Alongside those who have reached near-celebrity status for cosplaying, some rising stars in the craft look set to bring their innovation and talent to the community on a large scale in the near future.

The following 20 cosplayers are quickly rising in popularity for their hard work and dedication to the art of cosplaying, with their uncanny abilities to turn fantasy into reality.

20. Candy Keane

Believe it or not, this is her real name – you won’t find any stage names on Candy Keane’s profiles.

Before she was active in the cosplaying world, Candy was already a longtime swimwear model and spokesmodel.

After she opened her own costume store, she missed modeling and decided to model the clothes and costumes herself.

Candy has a passion for creating costumes, which bodes well for her cosplaying career as she is always trying to find something new and inspiring to create.

19. Tine Marie Riis 

Tine Marie Riis is a cosplayer based in Norway who started cosplaying in 2009.

She first discovered cosplay through her love of anime and attended her first convention in Los Angeles.

She went on to attend conventions in Norway and debuted her cosplaying skills at these events, beginning a rise to fame in the cosplaying world.

Tine selects her characters based on whether she feels she can relate to them, giving her the passion to work on the costume and creating the character.

18. Jessica LG

Jessica LG hails from Miami, Florida and has been a comic book fan since 1999.

Starting off in theatre, Jessica was studying design and production for theatre and film, and cosplaying conveniently combined her passions.

She started attending conventions when she was in college and seamlessly fit right into the cosplaying community.

Jessica is skilled in making armor, medieval costumes, and futuristic material. One of her favorite cosplays is Wonder Woman and she typically gravitates towards tough female characters.

17. Sophie Valentine

Sophie Valentine is a gamer and cosplayer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She is a big fan of anime, manga, and movies, and often gets her inspiration from one of the many universes in her favourite cartoons.

Sophie is a huge fan of fantasy movies as well. Even though she is just in her early twenties, she has made quite an impact on the cosplaying world and has people from all over the world watching her new cosplays.

16. Variable Cosplay

Variable Cosplay started life as a child who loved dressing up and acting like different characters.

As she grew older, she began to make appearances at charity events in costume.

Variable Cosplay has met a few celebrities in her cosplaying ventures, including industry hero, George Takei, from Star Trek.

15. Issabel

Issabel is a prop maker and cosplayer based in Poland.

She creates her cosplays from video games, television, anime, manga, sci fi, fantasy, and movies.

She has won numerous awards for her cosplays, and is often praised for the exceptional detail in her work.

14. Vensy

Vensy is a cosplayer based in Southern California, and is also a full-time student studying product design.

She creates prototypes of costumes and props and is on a constant mission to improve her skills and learn something new in the world of costume and prop construction.

Vensy has an active interest in 3D modeling, video games, prop making, and costume construction – a recipe that’s guaranteed to create a fantastic cosplayer.

13. Li Kovacs

Li Kovacs is a lifelong Nintendo gamer and has been cosplaying Nintendo characters for years.

She is well known for her incredibly detailed cosplays and is not constrained to a gender type. She might be what you may call a Nintendo super fan.

Li has made hundreds of cosplays from the Nintendo universe from princesses to warriors to plumbers.

12. Kassandra Leigh

Not only is Kassandra Leigh a cosplayer; she’s also a photographer.

With her diverse skillset, she can bring different things to the table when it comes to the cosplaying world and has helped advance cosplay photography.

She routinely posts videos with modeling, cosplay, and photography tutorials, and has proven to be a beneficial and educative addition to the cosplaying community.

11. Dalin Cosplay

Dalin Cosplay is a Mexican cosplayer who loves manga, anime, and video games.

She fell in love with the art of cosplaying when she was a young girl, and would often buy foreign comic books and magazines to indulge in her passion of anime and manga.

With over 60,000 followers on Facebook, she keeps in touch with her fans and supporters effectively through social media.

10. Callie Cosplay

Callie Cosplay hails from Florida and first started cosplaying when she was given a Black Widow costume for “The Avengers” release in downtown Disney in Orlando.

