Even though the Black cosplay community is known for being body positive, inclusive, and welcoming to characters of all shapes and sizes, Holt’s dream of being He-Man involved realistically ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

With Black Clover’s anime ... and it’s made him one of standout characters for the franchise overall. Now he’s come to life through some wickedly cool cosplay from artist theprincedeguzman ...