http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201569/rs_540x647-150709140408-4.jpg

http://fooyoh.com/files/attach/images/3004/415/984/014/cosplay1.jpg

D8

just no

Yeah i get it

http://static.hudo.com/images/posters/1617/image.jpg

...etc

Yeah no more please

-head desks-

what's funny about cosplay is the gulf between the superior and the horrid

like there's almost a certain glamour to somebody getting it perfect, having no choice but to say "Woah shit, you really nailed it"

then there's everyone else's attempts

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/053/049/dd7.jpg

Who's your favorite, @Deleted User 57835c2c ?

pink butt

Yeah

Mine as well

by a long shot

I hope she's 18

long shot of jizz

@Nester those are all Oshino Shinobu from Monogatari

...

she is a vampire, she is like 500 years old

*wipes sweat off of forehead*

Lol

*unzips pants*

oftentimes there's not even a mediocre category of cosplay, there's just dead-on excellence, and maddeningly pathetic

okay, so let's put an example out there

here is suigintou (my waifu) https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rozenmaiden/images/3/39/Suigintou_001.png/revision/latest?cb=20130805122047

normal tier cosplay: https://orig00.deviantart.net/2502/f/2013/091/a/0/cosplay_suigintou_by_gallopingcowgirl-d602k2a.jpg

note that the woman's face and build are a poor fit for it, also she tried to literally replicate the colors and shapes rather than figure out what it should look like "translated" to real life

middle of the road: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1Vo0cMXXXXXbBXFXXq6xXFXXXp/Japanese-anime-Peach-Pit-font-b-Rozen-b-font-font-b-Maiden-b-font-font-b.jpg

getting there, she at least is a more attractive woman and didn't use construction paper colors

vs this girl who did it fantastically https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4a/3d/40/4a3d4017337b73357be0e509b6b5407f.jpg

not only is she attractive, but her features fit the character and she emulated body language the character would've used

it's not just a fat girl standing there in a walmart tier imitation of the character's clothes

the chick even looks bitchy like suigintou actually is

if all cosplay was this tier I would be fanatically into it

like if everybody who dressed up as Joker looked like this https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/41/c3/0541c348ba952a1df2feabcaaeb4ec1d--joker-cosplay-dc-cosplay.jpg

that would fucking kick ass, top notch cosplay would be like having halloween several times a year

i once tried my hand at ledger joker, one halloween (before i started in on girly pills)