After falling in love with the idea of getting a chance to step into the world of her favorite characters, and seeing how much joy it brought people, Callie started cosplaying and never looked back.

Along with cosplaying comic book characters, she also enjoys cosplaying story book and princess characters.

9. Lady Lemon

Lady Lemon first dreamed about becoming an astronaut. She even studied engineering in school and embarked on a computer engineering career.

However, she soon abandoned that career and started working as a special effects artist.

Lady Lemon has dressed up as different characters since the age of four, and seriously started cosplaying in 2011.

8. Mira Scarlet

Mira Scarlet has been cosplaying for a little over four years, and gets a lot of satisfaction bringing a fictional character to life.

Hailing from the Carolinas, Mira Scarlet’s passion is sewing, and it has helped her tremendously in her cosplaying ventures.

The hard work that she puts into her cosplays comes from her passion for and dedication to the craft, and her inspiration comes from the characters that she falls in love with in comics, manga, anime, and more.

7. It’s Raining Neon

Deanna Davis, AKA It’s Raining Neon, has been cosplaying since 2008 and has made over 100 costumes.

She is a martial arts master, designer, crafts extraordinaire, and an artist.

She would draft and design costume plans for some of her favorite characters from films and video games at the age of 11 and 12.

Deanna has received countless awards for cosplaying and dedicates herself to the hobby full time as well as being a dedicated gamer.

6. Soni Aralynn

Soni Aralynn is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and first fell in love with cosplaying when she attended her first convention, Otakon, in 2003.

Along with cosplaying, Soni is also a model, and she is currently working on perfecting the art of prop making.

She is a huge fan of the Power Rangers, comic books, movies, and video games. Soni works off the creative energy inspired by her favourite characters, and doesn’t select them based on popularity.

5. BelleChere

BelleChere first started cosplaying in 2005 at DragonCon.

With a background in theatrical costume design and construction, BelleChere first discovered cosplay when she was looking for ideas for a Halloween costume.

BelleChere selects her cosplay ideas based on characters from movies, anime, video games, manga, and television that evoke an emotional response, whether or not she is passionate about the character.

The method hasn’t failed her, as she has won numerous awards for her work.

4. Enji Night

Enji Night is based in Budapest, Hungary and fell in love with anime and manga at the age of 13.

When she started playing role-playing video games, she started to notice the characters and identified with what they looked like.

This inspired Enji to start cosplaying at her first convention in 2009. Enji doesn’t limit herself to just comics, but branches out into video games, movies, and more with her cosplay ideas.

3. Eve Beauregard

Eve Beauregard is an Australian cosplayer and a self-proclaimed professional nerd.

She is a cosplayer, writer, and model, with a focus on making a positive impact on the nerd world.

Eve first got into cosplaying over seven years ago when her brother took her to her first convention and she discovered that cosplaying actually existed.

She studied fashion design in school and considers herself a huge fan of the Batman series (Poison Ivy was her first cosplay).

2. Mariedoll

Mariedoll, also known as Maria Ramos is based in Texas and has gathered a following of a few hundred thousand people.

From her first venture into cosplay, she transitioned into modeling and this was when her career took off.

Anime was the artform which first got Maria interested in cosplay.

As her interest in the animation saw her dive deeper into the anime world, she came across cosplayers in Japan and immediately fell in love with the idea.

1. Abby Dark Star

Abby Dark Star is a Bay Area-based cosplayer who has been active since 2007.

Abby got involved in cosplaying after attending her first comic book convention and seeing people dressed as some of her favorite characters.

Abby does more than just work from a picture. She researches, storyboards, and puts an extraordinary amount of time and dedication into every costume she works on.

With over half a million followers on Facebook alone, her dedication is clearly paying off.

Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/top-20-hottest-rising-cosplay-stars/

Take a look at some of the impressive cosplay displayed at this year’s AnimeJapan in Tokyo, Japan. Cosplay is a subculture that sees participants role play as a specific character of their choices. Many of the popular characters are sourced from manga, anime, comic books, video games and cartoons, often the cosplayer will take on the body language, clothing and mannerisms of the character.

