90s Character Cosplay

[Anonymous No.10688587]

Older is fine too.

[Anonymous No.10688588]

[Anonymous No.10688589]

I was half-tempted just to make a thread on ridiculous anime hair and attempts people have made.

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>>10688604
That's a good one, love this shot.

[Anonymous No.10688735]

>>10688598
Just looking at this feels good.feels like cons before social media clout and e-famous being a thing.

[Anonymous No.10688737]

>>10688735
Glad you enjoy. I'm just feeling nostalgic.

[Anonymous No.10688792]

these all look so wholesome. looks like a better time

[Anonymous No.10688800]

Those Tenchi cosplays are good! Mine's from the 1970s.

[Anonymous No.10688912]

>>10688800
Looks familiar, like from galaxy 999 or harlock. I know the name of the character is in the file name but I don't want to cheat to find the series.

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>>10689345
>>10689268
BE STILL MY HEART
no one was this good with cosplay for Fushigi Yugi when I was growing up!!

[Anonymous No.10690012]

>>10688604
THIS IS SO GOOD

[Anonymous No.10690050]

>>10688595
>while you were out partying I studied the chin

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>>10690283
Lina (I think) Orphan, Yoko, and Chocolat I could figure out but the girl in the middle I can't place. Maybe Chocolat's sister Tira?

[Anonymous No.10690343]

I love this thread already. I'm trying to convince my friends to watch Mahō Tsukai Tai! with me because I want to live my cheesy witch club weeb dreams

[Anonymous No.10690363]

>>10690343
I just started watching this and I was not expecting everything in the beginning of the first episode. Fun so far

[Anonymous No.10690435]

>>10690343
I also am enjoying this. Primo choice anon.

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I'm considering doing an Aisha.

[Anonymous No.10692340]

Ducks rock

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[Anonymous No.10695041]

I wonder if anime fans today even know who half of these characters are.

[Anonymous No.10695083]

It's weird to think that most of the people in these pics are now in their 30s/40s.

[Anonymous No.10695236]

>>10695083
More like 40s/50s

[Anonymous No.10695420]

>>10688593
>fem yugi
Fukken nice
>fem kaiba
Fukken NICE

[Anonymous No.10695526]

>>10695083
Or they could be recent like less than 5 years ago and some people decided to dress like their favorite characters from 80s-90s Anime. I still see plenty of con goers in their 20s dress from their favorite franchises from that decade or earlier.

[Anonymous No.10695531]

I truly adore this photo, I think it'd be fun to do a cosplay (or old school lolita) photoshoot on film now

[Anonymous No.10696475]

>>10695531
I wonder do you post this image every few years or so? I swear I've seen this posted multiple times here with mention how much they love it.

[Anonymous No.10696536]

>>10688592
>>10688593
>>10688595
Theres something about YGO cosplay that makes it age the least

[Anonymous No.10696711]

>>10696475
nayrt but i've seen it around and I think it's just a really popular example of nice oldschool cosplay

I think the sleeve volume is particularly impressive to any Utena fan who's seen the show and gone "wow those are huge" and is suitably amazed to see them made real

[Anonymous No.10700945]

>>10695526
>kuwabara
hello based department

[Anonymous No.10701007]

Every single girl here is ugly as all hell, I can see why you no life assholes are so desperate

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>>10688587

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>>10688737
>>10688792
You don't even know how much better cons were back in the day. People actually had fun. Now it's all lines, clout chasing, and anime that's just really not as good.

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>>10701758
Cast in the name of God:
FUCKING RADICAL

[Anonymous No.10702117]

>>10690343
I love this series and wish my friends would cosplay it with me TT3TT

[Anonymous No.10702190]

>>10695526
Some of them are really, really old, like over 10-15 years old. The pictures that is.

A lot of the people would be around Yaya's age now.

[Anonymous No.10702191]

>>10696475
It's been posted a very long time in 'cosplay photography' threads. It's just one of those that resurface.

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>>10702261
Love this. Does anyone even know what Lone Wolf and Cub is anymore?

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>>10706317
fuckkkkk I just want to eat both their asses buffet style hnnnng

[Anonymous No.10711203]

>>10701765
That's pretty true.
I thought maybe it's was nostalgia glasses but its not.

Cons were far far better before everyone had on a metric ton of make up.
Better before mass production meant you saw the same 4 Genshin Impact costumes from China.
Better before because when you saw someone cosplaying from the same series you'd would be talking for at least 20 minutes as you talked about the series you both loved. And far less likely they were jealous.
Better before tits and ass were all a particular cosplayer would do.

[Anonymous No.10711347]

>>10711203
Back when you could go up to someone cosplaying from a series you knew and you could guarantee they had seen it because there was no other reason to make the damn costume. And you HAD to make it unless you knew someone local or had a shit ton of money - commission and orders from China weren't a thing.

Everyone wanted to help everyone, tutorials and tricks were posted en masse on cosplay.com or in geocities blogs. You could message a cosplayer and they would be eager to tell you how they managed to do something, not guarding their tricks like the holy grail.

"Famous" cosplayers were the ones who won contests and were only famous in their local scene. And only to those also in the know - other than that they were just normal fans like the rest of the attendees.

I miss old cons.

[Anonymous No.10711352]

>>10711203
>Cons were far far better before everyone had on a metric ton of make up.
I agree with everything else except this bit. Makeup has always been a big part of cosplay so I'm confused by your comment here.

