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Welcome to Chinako's Cosplay! Here you will find my personal collection of hand-made costumes that I've been putting together since 1997. I started cosplay on a whim and fell in love with the costume designs and challenges of trying to make them both accurate to the character's design and uniquely my own in style. All of them have been worn at least once to a convention or venue, and some have even won awards.
What is Cosplay?
Cosplay or "Costume Play" is derived from Japan, where people dress up like their favorite character from an anime, manga, or video game and attend conventions. Although cosplay doesn't have a huge following in Japan these days, world-wide it has become a phenomenon with people dressing up at any occassion and paying tribute to their favorite characters. Often this goes hand-in-hand with role-playing, but that is usually up to the cosplayer.
Updates
November 27, 2011: ANNOUNCEMENT - Due to my list of growing costumes that I would like to create and my shrinking amount of time that I have to spend on cosplay in general, I will no longer be able to participate in group cosplay. To anyone I have already promised that I would cosplay with, please check the "Coming Soon" section of my Cosplay list (link below) to ensure that I haven't forgotten you. To anyone who wanted to have me in a cosplay group, but hadn't yet asked me, I apologize in advance! This group cosplay hiatus will not be forever, but my 2012 is already full, so it may be into 2013 before I'm open again for groups. Thank you all for your understanding and I hope to get some amazing cosplay out in 2012!
October 10, 2011: Six new costumes added: Hello Kitty, Kotone, Moongleam, Eternal Sailormars, Snow White, and Swirly Whirly and I've revised my Coming Soon list as well. Enjoy the new costumes!
September 19, 2011: Five new costumes will be posted soon (Kotone, Moongleam, Eternal Sailormars, Snow White, and Swirly Whirly) and I've revised the Cosplay section a bit. I've also got a new layout in the works for this site and I'm planning to revise all the images uploading larger, better quality versions.
April 29, 2011: Added new costumes to the "Coming Soon" list under the Cosplay section. Also working on photos of new costumes that will be posted soon!
February 2, 2011: Added new costumes to the "Coming Soon" list under the Cosplay section. Also NEW COSPLAY - Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim, and Hatsune Miku from Vocaloid 2.
January 27, 2011: Added new costumes to the "Coming Soon" list under the Cosplay section. I also need to upload two new cosplay that I completed last year, so check back for those soon!
August 13, 2010: Added new Links! Also currently working on Darkury and Gurdy cosplays. Hopefully I'll finish them soon and get some great images.
May 23, 2010: Reorganized both the Links section and the Cosplay section.
May 19, 2010: Added one more cosplay to my "Coming Soon" list under the Cosplay section.
April 22, 2010: Happy Earth Day, and Happy Birthday, Chinako! Added two more cosplay to my "Coming Soon" list under the Cosplay section.
April 20, 2010: Added a few new pictures to the following cosplay: Blaze & Chinako, Cheza, Princess Kraehe & Kurasu, Reira, and Sailorsaturn. Enjoy!
April 5, 2010: NEW COSPLAY - Serizawa Reira from NANA.
March 31, 2010: Added page 30 from the Anime Boston 2009 program to the Featured section. Also nearly done with a new cosplay which will be premiered at Anime Boston 2010 (this weekend). Look for the photos here after the convention is over.
March 16, 2010: Added a fav icon. Now when you bookmark this site, a cute feather icon will appear beside it!
February 20, 2010: Fixed a few spelling errors and broken links. The site is now active and linked from the pages that I display my cosplay on! HUGE thanks to my brother for helping me test this site and offering a few new suggestions for improvement.
February 7, 2010: Grand opening of Chinako's Cosplay! Look around and enjoy!
Disclaimer
All characters are Copyright © their original creators and I take no credit for their designs (unless it is listed as an original character).
All costume designs, descriptions, original characters, and sprites found on Chinako's Cosplay are Copyright © since 1998 Jeannette "Chinako" Chambliss. Do not reuse, edit, or alter anything found at this site without my expressed permission. All Rights Reserved. Nothing here should be construed as the waiving of my copyright. Hosted by Chinako*net.