"easy" cosplay

[damaged-reality]

Somthing has come up to my attention: "easy" cosplays

People look at, for example, L (from Death Note, an amazing Manga btw), and they see the plain white shirt and the plain blue jeans and the lack of shoes, and think: "Hey, this is an easy cosplay! I should do this!"

If you want an easy cosplay that still looks good: don't try L, PLEASE!!!! People think that its easy and they think that they will be able to still look good, but L is a very hard cosplay! If you do L, you need to do the hair right!
L's only characteristics that pop out are his ridiculous hair and dark depressing eyes.
So if you do L, know that your costume will not look good unless you do the hair correctly. If you don't plan on your cosplay being good/you don't really want to try but you still want to cosplay as him/ you don't really care, then go right along and Cosplay as L. But if you want to loog good as L, then know that you will need to devout an entire day to styling a wig, or somthing!

*sigh ok, moral of the story: L is a difficult cosplay.
actually to make my point clearer, he is a somewhat easy cosplay; you just can't underestimate the hair, dudes (or gals for abundance of female crossplayers)

so discuss:
cosplays that people think are easy, but often do not come out well  

[burgawinosourus]

Anything from Naruto. Well at least a lot of characters from Naruto people make quick crappy cosplays because they think it's easy. Same thing goes with Naruto. The only time the costume looks amazing is if the cosplayer is a devoted fan and knows what their doing.  

[Glacirus]

To quote Uncle Yo's Death Note Rant:

"Death Note Cosplay is a cop-out. Light? Brown jacket, slacks, black book, pen. L? Take off your shoes. Your halfway there. White long-sleeve shirt, and baggy blue jeans. The only thing separating L from K-Fed is sleeves. Misa? Pigtails. And Hot Topic."

I agree, that it's the low road for cospaly. There ARE some really good L's and DN cosplays out there...but the majority I see are lazy failures.

Same goes for Bleach/Naruto/any other over-done cosplay. People see it done soooooo many times that everyone tries it and the majority, FAIL  

[Roxy-bear1216]

I agree. If you're going to cosplay, try hard on it. And what gets me kinda angry is when crappy cosplayers think their's is the best of the best. Now, I'm not saying I'm god at cosplay, but I tyr my hardest and they come out pretty damn good. Cosplaying isn't something that you can do in two days time. It's something that takes at least a week or so if you want it to be a dfinitely good cosplay. I've been working on my Roxas cosplay for a month or so now, and I have yet to get the costume finished.  

[damaged-reality]

Roxy-bear1216

I agree. If you're going to cosplay, try hard on it. And what gets me kinda angry is when crappy cosplayers think their's is the best of the best. Now, I'm not saying I'm god at cosplay, but I tyr my hardest and they come out pretty damn good. Cosplaying isn't something that you can do in two days time. It's something that takes at least a week or so if you want it to be a dfinitely good cosplay. I've been working on my Roxas cosplay for a month or so now, and I have yet to get the costume finished.

I'm not talking about trying (though I totally agree that everyone should try), I'm just saying that people think that this cosplay will be easy, so they become lazy and it turns out horrible... but then they STILL think that its a good costume!! If they acknowledged that thier costume was bad, then I'm ok with it. As long as they realize that they did not try, and it turned out as a failure, then its ok. But if they think that thier costume is good... well that's when I have a problem.  

[Roxy-bear1216]

damaged-reality

Roxy-bear1216

I agree. If you're going to cosplay, try hard on it. And what gets me kinda angry is when crappy cosplayers think their's is the best of the best. Now, I'm not saying I'm god at cosplay, but I tyr my hardest and they come out pretty damn good. Cosplaying isn't something that you can do in two days time. It's something that takes at least a week or so if you want it to be a dfinitely good cosplay. I've been working on my Roxas cosplay for a month or so now, and I have yet to get the costume finished.

I'm not talking about trying (though I totally agree that everyone should try), I'm just saying that people think that this cosplay will be easy, so they become lazy and it turns out horrible... but then they STILL think that its a good costume!! If they acknowledged that thier costume was bad, then I'm ok with it. As long as they realize that they did not try, and it turned out as a failure, then its ok. But if they think that thier costume is good... well that's when I have a problem.

Well that's the same thing. If you don't try, you're lazy. I just don't get why people would want to ruin a good character..  

[Cariella]

I think most over-popular animes are pigenholed as "easy" costumes because you can basically buy it offline and be done.

Any costume can be difficult if you put the time and effort into it. C:  

[[Kirimasu__]]

Honestly I don't think it's an easy cosplay, given that there are already real life representations of the character in the DN movies that have set the bar somewhere. This really makes it harder for the cosplayer to insert his/her own interpretation of L, without looking " off" I don't really know how to explain it. It's just harder to get the "correct feel" of the character once there has already been an official, rl figure for it.

Plus there are so many cosplayers doing L. The challenge is not really to get the cosplay right in terms of outfit and props (I don't think it's as complicated as doing.... say, final fantasy characters for example), but to make it convincing and stand out of the crowd of 7 other L cosplayers at the same convention. In that sense, it makes the cosplay all the more difficult.

The same goes for most "easy" or popular cosplays, I think. The simplicity of the outfit makes plenty of people wanna give it a shot. Simple outfits also makes people focus on character accuracy, which is imo, harder to get than outfit details. ><  

[No_Pun_Intended]

Agree!
At the last con I went to, I saw, like, ten L's and only saw ONE of them in character. Hell, one of 'em was jumpin' around, swooning over pretty boys and playing Red-Rover.
(Off topic, Red-Rover is fun in cosplay. I like randomly starting games of it. ouo)
 

[Empresss Spiral]

"Simple doesn't mean easy, and easy doesn't mean simple."  

[Strawberry Skank]

Scientifically Erotic

Anything from Naruto. Well at least a lot of characters from Naruto people make quick crappy cosplays because they think it's easy. Same thing goes with Naruto. The only time the costume looks amazing is if the cosplayer is a devoted fan and knows what their doing.

Naruto cosplays are hardly easy. e__e I almost cosplayed Sakura and for the longest time I had no idea how I was gonna try and make that freaking dress. Those outfits have so many details and the hair... God, the hair. I'm glad I ended up deciding to cosplay one of the animals from Naruto than one of the actual ninja. XD  

[Ashta Nightrayne]

You would think Easy looking cosplay, the Witch from Left 4 Dead. It's amazing how hard it really is. most people just buy the stuff at wal-mart and it's such a pain when you make your own, color your skin, get the right color hair and what not and making the claws. Also getting the shirt right. I have seen several witch cosplayers not have the right hair or have the completely wrong top.

Anyways, simple looking cosplays are always the hardest because you have challenges such as:
-Other cosplayers with store bought poor quality items
-You have to find the details that point out the quality of the character in appearance as their looks and not actions.
-Then the hair. Wigs are your friends!

 

[OhNoesItsMiho]

Don't forget about Radical Edward from Cowboy Bebop. If you wanna see a horrible Ed cosplay, check my profile XD! I thought it was easy. Black shorts, no shoes, white sleeveless top, wacky orange hair, and goggles. I just grabbed random crap from my closet  

[kiropterain1]

anything easy for bleach?  

[The Lone Wolf Jedi]

kiropterain1

anything easy for bleach?

Characters that are not wearing the normal outfits, ie, Soul Reapers in regular clothes when they are in a gigai, find some random outfit, put on a short white wig and BAM! you're Toshiro and the only different looking visored is Mashiro so all but her can easily be done