[Anonymous No.10711457]

>>10711203
>>10711347
Everyone made their own costumes, and a lot of people looked bad, but it didn't matter because we all looked bad together and the point was to just walk around playing dress up, not to do photoshoots for onlyfans or whatever.

Maybe it was just more fun because we were much younger.

[Anonymous No.10711459]

>>10711457
nah it was better or at least different

there were zero normies at cons back then, literally everyone there was full on otaku which imo made it better.

[Anonymous No.10711461]

>>10711203
Makeup has always been a part of cosplay and makeup styes have changed over the last 30 years, current makeup styles might not be your thing but its always been a part of it.

[Anonymous No.10711463]

>>10711459
How far is "back then"? I assume you mean early 90s. Also remember that everything was better when you were 12.

[Anonymous No.10711464]

>>10711463
For me, late 90s/early-mid 2000s

[Anonymous No.10711467]

>>10711463
im not that old you retirement home ass mf

early 2000s tho before they put naruto on toonami

[Anonymous No.10711552]

>>10711467
Early 2000s I was in high school and conventions did indeed, have normies. At the time however, you didn't care. You were too excited to talk about your favorite show with other people. In 20 more years you will have people talking about how conventions last decade were the best.

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>>10711552
But...conventions now are the worst...

[Anonymous No.10711587]

>>10711572
And some uncle who went to conventions in the 80s will say everything was better then than the 90s.

[Anonymous No.10712906]

>>10688588
>>10688587
>>10688589
Tenchi remains the best harem series n my nostalgic eyes.

[Anonymous No.10712931]

>>10690283
>Nobody wearing wigs
>Nobody cares about farming clout for social media
>Just dressing up to have fun with friends

The 90s were a more innocent time for cosplay.

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>>10688587
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>>10688599

Non asians look fucking disgusting as anime characters.

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>>10713019
Based, specially niggers trying to cosplay white characters

[Anonymous No.10713403]

>>10688587
>>10688588
blue-haired Eda in a kimono? Niceeee

[Anonymous No.10713481]

>>10689262
Cherry was best girl

[Anonymous No.10718844]

>>10713403
You almost had me for a moment.

[Anonymous No.10718851]

>>10688912
Would love to cosplay Maetel some day, but am absolutely terrified of the length of her hair

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>>10718851
You could get away with tying it up then untying it for photos

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>>10688587
cosplay Maetel some day, but am absolutely terrified of the length

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>>10702261
The best

[Anonymous No.10729173]

Part of me really wants to cosplay Armor Hunter Mellowlink, but I wonder if anyone now would even recognize that.

[Anonymous No.10729196]

>>10729173
Just do it anyways, anon!
Older anime fans still often attend cons, and it'd brighten their weekend a ton.

[Anonymous No.10729236]

>>10729173
even if no one there recognizes, you have it for you.

[Anonymous No.10729368]

>>10688912
Yamato

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https://discord.gg/jtJKxvCTqv

[Anonymous No.10730251]

>>10729368
Yamero

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>>10730251
YameNO

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>>10731961
Yaranaika?

[Anonymous No.10732661]

>>10711352
>>10711461

I'm from the late 90s so no a metric ton of make up was not the norm.

Heck, lots of people didn't even wear any because the character didn't appear to wear any so they didn't either. Or the cosplayer was fairly young and they just weren't into that in regular life so they didn't in cosplay either.

Now the norm is a LOT of foundation, always contour, always lashes, nearly always contact lenses, lots of eyeliner, make up on the wig too.

Now you need that caked on make up unless you want people to ignore you or call you ugly for being person with pores or not having the same nose/lip/eye shape as the character.

[Anonymous No.10732666]

>>10732661
So basically cons in the 90s and early 2000s were just people having fun running around in outfits and not worrying about make up, getting likes, or doing photoshots, or making cosplay a job. You're saying it was just about having fun?

[Anonymous No.10732733]

>>10732661
For one thing, it's weird to blame makeup as a part of the downfall. If anything, makeup improved the look of the cosplay but I'm not saying those that didn't wear makeup weren't fun either. It's like blaming wearing a corset under a costume, it's silly. No, the real downfall of cosplay as we've discussed many times in other threads is the desire for more and more sexy than appreciation for the character. Companies would hire skimpy booth girls to lure people in. Others saw the profit in how easy it is to get money from desperate otaku and joined in. Men kept paying more for tiddies of a slutty version of characters and less and less attention for craftmanship and accuracy was cheered.

There are still people that do run around without makeup and wigs for fun, but to be honest these days people who are not part of the scenes for fanservice cosplay have improved. Makeup and wig care being part of the improvement and fun because it's a challenge to try to look like the character or the version you're trying to pull off. But you don't need it. You can still go without if you want to but a lot of people rather not.

Again the real issue is money and simps.

[Anonymous No.10732735]

>>10688800
>>10688912
Here's one that's an old photo in itself.

[Anonymous No.10732736]

>>10732666
Can't speak for the 90s but the 2000s people were still worrying about those things too. I don't know if the anon you were speaking with was part of the web circles/MySpace/LiveJournal of the before times but there was just as much want for getting likes, makeup and photoshoots.

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[Anonymous No.10733038]

Reject modern cosplay, return to whatever the hell is happening here.

[Anonymous No.10733100]

>>10733038
Let's go back even further