TL;DR: According to a survey by Cosplay Central in 2020, a surprising 35% of cosplayers who dressed up as League of Legends characters were male. This breaks the stereotype that only females are ...

“Male characters often include opportunities to wear clothing not afforded to many female characters, not to mention the weapons.” In the cosplay world, there are varying degrees of ...

Want to see how a Black cosplayer interpreted the character? Here’s a Naruto closet cosplay idea from Instagram user @jaxblade. Here’s a cosplayer who put together a stylish yet simple closet ...

The first is that there aren’t “enough compelling black characters in the source material.” The second comes from the cosplay community at large, which he believes doesn’t do enough to ...

who carefully handcrafts the costumes for each character she impersonates. “Some of them outright complained that Sailor Moon isn’t Black.” Please believes cosplay consumers are unaware of ...

As for why I tend to cosplay non-Black characters, it's down to a lot of factors. Some of these characters I grew up with and loved. Some have armor I want to replicate, stuff like that.

Anime fans sometimes use the fact that the characters are often Japanese — and almost always not Black — to say that Black fans can't cosplay as those characters. But, Shirleen pointed out ...

Some people can’t understand why a person would choose to dress up as a superhero or video game character when it ... to choose from for cosplay. As a black cosplayer, Cumberbatch said she ...

Sheila admitted to whitening her skin in order to more accurately cosplay light-skinned characters. But according to Chelsea Medua, the cosplayer behind the photo blog Cosplaying While Black, skin ...

All of this is to say, Black Cat was a major character in the game, and the subsequent DLC. And she’s also one of the most popular characters for cosplayers to recreate. Of course, one of the ...