AnimeJapan 2015, is one of the largest anime festivals in Japan, offering visitors entertainment such as stage performances, screenings, workshops, cosplaying areas, and a chance to buy exclusive anime themed goods.A cosplayer poses for a portrait at the cosplay area during the Anime Japan 2015 Expo on March 22, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/top-6-impressive-cosplay-on-animejapan/

Folks, if you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for the day you can finally go down to the store and bring home your very own Hulkbuster. That day may be arriving sooner than you think. Though there are going to be plenty of smaller, less imposing Hulkbusters made available through various manufacturers, only one will be up to snuff in busting actual Hulks.

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According to Toyark, Beast Kingdom just announced a life-sized Hulkbuster statue based on the iteration we’ll be seeing in the upcoming movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Hulkbuster is just one of a handful of movie-themed pieces being manufactured by the Taiwanese company, but it’s definitely the biggest.

The Hulkbuster can dunk without much effort, but that’s nothing compared to the terrible fate it will befall upon your wallet. Beast Kingdom’s Iron man MK XLIV armor comes at a hefty price of $21,500. Just keep that in mind when looking for that new car. You can either have the ability to drive wherever you want on your own, or you can put the Hulkbuster in your living room. Some choices are so easy, they make themselves.

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It should be noted the Hulkbuster will have eyes and other energy ports that light up accordingly, but he won’t be very agile — it is a statue after all. That said, the sculpt looks cool, and the sheer size of the thing makes it impressive without having to do much besides look neat. Plus, you’ll have a nifty companion piece to the upcoming Hulk statue Beast Kingdom is also producing.

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There are fewer details available about this gigantic Green Goliath, but it’s in scale with the Hulkbuster. It will likely cost a tad less, considering it’s a bit smaller, but you’re still looking at a fairly substantial five-figure investment. If you double down — and unless you’re an oil baron in Dubai, we doubt you will — you’re looking a nearly $50,000 in Avengers statues guarding your house. You’ll be the envy of every person who visits your home and wonders where all the seats you can’t afford anymore went.

Beast Kingdom has some other items, like Loki‘s staff and Captain America‘s shield, on the way, but we likely won’t learn more about them until April, when the company will take part in a superhero expo in Taiwan. Still, these recreations are rather nice, and if you’ve got the investment capabilities, they should make some really great conversation pieces for your geek den.

Source: http://cosplaywind.com/take-home-your-own-life-sized-hulkbuster-for-the-price-of-a-ford-fusion-2/

Inuyasha‘s older brother Sesshomaru and the partially revived Kikyo, whose own version of what happened years ago brings the events into question. When joined by Miroku, a perverted monk whose bloodline is cursed, Inuyasha and Kagome learn the truth: that the initial conflict between Inuyasha and Kikyo, revealed to originally be lovers, was caused by a devious half-demon named Naraku. The evolving Naraku is revealed to be born from the soul of an evil man named Onigumo inhabiting a body created by countless demons as part of a pact gone awry and who also placed the curse on Miroku’s family.

Naraku is after the Shikon Jewel shards for his own ends. Inuyasha’s group is soon joined after by Sango, a demon-slayer whose clan was killed when her younger brother Kohaku fell under Naraku’s control. Over time, Inuyasha enhances Tetsusaiga as he contends with Naraku’s minion incarnations like Kagura and the reanimated Band of Seven. Inuyasha’s team is allied by Sesshomaru, Kikyo (after learning that Naraku was the one who killed her), and a wolf demon named Koga who wants to avenge his comrades while flirting with Kagome.

While Naraku momentarily removed his heart in the form of the Infant, who later attempts to overthrow Naraku through his vessel Moryomaru, Kohaku regains his freewill and memories as he attempts to help out of guilt for indirectly killing his father. During that time, Seeshomaru settles things with Inuyasha to enable his brother to perfect Tetsusaiga to its optimal abilities. Eventually, after Koga is forced to stand on the sidelines while Kikyo posthumously used the last of her power to give Kohaku a second chance at life, Naraku finally reassembles the Shikon Jewel.

