My life as a Cosplayer in the midwest.
I mean no harm or threat to this article. I would just like to write about my feelings and what I have experienced, to teach others or to find common ground with people. I started cosplaying in 2007. Very new to this time of things. Its funny how I found out about cosplaying. I woke up one night, with a tummy ache and decided to turn on the TV to get my mind off of it. It was around 4 am and the TV turned on to Adult Swim. There was a show called Inuyasha, and I was hooked. I knew what Sailor Moon was, but I didn't know there was other shows that expanded. So, I did research and I found a picture of a guy cosplaying Inuyasha, and let me say, I was shocked. I didn't find it weird or anything, I was just surprised that I'm looking AT inuyasha. Let me remind you, I was like 15. So to me, cosplay, at that time, was you being the character himself. So, I decided to make my own cosplay. I started to watch more of this 'anime', and I got hooked on Code Geass. And thi