Are they allowed? Can we have a thread about cosplayers?
Essentially the rules for this section are if it's Strike Witches, and not outright porn, it's allowed. So this thread is perfectly fine.
Just checking
>>1113Sexy Rie-san. :)
>>1197What's with the platform shoes? I've been seeing that recently in other cosplays. Height aid perhaps?
Found a not terrible Lynnette
Needs more decent Eila & Sanya cosplay.
Find it kinda sad that there are no strike witches cosplay from where I come from. Or perhaps it's a good thing.
Surprisingly good Keiko.A lot of Photoshop work, I suppose.
...let's not forget this young lady
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>>1547I'd rather we did.
too cute
>>2687Those are atrocious thigh-highs.
>>3887Somehow you gotta applaud guys like these.
>>3891They're male? Christ. The only thing that bothers me is Erica's hair, rest is nice though.
>>3892If they aren't my gender detection skills need work.
>>3891Maybe you mean "Gals like these"?>>3892Go search their pictures in deviantart. Both of them are girls.
If they also made and wear striker unit costumes, their cosplays would be really awesome.
I saw some westerners try to dress up as Strike Witches characters once. It was awful.
That's ironic. Maybe their cosplay is indeed lame like having crappy costumes with crappy out of character portrayals that is.Except the Japanese Witches, all the other witches are indeed westerners. We have westerners that dress up like western characters then some people whine. Likewise we have some asians, hispanics or any other race cosplaying as western characters and some people still whineThe thing I notice is that many people think cosplay is some sort of beauty pageant when it isn't supposed to be one, not really pointing out to posters here but it's just my general views of things now.Sure you might have the best sexy looks but when your costume and portrayal of the character is lame.. it all crashes down together like some dumb pilot in a flatspin.Anyway, it's just a part of reality that I've now learned to accept. End with that inane rant.Let's post some more photos.
>>3900Are they gay for each other?
>>3906I agree, annoys me when people try to cosplay as characters they resemble nothing like. The appearance of the person matters not to me, but whether they can portray the character and portray it well.
>>3908agreeing with you there.These>>1103>>1238>>1101are some of the examples I could call cosplaying, at least based on my understanding. Erica loves to eat snacks, Potato Snack lol. Eila seems to be the more aggressive one in her relationship with Sanya, and Perrine, acts like an elitistic princess at times.There are more good and bad cosplaying (which looks more like modelling rather than cosplaying) pics in this thread but I don't feel like doing another longcat postIn fairness, it might be hard to emulate a given character 100% in the real world.That's reality. Let's just enjoy what we can enjoy.
To summarize this passionate fan(s)' thoughts: What's more important in cosplay is not the cosplayer's looks but whether the player's poses and actions fit the characters.
>>2226>yfw you learn the person cosplaying as Sanya is a dude.
>>3928Why are you not focused on that fantastic ass on Perrine?
Not a fan of obnoxious frames but we live in the instagram era
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>>3920>>3921Extremely well done Sanya, are they anymore?
>>3968with her Fliegerhammer
>>3969Do you have one with her striker on? Or she doesn't have a unit?
>>3977I dont think she have them. But here's a close-up.
>>3978Hnggggggggghhh>>3969Seriously good work on this one. I feel like taking back every mean thing I've thought about cosplayers
Another pretty good one. She got the ears wrong...or maybe she didnt want to color the wig
>>3978where is she from? russian? japanese? canadian?
>>3987Pretty sure she's Japanese
>>3906WESTERNLiberion, Hispania, Karlsland, Romagna, Ostmark, Orussia, Batland, Suomus, Gallia, Britannia, Lucitania, Helbatia, Farawayland, Australis, AztekNO WESTERNFUSOThere is a CONSIDERABLE diference
Sanya in Eila's strikers holding a...yeah, I dont know what rifle/autocannon is that
>>3994Type-99?
I kinda want to see a good-looking western girl cosplaying Yeager. Not necessarily because of boobies.
