thas cool.

I'm not really a fan of cosplay, often times I think they just look silly.

but some of these are okay.


I've been seeing this one around google images for years.



this one looks nice.

It is hard to cosplay Kingdom Hearts especially because not only do you have the crazy Nomura designs, you also have Disney characters (like Donald & Goofy) which complicate it even further. There are some painfully bad cosplays out there but all the ones on Kotaku were really impressive (imo), especially the ones that made custom armor. @-@

yeah I understand. I'm not saying that everyone sucks at it and that I could do an infinitely better job, in all honesty if I were to cosplay it would look far worse than any of those, but for me, and this is going to sound really mean but I don't intend it to be, since KH is such a cartoony thing, seeing real people in those outfits kinda offends my eyes in a way, because aesthetically it just looks so ridiculous seeing those outfits in real life on faces that look nothing like the characters, that I can't get past it at all or suspend any kind of disbelief whatsoever for me to be able to appreciate the positive aspects of their hard work.



btw the Aqua in the OP looks really nice, I didn't notice before

That's true, I totally agree! It's the same issue that live action fantasy movies suffer from--the costumes and environments have to be extremely well-executed to look natural, and even then, some suspension of disbelief on the viewer's part is required.

Exactly, and since the chances of most cosplayers having the money to fund something that looks good enough to believe is pretty much zero, and since they're trying to do something that's pretty much impossible to do well enough to actually look like the character they're cosplaying, I can forgive and understand the weirdness even if I don't like it.

Yeah, Gawker comment sections can be... well, like that, lol.

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they chose some pretty awesome looking cosplay designs. some are super duper impressive. : D it's cool that people put so much effort into them. the kingdom hearts community sure can put together some awesome stuff.

Something I've noticed about KH is that when you take most of their clothes into reality, their thickness and rigidity basically dictates that they are made of rubber :P

Yeah I agree. Some of these cosplaying are just painful to see (trying not to sound like a jerk)...... for example

Spoiler

0_0 I think I'm in love

I died.

I honestly don't think this one is bad at all--in fact the sword looks exceptionally well done, though it's obscured. I'm not sure I agree with the raincoat material for the shirt, but it's otherwise really good... Maybe not on par with some of the Kotaku ones but yeah. There's a lot worse out there.

that's cool but what about roxas, axel, and xion

Halloween Town Org member costumes?
Why was this never explored in games? That would've been a damn lovely treat to see, I can imagine some great costumes!

Why does the guy cosplaying Terra look like Brendan Fraser?

Cosplay isn't normally my preferred department of expression to view either. but yeah, some of these are pretty neat.

uhh... maybe THAt person should familiarize THEMSELVES with the series before making rude comments.