This is the grim reality for Comiket if you are a cosplayer. Sure, if you're a popular cosplayer like Enako, no doubt you get your own team of staff to help manage the crowds, but for the amateurs and the small fry out there -- of which they are many -- you are nothing more than a toy or meat to be haggled over, parsed, and lensed by the snapping cameras of hordes of male visitors. And all at ultra-close proximity.
These two pictures widely shared online have once again revealed this situation, this time at Comiket 97 held at the end of December at 2019.
As is clearly visible, the men are ...
For our final post of 2019, we won't do the usual round-up of the year but instead opt for something a bit more fun: sexy Santa cosplay.
Here is a selection of some of the best Mrs Claus cosplay (a genre known in Japanese as Santacos) by various idols and models, as featured in recent seasonally themed photo shoots or selfies.
First up, here is the gravure idol Tomi (or Toumi).
This is cosplayer and idol Amatsu-sama.
And here is Rina Hashimoto.
AKB48's Yuki Kashiwagi has chosen for the cute rather than sexy look, but that's still fine.
Race queen Yu Kikuchi (top) and model Chiyo ...
The popular ero-cosplayer Shikimi Otogi (御伽樒) has posted a series of nude selfies documenting what she looks like when she strips off a hot swimsuit.
While sexy Japanese ladies in slinky swimwear is nothing new, we love the fact that Otogi is not paipan and opts to retain a modest bush.
With a striking crop of blond hair (at least, in terms of her hair on top), the girl-next-door-type ero-cosplayer is careful (for some reason) not to reveal any nipples in these selfies but does show us plenty of bust and pulls her swimsuit tight on her trimmed pussy...before unveiling the full goodies ...
We recently reported on the alleged assault on a Japanese porn star on the streets of Shibuya during the Halloween cosplay party. While we don't have any further details on the groping that was witnessed and filmed, we do know now why the porn star was there in the first place -- and why she was so keen to announce to her followers on social media that she was going.
It turns out that Kanon Kanade (奏音かのん) was actually promoting an adult video release that she filmed guerrilla-style partly on the streets of Shibuya.
Whether or not the groping was a staged part of this, or just an ...
The growing popularity of Halloween in Japan has resulted in massive street cosplay parties, particularly in areas like Shibuya in Tokyo.
That have been adverse effects, too, which is almost inevitable when so many thousands of (mostly young) people come together. Last year, in particular, seemed like a turning point when a truck was turned over in Shibuya by drunken revellers. Some used the street parties as a mere excuse to grope women or take panchira underskirt photos.
This year's Halloween in Shibuya was crazily crowded but a little more subdued, with tighter police controls back again ...
In her latest TV drama series role, busty gravure model Fumika Baba is shown in an AKB48 cosplay costume being sexually assaulted.
In Na mo naki Fukusha Zegen (Nameless Revenger Zegen, 名もなき復讐者 ZEGEN), Baba plays a prostitute who gives sensual massages to her clients before sex. One session when she is dressed up like an AKB48 idol is rougher than expected and she is raped by the client.
While that is certainly rougher sex than the kind we usually like to watch, there's no denying that Fumika looks great in an AKB48 costume.
Based on a novel, the TV series is ...
As we know, Comiket is less about comics and more about cosplay. Specifically, female cosplayers.
Stars like Enako can attract huge crowds (and money).
But even lesser-known female cosplayers can pull in a strong audience, though, as one example from the recent Comiket 96 showed, this phenomenon can have unpleasant consequences if you are not prepared or don't have adequate minders.
In a video that has since gone viral (nearly 4 million views as of writing), a Chinese cosplayer found herself on August 11th surrounded by a mob of men with cameras who refused to make space for her. Instead ...
Cosplayers surely know what they are doing when they wear short skirts and let fans surround them at events.
They know that those lens are pointed in a certain direction and will inevitably capture a certain thing. And so naturally they prepare their nether regions for that express purpose.
If you have ever wondered what kind of shots fans really want to get, it's something like this.
Gorgeous cosplayer Yutori definitely got her you-know-what into the right paipan fully-shaved state in readiness for those copious amounts of panchira upskirt shots.
Close-ups reveal that she did a mighty ...
The Japanese cosplayer Enako has answered her fans' prayers and posed semi-nude for a photo shoot in the March 11th issue of Weekly Playboy magazine.
The shoot is a promotional preview of her first photo book "Mermaid Princess." Not surprisingly, there is a marine theme -- perfect for relieving us of our winter blues -- and Enako is dressed up as an alluring mermaid.
Born in 1994, Enako is often spoken of as Japan's "top cosplayer" today. And it pays. Enako recently revealed that she earns over ¥1 million (over $9,000) a month, which is a heck of a ...
Christmas is a strange time in Japan: it is celebrated, secularly rather than religiously, and also not in the way you might think. People exchanging gifts? Yes, a bit. Special food? Yes, kind of. But the dishes are largely KFC and strawberry cake. Even the day itself is usually marked on Christmas Eve by couples as a romantic occasion (meaning Christmas is potentially less a time for families than for, well, making families!).
That aside, the recent craze for gathering in cosplay costumes on the streets of Shibuya at Halloween and New Year's Eve has also extended to the Christmas season, ...
