a girl

>>7824454
my facebook feed was filled with selfies next to reika
I'll be honest, I'd probably have done that too if I went.

>>7824489
Usually don't directly link Facebook stuff, but they uploaded 998 pictures, almost entirely of bingo and the auction in here, and there's no way in hell I'm downloading and re-uploading them all.

https://www.facebook com/genkigemini/media_set?set=a.10154744074630206

>>7824803
Wow. Now I'm definitely going next year.

>>7824803
IS THIS PHELPS? JESUS TITTY FUCKING CHRIST.

>>7825848
Isn't he the guy Reika was fangirling over all weekend?

>>7825990
Yes

>>7826000
>>7825848
damn, the line to tip these guys was around the block and back. talk abut a floor show.

>>7826000

I about died when I recognized Phelps. A+ on those back muscles Makoto, I can die a happy fangirl now. The front row seat for the Auction was awesome. All around great time for my first Yaoi Con, now to organize all my merch. So much Free!

>>7826056

Also that girl who pretty much touched his butthole tipping him... That was awkward to watch.

>>7824803
>>7825848
...Oh boy, here we go.

>>7826056
Was it? I know the three of us made almost twice as much as Reno, which was cool, considering he sold for more than twice as much as us.
Helps cover plane ticket costs, at any rate.

>>7826532
Thank you! Really wasn't expecting the kind of reaction I got from everyone, and especially Reika of all people. Would say my first California con went surprisingly well.
Also, I really like that photo, and just made a cosplay page earlier today. Mind if I upload it, and if so, would you have a handle I could credit you by?

>>7826537
Yeah, I remember exactly which one you're talking about.
I was about to just turn around, if she went any further. That was one of the two moments of the con where someone was stepping out of my comfort zone.

>>7826553
How much did you end up getting in tips?

>>7826596
$136, which all went to the cop outfit Rin, since he was the one who bought all the underwear, as well as my plane ticket, as I mentioned earlier in the thread.
I've heard that they cut the tip line short, and if we'd opened bidding to anyone, rather than just women, it sounds like Cipher would have tried to win us, as well.
He's the guy who ended up with something like 3-4 other bishies, more towards the front and center of the audience.

>>7825848
>>7826553
/fit/izen here, strong aesthetics, brah.
>Routine?
>Any mirin stories you'd share?

>>7826553

Sure! My tumblr is peace-of-hope but on Instagram it's peace_of _hope. If you have tumblr or Instagram I have SEVERAL friends who are dying to follow you.

>>7826617
Thanks, Anon. Final numbers for my cut + month-long vacation is that I lost 20.6 lbs, but for 6' and 172.8 lbs, I'm still glad I look alright.
Think the last two times I posted on /fit/ was for the Chrismas card to /cgl/ thread, and like 6 months into lifting when I was the definition of T-rex mode.

Anyway, this is my current routine. After I'd hit 27" thighs and a 29" waist, my routine was specifically meant to simply maintain leg size, but fill out the rest of my torso.
Only leg work is some ATG / Olympic squats and DL's.

As for 'mirin stories from this weekend specifically, I'd mostly say that people just treated us bishie's like local celebrities. Felt pretty weird, since I've never done anything like this.
There were a few people who were too nervous to say anything when they came up to ask for a photo, or hug. They'd just eventually hold up their camera, or hold their arms out.
Several others had to be dragged over by their friends, saying things like, "She wants a photo with you."

There was one girl in particular who asked for my number. After the auction, her and her friend just ended up hanging out with everyone in my room (5 bishies + 1 married woman) as we shared stories until 6am.
She said that before she initially came up to us, she was wondering if the were even allowed to talk to the bishie's when we weren't working the main events.
Later that night she'd told my friend that she thought I was out of her league, which was ironic since I thought she was out of mine.

>>7826553

Congrats for being one of the stars of the con

>>7824454
Let's be honest, this year was just Phelps Con.

>>7826639
Alright, uploaded your picture here. Thanks again for letting me use it. Would've loved to have taken more pics, myself, but I was a bit busy, and none of my photographer friends were at this con.
I do have a tumblr, but I only really use it to follow personal friends, so I've yet to ever post anything on it, myself.
Think they'd just be better off liking the cosplay page, since I'll actually be keeping an eye on that one.
https://www.facebook com/PhelpsCosplay/photos/a.921421697888034.1073741828.921262087903995/921420891221448

>>7826654
>>7826656
Appreciate it. Feel like if it wasn't for my body, I wouldn't have gotten much of a reaction, since I still feel so stiff and awkward on stage.
Hoping to be better if I go again next year, and hopefully my friends will be a bit more fit by then, too.

>>7826645
Those are some good feels, m8. Thanks for sharing.

>>7826673

I'm not particularly big on omg muscles. Had you been fully clothed I still would thought you were adorable.

>>7825848
i wish i could style your wig and do your makeup for you; you have such a nice body ;-;

Are all of these cute guys straight? Is Yaoi Con not a good place to go to find a boyfriend?

>>7826721
A lot of local guys go in the hopes of picking up girls at the girl con. I don't know about boyfriend, but you might manage fling if you're more attractive than most of the girls that go for the programming.

>>7826729
A boyfriend of the gay variety. So far, just from reading about the con, it seems like it's primarily straight guys and girls attending.

>>7826617
/fit/fag mirin over a cgl namefag

cutest post on 4chan right now

>>7826734
Yeah, not really a good place for finding yourself a boyfriend of the likes boys type. You' have better luck at a normal con.

>>7826734
Why go for straight guys when you can find the holy grail bisexual guy to have a mmf threesome with.

>>7826721

Yes and no. Though it's mostly about eye candy? I think most women there assume the guys are way out of their league anyway. It's more for fantasy and fun I guess rather than finding a boyfriend.

>>7826677
No problem. I've collected a ton of stories at cons in the last year or so.
Have several really good ones, I'll probably post in other threads sometime.

>>7826689
Aw, thanks.
There was definitely a wide range of guys on stage with pretty much every body type. So, whatever floats your boat.
As for talents, it ranged between dances, to singing with a guitar (pic related), or song parodies, to serenading a body pillow with a violin.

>>7826691
Ugh, I would've loved that. My wig really needs to be restyled, since it's been tossed in bags and dragged so many cons in the last year.
And my makeup experience pretty much ends at powdering my face, to help with a shiny face. But I have to say, letting people do your makeup is just so damn relaxing.

>>7826721
Most of the bishie's who go on stage are straight.
Didn't see many other guys attending the con.
However, from the ones I talked to, they were either married, or not really interested in dating or hooking up.
Though I know for a fact that bishie's have, and do hook up with people at this cons - especially their buyers. They spent so much time covering all that with us, and what was, and wasn't legal while we were on the clock.
For finding an actual boyfriend, I think you might have better luck at a normal convention.

>>7826752
From what I saw and experienced, I think this is pretty much on the mark.

>>7826743
That's so weird. I'd expect a con about guys who like guys to have more guys who like guys attending.

>>7826799
It's an anime con.
Filled with fujoshi's.

>>7826799
Those guys probably were more focused on Gaymer X. While a couple of my gay nerd friends like some yaoi it's definitely more aimed to appeal towards women. Just like how a lot of lesbian porn it's more aimed at straight men's taste than real lesbians.