On May 30th, the Boogie BAM Anime Jam (BBAMAJAM) Club held their first Cosplay Contest at Books-A-Million’s Gunbarrel Road location. The huge turnout (approximately 25 local Otaku) made the experience a whole lot enjoyable then originally thought! ^_^ The cosplay contest is also where I finally debuted my long awaited Iruka Umino costume (on the [...]

It’s been a long while since I wrote anything relating to my personal Cosplay plans, usually labeled as as CEN.TAKU.ME Cosplay Corner, now renamed to simply Cosplay Corner for the time being. It’s been a year since I decided on my choices for Anime Weekend Atlanta ’08 (and originally for MTAC if I hadn’t ran [...]

There are plenty of Cosplay publications in Japan, such as COSMODE. The closest we get to anything relating to Cosplay are Yunmao Ayakawa’s articles in Otaku USA, and the writings of Jan Kurotaki from the archives of NewType USA. However, there is only one magazine that is totally worth reading: AniCoz. It’s probably the first [...]

The Bleach Cosplay Group at JAMPcon 2008 It’s time for another Cosplay Corner…In this issue, I am getting a costume ready for another convention that I may get to attend in September. At the time of writing, I could be in the car on the way to the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention in Nashville, TN, [...]

I’m really excited about JAMPcon next week. I still haven’t decided who I am going to go as; Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach) or Iruka (Naruto). Originally, I was going to buy a costume of Rukia in her gigai, but I don’t think I would feel comfortable in a skirt on a possibly cool, early Spring afternoon… [...]