>>4003That would be very awesome to see. One who is not a guy too. At those live streamings at various conventions this past summer, too many of the witches have been traps. (of all sorts of varying degrees of convincingess)
Sakamoto-san!
>>4211That's the mature Mossan I know and love. props.
>>4211Why do I get the feeling that's out of a JAV?
>>4213Sorry to disappoint you but that's from an anime event
>>4214You would've thought they'd have made at least one JAV that's Strike Witches related. I mean, shit, Goro has probably fucked at least girl from every other fairly recent show. Hell, if not that, then something lesbian. I mean, come on, they're witches. Instant market demand for witch porn right there.
>>4219There is a SW JAV: AKB-013 Cosplayer Witches. As expected, it's from TMA. IIRC it features Yoshika, Mio, Minna, and Sanya.
>>4222yep, and somebody uploaded the gifs on exhentai
>>4224If it's the entry on there that you're talking about, a whole lot of diff shows represented in that series of gifs. It's tempting to look inside, but I haven't worked my way up to being able to look at JAVs, well, ones with characters I know of anyway.
>>4226After some googling, I think I'll stick to non-cosplay JAVs. Meanwhile, Sanya.
>>4227 Oh sweet, it's a girl this time! On a tangentially related note, it could be due to where I live, but I for one find it hard to believe there would be women in to Strike Witches. Awesome, but hard to believe.
Not baad. Where is she from?
>>4229Cosplay of Katharine O' Hare, a character from one of the mangas. If you search for SW cosplay on the aptly titled cosplay.com (lord knows why I even did this) you'll find her. The 'Trude cosplay on the site another girl did is also good.
>>4231And for some reason I've never thought of that. Been on only cosp.jp all this time
>>4226That pic isn't related to the TMA production.
>>4234its not a production, its a monstrosity.>>4235painted nails -1
Mio, Shirley and Minna
>>4338>not impressed>Disgusted once again by American cosplayersWhy?
>>4344I dunno, shirley's strikers are pretty impressive, and the mio costume has some of the best ears i've seen on a cosplay (not overly fluffy like most cosplay ears.it's also not a very good shot, it's just a strait on group snapshot instead of something that was well-posed and such.so year as far as cosplay goes its ok.
Kind of harsh, don't you think? I thought they did a decent job, particularly with cosplaying to body type and the props.
Considering it's un-staged and not photoshopped, I think they look pretty good. Most Japanese cosplay images look good because there's about 10,000 filters applied to the image.
>>4350More filters on those than on a pornstar picture.
>>4344because you just want a gorgeous model in costume that you can fap on and not a cosplayer
>>4348I still find it pretty neat that three girls like Strike Witches enough to cosplay as characters from the franchise.
http://ja.curecos.com/picture/detail?id=16769068So I heard somebody wanted attractive girls
>>4359Pretty looking Girl, OK Looking Trude Dress, Not So good depiction of Trude's Uptight personality, no FW190D Striker units = MEH...I for one prefer that "crappy" american Shirley cosplay above. In the end, it will just boil down to what people would want to see in cosplays. Pretty faces or accurate and convincing costumes and character portrayal.I guess the perfect equation would bePretty/Handsome Looks + Accurate Costumes + Convincing portrayal of character personalities.But alas! We don't live in a perfect world.
There is much decent witch cosplay out there, but it annoys me to no end when they're saluting in the picture and they don't salute properly. Pet peeve of mine yes, but since they're cosplaying as characters in a military you'd think they would have saluting down.
>>4486but then Lynne would have to be palm out, shirley would be palm in, and the K-trio and Francesca doing the roman salute.actually it would be hilarious if all the witches were standing on line and snapped into the different salutes at the same time
>>4360unless we're talking a complete hambeast, I'm more concerned with the quality of the costume myself. especially with amateurs. generally the things I like are ears that aren't overly fluffy (so, like, you know, they look like animal ears) and uniforms that appear to be made out of the correct fabric. if they're using felt or cheap cotton, it will show. if they're using wool, it will also show, and it will look way better.(note that Hanna-Justina and Raisa costumes should use cotton since they are desert uniforms)
The girls who dressed as Mio and Shirley at Dragoncon had actual WW2 uniforms. That's some dedicated cosplay.