Although Inuyasha and his allies defeat him, realizing his true desire is for Kikyo’s love despite his hatred towards her and that it can never be granted, Naraku uses his wish to bring himself and Kagome into the Shikon Jewel. But Naraku’s wish is revealed to be the desire of Magatsuhi, an ancient demon who was sealed in the heart of the priestess Midoriko before it became the Shikon Jewel. Having aided Naraku in a temporary body prior to his defeat, Magatsuhi intended to have Kagome make a selfish wish so she and Naraku would be trapped in conflict while he can regain his physical form. But with Inuyasha by her side, Kagome wishes for the jewel to disappear, which destroys Magatsuhi while allowing Midoriko and Naraku to finally be at peace. The action, though, causes Kagome to return to her time with the Well sealed, causing her and Inuyasha to lose contact for three years.

In that time, the Sengoku period changes drastically: Sango and Miroku marry and have three children together; Kohaku resumes his journey to become a strong demon slayer with Kirara as his companion; Koga becomes leader of the wolf demons and marries Ayame; and Shippo attains the seventh rank as a fox demon. Back in the present, Kagome graduates from high school at the age of eighteen, before she finally manages to get the Bone-Eater’s Well in her backyard to work again. With approval from her mother, Kagome returns to the Sengoku period where she stays with Inuyasha and becomes his wife for the rest of her life.

Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/show-inuyasha-fans-awesome-cosplay/

Attack on Titan described the background of the story, human beings had once been preyed on brutally by giants and stayed on the verge of extinction. People survived decided to build three huge protective walls to prevent the invasion of the giants, isolated environment prevented them from the attack of giants for a hundred years. But as the price of “peace”, human beings lost the freedom to the outside wall, as captive beast in general to live peacefully.

Hero Alan Yeager was actually very interested in the world out of the wall and yearning to the freedom life which was lost because of the wall. He was brave and unlike most of the human beings here to fear and blindly believed the walls could protect their safety, he want to make adventure of the world out of the wall. Also because of this kind of idea, he was thought as a heretic.

Human beings lived comfortably in this inner world for a hundred years, which was, Alan Jaeger came into his ten-year-old, one day, an unprecedented “super giant” appeared in front of humans, he destroyed the wall by the overwhelming force, then instantly disappeared, the giant crowds rushed into the wall and humans tragedy became their baits.

Alan Yeager experienced the tragedy that people, partners and mother killed by the giants, with the hatred passion for the giants, he vowed to wipe out the giants, his mother died and his father disappeared, while father grasped the mystery of the giant and the same reason Alan Yeager obtained “the force of giant” and had the powerful spiritual force other trainees can not match in the army at the same period. Although Alan had traumatic experience, he was bravely enough to challenge the Giants and then added to the survey Corps! At this moment Alan’s life came into the beginning of a tremendous change ……

Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/cosplay-the-brave-one-from-attack-on-titan/

Several years ago, humans discovered the great ape family and the aristocracy leaders want to use them as the tool of military by extracting their DNA as test, after years of research, they finally developed into a giantvirus serum, while which was immature with very lower success rate and worst side effects, the results of the tests were a large number of failures resulting products, which are giant.

Without knowing the reasons, the variation of the serum produced transmissible virus, then a large number of giant were born, while Ani is one of the successful control of their virus giant. The protagonist’s father developed mature giant serum and injected to the protagonist, and this was the reason Ani want to seize the protagonist. As for the wisdom of the great apes man, it was the giant family purebred evolution after they seemed to be very interested in human invention, it was estimated to develop into a fight with the great apes later.

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Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/the-truth-of-the-giants-attack-on-titan/

Inuyasha has been widely watched by people around the world, it is not only a family anime but also a love tragedy happening in the family. What a confused story in the anime world.

With their greatest foe seemingly defeated, Inuyasha and his friends return to normal lives. But their short period of peace is once again shattered as a new enemy begins to emerge. Kaguya, the self-proclaimed Princess from the Moon of legend, plots to plunge the world into a perpetual night of the full moon. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippo must once again unite to face a new threat.

Source: http://www.rolecosplay.com/blog/why-people-love-inuyasha/