>>4496at least have the decency to find some photos for us to reference.
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>>4515ah I see. Terrific cosplay, as others have mentioned, accuracy is very important. That lady dressing up as Minna really does lool like an old hag.
>>4521Charming. You must really have a way with women. Have you ever considered that the girls pictured in this thread are real people who might have feelings?Also, same girl, same convention, dressed as Wasp from The Avengers.
>>4526Im sorry I come from the internet where memes are the lingua de franca and you might have missed the one where Minna is old. Lighten up. I acknowledged that they're good.
>>4526>Have you ever considered that the girls pictured in this thread are real people who might have feelings? If you think that's some kind of a reason to not say whatever comes to your mind, you have problems.
I like the composition here.
It's the internet after all. No holds barred. Go speak with so much garbage worth that will rival the filthiest landfills or act even more twisted than Satan and his hell spawn armada. Makes me think of a cheesy tagline. Internet! Brings out the demon in you! :) or something like that.
>>1338Eh? Is that photo the original, or is this?
>>4909>>4910I would go up to her and [spoiler]ask where she got those lovely socks.
>>4909the version you posted is the original the first version posted is the one with filters and dimensional tweaks.
>>4911With this board software, you have to close the spoiler tags.Or it won't work.
Hartmann is pretty popular among cosplayers.
>>4999Say what you like about the Nazis, they were some SNAPPY dressers.
This one looks more accurate costume wise, but seems to be going nowhere atm as I haven't really seen any other pics of her.
Well this is as close you get to official cosplays for now, save for the seiyuus live action event years ago.Hikari is sorta cute here but oh doge the rest.They really should've hired Klara's Russian voice actor from GuP to do Sasha in BW too.
The eternal problem with cosplay is that anime characters are idealized human beings with abstracted facial features. Bringing reality to the mix ruins the magic. It works a little better live, but only if the cosplayer is any good at acting in-character.But at least cosplay can be funny as hell. I was looking for a very relevant video of a silly cosplay of Eila "flying" with Striker units and all. But alas, couldn't find it. Maybe somebody knows what I'm talking about.
>>11442Well, being at least somewhat attractive helps a lot with that too, something most cosplayers aren't. I assume you meant this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1sxk9b7vA and yeah cosplaying is for the fun factor too.
>>11444Attractiveness is very subjective, but my point was something different. The fundamental difference between a real human face and an abstraction that lets your biological firmware, honed by millennia of evolution, imagine the perfectly fitting details. That's the point. That's what makes perfect cosplay an impossibility.Of course, body type is also one huge limit for good cosplay. Anime characters with impossible proportions are equally impossible to cosplay well and most anime characters limit the cosplayer material to young and often relatively small-statured teenagers.And Strike Witches cosplay in particular adds yet another challenge. Even if they get the uniforms right, even if they get the hair right, even if they get the ears right... there's always ethnicity. When the show places much emphasis on nationality, asians cannot ever cosplay european witches nor vice versa.-So, that said, I think it's better for me to leave cosplay to be the fun play it is and not think of it as visual art.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1sxk9b7vAThank you, that's it! Didn't know it was on youtube as well, I will cherish the link.
The biggest put-off with cosplay is all of the 25 year old Japanese girls trying to be 17 year old European girls. That's what makes it uninteresting at the very least to me I guess. Someone has been doing a lot, and I mean A LOT of Erica commercial cosplay photo sessions lately, and I really don't care to see it. Not that i'm really in the habit of looking at 3D girls to begin with.Not to knock people for doing it for fun, that's what it's about in the end I guess.
>>11448And they say Westerners can't do good cosplay.
>>11449Yeah I think race and body also factor into it if you want to make it authentic looking, though there's not many of those since people usually use wigs.